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WORK TITLE: The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish
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BIRTHDATE: 5/28/1970
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CITY: Westchester
STATE: CA
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PERSONAL
Born May 28, 1970, in Los Angeles, CA; married; children: one daughter.
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CAREER
Writer, cartoonist, musician, guitarist, songwriter, and comic book artist. Penciler and inker for Marvel and DC comics on series such as GI Joe, Punisher, Elektra, Excalibur, Captain America, and Deadpool, 1993—.
WRITINGS
SIDELIGHTS
Scott Koblish is a writer, comic book artist, and illustrator. He is probably best known as an inker but has also provided pencils for comics published by DC Comics and by Marvel Comics. He has worked on some of Marvel’s best-known characters, such as the Punisher, Elektra, Captain America, Deadpool, and Spider-Man. He has also worked on Jet Pack Pets for Disney and on 7th Portal with Stan Lee Media. Koblish became interested in comics and art at an early age and attended the prestigious Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art when he was only nine years old, reported a writer on the Revolvy website. In addition to his work as an artist, Koblish is also a musician, singer, and guitarist.
The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish is Koblish’s first solo collection, a book full of four-panel comic strips that address the many ways it would be possible for him to die, all from a humorous and tongue-in-cheek perspective. He “draws himself dying in ways imaginative, mundane, and frequently impossible,” commented a Publishers Weekly writer.
The cartoon version of Koblish meets his end in many ways. In one of the strips, he’s at a party, sitting on the sill of an open window, when a cat jumps into his lap. In his surprise, he falls backward out of the window. Another strip sees him slipping off the edge of a mountain, flailing his way downward while a mountain goat watches serenely. When fairies give him the ability to fly, he immediately goes airborne, only to be hit by an airplane.
In an interview with M.J. Franklin on the website Mashable, Koblish explained: “The origin of the book was just in my own clumsy attempts to come to grips with my own mortality.” Fears of his own death had become troublesome to him, he said, so he decided to “try to use my talents to address my worries.” The drawings, even the ones that depict the most improbably and ridiculous possible ways to die, have helped Koblish overcome his fears while providing plenty of fodder for readers with a taste for macabre humor.
Rich Johnston, in a review on the website Bleeding Cool, called Koblish’s book “slapstick, surreal, and eerily plausible, with extended scenarios and pops of color throughout.” Starburst contributor Ian White found The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish a “brilliant collection” and concluded, “Just read it, especially on a day when you need cheering up. You’ll be glad you did.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Publishers Weekly, May 7, 2018, review of The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish, p. 54.
Starburst, May 25, 2018, Ian White, review of The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish.
ONLINE
Bleeding Cool, https://www.bleedingcool.com/ (Apr 3, 2018), Rich Johnston, “The Many Deaths of Deadpool’s Scott Koblish—without the Healing Factor,” review of The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish.
Mashable, http://www.mashable.com/ (May 20, 2018), M.J. Franklin, “Turns Out One of Deadpool’s Comic Artists Has Been Drawing His Own Death for Years,” profile of Scott Koblish.
Revolvy, http://www.revolvy.com/ (October 24, 2018), biography of Scott Koblish.
Scott Koblish
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Scott Koblish
Born May 28, 1970
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation Comic book artist, Penciler, Colourist, Cover Artist, Inker
Notable work Deadpool, Captain America
Scott Koblish[1] was born on May 28, 1970 in Los Angeles, California. He is an American comic book artist specializing in inking. Scott Koblish is also a specialized pencil artist with his work with Marvel Comics and DC Comics. As a comic artist, Scott Koblish is credited in 603 issues[2] both Marvel Comics[3] and DC Comics.[4]
Contents
1 Education
2 Bibliography
3 Personal life
4 References
5 External links
Education
Scott Koblish attended The Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art when he was nine years old. There, he fell in love with comic art and began his first step in becoming a cartoonist.
Bibliography
Scott Koblish is currently the artist for Marvel’s Deadpool. Koblish has always wanted to be a cartoonist from a very early age. As a child, Scott loved John Byrne’s and George Perez’s work. He emerged into the comic book industry during the early 1990s with Marvel Comics on a variety of Marvel’s titles such as GI Joe, The Punisher, Elektra, and Excalibur. Scott Koblish began his career as a member of an apprentice program in Marvel Comics and began his work as on 4 January 1993. In 1998, Scott Koblish contributed his ink works to the Star Trek/X-Men crossover “Second Contact” from Marvel, also inking the main primary cover. Koblish also ran as a inker on the popular Marvel superhero, Captain America,[5] inking and cooperating his work with Ron Garney. Koblish’s artworks with Marvel also involves his work on the infamous Deadpool[6][7] series. Furthermore, Koblish also worked on the "Jet Pack Pets"[8] for Disney and he worked for a year with Stan Lee Media on the "7th Portal".[9]
Personal life
Scott Koblish is married and has one daughter.[10] Currently, He is resided in Westchester, California where he is continuing his work as a comic artist on Deadpool for Marvel. Scott Koblish also took part in becoming musician and a songwriter. He is a guitarist as well as a singer and he sings and produces his own music. Koblish published and displayed most of his musical work on his personal blog website[11] and his YouTube channel.[12] He likes to also attend comics convention where he gets to interact with fans and further express his artworks.
Turns out one of Deadpool's comic artists has been drawing his own death for years
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BY MJ FRANKLIN
MAY 20, 2018
Over the weekend, Marvel's wise-cracking mercenary Deadpool made his return to theaters in his new movie Deadpool 2.
But while he was making the transition from page to big screen, one of the artists who illustrates the anti-hero was working on another project: drawing his own death.
SEE ALSO: There's a 'Deadpool 2' Taylor Swift Easter egg you definitely missed in the trailer
For years, Scott Koblish, an artist who has worked on both Marvel and DC comics including Deadpool and The Amazing Spider-Man, has been drawing four-panel comics that depict bizarre, cheeky, and increasingly ridiculous ways that he might perish. Now those comic strips are collected in a new book The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish, out now from Chronicle Books.
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In a lot of ways the book seems to share the same goofy humor that makes Deadpool such a lovable character. But Koblish says it wasn't humor that inspired the project, it was fear.
"The origin of the book was just in my own clumsy attempts to come to grips with my own mortality," Koblish told Mashable. "I’ve had fearful thoughts about death and dying for years and there was a point where I was getting overwhelmed by them, so I started to ask — how can I get a hold of this? I draw all the time, mostly on comics for Marvel, and I thought I could try to use my talents to address my worries."
In the book, death does not come simply. In one comic, a meteor strikes earth and lands directly on the artist. In another, fairies grant Koblish the ability to fly... only for Koblish to get hit by an airplane once he's airborne.
"The best ideas usually wound up with me doing something incredibly stupid or petty, or scenarios where I received a wonderful gift but paid a terrible price for it, like in 'The Magic of Flight' or 'Change Comes From Within,'" Koblish explained. "There were so many times I started out with one idea and wound up with an unexpected twist or a turn, and those were the ones where the ones I had the most fun with."
And fortunately for Koblish, the comics have helped assuage his anxiety.
"It helped out to be able to laugh about it. Humor is always the best solution to terror," said Koblish.
The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish is out now from Chronicle Books. Check out a preview below.
Scott Koblish[1] was born on May 28, 1970 in Los Angeles, California. He is an American comic book artist specializing in inking. Scott Koblish is also a specialized pencil artist with his work with Marvel Comics and DC Comics. As a comic artist, Scott Koblish is credited in 603 issues[2] both Marvel Comics[3] and DC Comics.[4]
Education
Scott Koblish attended The Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Art when he was nine years old. There, he fell in love with comic art and began his first step in becoming a cartoonist.
Bibliography
Scott Koblish is currently the artist for Marvel’s Deadpool. Koblish has always wanted to be a cartoonist from a very early age. As a child, Scott loved John Byrne’s and George Perez’s work. He emerged into the comic book industry during the early 1990s with Marvel Comics on a variety of Marvel’s titles such as GI Joe, The Punisher, Elektra, and Excalibur. Scott Koblish began his career as a member of an apprentice program in Marvel Comics and began his work as on 4 January 1993. In 1998, Scott Koblish contributed his ink works to the Star Trek/X-Men crossover “Second Contact” from Marvel, also inking the main primary cover. Koblish also ran as a inker on the popular Marvel superhero, Captain America,[5] inking and cooperating his work with Ron Garney. Koblish’s artworks with Marvel also involves his work on the infamous Deadpool[6][7] series. Furthermore, Koblish also worked on the "Jet Pack Pets"[8] for Disney and he worked for a year with Stan Lee Media on the "7th Portal".[9]
Personal life
Scott Koblish is married and has one daughter.[10] Currently, He is resided in Westchester, California where he is continuing his work as a comic artist on Deadpool for Marvel. Scott Koblish also took part in becoming musician and a songwriter. He is a guitarist as well as a singer and he sings and produces his own music. Koblish published and displayed most of his musical work on his personal blog website[11] and his YouTube channel.[12] He likes to also attend comics convention where he gets to interact with fans and further express his artworks.
The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish
Publishers Weekly.
265.19 (May 7, 2018): p54.
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The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish
Scott Koblish. Chronicle, $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4521-6712-1
In this lightweight but charming humor collection, DC and Marvel artist Koblish (Deadpool) draws himself
dying in ways imaginative, mundane, and frequently impossible. In one comic after another, most only a
page long, his smiling, hapless cartoon doppelganger is devoured by baboons, beaten by a boxing kangaroo,
carried into space by balloons, killed by his own hair, and, as many cartoonists have no doubt imagined
themselves perishing, left to die of old age at a fan convention while waiting for someone to buy one of his
comics. He also falls off a lot of mountains. Some deaths are ironic, others just amusingly cruel. Koblish's
appealing black-and-white line art, with occasional spot color on the instruments of his demise, helps sell
the thin concept. His action-comics style is simplified but lifelike, and the unfortunate Cartoon Scott is cute
as he naively wanders into one dangerous situation after another like a video game avatar. His fans will pick
up this slim collection of cheerfully grim gags as a diversion between Koblick's bigger projects. (May)
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"The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish." Publishers Weekly, 7 May 2018, p. 54. General OneFile,
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Accessed 25 Sept. 2018.
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Reviews | Written by Ian White 25/05/2018
THE MANY DEATHS OF SCOTT KOBLISH
Sometimes being a reviewer is tricky, even when you’re reviewing a book you really enjoyed and you’re pretty darn sure most of the people reading the review will enjoy it too. And reviewing The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish has its own special degree of reviewing difficulty because, despite the fact we enjoyed every page of it (and laughed out loud on about a dozen occasions), we don’t actually have very much to say about it. But here goes.
Scott Koblish is a real guy. He’s an Eisner-nominated cartoonist, a Guinness Book of World Records holder, and the artist of more than 500 comic books including issues of Spider-Man, Deadpool and Thor. And in his spare time, he draws cartoons of his own death purely for… well… “sh[insert rest of rude word here]’s and giggles.”
And that’s what this book is about (although the title probably already gave that away.) This is a brilliant collection of Scott Koblish’s variously nasty, surreal, unexpected and often downright looney-tunes ends - pretty much one death per page so, unlike the far less funny movie The ABC’s of Death, it doesn’t outstay its welcome.
What? You want more? If we tell you any more we’ll give all the punchlines away.
Okay. Goats. Cats. Cthulhu. Texting. Alligators. Killer apes hungry for pastrami. Fairies. Barbecues. A time travelling bus. A bad laundry decision. And that’s just a few.
Oh, and even when Scott’s finished the book and delivered it to his publisher, the Grim Reaper still has one more startling demise up his big floaty sleeve. Screenwriters would call it a ‘call back’ but I just call it genius.
Beyond that, there’s nothing else to say. Just read it, especially on a day when you need cheering up. You’ll be glad you did.
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The Many Deaths of Deadpool’s Scott Koblish – Without the Healing Factor
Posted by Rich Johnston April 3, 2018 0 Comments
I was killed off in a comic book once. I mean, once officially — I’m sure I’ve been drawn by comic book artists in the background with a piano dropped on my head a number of times. But it was the CSI: Dying in the Gutters comic for IDW by Steven Grant and Stephen Mooney that saw me murdered by Greg Rucka. Um, spoilers. I have my death scene original art on the staircase wall. The kids find it most amusing.
But I never went as far as Deadpool‘s Scott Koblish, who, in a new volume The Many Deaths of Scott Koblish, has envisioned his own mortality repeatedly.
Over many years, he has been illustrating his own demise for many years in four panel black-and-white comics.
He’s the one person struck by a comet, suddenly overrun by a pack of baboons, resting under the precarious rock tipped by a single bird, or the target of his daughter’s (of course homicidal) teddy bear come to life.
Though it’s always Scott on the receiving end, the comics capture the irrational feeling we all have that everything can go very wrong in one irrevocable instant. Slapstick, surreal, and eerily plausible, with extended scenarios and pops of colour throughout.
For fans of Dumb Ways to Die, this makes a great present as a passive-aggressive threat to someone on the internet. Out on May 1st.
(Last Updated April 3, 2018 11:58 am )