Graham Nolan (born March 12, 1962) is an American
comic book artist, best known for work for
DC Comics on
Batman-related titles in the 1990s and his work on The Phantom Sunday strip. He frequently collaborates with writer
Chuck Dixon.
Biography
Nolan's first comics credit came in April 1985, when his work appeared in
DC Comics' Talent Showcase #16, alongside
Eric Shanower and
Stan Woch (among others). Moving on to an issue of the Marvel Transformers comic, in 1988 he started a 12-issue run on DC's Power of the Atom comic. In June 1990, he launched
John Ostrander and
Tim Truman's Hawkworld comic, pencilling and inking it for 26 issues until late 1992. In 1992 he designed and co-created the Batman villain
Bane. He also worked on many issues of Detective Comics, illustrating key parts of the
KnightFall and KnightsEnd sagas featuring
Azrael and
Batman.[1]
In 1998 he created and published his own comic book, Monster Island. Nolan tried to get a reformatted version into newspaper syndication but was told they no longer were buying adventure or "continuity" strips. King Features, instead offered him the art duties on their existing long-running medical soap opera strip, Rex Morgan, M.D.[2] A couple months later he was offered the Sunday Phantom strip as well.[3]
He left the Phantom strip in 2006 to work on other projects.[4] He left Rex Morgan in 2013.
Since then Nolan has been busy writing and illustrating creator-owned projects like Joe Frankenstein for IDW, and Return to Monster Island for Ominous Press, as well as returning to Bane with Chuck Dixon for the 12-part series, Bane: Conquest.[5]
In 2009, he created the
webcomicSunshine State.[6]