Alan Davis

Alan Davis (born 18th June 1956) is a comics artist best known for his work on various superheroytitles. He began working for Marvel UK in the early 1980s, with his big break being on the revamped Captain Britain strip in Marvel Superheroes in collaboration, first with writer Dave Thorpe, and then with Alan Moore. Davis designed Captain Britain's second costume, which has become arguably the version most associated with the character. Davis and Moore would for a time have a successful partnership working together not only for Marvel UK but also for 2000AD on D.R & Quinch (Davis also drew Harry Twenty on the High Rock for 2000AD) and for Warrior magazine on Marvelman, though the two later fell out as a result of creative differences, and also of Moore's refusing to allow their Captain Britain series to be reprinted in America, denying Davis royalties as a result. Following Moore's departure from Captain Britain, Davis briefly wrote the strip before collaborating on a further run with new writer Jamie Delano. In 1985, Davis successfully broke into the American market, working for DC Comics on Batman & the Outsiders and later Detective Comics (also on Batman). In 1987, he began working for Marvel Comics and, after collaborating with writer Chris Claremont on a couple of X-Men and New Mutants stories, became the original artist on Claremont's long running series Excalibur, which teamed Captain Britain and his girlfriend Meggan up with a group of former X-Men. He also created the quirky superhero book Clan Destine for Marvel UK. He has continued to work extensively for both DC and Marvel, on such characters as the X-Men, the Avengers, the Legion of Super-Heroes, the Fantastic Four, the Justice League of America and Killraven, as well as on a second series of Clan Destine.