Doug Hazlewood

Doug Hazlewood
Born	September 20, 1954 (1954-09-20) (age 57)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Inker
Notable works	Marvel Try-out Book Animal Man Superboy The Flash
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Doug Hazlewood (born September 20, 1954)^[1] is an American comic book artist, known primarily for inking.

Hazlewood has primarily worked for DC Comics during his career, often partnering with pencilers Tom Grummett and Nicola Scott, and he occupies a particular niche as Superman's "event-book" inker, working on such titles and story lines as The Death of Superman (1993) and Superman: The Wedding Album (1996).

Biography

Supergirl (Matrix): Hazlewood's inks over Tom Grummett's pencils, from the cover of Adventures of Superman #502 (DC Comics, July 1993).

Hazlewood came out of comics fandom, with one of his first credits being in 1979 in the zine The Comic Reader. Up through the mid-1980s he had illustration work published sporadically in the Fantagraphics publications The Comics Journal and Amazing Heroes. In 1986, Hazlewood was named the winner of the inking portion of the Marvel Try-out Book,^[2] and from that point forward found regular professional inking work (though, ironically, not much for Marvel).

At first, Hazlewood worked with AC Comics on such titles as Femforce and Nightveil. Next, he inked the entire eight-issue run of Eclipse Comics' The Liberty Project.

Hazlewood latched on with DC Comics in 1988 as the regular inker for the new title Animal Man, written by Grant Morrison. Hazlewood remained as the book's inker for two years, up through issue #24. During this period, Hazlewood worked for the British company Fleetway, publisher of 2000 AD, as a cover inker for the title Psi-Judge Anderson.

In the early 1990s Hazlewood freelanced for Fleetway, Eclipse, and Marvel Comics, and in 1991 became the regular inker on DC's Adventures of Superman. Partnering with penciler Tom Grummett, Hazlewood inked that book until 1993. From there he and Grummett moved to Superboy (vol. 3), which Hazlewood inked from 1994–1998.

Moving into the 2000s, Hazlewood was regular inker on The Flash (vol. 2) from 2000–2003. From there, he moved to DC's Doom Patrol volume four (2004–2006), inking John Byrne for the book's entire 18-issue run. Next, Hazlewood began his collaboration with Nicola Scott on DC's Birds of Prey from 2007–2008, and then Secret Six (again partnering with writer Gail Simone and penciler Scott) from 2008–2010. In 2010, Simone, Scott, and Hazlewood moved to Wonder Woman for a handful of issues, and then Scott and Hazlewood took their artistic partnership to Teen Titans (vol. 3), which they have been working on together from 2010 to the present.

Notes

1. ^ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comic Buyer's Guide. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010. http://www.webcitation.org/5trAbNQWw. Retrieved December 12, 2010. 
2. ^ Shooter, Jim. "Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel Comics cover-dated Feb. 1986.

References

• Doug Hazlewood at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Official website

Preceded by N/A	Animal Man inker 1988–1990	Succeeded by Mark Farmer
Preceded by Brett Breeding	Adventures of Superman inker 1991–1993	Succeeded by Ray McCarthy
Preceded by N/A	Superboy vol. 3 inker 1994–1998	Succeeded by Karl Kesel
Preceded by José Marzan, Jr.	The Flash vol. 2 inker 2000–2003	Succeeded by Alberto Dose
Preceded by Robin Riggs	Birds of Prey inker 2007–2008	Succeeded by John Floyd
Preceded by N/A	Secret Six inker 2008–2010	Succeeded by Jim Calafiore

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Name	Hazlewood, Doug
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Short description	American comic book artist
Date of birth	September 20, 1954
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