EXTRACTS: Illustrators Crime Comics Special © 2020 Book Palace Books (144 pages in full edition)

69 his powers, drawing in an intuitive manner, bringing an individual vision to each script. However, it was another job for Vertigo which was to prove one of the most propitious of his career, when he inked Michael Lark’s pencils on a four part mini-series under the title Scene of the Crime . The series was written by a relative newcomer, Ed Brubaker and centred around a former junkie turned private detective based in San Francisco operating from an office above the premises of his uncle, a former crime-scene photographer. The series, although neither Sean nor Brubaker could have known it at the time, was to lead to a long and fruitful partnership which continues to this day. Work with DC and Marvel grew throughout the ‘90s and into the early 2000s with Sean working on a variety of big-named titles, enabling him to work on nearly all the superheroes he had followed in his youth— The Fantastic Four is about the only series he hasn’t worked on to date. The work was plentiful, and his ability to deliver the goods on time made him a firm favourite with commissioning editors. It was a series for DC under the title ‘Sleeper’ that saw Ed Brubaker and Sean back together working on an ongoing project, in addition to a Batman comic they were producing. Over the ensuing years they worked on a variety of projects, but for both of them, beyond the buzz of working on some of the hottest titles in the comic book business, they were Text continued from page 50