Kano (comics)

For the 2000 AD character, see Bad Company (comics).

Kano
Born	Jose Ángel Cano López 1973 Barcelona
Nationality	Spanish
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker, Colorist
Notable works	Action Comics Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter
http://www.kano.es

Kano is the pseudonym of a Spanish comic book artist, whose real name is Jose Ángel Cano López.

Biography

Kano began his career at the age of 13, editing Spanish-language comics fanzines; at 15 he was already doing layouts and design work for Planeta-DeAgostini (later doing covers and illustrations for the Spanish editions of Marvel comics). Kano is a founding member of the Spanish magazine about comics Krazy Comics as well as the Phoenix Studio, which provided design, illustration and publishing services and was eventually merged with Camaleón Ediciones, a publishing house that Kano worked for in his early days.

Before settling as a professional cartoonist, Kano has done extensive work in the fields of illustration and animation, providing storyboards for D'Ocon Films and LolaFilms and design work for Telefónica-Movistar, Mitsubishi and various advertising agencies.

In 1998, encouraged by his wife Elsken, Kano decided to enter US comics industry and debuted with the Virtex mini-series, published by Oktomica Comics. He then went to work for the mainstream market, where he succeeded Germán García on Action Comics at DC Comics. Since then, Kano worked mostly for Marvel and DC, and, since 2014, for the revived Valiant Entertainment.

Bibliography

Interior comic work includes:

• Virtex #0-3 (with Jeff Kwan, Casey Lau and Mike Baron, Oktomica Comics, 1998–1999)
• Action Comics (with Joe Kelly (except for #794), DC Comics):
  • "Action" (with Germán García, in #762-765, 2000)
  • "Critical Condition, Part Four" (in #767, 2000)
  • "Emperor Joker" (in #769-770, 2000)
  • "Kith & Kin" (in #772-773, 2000–2001)
  • "Return to Krypton, Part Four" (in #776, 2001)
  • "Kancer" (in #777, 2001)
  • "Our Worlds at War" (in #780-782, 2001)
  • "Invaders from Space" (with Chuck Kim, in #794, 2002)
  • "Walking Midnight" (with Dave Bullock, Renato Guedes, Pasqual Ferry and Duncan Rouleau, in #810, 2004)
• Just Imagine Stan Lee with Gary Frank Creating Shazam!: "On the Street" (with Stan Lee and Michael Uslan, co-feature, DC Comics, 2002)
• H-E-R-O #1-6, 9-11 (with Will Pfeifer, DC Comics, 2003–2004)
• Smallville #6: "Magic" (with Clint Carpenter, co-feature, DC Comics, 2004)
• Gotham Central (with Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker, DC Comics):
  • "Keystone Kops" (inks on Stefano Gaudiano, in #29-30, 2005)
  • "Dead Robin" (in #33-36, 2005)
  • "Corrigan II" (in #38-40, 2006)
• Spider-Man Family (with Sean McKeever, anthology, Marvel):
  • "Opposites Attack!" (among other artists, in ...Featuring Spider-Man's Amazing Friends one-shot, 2006)
  • "Undone" (with David Lafuente, in #2, 2007)
• Civil War: Front Line #2: "Untitled" (with Paul Jenkins, co-feature, Marvel, 2006)
• Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four #17-20 (with Zeb Wells, Marvel, 2006–2007)
• The Immortal Iron Fist (with Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction (except for #24), Marvel):
  • "The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 3" (with David Aja, in #10, 2007)
  • "The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 4" (with David Aja, in #11, 2008)
  • "The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 5" (with David Aja and Javier Pulido, in #12, 2008)
  • "The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 6" (with David Aja and Tonči Zonjić, in #13, 2008)
  • "The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 7" (with Tonči Zonjić and Clay Mann, in #14, 2008)
  • The Origin of Danny Rand (2-page lead-in to a re-printing of the first two Iron Fist comics, one-shot, 2008)
  • "Li Park, the Reluctant Weapon vs. the Unstoppable Forces of Evil" (with Duane Swierczynski, in #24, 2009)
• Dead of Night Featuring Man-Thing #1 (of 4) (with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Nick Percival, Marvel, 2008)
• Avengers Classic #11: "Along Came a Spider!" (with Tom Beland, co-feature, Marvel, 2008)
• Noir: "The Last Hit" (with Chris Offutt, anthology graphic novel, Dark Horse, 2009)
• Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter #1-3 (with Kieron Gillen, Marvel, 2009)
• The Invincible Iron Man (with Matt Fraction):
  • Iron Man: Requiem (one-shot, 2010)
  • "The New Iron Age: Ginny Stark" (in #500, 2010)
• Marvel Zombies 5 #1-3 (of 5) (with Fred Van Lente, Marvel, 2010)
• Iron Man 2.0 #1-3, 7.1 (with Nick Spencer, Barry Kitson and Carmine Di Giandomenico, Marvel, 2011)
• Wonder Woman #10: "Vows" (with Brian Azzarello and Tony Akins, DC Comics, 2012)
• Daredevil #8: "Devil and the Details, Part Two" (with Mark Waid, Marvel, 2012)
• Swamp Thing (with Charles Soule (except for #0), DC Comics):
  • "To Monsters" (with Scott Snyder, in #0, 2012)
  • "Urban Jungle/This Green Hell" (in #19-20, 2013)
  • "The Whisky Tree" (with David Lapham, in #22-23, 2013)
  • "Lessons Learned" (with Javier Pina, in Annual #2, 2013)
• Quantum & Woody #9-10 (with James Asmus, Valiant, 2014)
• The Delinquents #1-4 (with James Asmus and Fred Van Lente, Valiant, 2014)

Covers only

• Superman v2 #161 (DC Comics, 2000)
• Adventures of Superman #583 (DC Comics, 2000)
• Superman: The Man of Steel #105 (DC Comics, 2000)
• Action Comics #779, 783 (DC Comics, 2001)
• Quantum & Woody #11 (Valiant, 2014)

References

• Kano at the Grand Comics Database
• Kano at Lambiek's Comiclopedia

External links

• Official website
• Kano at the Comic Book DB