Initially he worked on strips for anthology titles such as Weird War Tales, and drew three issues of Jamie Delano's 2020 Visions, as well as various covers for DC. His first major work in American comics was Flex Mentallo in 1996, a Doom Patrol spin-off written by fellow Glaswegian Grant Morrison for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. He drew various stories in Paradox Press' series of The Big Book Of graphic novels, as well as work in Dark Horse Presents for Dark Horse Comics. He was given work on Shimura, written by Robbie Morrison, and Missionary Man, by Gordon Rennie, quickly rising to prominence. This brought Quitely's work to the attention of Judge Dredd Megazine editor David Bishop. Initially Electric Soup was only distributed locally in Glasgow, then it was picked up by John Brown Publishing for widespread national UK distribution. It was in working on this book that he adopted the pseudonym of Frank Quitely (a spoonerism of 'quite frankly'), as he did not want his family to know it was his work, worried that they may have found it upsetting.

Career ĭeighan worked up the Scottish underground comics title Electric Soup in 1990, writing and drawing The Greens, a parody of The Broons strip published by D. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art but did not complete his course in fine art, drawing and painting.

Bride's High School in East Kilbride (as his father worked there as a PE teacher). He is best known for his frequent collaborations with Grant Morrison on titles such as New X-Men, We3, All-Star Superman, and Batman and Robin, as well as his work with Mark Millar on The Authority and Jupiter's Legacy.ĭeighan was raised in Rutherglen, although attended St. Vincent Patrick Deighan (born 1968), better known by the pen name Frank Quitely, is a Scottish comic book artist.

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