Kano (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).^[1] 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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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)

Notes

1. "Spanish authors: KANO".
2. "Kano". Lambiek's Comiclopedia.

References

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

External links

• Official website
• Kano at the Comic Book DB