Georges Jeanty

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Georges Jeanty is an American comic book penciler illustrator best known for his work on The American Way, an eight-issue American comic book limited series produced under DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint, and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics. Various issues of Serenity (comics).

 

While completing The American Way, Jeanty was contacted by Dark Horse Comics' Senior Managing Editor, Scott Allie, who asked if he was interested in working on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic book. Buffy's creator, Joss Whedon, who had been a fan of Jeanty's work since Bishop: the Last X-Man, specifically asked for him. This was not the movie and television character's first foray into comics, between 1998 and 2004, Dark Horse Comics published various Buffy comics when the television show was on air, but not all the comics were considered canon.

However, this new comic book series was to be the canonical continuation of the popular television series that aired for seven years, hence its name.

Jeanty started penciling the first issue of Season Eight immediately after completing The American Way, working closely with Joss Whedon in bringing the television series to the comic book world. In doing this, Whedon strictly wanted "comic book stylized" versions of the Buffy characters, that carry the essence of their television counterparts, without looking like redrawn picture stills.

Much attention to detail still goes into rendering these stylized versions, Jeanty saying, "It takes me 30% more time to do a Buffy page than, say, a Gambit page, because of the likenesses. But how hard is my job when I get to sit around all day and draw Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, or Michelle Trachtenberg?"

Over the course of Season Eight, Jeanty also worked with alumni Buffy writer Jane Espenson, and comic book writers Brian K. Vaughn, Jeph Loeb, and Brad Meltzer. Jeanty also created variant covers for most of the comic book series, which would go on to be nominated for the 2008 Eisner Award for Best New Series.

The complete series was later collected into seven trade paperbacks which were regularly listed on The New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller List.

 

 

 

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