Jim Aparo
Jim Aparo was an American comic book artist, known for his extensive work on major DC Comics characters such as Batman and Aquaman. He is acclaimed for art on legendary Batman stories A Death in the Family and Knightfall, and for a lengthy run on The Brave and the Bold.
Name:
Jim Aparo
Aliases:
Birth date:
August 24th, 1932
Death date:
July 19th, 2005
Home town:
Unknown
Country:
USA
History
Aparo was primarily self-trained as an artist. His style was primarily in the tradition of his influential contemporary Neal Adams, striving for realistic renditions of his subject rather than caricature or exaggeration. Aparo's muscular figures tended to be leaner than those drawn by most of his peers. He paid particular attention to detail in rendering vehicles, "street clothes", architecture, and landscape. He frequently tilted the viewpoint so that the horizon line in a panel was significantly angled away from level, and used props such as potted plants and furniture to emphasize depth in a setting. He was also known for inserting drawings of celebrities (such as Humphrey Bogart, Peter Falk, Ed McMahon, and Fred Allen) as background characters in heavily-populated scenes.
