Moon Knight's Real Legacy is Giving Comics One of Its Greatest Artists
With an upcoming series on Disney+, Marvel Comics' Moon Knight has never been more visible on the pop culture radar. And while the popularity of the character has been increasing, many have forgotten that the initial strengths of Marvel's Moon Knight series wasn't the titular character, it was artist Bill Sienkiewicz. While he has more than made a name for himself with classics like the Frank Miller-penned Elektra: Assassin and his legendary run on New Mutants with Chris Claremont,Sienkiewicz got his start in comics as the primary artist ofMoon Knight. His run on the series would see him evolve from a fresh-faced, Neal Adams-loving art school graduate into the highly experimental and genre-defining artist that he has become known for.
Moon Knight was initially penciled by Don Perlin in the Doug Moench-written Werewolf By Night #32. Perlin would be the predominant artist to draw Moon Knight's subsequent and sporadic appearances as a solo character before he got his own series, along with artists like Gene Colan, Keith Giffen, and others. At this point, most of Moon Knight's appearances were written by co-creator Doug Moench, but it wasn't until Moench was teamed with a young newcomer that Moon Knight started to become the character fans know him as today.
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Bill Sienkiewicz graduated from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts where he primarily credits his favorite teacher for introducing him to what was possible with art. Sienkiewicz recalled his time at NSFIA in a July 1985 interview printed in Marvel Age #28 relating,«There I met a teacher named Don Brown who was a fashion illustrator and abstract painter. He introduced me to a whole new world of
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