Everything about Mike Dringenberg totally explained
Mike Dringenberg is a
German/
American comic book artist best known for his work on
DC/
Vertigo's
Sandman series with writer
Neil Gaiman.
Dringenberg was initially the series's
inker (over pencil art by
Sam Kieth) but switched to pencilling when Kieth left after the fifth issue. He drew eleven issues, all but one inked by
Malcolm Jones III, and his understated, realistic style did much to establish the tone of the series. He co-created the popular character
Death, whom he based on Cinnamon, a girl he knew from the dance clubs in
Salt Lake City,
Utah (Gaiman had imagined her looking like
Louise Brooks or
Nico, but ultimately preferred Dringenberg's version). He also co-created
Desire, basing his/her appearance on the work of
Patrick Nagel, and had a hand in much of the character design apparent in the early series.
Dringenberg's work appears in the Sandman collections "", "" and "". He is credited in every printing as being one of the series's creators, as he's responsible for the iconic representation of many of the principal characters.
His earliest work was in independent comics, including
Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters (a parody of
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which itself was a parody of many current comic books),
Enchanter,
Alien Worlds,
Total Eclipse,
Shock the Monkey and
Kelvin Mace. His mainstream work includes DC's
Doom Patrol with writer
Grant Morrison (where he co-created
Flex Mentallo), the
fantasy card game, and White Wolf Publishing's
card game .
He is currently a popular illustrator of book jackets and CD covers, most notably for various books by
J.R.R. Tolkien,
Kij Johnson,
Kage Baker, and San Francisco's
Big City Orchestra.
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