The various characters of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, as seen on the cover to Ultimates (v2) #12. Art by Bryan Hitch.

Bryan Hitch (1970) is a British comic book artist. He is the acclaimed artist/co-creator of The Authority, and, currently, Marvel's The Ultimates. His long list of credits include The Sensational She-Hulk, X-Men, Superman and Stormwatch. His work for Marvel UK includes Action Force, Doctor Who (1988), Mys-Tech Wars and Death's Head. Image File history File linksMetadata ULTMTSV2012. ... Image File history File linksMetadata ULTMTSV2012. ... This is a List of Ultimate Marvel characters. ... The various characters of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, as seen on the cover to Ultimates (v2) #12. ... The Ultimates are a fictional team of government-sponsored superheroes in the Ultimate Marvel Universe, appearing primarily in their self-titled comic book limited series The Ultimates and The Ultimates 2, published by Marvel Comics, written by Mark Millar, and drawn by Bryan Hitch. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... The Authority is a superhero comic book published by DC Comics under the Wildstorm imprint. ... The Ultimates are a fictional team of government-sponsored superheroes in the Ultimate Marvel Universe, appearing primarily in their self-titled comic book limited series The Ultimates and The Ultimates 2, published by Marvel Comics, written by Mark Millar, and drawn by Bryan Hitch. ... She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters-Jameson) is a Marvel Comics superheroine. ... The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ... Stormwatch is a rock album by Jethro Tull. ... The Mighty World of Marvel #1: The very first Marvel UK title published in 1972. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Hitch is famous for his "widescreen" art. His trademarks are highly detailed, but dynamic double-splash pages and his emotive facial close-ups. They convey the feeling that one is watching a big-budget Hollywood movie. His run on JLA was riddled with fill-in artists, and while he's drawn every issue of The Ultimates,there are frequently months between issues. He's completed 24 issues of the series in roughly 5 years, far below the average for most artists in the industry although there was a several month gap between the first and second volumes of the series. This lateness has been explained by co-worker Brian Michael Bendis as a result of his busy homelife. In the months following the start of Ultimates his wife gave birth to their first child. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Members of the Ultimates, on the cover of The Ultimates is a comic book published by Marvel Comics, part of the Ultimate Marvel line featuring classic Marvel Universe characters re-imagined for a modern audience. ... Brian Michael Bendis (born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer. ...

Hitch was a character design artist for the Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2 films. He also was a character design artist for the video game Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction; he was brought aboard the project due to his definitive rendition of the Hulk in The Ultimates. He was also hired by the BBC as the concept artist for the 2005 relaunch of the Doctor Who television series, having particular input into the design of the TARDIS interior set. He has also provided artwork that served as the cover of Empire, a British movie magazine doing a featured article on comic book movies. Ultimate Avengers (also known as Ultimate Avengers: The Movie) is a direct-to-video animated film based on the Marvel comic book The Ultimates. ... Ultimate Avengers 2 (also known as Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther) is the sequel to Ultimate Avengers. ... The Hulk (Dr. Robert Bruce Banner), sometimes referred to as The Incredible Hulk, is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, (and a 1996 television movie). ... The TARDIS The TARDIS[1] is a time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. ... Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Emap Consumer Media since July 1989. ...

Like Millar, Hitch is exclusive to Marvel comics well into the forseeable future; however, both himself and Millar have expressed their desire to re-invent Superman as a creative team.

Selected works

• X-Men vs. Brood: Day of Wrath 1-2, 1997
• The Authority 1-12 1999-2000
• Thing/She-Hulk: The Long Night one shot, 2003
• The Ultimates 1-13, 2002-2004
• The Ultimates 2 1-13, 2004-2007

External links

• Bryan Hitch Profile Interview
• Bryan Hitch's Website w/ Paul Neary