Douglas "Doug" Mahnke is an Americancomic bookartist and penciller, best known for his work on The Mask, JLA and Batman. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Artist is a subjective term which describes a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, their endeavors. ... In producing a comic book, the penciller (or penciler) draws the comic based on the script created by the writer. ... The Mask is a comic book series created by John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke, published by Dark Horse Comics. ... The Justice League of America, featuring the Flash, Superman, Aquaman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern. ... The comic book character Batman (originally referred to as The Batman, and occasionally as The Bat-Man), is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ...
He has also worked on titles such as Major Bummer, Superman: Man of Steel and Justice League Elite. Major Bummer was a humourous comic book produced by DC Comics in the late 1990s. ... Superman, nicknamed The Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938 and eventually became one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons of all time. ... Justice League Elite was a 12 issue comic book miniseries published monthly by DC Comics in 2004 and 2005. ...
Penciled by DougMahnke and inked by Tom Nguyen, the artists provide the series with amazing visuals and they do so for the entire run (no fill-in art teams ever touch this book).
Mahnke has a very unique style: his men are huge slabs of beef, his women are simultaneously voluptuous and svelte and absolutely gorgeous, the weaponry and technology that he illustrates are massive and incredibly detailed and his creatures are grotesque and gruesome.
The story goes a little something like this: the Justice League Elite was created as a test program that was (unofficially) sanctioned by the Justice League of America (JLA for short) and various world leaders to handle global threats using methods that the JLA cant (due to their high profile and public standing).