{"id":609,"date":"2010-01-28T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glspotlight.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/28\/artist-david-finch-talks-brightest-day"},"modified":"2012-09-07T06:34:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T06:34:42","slug":"artist-david-finch-talks-brightest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/artist-david-finch-talks-brightest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist David Finch talks Brightest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse;color:#333333;font-family:verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glspotlight.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/prev-brtst-day-head_ff.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/glspotlight.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/prev-brtst-day-head_ff.jpg?w=300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"border-collapse:collapse;line-height:1.5em;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:15px 0 10px;\">Go to any comic book convention and you learn that&nbsp;<em>if<\/em>&nbsp;an artist is a particularly hot property at the moment, the line for his or her table will be among the longest in the building.<br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"iimage_0\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse;float:right;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;width:110px;margin:8px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.livescience.com\/images\/Ultimatum_01_WhiteVariantCover.jpg\" rel=\"facebox\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse;color:#3366cc;font-size:1em;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;text-decoration:none;margin:0;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Ultimatum01-White\" border=\"false\" class=\"mce_img\" height=\"167\" src=\"http:\/\/i.livescience.com\/images\/v-Ultimatum_01_White-01.jpg\" title=\"v-Ultimatum_01_White-01.jpg\" width=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"ext_caption_0\" style=\"border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-width:1px;border-collapse:collapse;clear:both;float:right;font-size:.9em;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;padding-bottom:10px;text-align:left;width:110px;margin:0;\">\n<div style=\"border-collapse:collapse;clear:left;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;padding-top:8px;margin:0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.livescience.com\/images\/Ultimatum_01_WhiteVariantCover.jpg\" rel=\"facebox\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse;color:#3366cc;font-size:1em;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;text-decoration:none;margin:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"false\" class=\"mce_img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/template_images\/icons\/icon_enlarge_img.gif\" \/>&nbsp;ENLARGE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-collapse:collapse;line-height:1.5em;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:15px 0 10px;\">Nowadays, David Finch is one of those artists. His table always has a line &#8212; a&nbsp;<em>big<\/em>&nbsp;line, filled with Marvel fans who have loyally followed his work on the top comics at the publisher, from the launch of&nbsp;<em>New Avengers<\/em>&nbsp;with Brian Michael Bendis in 2004 to last year&#8217;s universe-altering&nbsp;<em>Ultimatum<\/em>&nbsp;with Jeph Loeb.<br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/><br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/>But at this summer&#8217;s conventions, the artist will probably have some new fans in line thanks to his upcoming gig doing covers for a DC property &#8212; the much-anticipated&nbsp;<em>Brightest Day<\/em>&nbsp;by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi. Finch became a DC exclusive artist this year, signing a contract that will allow him to bring his talents to the characters of the DC Universe, beginning with covers for the bi-weekly series.<br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/><br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/>It&#8217;s a job that fits the artist&#8217;s style well. Finch is known for drawing dynamic-looking characters and larger-than-life superheroes. He admitted to Newsarama in 2007 that he tries to make his characters &#8220;look cool&#8221; and &#8220;exciting,&#8221; because that&#8217;s what was always most enjoyable to him as a reader.&nbsp;<br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/><br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/>&#8220;I never want to forget what it is as a fan that I liked,&#8221; he said (see our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/forum.newsarama.com\/showthread.php?t=131043\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse;color:#3366cc;font-size:1em;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;text-decoration:underline;margin:0;\">extensive profile interview with the artist here<\/a>. &#8220;I got in because I liked the kind of work that was exciting. My tastes have changed over the years, but I try as hard as I can not to let that affect the way that I draw. I like a lot of the more so-called, you know, &#8216;intellectual&#8217; comics. The non-superhero stuff. But I remember what I liked when I first got in. I never want to forget that.&#8221;<br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/><br style=\"border-collapse:collapse;outline-color:initial;outline-style:none;outline-width:initial;margin:0;\" \/>Now that Finch is a Marvel exclusive artist, Newsarama talked to him to find out more about why he took the new job and what he wants to do now that he&#8217;s got the whole DCU in front of him.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to any comic book convention and you learn that&nbsp;if&nbsp;an artist is a particularly hot property at the moment, the line for his or her table will be among the longest in the building. &nbsp;ENLARGE Nowadays, David Finch is one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/artist-david-finch-talks-brightest-day\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegreenlanterncorps.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}