Pseudonym of a Spanish comic book artist (born 1973)
Kano is the pseudonym of Spanish comic book artist Jose Ángel Cano López .
Kano began his career at the age of 13, editing Spanish-language comics fanzines; at 15 he was already doing layouts and design work for Planeta-DeAgostini (later doing covers and illustrations for the Spanish editions of Marvel comics).[ 1] Kano is a founding member of the Spanish magazine about comics Krazy Comics as well as the Phoenix Studio, which provided design, illustration and publishing services and was eventually merged with Camaleón Ediciones , a publishing house that Kano worked for in his early days.
Before settling as a professional cartoonist, Kano has done extensive work in the fields of illustration and animation, providing storyboards for D'Ocon Films and LolaFilms and design work for Telefónica-Movistar , Mitsubishi and various advertising agencies.[ 1]
In 1998, encouraged by his wife Elsken, Kano decided to enter US comics industry and debuted with the Virtex mini-series, published by Oktomica Comics . He then went to work for the mainstream market, where he succeeded Germán García on Action Comics at DC Comics .[ 2] Since then, Kano worked mostly for Marvel and DC, and, since 2014, for the revived Valiant Entertainment .[ 3]
Interior comic work includes:
Virtex #0-3 (with Jeff Kwan , Casey Lau and Mike Baron , Oktomica Comics , 1998–1999)
Action Comics (with Joe Kelly (except for #794), DC Comics ):
"Action" (with Germán García , in #762-765, 2000)
"Critical Condition, Part Four" (in #767, 2000)
"Emperor Joker" (in #769-770, 2000)
"Kith & Kin" (in #772-773, 2000–2001)
"Return to Krypton, Part Four" (in #776, 2001)
"Kancer" (in #777, 2001)
"Our Worlds at War" (in #780-782, 2001)
"Invaders from Space" (with Chuck Kim , in #794, 2002)
"Walking Midnight" (with Dave Bullock , Renato Guedes , Pasqual Ferry and Duncan Rouleau , in #810, 2004)
Just Imagine Stan Lee with Gary Frank Creating Shazam! : "On the Street" (with Michael Uslan , co-feature, DC Comics, 2002)
H-E-R-O #1-6, 9-11 (with Will Pfeifer , DC Comics, 2003–2004)
Smallville Magazine #6: "Magic" (with Clint Carpenter , co-feature, DC Comics, 2004)
Gotham Central (with Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker , DC Comics):
"Keystone Kops" (inks on Stefano Gaudiano , in #29-30, 2005)
"Dead Robin" (in #33-36, 2005)
"Corrigan II" (in #38-40, 2006)
Spider-Man Family (with Sean McKeever , anthology , Marvel ):
"Opposites Attack!" (among other artists, in ...Featuring Spider-Man's Amazing Friends one-shot , 2006)
"Undone" (with David Lafuente , in #2, 2007)
Civil War: Front Line #2: "Untitled" (with Paul Jenkins , co-feature, Marvel, 2006)
Marvel Adventures : Fantastic Four #17-20 (with Zeb Wells , Marvel, 2006–2007)
The Immortal Iron Fist (with Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction (except for #24), Marvel):
"The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 3" (with David Aja , in #10, 2007)
"The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 4" (with David Aja, in #11, 2008)
"The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 5" (with David Aja and Javier Pulido , in #12, 2008)
"The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 6" (with David Aja and Tonči Zonjić , in #13, 2008)
"The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven: Round 7" (with Tonči Zonjić and Clay Mann , in #14, 2008)
The Origin of Danny Rand (2-page lead-in to a re-printing of the first two Iron Fist comics, one-shot, 2008)
"Li Park, the Reluctant Weapon vs. the Unstoppable Forces of Evil" (with Duane Swierczynski , in #24, 2009)
Dead of Night Featuring Man-Thing #1 (of 4) (with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Nick Percival , Marvel, 2008)
Avengers Classic #11: "Along Came a Spider!" (with Tom Beland , co-feature, Marvel, 2008)
Noir : "The Last Hit" (with Chris Offutt , anthology graphic novel , Dark Horse , 2009)
Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter #1-3 (with Kieron Gillen , Marvel, 2009)
The Invincible Iron Man (with Matt Fraction):
Iron Man: Requiem (framing sequence in one-shot, 2010)
"The New Iron Age: Ginny Stark" (in #500, co-feature, 2010)
Marvel Zombies 5 #1-3 (of 5) (with Fred Van Lente , Marvel, 2010)
Iron Man 2.0 #1-3, 7.1 (with Nick Spencer , Barry Kitson and Carmine Di Giandomenico , Marvel, 2011)
Wonder Woman vol. 4 #10: "Vows" (with Brian Azzarello and Tony Akins , DC Comics, 2012)
Daredevil vol. 3 #8: "Devil and the Details, Part Two" (with Mark Waid , Marvel, 2012)
Swamp Thing vol. 5 (with Charles Soule (except for #0), DC Comics):
"To Monsters" (with Scott Snyder , in #0, 2012)
"Urban Jungle/This Green Hell" (in #19-20, 2013)
"The Whisky Tree" (with David Lapham , in #22-23, 2013)
"Lessons Learned" (with Javier Piña , in Annual #2, 2013)
Quantum and Woody vol. 2 #9-10 (with James Asmus , Valiant , 2014)
The Delinquents #1-4 (with James Asmus and Fred Van Lente, Valiant, 2014)
Unity #25: "Unity Begins with You" (with Elliott Kalan , co-feature, Valiant, 2015)
Book of Death: The Fall of Harbinger : "Endings" (with Joshua Dysart , one-shot, Valiant, 2015)
Bloodshot Reborn Annual #1: "The Silver Lake Slasher" (with Jeff Lemire , co-feature, Valiant, 2016)
Quantum and Woody vol. 3 #1-5 (with Daniel Kibblesmith , Valiant, 2017–2018)
Livewire #5-8 (with Vita Ayala , Valiant, 2019)
The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #5-6 (with Joshua Dysart and CAFU , Valiant, 2019)
Superman vol. 2 #161 (DC Comics , 2000)
Adventures of Superman #583 (DC Comics, 2000)
Superman: The Man of Steel #105 (DC Comics, 2000)
Action Comics #779, 783 (DC Comics, 2001)
Quantum and Woody vol. 2 #11 (Valiant , 2014)
Quantum and Woody Must Die! #3 (Valiant, 2015)
Imperium #4-7, 9 (Valiant, 2015)
Unity #19-21 (Valiant, 2015)
Bloodshot Reborn #5, 7, 14, 0 (Valiant, 2015–2017)
Book of Death: The Fall of Ninjak #1 (Valiant, 2015)
Book of Death #2 (Valiant, 2015)
Ivar, Timewalker #12 (Valiant, 2015)
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior #2, 11 (Valiant, 2015–2016)
Faith vol. 1 #1 and vol. 2 #1, 7-9, 11-12 (Valiant, 2016–2017)
Ninjak vol. 3 #11 (Valiant, 2016)
A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong #1-8, 11-12 (Valiant, 2016–2017)
X-O Manowar vol. 3 #47-49, 50 (jam cover) (Valiant, 2016)
Harbinger Renegade #1-2, 8 (Valiant, 2016–2017)
Generation Zero #1 (Valiant, 2016)
Bloodshot U.S.A. #1 (Valiant, 2016)
Divinity III: Stalinverse (Valiant):
Bloodshot's Day Off! #1 (Valiant, 2017)
Rapture #1-2 (Valiant, 2017)
Divinity #0 (Valiant, 2017)
War Mother #1 (Valiant, 2017)
Ninja-K #11-14 (Valiant, 2018)
Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome #2 (Valiant, 2018)
The Forgotten Queen #1-4 (Valiant, 2019)