For Cake's musician, see John McCrea (musician).
John McCrea (Belfast, 1966) is a comic book artist, best known for his collaborations with screenwriter Garth Ennis. Biography
His historical vocation was early and while he was studying drawing and design in Belfast he tirelessly moved his work through comic conventions and English publishers, such as 2000 AD or Marvel UK. Thus, he soon began to do some small professional jobs in some magazines and eventually collaborated in 2000 AD, drawing some stories of Future Shocks. His early works are notably influenced by John Byrne and Alan Davis.
The leap to professionalism came in 1998, when fellow debutant Garth Ennis (who was then 18 years old) wrote Trouble Souls, a political series published in the magazine Crisis. They were looking for a cartoonist and they found McCrea, thus creating a creative team that has been working for more than ten years. McCrea and Ennis have jointly made For a Few Troubles More, Judge Dredd, The Demon, Hitman ... and have created a number of important characters over the years. McCrea illustrated Trouble Souls with a naturalistic style, using acrylic paint and other techniques, but in his sequel, For a Few Troubles More, his style became simpler and more angular.
He entered the US market in 1993, drawing The Demon, the Garth Ennis series for DC Comics. This work would be worth to redraw him with scripts of Ennis in the series Hitman, that would realize together between 1996 and 2001; The series, which won an Eisner Award, is a combination of action, humor and violence in the superheroic universe of DC Comics, in which McCrea would develop his own graphic personality.
After finishing in Hitman, McCrea continues to work with different characters for different American publishers. He has also worked with other well-known writers such as Alan Grant, Doselle Young, Mark Millar, Warren Ellis and Ron Zimmerman.
He is currently based in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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