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Leinil Francis Yu

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Leinil Francis Yu is a famous Filipino comic book artist known for his work on Wolverine, Avengers, and X-Men as well as Marvel Comics events such as Secret Invasion. Yu has also pencilled his creations on Silent Dragon and Superior. He is known for his style of Dynamic Pseudo-Realism.

Leinil Francis Yu

Credited within these Comics

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Avengers
30
Marvel Comics
Avengers
2012 - 2015
X-Men
25
Marvel Comics
X-Men
2019 - 2021
Wolverine
23
Marvel Comics
Wolverine
1988 - 2003
The New Avengers
23
Marvel Comics
The New Avengers
2004 - 2010

Credited Characters

Apocalypse
Evan Sabahnur
Apocalypse
Earth-616
Astra
Astra
Earth-616
Augusta Bromes
Augusta Bromes
Earth-616
Banhi Gahlot
Banhi Gahlot
Earth-616
Bracken
Bracken
Earth-616
Cav
Cav
Daniela Gentile
Daniela Gentile
Earth-616
Dr. Mars
Earth-616
Dr. Smyth
Dr. Smyth
Earth-616
Dur
Dur
Earth-616
Edith Scutch
Edith Scutch
Earth-616
En Sabah Nur
Evan Sabahnur
En Sabah Nur
Earth-616
Ex Nihila
Ex Nihila
Earth-616
Frederico João de Cézare
Frederico João de Cézare
Earth-616
Hhurr
Hhurr
Earth-616
High Mutant Prophet Idyll
High Mutant Prophet Idyll
Earth-616
High Summoner of Arakko
High Summoner of Arakko
Earth-616
Hool-go-Dir
Hool-go-Dir
Earth-616
John Sublime
Sublime
John Sublime
Earth-616
Kluh
Bruce Banner
Kluh
Earth-616
Lily Leymus
Lily Leymus
Earth-616
Ludovic von Bergen
Ludovic von Bergen
Earth-616
Misty
Misty
Opal Vetiver
Opal Vetiver
Earth-616
Pearl Pangan
Earth-616
Queen Trios of Shu-Torun
Trios
Queen Trios of Shu-Torun
Ronin
Clint Barton
Ronin
Earth-616
Sublime
Earth-616
Trios
Uhr'Oggloth
Uhr'Oggloth
Earth-616
Wave
Pearl Pangan
Wave
Earth-616

More on Leinil Francis Yu

Leinil Francis Yu was first recognized after winning the Wizard's Drawing Board Contest, his first published work. He was first hired by Whilce Portacio to do some work for Wildstorm and started his comic book artist's career on Aster: The Last Celestial Knight #3 (with Ronaldo Roxas) in the mid 1990s, but that work fell through. Portacio then passed on samples of Yu's work to Marvel Comics, who subsequently hired him to work on Wolverine.

After his run on Wolverine he moved on to work on Marvel's core X-Men title in 2000, which was being written by Chris Claremont at the time. Yu continued to work on other Marvel titles such as Fantastic Four, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk and New Avengers. He also co-created High Roads with writer Scott Lobdell at Cliffhanger, and Superman: Birthright with Mark Waid and Silent Dragon with Andy Diggle at DC Comics.

His run on Marvel's New Avengers series ended with #37 so he could begin working on Secret Invasion, which was written by Brian Michael Bendis. He also completed his work on the long-delayed Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk series after finishing the miniseries Secret Invasion, before going on to work on Ultimate Comics: Avengers 2 with writer Mark Millar.

Yu was commissioned to design the cover for The Pin-Up Girls' 2001 debut album Hello Pain, and the internationally released Taste Test EP.

Yu was a conceptual artist on the 2005 feature film Serenity.

On April 9, 2011 Yu was one of 62 comics creators who appeared at the IGN stage at the Kapow! convention in London to set two Guinness World Records, the Fastest Production of a Comic Book, and Most Contributors to a Comic Book. With Guinness officials on hand to monitor their progress, writer Mark Millar began work at 9am scripting a 20-page black and white Superior comic book, with Yu providing the book's front cover, and the other artists appearing on stage throughout the day to work on the pencils, inks, and lettering, including Dave Gibbons, Frank Quitely, John Romita Jr., Jock, Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill, Duncan Fegredo, Simon Furman, David Lafuente, John McCrea, Sean Phillips and Liam Sharp, who all drew a panel each. The book was completed in 11 hours, 19 minutes, and 38 seconds, and was published through Icon on November 23, 2011, with all royalties being donated to Yorkhill Children's Foundation.

Yu formed the band Marty McFly along with college friends and has produced a self made album.

Yu was one of the artists slated on Jonathan Hickman's Avengers as well as pencilling the event Infinity.

He drew Avengers #30, a "jam issue", featuring splash pages by various artists including Walt Simonson and Jim Cheung.

In 2018 Marvel relaunched a new volume of Captain America, with Yu as artist working with Ta-Nehisi Coates.

In 2019 Yu created the first Filipino superhero "Wave" who first appears in the Marvel Comics issue War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas #1, published on May 8, 2019. There are also two variant covers that came from a comic shop in the Philippines that feature Wave on the cover, making it her first cover appearance.

As a result of Hickman's explosive return to Marvel Comics, he was slated as the flagship artist for the X-Men. After the tragic death of longtime collaborative inker Gerry Alanguilan, he took a break off comic interiors, though he still draws the covers for the run.

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