Geof Darrow Geofrey "Geof" Darrow (born October 21, 1955) is an American comic book artist, best known for his work on Hard Boiled, The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, which was adapted into an animated television series of the same name, and Shaolin Cowboy Shaolin Cowboy is an American comic book series created, written and drawn by artist Geof Darrow (with the exception of the opening dialog in the issues of the original 2004–2007 run, written by The Wachowskis) The book was published irregularly by Burlyman Entertainment Many have said "don’t judge a book by its cover," which is good advice, but we don't suggest it in the case of Geof Darrow Geof is one of the greatest illustrators in the comic industry He’s been around since the heydays of Hanna-Barbera but gained national attention in the early 90s with Frank Miller’s Hard Boiled Geof Darrow has had an enviable career A career in which he has worked with his icons and grown to call them friends, one that has traversed both cinema and comics, and one that has seen all of his success come from one thing: drawing what he loves After decades in the States, Darrow has decided to leave and move back to France, the place that he sees as the birthplace of comics career I sat down and chatted with Darrow about art, film, friendship, and how he feels he owes his whole career to one man A Chance Meeting With An Icon Darrow’s journey into comics history began whilst working at Hanna Barbera when he heard that the astonishing French artist Jean Giraud, AKA Moebius, was in town “I’d heard that he was in town working on Tron and I had a friend who was a project manager at Epcot Center at Disney I thought this guy probably has the juice to get me in into the studio so I can meet Moebius I was such a huge fan, so I gave my friend Jean’s name and he didn’t know who he was,” Darrow laughed “A day went by and I didn’t hear anything, and then he called and said ‘We’re going to have dinner with him on Saturday night.’ And we went out and saw each other a couple of times and he asked me ‘What you do?’ I said ‘I draw’ and he looked at my drawings and he liked them, so we kept we kept in contact When I went to France for the first time, he set me up with an interview with Metal Hurlant, which is the the original version of Heavy Metal.” The pair became fast friends and Darrow relocated to create alongside the comics giant “That was my first comic story, and they liked it and printed it A couple of years after when I moved to France to work with Moebius on a comic strip, I was going to draw it and he was going to write it We started out instead just doing a portfolio, which is like 10 drawings that I drew and he inked and colored, and that kind of put me on the map in France.” “So you know at that point he’s so mysterious and hardly anybody has seen him I mean, I was obviously extremely intimidated because I was a fan and I did these drawings And when I went over there to work in Paris he was already leaving town because he was going to go live in Tahiti So he was gone when I started, and I would these drawings and they would send the drawings to him in Tahiti and he would ink them and so I was never around I never saw him work on them It was kind of like a gift, it was just so nice They’d be like ‘He’s finished your first drawing.’ Holy cow!” Darrow exclaimed “I think I’m going to try – because I still have the pencil drawings–we’re going to put out a book of the drawings with his finishes so that people can see.” “He told me he really liked doing it He said he was really honored to it, which surprised me And he said he couldn’t more than two hours a day because it was so intense that he would get up in the morning and he would work two hours and then he would his own stuff So there’s one drawing he worked on for one month that took him two or three hours a day I think I have that one, and I did get to keep one of them, the inked one.” https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/illustration/iconic-illustrator-geof-darrow-on-his-life-in-comics-andshaolin-cowboy/ https://twitter.com/darrowgeof/status/1163929807987437568 https://bourbonthret.tumblr.com/ https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/illustration/iconic-illustrator-geof-darrow-on-his-life-in-comics-andshaolin-cowboy/ ... https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/illustration/iconic-illustrator -geof- darrow- on-his-life-in-comics-andshaolin-cowboy/ https://twitter.com/darrowgeof/status/1163929807987437568 https://bourbonthret.tumblr.com/... After decades in the States, Darrow has decided to leave and move back to France, the place that he sees as the birthplace of comics career I sat down and chatted with Darrow about art, film, friendship,.. .Geof Darrow has had an enviable career A career in which he has worked with his icons and grown to