In 1985 Larsen worked on Sentinels of Justice for AC Comics, and The DNAgents for Eclipse Comics. Both the Graphic Fantasy and Megaton issues featuring the Dragon were later reprinted in high-quality editions. In these appearances, the character of the Dragon remained basically the same as it had been in Graphic Fantasy, with a few details modified (such as the inclusion of his wife, who was dead in his previous incarnation). Subsequently, the Dragon made another appearance in the third issue of Gary Carlson's Megaton anthology in its Vanguard strip, which Larsen had been drawing. In this incarnation, the Dragon was a widower and a retired member of a government-sponsored superhero team. Savage Dragon was first featured in two issues of Graphic Fantasy, a self-published title with a small print run, published by Larsen and two friends. The original Dragon, inspired by elements from Captain Marvel, Batman, Speed Racer and later The Incredible Hulk, differs greatly from the modern incarnation. A revised version of the Dragon debuted in issue #2 and made a cameo appearance in the following two issues. įor the anthology Megaton #1 (1983), Larsen co-created and illustrated a feature called "Vanguard" with publisher Gary Carlson. Career Early career Ībout a decade after creating the Dragon, Larsen and two friends produced a fanzine called Graphic Fantasy, which featured this character.
It was Larsen's exposure to Dick Sprang's rendition of Batman that would later influence the earliest incarnations of his own creation, The Dragon, who drove a car copied from Speed Racer's Mach Five, and who turned into a superhero using a magic word to trigger his powers like Captain Marvel. Through him, Larsen was exposed to those books and those of Marvel Comics, and began to buy comics in earnest in the mid-1970s. Growing up in Bellingham, Washington, he became interested in comics through his father, a professor of English who read EC Comics, and owned a large collection of Captain Marvel Adventures. He has one older brother and two younger sisters. Larsen was born on December 8, 1962, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1992 he was one of several artists who stopped working for Marvel to found Image Comics, where he launched his superhero series Savage Dragon – one of the longest running creator-owned superhero comics series – and served for several years as the company's publisher. He gained attention in the early 1990s with his art on Spider-Man series for Marvel Comics. He currently acts as the chief financial officer of Image Comics. Larsen (born December 8, 1962) is an American comic book artist, writer, and publisher.
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