Adi Granov facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Adi Granov |
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Granov in 2019
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| Born | 1977 (age 47–48) Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Area(s) | Artist |
Adi Granov is a talented artist from Bosnia and America. He is a well-known comic book artist and designer. He is famous for his amazing painted artwork, especially for Marvel Comics. He has done a lot of work on Iron Man comics.
He is well-known for drawing the Iron Man: Extremis comic story. He also helped design characters and scenes for the 2008 Iron Man movie. The director, Jon Favreau, chose him personally for this job. Granov has also worked on other movies like The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He has designed packaging for DVDs and toys. He has also created designs for video games.
Adi Granov's Early Life
Adi Granov was born in 1977 in Sarajevo, which was then part of Yugoslavia. He started drawing when he was very young. However, he didn't think about art as a career until he was sixteen.
In 1994, when he was 16, Granov and his family left Bosnia. They moved to the United States to escape the Bosnian War. He lived in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington for ten years. During this time, he studied art and design at a university. He was inspired by European comics and American poster artists. He also liked some manga artists. He has mentioned artists like Moebius and Drew Struzan as influences.
Adi Granov's Art Career
Before working in comics, Granov spent three years in Chicago. He designed things for Nintendo Software Technology. He worked on games like Bionic Commando and Wave Race: Blue Storm. He also drew pictures for Star Wars and Wheel of Time games. These were made by Wizards of the Coast. He also illustrated a short story for Metal Hurlant magazine.
While in Chicago, he got his first job drawing for a comics company called Dreamwave Productions. His work on their comic NecroWar (2003) was very popular. However, the company later went out of business.
Granov showed his comic artwork at San Diego Comic-Con. Later, an editor from Marvel Comics sent him an email. The editor liked his art and invited him to work for Marvel. Granov said yes! His first job for Marvel was drawing the cover and inside art for the 2004 Iron Man Poster Book.
His work was a big success. Because of this, Granov teamed up with writer Warren Ellis. They created the six-issue comic series Iron Man: Extremis in 2005–06. At that time, Iron Man was not a very popular character. But Extremis became one of the best Iron Man comics ever. It made people interested in the character again.
The comic also caught the eye of film director Jon Favreau. He hired Granov to be one of the main designers for the 2008 Iron Man movie. The "Extremis" story was later used for the 2013 film Iron Man 3. In 2004, Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada named Granov as one of the "Young Guns." This group included artists who were seen as future superstars.
Granov has drawn many covers for Marvel comics. These include She-Hulk, Inhumans, Thor, X-Men, The Amazing Spider-Man, Black Widow, Hulk, Captain America, and Fantastic Four. He has also illustrated short stories for Astonishing X-Men and "Dark Reign" comics.
In May 2008, the Iron Man movie came out. Granov helped design the Iron Man and Iron Monger suits. He also drew key scenes to show how the designs would move. He worked with other designers, Phil Saunders and Ryan Meinerding. That same month, Marvel released Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas. This comic was written by Jon Favreau and drawn by Granov. It showed Iron Man fighting against Fin Fang Foom.
Granov later did design work for the 2012 movie The Avengers. He also worked on the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He has also created artwork for action figures and other toys based on these characters.
He also drew pictures for the band Tool's 21st anniversary re-release of their first album, Opiate. He has worked on designs for Play Imaginative, a company that makes high-end Iron Man figures.
In July 2018, Insomniac Games showed their PlayStation 4 video game Spider-Man. The game features a special suit for Spider-Man called the Velocity Suit, which Granov designed.
Adi Granov's Personal Life
Adi Granov met his wife, Tamsin Isles, online. She was a moderator on an art forum where he posted his work. They became friends and later married. They live in Ilkley, England. Granov loves the town and its beautiful countryside.
Tamsin helps him with his work. She arranges his appearances at comic conventions. She also handles sales of his art. She even helped organize Thought Bubble, a comics convention in Leeds.
Granov enjoys mechanical things like airplanes, trains, cars, and watches. His hobbies include beekeeping and rebuilding his 1967 Lotus Elan car. He is also a big fan of science fiction stories.
