The A-Z of Canadian Comic Book Creators: H is for Niko Henichon
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It’s going to be a bit of a shorter entry this time. All the people I could turn up for the letter H were either new to the industry, or had just done one or two cartoon strips, many years ago. I’m pretty happy with who I settled on though, as this guy is an amazing artist, and is the artist in a row to work on a project with Brian K. Vaughan. I guess the man must really like Canada, eh?
For the index list of creators featured thus far, please click here.
H is for Niko Henrichon
Niko Henrichon is a Canadian artist from Quebec City. Niko got his first published art credit in 2001 when he provided artwork for the short story “Why Aren’t You Supposed to Wake a Sleepwalker?”, written by Bill Willingham, for the anthology The Sandman 
Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams…But Were Afraid to Ask. Following this short story credit his first major project was in 2003, when he worked on the graphic novel Barnum, written by Howard Chaykin and David Tichman.
For the next couple of years, Henrichon provided covers for a few indy titles, and anthology titles, but little else. Then, 2006 saw Henrichnon collaborating with Brian K. Vaughan on the incredibly popular graphic novel Pride of Baghdad. The story of ‘Pride’ revolved around the brief freedom experienced by a small pride of captive lions, who escape from Baghdad Zoo during the 2003 invasion of Baghdad by the U.S.-led coalition. The story can be read as a simple anthropomorphic tale, but can also be read as an allegory. The destruction of the zoo and the short lived freedom of the lions can be seen to represent the decline of Iraqi society after being freed from Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party by the American invasion. This is illustrated by a comment made by one of the lions shortly after being freed: “There’s an old saying, Zill. Freedom can’t be given, only earned”. Pride of Baghdad won the 2007 Harvey, Eagle and IGN awards for best ‘original graphic novel’, and according to Vaughan was ” inexplicably named as one of the best novels of the year by both Playboy Magazine AND the Young Adult Library Association.”
Following the massive success of Pride of Baghdad Niko Henrichon has worked on a variety of titles and characters for both DC and Marvel, including, Fables, X-Men, Marvel Comics Presents, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man. Henrichon is currently providing covers for the Vertigo series Mirror’s Edge, and will soon be doing covers for Marvel’s upcoming Pet Avengers title.
Full Bibliography:
July 2001:
The Sandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams…But Were Afraid to Ask (2001) #1
2003:
Barnum! (2003) HC – ‘Barnum! In Secret Service to the USA’
May 2003:
Danny Fingeroth’s Write Now! (2002) #4
December 2003:
Star Wars Tales (1999) #18
May 2006:
Vaistron (2005) #5 – ‘Dead End’
September 2006:
Pride of Baghdad (2006) HC – ‘Pride of Baghdad’
2007:
Pride of Baghdad (2006) TPB – ‘Pride of Baghdad’
Pride of Baghdad (2006) TPB (Second Printing) – ‘Pride of Baghdad’
May 2007:
Black Panther (2005) #26 – ‘Two Plus Two, Part 1′
June 2007:
Black Panther (2005) #27 – ‘Two Plus Two, Part 2′
New X-Men (2004) #37 – ‘Quest for Magik: Prelude’
August 2007:
Spider-Man Fairy Tales (2007) #2 – ‘The Spirits of Friendship’
December 2007:
New X-Men (2004) TPB vol. 05 – ‘Childhood’s End, Volume 5: The Quest For Magik’
Pride of Baghdad (2006) (Port.) – ‘Fábula de Bagdad’
Spider-Man Fairy Tales (2007) TPB – ‘Spider-Man: Fairy Tales TPB’
2008:
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (2008) HC vol. 04 – ‘Earthmover to Guardians of the Galaxy’
April 2008:
Fables (2002) #70 – ‘Kingdom Come’
May 2008:
Shadow Hunter (2007) #3 (Variant Edition)
June 2008:
Marvel Comics Presents (2007) #8
July 2008:
Marvel Comics Presents (2007) #9
August 2008:
Marvel Comics Presents (2007) #10
September 2008:
Fantastic Four: True Story (2008) #1 – ‘The Melancholy Of Susan Richards’
Marvel Comics Presents (2007) #11
October 2008:
Fantastic Four: True Story (2008) #2 – ‘Grimm’s Fairytales’
Marvel Comics Presents (2007) #12
November 2008:
Fables (2002) TPB vol. 11 – ‘War And Pieces’
Fantastic Four: True Story (2008) #3 – ‘Total Nightmare’
X-Men: Return of Magik (2008) #1
January 2009:
Fantastic Four: True Story (2008) #4 – ‘Johnny Storm Saves Books’
February 2009:
Mirror’s Edge (2008) #2
April 2009:
Mirror’s Edge (2008) #4
May 2009:
Mirror’s Edge (2008) #5
June 2009:
Mirror’s Edge (2008) #6
References
http://www.nikohenrichon.com/
Comic Book DB – Entry for Niko Henrichon
Wikipedia – Entry for Niko Henrichon
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