Famed illustrator Kim Jong-Gene died of a heart attack in Paris on Monday at the age of 47. Known for his extraordinary ability to draw complex scenes from memory, King won the Guinness World Record for “Longest Drawing.”
Famed illustrator Kim Jong-Gene died of a heart attack in Paris on Monday at the age of 47. Known for his extraordinary ability to draw complex scenes from memory, King won the Guinness World Record for “Longest Drawing.”
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Kim was born in Goyang, studied fine arts at Dongui University in Busan, and completed his mandatory military service in the Republic of Korea Army Special Forces, which allowed him to remember the weapons and vehicles he could later use in your illustrations. .
In 2001, together with writer Kim Hyun-jin, he founded the creative studio Superani in Seoul, specializing in spreading the works of Korean artists on the international stage. On a technical level, he excels at drawing detailed, large-format ink illustrations directly onto canvas from memory, without sketches or perspective lines. 56 All this has led him to carry out numerous exhibitions of mural art all over the world.
In comics he debuted in the 2000s and published independent works in the Japanese magazine Young Jump. From 2008 to 2010 he drew the graphic novel “TLT: Tiger of the Long Tail”, which was written by Park Seung-jin and collected in six volumes. After a while, he became a freelance illustrator for American and Franco-Belgian publishers and worked on commissions for advertising campaigns. After illustrating two of Bernard Werber’s novels, he collaborated with Belgian screenwriter Jean-David Morvan on Spygames (Glénat, 2014) and McCurry, 9/11 New York City (Dupuis, 2016). He is also a guest cover artist for Marvel Comics’ Civil War II.
He died on October 3, 2022 in Paris at the age of 47, of an acute myocardial infarction while touring Europe.
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