Collection: Bryan Hitch Artist Biography and Art Gallery Collection

Bryan Hitch (born June 6, 1970) is a British comic book artist who began his career in the United Kingdom for Marvel Comics UK, working on titles such as Action Force and Death's Head, before gaining prominence on American titles such as Wildstorm's Stormwatch and The Authority, the DC Comics series Justice League of America, and the what many comic book fans consider his best work, Marvel Comics series The Ultimates. For all this he does not consider himself an artist or comic artist, but a storyteller, explaining that illustration for him is simply a medium to tell a story. The artwork and designs of Bryan Hitch have appeared in direct to video animated films, television, and major feature films, such as the 2009 film Star Trek, for which he has been praised by the film's Director J. J. Abrams. His work on The Ultimates was also a significant influence on director Josh Trank's approach to the 2015 Fantastic Four film.  Bryan Hitch also worked with British comic book artist Simon Furman on Transformers and Death's Head.

Bryan Hitch did some work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics during the late 1980's and early 1990's, in particular his run on The Sensational She-Hulk, and continued drawing for Marvel UK. After that imprint closed, he provided the art for an issue of Teen Titans and a couple of series at Valiant Comics before returning to Marvel where he would work with inker Paul Neary. It was in the late 1990's that he got a series of high-profile assignments, which would mainly include Neary on inks. At Wildstorm, he worked with Warren Ellis in rebooting Stormwatch and launching The Authority. This led to a year on Justice League of America with Mark Waid which included the JLA: Heaven's Ladder tabloid-format one-shot.  Hitch and Neary then returned to Marvel and joined Mark Millar on The Ultimates, The Ultimates 2, and Fantastic Four.  Hitch's career has been marked by lateness of books, perhaps due to his high detailing. Examples include his run Justice League of America, which was broken up by fill-in artists, a situation which he blamed on bad scheduling on DC Comics' part. There were long delays in between issues of The Ultimates, which was due to the birth of his child, two house moves, and an office move. Hitch stresses that Marvel Comics was more supportive of him during his tardiness than DC Comics.

Bryan Hitch provided cover artwork for the November 2006 issue of the British film magazine Empire, for a cover feature on comic book movies.  Hitch's cover to Fantastic Four #554 (April 2008) is featured in the opening title sequence of the 2010 History Channel television series, Stan Lee's Superhumans.  That same year, Impact Books published Bryan Hitch's Ultimate Comics Studio, examination of Hitch's approach and techniques toward his craft, as well as practical tips provided by Hitch on various aspects of the visual storytelling process, and how to develop a career in the comics field.  His book Studio, which features a foreword by Joss Whedon, contains both past artworks of Hitch's, as well as original artwork produced specifically for the book.  In 2012, Hitch was one of several artists to illustrate a variant cover for Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #100, which was released 11 July at the San Diego Comic-Con. The following year, Hitch illustrated the Image Comics series America's Got Powers, with writer Jonathan Ross. He illustrated six issues of the ten-issue miniseries Age of Ultron. Hitch and writer Brad Meltzer collaborated on a retelling of Batman's first appearance for Detective Comics vol. 2 #27 in January 2014. March 2014 saw the debut of Hitch's creator-owned series, Real Heroes, written and illustrated by Hitch, who describes the concept as "the cast of Avengers does Galaxy Quest." In 2015, Hitch returned DC to write and draw Justice League of America.  

Bryan Hitch worked on the Marvel Comics series The Avengers, Captain America, and She-Hulk, but he also did the character design for the Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2 animated films, and he was a character design artist for the video game Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.  Bryan Hitch was also hired by the BBC as the concept artist for the 2005 relaunch of the Doctor Who television series, having particular input into the design of the TARDIS interior set and Hitch contributed designs to the Starship piloted by Spock in the 2009 feature film Star Trek. He is currently working on America's Got Powers with Jonathan Ross. His artwork is currently credited in 562 separate Comic Book issues.