Biography
Alex Maleev is a Bulgarian comic book illustrator, best known for the Marvel's series gcd_link_series with frequent collaborator Brian Michael Bendis.
Maleev made his first foray into comics in Bulgaria for Godan (Годън in Bulgarian) and Carthel of Dead published in Riko magazine since 1991 and 1992, respectively. Upon arriving in the United States in 1995, he enrolled at The Kubert School. Maleev left the school in early 1996, already securing professional comics work on James O'Barr's The Crow (Dead Time and Flesh and Blood) and subsequently storyboarding the "Lost in Space" film at Continuity Associates before entering a successful run at DC Comics on Batman: No Man's Land.
He first teamed with Bendis on Todd McFarlane's Sam and Twitch series in 2000-2001 before they were recruited for gcd_link_series in 2001. In 2006, Maleev finished his run with Bendis in Daredevil and had a collaboration with the writer on a new ongoing Spider-Woman series. Bendis and Maleev relaunched Moon Knight in 2011 with volume 4, and were working on the creator owned comic Scarlet. From 2016 they collaborated on the three series International,Infamous and Invincible Iron Man. Starting 2019, they worked for DC on Event Leviathan and Checkmate, where Maleev before worked on Batman comics in 2013.
Publication research
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Source record
This article reads the stored creator record in the Panel Profits publication library.
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