Olivier Coipel is a French comic book artist. He came to prominence as the artist of the American DC Comics book Legion of Super-Heroes during the tenure of writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. He continued to draw the series when it was relaunched under the new title The Legion. He signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics in January 2005, and as his bibliography shows, he has had much penciling work to date. He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's "Young Guns," a group of artists that, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller." Other "Young Guns" include Jim Cheung, David Finch, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov, and Steve McNiven.

Coipel is the artist on a new Thor ongoing series that was launched in July 2007 with writer J. Michael Straczynski.

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

• Avengers #65-70, 77-78, 80-81
• Black Panther #16 (Cover only)
• House of M #1-8
• Marvel Spotlight: Daniel Way/Olivier Coipel
• New Avengers #3 (Variant Cover Only), 23
• Ultimate X-Men #61 (Variant Cover Only)
• New Avengers Annual #1
• Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man #1 (Lead Story)
• Uncanny X-Men #448-449
• Young Guns Sketchbook 2004
• Thor #1-6, 9-

DC Comics

• The Legion #1-4, 5 (cover), 6-8, 9 (cover), 10-12, 13 (cover), 14
• Legion Lost #1-3, 4 (cover), 5, 6 (cover), 8, 9 (cover), 10-12
• Legion of Super Heroes vol. 4 #122-123, 125 (cover)
• Legionnaires #78-81
• Legion Worlds #1 (backup)

References

• www.coipelcomics.com a good website about Olivier Coipel
• Young Gun Olivier Coipel Signs Exclusive with Marvel
• Olivier Coipel on marvel.com
• Interview: "J'aime reprendre des personnages que je ne connais pas"