Фил Хименес: Американдық комикстер суретшісі және жазушысы

American comics artist and writer

Phil Jimenez (born July 12, 1970) is an American comics artist and writer known for his work as writer/artist on Wonder Woman from 2000 to 2003, as one of the five pencilers of the 2005–2006 miniseries Infinite Crisis, his collaborations with writer Grant Morrison on New X Men and The Invisibles, and his artistry for his 2021 critically acclaimed partnership with writer Kelly Sue DeConnick on Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons.

Phil Jimenez was born and raised southern California. He attended the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York, where he majored in cartooning. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1991.

After graduating from SVA, Jimenez was hired by DC Comics Creative Director Neal Pozner at age 21, Pozner was HIV positive when he and Jimenez started dating, and was hesitant about dating someone younger and HIV negative. Nonetheless, Jimenez became both Pozner's partner and caretaker, saying:

blockquote|Neal Pozner was my first editor, and he was probably my greatest mentor at DC Comics. He was an incredibly talented man, with some very strong opinions about the way things should be done. I developed a crush on him the minute I met him, and I wanted to know more about him, and I wanted to be with him all the time. So I'd hang out with him at work, in the offices, far later than I had any reason to. I would buy clothes I couldn't afford to impress him. And eventually, I mustered the nerve to ask him on a date. And he was 15 years older than I was. And he had been my boss. And so, against his better judgement, he said yes. And it actually ended up being a really wonderful relationship. Much of Jimenez's work is related to works by George Pérez, whose art strongly influenced Jimenez. Jimenez has worked on several Teen Titans related series (some issues of the ongoing series New Titans and Team Titans, and the miniseries JLA/Titans, The Return of Donna Troy and Tempest), Pérez had worked on the series in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Pérez and Jimenez would also co write a two–part story together in Wonder Woman (vol. 2) issues #168–169 in 2001. Jimenez would leave as series writer/artist with issue #188 in March 2003. Jimenez and Pérez also have worked together in 2005–2006 in the miniseries Infinite Crisis (where Jimenez was the main penciller, and Pérez drew some sequences and covers for the series) and DC Special: The Return of Donna Troy (written by Jimenez and inked by Pérez). Jimenez and writer Bob Gale co created the Freak in The Amazing Spider Man #552 (March 2008). Ana Kravinoff, the daughter of Kraven the Hunter, was introduced in The Amazing Spider Man #565 (September 2008) by Jimenez and Marc Guggenheim. During his run, Jimenez drew the cover for The Amazing Spider Man #583, featuring Barack Obama. In 2009, Marvel Editor in Chief Joe Quesada announced that Jimenez would become the artist of Astonishing X Men beginning with issue #31. Jimenez co wrote the book The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia with John Wells for Del Rey Books in 2010 and updated through Random House in 2015. He later returned to DC Comics, illustrating a brief stint on Adventure Comics featuring the Legion of Super Heroes, and Fairest, a spin off of Bill Willingham's series Fables. Jimenez appeared in a panel discussion on diversity in sci fi/fantasy fandom in the March 19, 2015 episode of the Comedy Central humor and commentary program The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, along with Marvel Comics' director of content and character Sana Amanat, hip hop artist Jean Grae and comedian Mike Lawrence. During the discussion, Jimenez commented, "It feels strange to me that we would partition race, gender and nerd as if they were distinct things All human beings are this combination of experiences and ideologies Everybody's get some nerd in them. But the idea that, somehow, being a nerd is separate from one’s religious or moral or political beliefs is strange to me. We all bring everything to our decision making on a daily basis." As part of the DC Rebirth relaunch of DC's titles, Jimenez was the writer and artist of the Superwoman series from 2016 to 2017. He got involved with Rebirth when he was originally assigned to be the artist of Superman but after DC changed their publishing plan, he was asked to work on Superwoman. Jimenez uses his own experiences and emotions and projects them onto the characters in his work. He uses the anxiety he experienced with his mother's death to relate to how Lana Lang deals with her losses. In addition, Jimenez wanted to create a female villain who was not sexually charged, and was motivated by something other than baby making. In November 2021, Jimenez illustrated the first issue of Wonder Woman Historia: the Amazons. Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick, the three issue limited series takes place before the birth of Diana and tells of the creation of the Amazons and how Hippolyta became their queen. The second Wonder Woman Historia: the Amazons issue was illustrated by Gene Ha and the third by Nicola Scott; an omnibus edition of the comics miniseries was released in June 2023.

Jimenez came out as gay in 1992, and his first public relationship was with Neal Pozner, who hired him at DC that same year.