He then worked for various companies as a draftsman, and later for United Space Boosters as a technical illustrator designing a training manual for the Space Shuttle program. Shortly after college, in 1982, Norm moved to California. In 1980, he illustrated a book titled Bunyan: Lore’s Loggin’ Hero, published by Book Concern in Houghton, Michigan. During his time in college, Norm worked as an Illustrator for a local magazine and also for a graphics company. The Daily Mining Gazette, a newspaper in Houghton, Michigan, profiled Norm in 1976 as “Norm Breyfogle: Near Master Cartoonist at 16.” During his time in high school, he co-plotted, wrote, and illustrated a comic book titled Tech Team for Michigan Technological University.Īfter high school, Norm attended Northern Michigan University, studying Painting and Illustration. Around this time, he also won his first award at a town and country art show.
When he was 12 years old, he began taking private lessons from commercial artist Andrew Benson. From a very early age, Norm liked to draw. He was a man who, while classically trained in art, also knew how to evoke emotions from his readers with his art and writing.Norm Breyfogle was born on Februin Iowa City, Iowa. His work and attitude inspired generations of comics fans and future artists. Outside of the DC Universe he co-created with writers Gerard Jones and Len Strazewski the Malibu Comics Ultraverse flagship hero Prime, and both wrote and drew the series featuring his original character Metaphysique worth the sane publisher. Those are just a few of some of the greatest villains Gotham has seen. With Grant he gave the series the characters of Jeremiah Arkham and Victor Zsasz. During that time, he co-created the villains Ventriloquist and Ratcatcher with writers Alan Grant and John Wagner. Most well-known for his comic book art on DC Comics’ Batman franchise from 1987 to 1995, Breyfogle did so much more than that. The beloved Norm Breyfogle left this world earlier this week, and quite honestly a shockwave has been felt through, not only the comics community, but fandom itself. Here in the real world we, as a whole whether artist, writer, comic reader, or just Batfan in general, mourned the great loss of the one of the legendary Batman artists. On Septemthe city of Gotham collectively shuddered and their world got darker.
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