When you think about the artists who have truly defined Batman over the past decade, a few names always rise to the top. One of them, of course, is the mononymed Scottish artist Jock, whose unique expressionist style and collaborations with Scott Snyder have morphed the Dark Knight into an almost ethereal figure. Now, under the always creator-conscious DC Black Label imprint, Jock finally has his own Gotham story to tell— Batman: One Dark Knight , an ordeal which takes a gadget-deprived Batman in a dash across a darkened Gotham with the entire city on the line. With the first issue now in stores, we sat down with Jock to talk about the versatility of Batman, the artist-to-writer/artist pipeline, and one extremely vital question we couldn’t help but ask right away.
I’d like to start by addressing the thing that most people want to know about you. Not many superhero comic artists have secret identities themselves. I’ve read that it began as a childhood nickname, but why do you professionally go by the name “Jock?”
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