Artist David Nakayama joins City of Heroes team

by Adrian Bott Oct 22nd 2008 at 10:00AM

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, MMO industry

Comics artist David Nakayama, who has done an immense amount of work for Draw the World Together, has joined the NCsoft NorCal team as a concept artist for City of Heroes. The official announcement was made at HeroCon, where David was also making character sketches for the lucky contest winners.

David's no stranger to the CoX universe, having drawn several of the comics that came out as accompaniment to the MMO and worked on art for the trading card game. His recent work also includes projects for Marvel Comics, including an upcoming series written by Chris Claremont. The addition of a concept artist of David's calibre at this stage in the game's life is an exciting development and raises some questions.

As yet, we don't know exactly what sort of content David will be providing concept work for, whether it's additions (in the usual free issue format) or something else. It's been observed that there are now three concept artists on the City of Heroes team, whereas a year ago there were none (the other two being Nate van Dyke and Carolina Tello Alvarado).

With Alex 'Lighthouse' Von Minden alluding to new announcements in the pipeline - 'we have some other news this week besides Issue 13, but you'll have to wait to find out' - and now this prestigious new hire, City of Heroes players will be wondering just what their development team is planning.

Tags: city-of-heroes, city-of-villains, coh, cov, cox, david-nakayama, nc-norcal, ncsoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

John said on 10:49AM 10-22-2008

That is so great. I LOVE his stuff. For a 30 year old man he has a LOT of talent. It's always good when comic book artists get involved in games.

Drago said on 12:44PM 10-24-2008

As a 32-year-old, I think I'm a little offended by your comment. 30-something-year-olds have talent, you know. ;)

Drago said on 1:22PM 10-22-2008

As a 32-year-old, I think I'm a little offended by your comment. 30-something-year-olds have talent, you know. ;)

Snorii said on 1:27PM 10-22-2008

This is a great addition! David Nakayama is a great talent.

Johnny_Velocity said on 8:57PM 10-22-2008

Jim Lee is 44; Alex Ross is 38; George Perez is 54. Maybe you mean 30 is too young?

Good hire - wake me if they do something interesting with him before Champions Online cranks up.