Adi Granov

Adi Granov (; born 1977) is a Bosnian-American comic book artist and conceptual designer. He is best known for his painted work with Marvel Comics, for whom most of his comics work is produced, in particular his work on Iron Man. He is especially known for illustrating the story arc Iron Man: Extremis, and for doing concept and keyframe artwork for the 2008 film Iron Man, a job for which director Jon Favreau personally selected him. Granov has also done concept work for the films The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, has designed packaging for the DVDs and toys based on those properties, and has also done design work for video games.

Early life

Adi Granov was born in 1977 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He began drawing at an early age, though he did not consider pursuing it as a career until he was sixteen. In 1994, 16-year-old Granov fled Bosnia with his mother and his sister, four years his junior, to escape the Bosnian War. They immigrated to the United States, where Granov spent the next ten years living in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, where Granov studied art and concept design at a university. He was influenced mostly by European comics and American poster artists, as well as some few manga artists. He has cited Moebius, Sergio Toppi, Tanino Liberatore, Katsuhiro Otomo, Syd Mead, Richard Amsel, and specifically the airbrush technique of Drew Struzan and Hajime Sorayama, though he stated in a 2010 interview that he considers himself "a drawer, not a painter."

Career

Granov spent his last three years in the U.S. in Chicago doing design work for Nintendo Software Technology, working on Bionic Commando and Wave Race: Blue Storm, among other titles.