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Kilian Plunkett

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Born and raised just outside of Dublin, Ireland, Plunkett grew up drawing and would often draw Star Wars characters as a child. He got a green card to America in the early 90's just before being hired by Dark Horse Comics to work as an artist on another of the company's popular movie franchises, Aliens.
The 1990sEdit
Plunkett initially got the job at Dark Horse by submitting unsolicited art samples to the company's editors, who, impressed, immediately considered him for several projects. The editors noted Plunkett's draftsmanship and that his layouts demonstrated a keen sense of storytelling.
He was requested to draw several sketches based on H.R. Giger's designs for Aliens. With these sketches Plunkett cinched the deal and landed the artist assignment for Dark Horse's 4-part 1993 miniseries Aliens: Labyrinth. This was followed that year by the cover and interiors for the two-part short story Aliens: Backsplash in the company's eponymous anthology series Dark Horse Comics #12-13.

In 1994, Plunkett drew covers and interiors for a three-part story, "The 8th Wonder," for the Dark Horse Presents anthology series, written by then Star Wars assistant editor Peet Janes.

More Aliens work ensued with the covers for the miniseries Aliens: Berserker in 1995 and Aliens: Kidnapped in 1997, as well as a contribution of interior artwork for the 2-part all-star artistic collaboration Aliens: Havoc also in 1997.

Plunkett's first foray into the Star Wars universe came when his former Aliens editor Ryder Windham assigned him to do painted covers for the company's series Star Wars: Droids, issues 2-6 in 1994. This was the first of the company's series to focus on Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio. Plunkett became the regular cover artist on almost all of Dark Horse's subsequent Droids comics, 16 in total. This included covers for all eight issues of the second new Star Wars: Droids series, and the Star Wars: Droids Special , both in 1995.

Also in 1995, Plunkett worked as cover artist for the last two issues, issues 8 and 9, of Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures, which had been reprinting the early Russ Manning Star Wars newspaper comic strips.

1996 saw Plunkett receive his first major Star Wars assignment when he provided the interior artwork for the 6-issue miniseries adaptation of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. Shadows was a major Star Wars event as it was the first multi-faceted, multimedia Lucasfilm release, concurrently released alongside a video game and novel.

In 1997 Plunkett produced a cover for the single-issue collection of his 8th Wonder story from Dark Horse Presents.

In 1998, Plunkett provided cover art for his second major Star Wars miniseries, the 6-part Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand. This was the first story to focus solely on its title character, the popular future-wife of Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade. The series was written by Jade's creator, Star Wars novelist Timothy Zahn, and its breathtaking covers mixed imagery of Jade in her time as The Emperor's Hand with existing Star Wars movie imagery, visually integrating her into the Star Wars mythos as never before. Particularly iconic was the first issue's cover, with Jade standing amidst a formation of imperial Stormtroopers.

That year, Plunkett also drew the cover and interiors for the comedic one-shot Star Wars: The Jabba Tape, which featured the return of the swoop thugs Big Gizz and Spiker from Shadows of the Empire. He also illustrated the cover of the trade pape

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