Early Life
Robertson was introduced to comics at an early age. He would read the Gold Key Comics he found at the local barbershop and before long his father began to drive to Palo Alto where young Robertson could buy weekly comics such as Flash and Spider-Man. By 5th grade the young artist was already stapling together homemade comics to show to his friends. Darick Robertson cites Paul Smith, George Pérez, José Luis García-López, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Bernie Wrightson as early formative influences on his craft, and states it was Brian Bolland’s work on Camelot 3000 that defined for him what a comic artist could aspire to. Robertson also cites Frank Miller as a hero, and hopes to eventually emulate Miller’s success as both an artist and a writer.
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