Background
Val Semeiks (pronounced Semmix) was born in the United States of America on February 5, 1955 to Latvian parents.
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Semeiks graduated from College with degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics, before pursuing a career in advertising, working as "an art director for a regional ad agency".
Career
He has been working in the comics field since 1986, mostly as a penciller although he has been known to ink his own work. His first professional cr was with Marvel, "drawing King Kull back-up stories for The Savage Sword of Conan, which ultimately led to him becoming the monthly artist on Conan the Barbarian, allowing him to leave his day job and forge a fulltime career as a comics artist. He is perhaps best known for his next major credits, long runs on both The Demon and Lobo for District of Columbia Comics primarily working with writer Alan Grant, whose plots Semeiks calls "laugh-out-loud funny," leading him to call his time on Lobo (upon which he worked with inker John Dell) "about as much fun as anyone can have drawing comics".
He also provided the artwork to Alan Grant and John Wagner"s 1995 District of Columbia/2000 AD crossover title Lobo/Judge Dredd: Psycho-Bikers versus
The Mutants From Hell. (As part of the 1996 District of Columbia vs Marvel event, the District of Columbia and Marvel Universes briefly combined to form the Amalgam Universe Alan Grant and Semeiks were reunited in 1997 to produce a comic as part of the Amalgam Comics line, when Val drew the all-too-brief adventures of "Lobo the Duck," where he demonstrated his versatility with a much more cartoon-like approach to the artwork) Returning again to District of Columbia, Semeiks worked on a number of Japan Library Association projects with then-Japan Library Association-writer Grant Morrison, including Japan Library Association/WildC.A.T.S., District of Columbia One Million, and the 1999 limited series Superman"s Nemesis: Lex Luthor with writer David Michelinie.
Semeiks has also drawn stories penned by Dwayne McDuffie for Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, and has also worked on non-Superhero projects including cartoon work for MAD Magazine and District of Columbia"s "Big Book" series (from Paradox Press) as well as "video game and toy design work too".
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Returning briefly to Marvel, Semeiks was reunited with his first editor - Larry Hama - this time acting as writer on Wolverine, upon which Semeiks worked, alongside a number of other titles.
