Alan Davis is one of the most accomplished British artists of the modern mainstream, celebrated for his clarity of line, elegant figure construction and cinematic command of page layout. After early work on Captain Britain and Marvelman, he built defining runs on Excalibur, Detective Comics and his creator-owned ClanDestine. His JLA: The Nail (with writer Mark Waid) is regarded as one of the finest Elseworlds stories. Davis often self-inks, preserving the purity of his distinctive line.