A couple of months ago, Becky Cloonan stepped down from the art duties of MacGyver: Fugitive

“The response was incredible,” said Tony Lee, co-writer of the miniseries, “and the amazing thing was that pretty much every person that applied and drew a concept for us was a massive fan of the show.”

With the winner decided by a judging panel including MacGyver series creator Lee David Zlotoff and Image Publisher Eric Stephenson, in the end Irish artist Will Sliney was given the position. An already internationally established artist, Sliney is no stranger to licensed comics, having already worked on Farscape for BOOM! Studios and Star Wars: The Clone Wars in the UK for Panini.

A lifelong MacGyver fan who has named the iconic character as one of his ‘Eighy Awesome Eighties Action Heroes’, an ongoing art challenge he has on his blog at http://sliney.blogspot.com/ Sliney will work with the creative team in redesigning MacGyver for the twenty first century. Becky Cloonan will still be involved as design consultant and cover artist for the five book series.

MacGyver: Fugitive Gauntlet  will be released by Image Comics, and the first issue will début at the San Diego Comic Con in 2012.

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