Ben Caldwell (cartoonist)

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Ben Caldwell
NationalityAmerican
Area(s) Cartoonist, Artist
Notable works
Prez, A-Force , Action! Cartooning, The Dare Detectives, All-Action Classics, Wednesday Comics: Wonder Woman

Ben Caldwell is an American artist known for his work in toy design, animation development, children's book illustration, and comic book illustration.

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Early life

Ben Caldwell graduated from the Parsons School of Design for Illustration, and Eugene Lang College for Ancient History.[ citation needed ]

Career

Most of Caldwell's work has been for DC Comics, [1] Marvel Comics, [2] Sterling Books, and ToyBiz (on projects including The Lord of the Rings , Spider-Man , X-Men , World Championship Wrestling, and Harry Potter). His comics cover work includes Justice League Unlimited, Red Sonja, Vampirella, All-Star Batman, John Carter of Mars/Mars Attacks, and Snagglepuss Chronicles. Caldwell's book and comic credits started with Wonder Woman children's books and the initial Star Wars: Clone Wars comic. Later comic work includes many one-shot and supplementary stories such as The Suicide Squad vs The Banana Splits, Superboy: Future's End, Justice League Unlimited, Convergence: Infinity Inc vs Jonah Hex, and random misadventures of Harley Quinn.

Ben Caldwell's most widely known work is the Action! Cartooning series of 'how-to' books and the All-Action Classics comics including Dracula , Tom Sawyer, The Odyssey , and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for Sterling; script and art for an oversized (and polarizing [3] ) Wonder Woman story for DC Comics' Wednesday Comics series; the award-winning [4] 2015 Prez reboot miniseries from DC Comics (w. Mark Russell), a 2016 run on A-Force for Marvel Comics (w. Kelly Thompson), and an as-yet untitled Carrie Kelley graphic novel [5] (w. Frank Miller).

Caldwell began his comics career with the creator-owned and award-losing [6] Dare Detectives comic, which has been reprinted or rebooted at various times. "Dare" was inspired by his Eighth Grade algebra class, as a way to avoid Eighth Grade Algebra.

Personal life

Ben Caldwell lives in Pennsylvania with his family and large collection of Chinese murder mysteries.[ citation needed ]

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