| Chris Sprouse | |
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 Chris Sprouse at GalaxyCon Columbus in 2023 | |
| Born | July 30, 1966 Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller |
Notable works | Tom Strong |
Chris Sprouse (born July 30, 1966) [1] is an American comics artist. Sprouse has worked for multiple publishers and has won two Eisner Awards for his work on Tom Strong , a series he created with writer Alan Moore.
Chris Sprouse was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the age of 3 he moved with his family to New Delhi, India where he first discovered comics as he was unable to play outside due to the dangerous amount of snakes in the house yard. When he was 6, his family returned to the United States to Dale City, Virginia, where he continued to read and draw comics. Before his debut in comics, Sprouse drew a comic strip entitled Ber-Mander for the school newspaper (The Hyphen) while attending Gar-Field Senior High School in Woodbridge. After graduating in 1984, Sprouse attended James Madison University where he studied graphic design. [2]
Sprouse launched his career in mainstream comics in 1989, his first credited work being a Chemical King story in Secret Origins vol. 2 #47 (Feb. 1990). [3] His next assignments were a Two-Face story for Batman Annual #14 (1990) [4] and the Hammerlocke limited series. He drew insert posters for the War of the Gods limited series in 1991. [5] Following that, Sprouse drew the Legionnaires series featuring teenaged versions of the Legion of Super-Heroes . He later illustrated a number of one-shots and fill-in issues before illustrating a Star Wars mini-series, Splinter of the Mind's Eye , for Dark Horse Comics.
He then worked for Extreme Studios as the regular penciller of New Men , and in 1997–1998, Sprouse drew several issues of Supreme , scripted by Alan Moore for the same publisher. After Supreme ended, he and Moore created Tom Strong for America's Best Comics, [6] for which Sprouse won two Eisner Awards in 2000, for Best Single Issue and Best Serialized Story. [7]
Sprouse was the penciller and co-creator on the 2004 Ocean mini-series, written by Warren Ellis and published by DC Comics. In 2007, Ocean was optioned for film. [8] In 2006, he began pencilling Wildstorm's Midnighter ongoing series, a spin-off of The Authority . He was the artist on the first issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne with Grant Morrison as writer. [9]
In 2011, Sprouse worked with writer Peter Hogan on the Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril limited series. [10] Sprouse drew Action Comics #14 (Jan. 2013) which featured an "appearance" by Neil deGrasse Tyson. [11] In 2014, Sprouse drew the second issue of Grant Morrison's The Multiversity limited series. [12] Other works include Batman '66 , Fairest: In All the Land , The Flash , Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , and Thors . [3]
John Lindley Byrne is a British-born American writer and artist of superhero comics. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes; with noted work on Marvel Comics's X-Men and Fantastic Four. Byrne also facilitated the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics's Superman franchise with the limited series The Man of Steel, the first issue of which featured the comics' first variant cover.
Tom Strong is a comic book created by writer Alan Moore and artist Chris Sprouse, initially published bi-monthly by America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics' Wildstorm division. Tom Strong, the title character, is a "science hero", with a wife, Dhalua, and a daughter, Tesla, both with enhanced physical and mental abilities and longevity. He lives in a building called The Stronghold in Millennium City. He is also helped by Pneuman, a steam-powered robot, and King Solomon, a gorilla with human characteristics. His greatest foe is tuxedo-clad "science villain" Paul Saveen. The series explores many different timelines and universes, which are a nod to different comic genres. The primary characters are tributes to and spoofs of early pulp heroes.
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In perhaps the greatest Two-Face origin story to date, writer Andrew Helfer and artist Chris Sprouse made Harvey Dent more three-dimensional than ever before.
Three of the four issues in this limited series contained posters of DC characters by the talented Chris Sprouse.
Tyson will appear in the next issue of Action Comics helping Superman locate where his home planet used to be as part of the back-up strip by Sholly Fisch and Chris Sprouse.
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