David Hahn (cartoonist)

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David Hahn
Born1967 (age 57–58)
NationalityAmerican
AreaArtist

David Hahn is a western Montana-based comic book artist born in 1967. He is best known for his work illustrating the comic book mini-series Bite Club and its sequel Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit for DC Comics, [1] where he also illustrated stories for Robin , Fables , Batman: The Ultimate Training Guide, and Lucifer .

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Career

Much of his early work was published by Antarctic Press in Fun and Perils in the Trudyverse . Hahn later moved his work to Slave Labor Graphics and restarted the series under the name Private Beach , which garnered him an Eisner Award nomination. He has also written an X-Men story for Ultimate X-Men #11 for Marvel Comics and drawn a story for Michael Chabon's The Escapist #5, written by Howard Chaykin, drawn several issues of Marvel Adventures:The Fantastic Four, as well five issues of Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane . [2]

In 2011, he released his second creator-owned alternative mini-series, a five-issue story called All Nighter, published by Image Comics.

In May 2013, Rob Balder announced that David would replace Xin Ye as the artist for Erfworld . As a way to learn to draw the Erfworld characters, he started by drawing the art for E is for Erfworld the Erfabet Book. He also provided art for the Book 2 epilogues and provided the art for part of Book 3 until September 2015 after which he bowed out and Xin Ye returned. [3]

He recently pencilled the artwork for DC Comics' Batman '66 Meets the Man From UNCLE cross-over mini-series as well as wrapping up his creator-owned four-issue post-apocalyptic story, Dayglow, published by Publish Enemies and currently available in digital download format from Comixology.

David is a founding member of the Portland, Oregon collective Helioscope (formerly Periscope Studio).

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References

  1. ↑ Irvine, Alex (2008). "Bite Club". In Dougall, Alastair (ed.). The Vertigo Encyclopedia. New York: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 30–31. ISBN   978-0-7566-4122-1. OCLC   213309015.
  2. ↑ "'Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane' and Sean McKeever, too". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on February 6, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2006.
  3. ↑ "'David Hahn is the new artist for Erfworld'". Archived from the original on December 15, 2013. Retrieved August 20, 2013.