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Greg Staples is an English comic book artist.
Greg Staples' first job on leaving school was as a trainee draftsman in an architects office in Sheffield.
He also spent time working in a comic and film memorabilia shop and also a computer game store, both also in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Greg spent some time working for the Computer Games Company Gremlin Graphics.
Staples has also worked on video production for music videos for artists such as Muse (Sing For Absolution) and Shaznay Lewis (You).
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Staples is known for his work in the weekly British comic 2000 AD , especially on Judge Dredd .
He has also produced work for the games company Wizards of the Coast and drawn numerous comic book characters including Batman and Spider-Man. [1]
Staples has illustrated cards for the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering , and digital collectible card game Hearthstone .
Staples did the cover art for Dungeons & Dragons books Races of Faerûn (2003), [2] and Fantastic Locations: Dragondown Grotto (2006).
Comics work includes:
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