Jacen Burrows
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Jacen Burrows is a San Diego born American artist best known for his work on various comic books from Avatar Press. He graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1996 with a degree in Sequential Art. He has worked with several comic companies over the years including Caliber Press and London Night Studios, and is currently working under an exclusive contract with Avatar Press. Since working with Avatar he has worked with several of comics most prominent names including Alan Moore, Warren Ellis and Garth Ennis.
His comic work includes The Courtyard, Dark Blue, Scars, and 303. Outside of comics he has done illustration work for several video game and role playing game companies, including work on Rockstar Games's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and TSR's Dungeons & Dragons.
He cites influences as varied as Matt Wagner and Tim Truman to Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch.
[edit] Selected Bibliography
- Dark Blue (with Warren Ellis, 2000)
- Bad World (with Warren Ellis, 2001)
- Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City (with Warren Ellis, 2001)
- Ultimate Spider-Man Special #1 (with Brian Michael Bendis)
- Scars (with Warren Ellis, 2002-2003)
- Alan Moore's Magic Words (written by Alan Moore, adapted by Antony Johnston, 2002)
- Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths #2 (with Alan Moore, 2003)
- Alan Moore's The Courtyard (written by Alan Moore, adapted by Antony Johnston, 2003)
- Alan Moore's The Courtyard Companion (written by Alan Moore, adapted by Antony Johnston, 2004)
- 303 (with Garth Ennis, 2004-2005)
- Chronicles of Wormwood (with Garth Ennis, Avatar, 6 issue mini-series, 2007, on-going)