Bill Koeb

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Bill Koeb is an American illustrator, painter, and comic-book artist whose work includes the Marvel Comics' series Clive Barker's Hellraiser and the Vertigo miniseries Faultlines. He created the artwork for the character Sarah in the film The Crow: City of Angels (1996).^[1]

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 Footnotes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

One of four children,^[2] Bill Koeb grew up in California, where he attended elementary school in San Jose and high school in Livermore.^[3] From 1985 to 1988, he attended but did not graduate from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, having majored in Illustration^[3] and studying under and being influenced by artist and teacher Barron Storey.^[4] Koeb spent 17 years in San Francisco as a freelance illustrator before moving to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he resides as of 2008.^[5]

Koeb broke into comics painting the back cover of the satirical pro-choice comic book Choices (Angry Isis Press, 1990), alongside such fellow contributors as Garry Trudeau, Jules Feiffer, Cathy Guisewite, Nicole Hollander, Nina Paley, Lee Marrs, Bill Griffith, Howard Cruse and others.

He did the first of several painted stories and covers for the horror fiction anthology Clive Barker's Hellraiser, from Marvel Comics' Epic Comics imprint, that same year, beginning with the 17-page story "The Pleasures of Deception", by Philip Nutman, in issue #2 (no date; 1990). In addition to the series, Koeb painted the 18-page story "For My Son", written by Frank Lovece, for Clive Barker's Hellraiser Summer Special #1 (1992). That story appears in Checker Publishing's Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best, Volume 1 (ISBN 0-9710249-2-8), though with the last page inexplicably missing; the complete story appears in an authorized, free online version from web publisher Wowio.^[6]

Other comics work includes pencil-and-ink art for writer Lee Marrs' six-issue miniseries Faultlines (May-Oct. 1997), published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint; and the cover and writer Alan Moore's eight-page story "The Hair of the Snake That Bit Me" in Caliber Press' Negative Burn #17 (1995), reprinted in the 1998 Caliber one-shot Alan Moore's Songbook. Additionally, Koeb painted the cover and the 28-page story of Marvel/Epic's Interface #7 (Nov. 1990); drew the parody comic Aesop's Desecrated Morals #1 (Rip Off Press, 1993); and inked Tom Sutton on DC Comics' The Hacker Files #11-12 (June-July 1993)

In 2002, with the birth of his and his wife's son Gabriel, Koeb scaled back on illustration and earned a living primarily from teaching Photoshop and illustration classes at an art academy.^[7] In late 2006, he joined the Goodwill Community Foundation, doing artwork for a functional literacy program.^[7]