Chris Sprouse
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Chris Sprouse (born in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 30, 1966) is an American comic book artist.
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 Dale City, Virginia. After graduating in 1984, Sprouse attended James Madison University.
Sprouse launched his career in mainstream comics in 1989, his first credited work being a Chemical King story in an issue of DC Comics' Secret Origins. He then did a Two-Face story for Batman Annual #14 and then moved on to the limited series Hammerlocke. Sprouse then took on the sci-fi series Legionnaires, featuring teenaged versions of the characters in the Legion of Super-Heroes series, and eventually moved on to a number of one-shot 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 Awesome Comics as the regular penciller of New Men, and in 1997, Sprouse drew several issues of Supreme, scripted by Alan Moore for the same publisher. After Supreme ended, a year later he and Moore created Tom Strong for America's Best Comics, for which Sprouse won two Eisner Awards in 2000, for Best Single Issue and Best Serialized Story. Sprouse was also the penciller on the 2004 Ocean miniseries, written by Warren Ellis and published by DC Comics. In 2007, Ocean was optioned for film.
In 2006, he began pencilling Wildstorm's Midnighter ongoing series, a spin-off of The Authority.
Sprouse currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Xan.
[edit] Biliography
- 2099 A.D.
- Abc: A-Z
- Tom Strong And Jack B. Quick
- Ambush Bug Nothing Special
- America's Best Comics
- Batman Annual* DC Comics' Secret Origins
- Ex Machina Special
- Global Frequency
- Grendel: Black, White, and Red
- Hammerlocke
- Judgment Day Omega
- Justice League America
- Lady Supreme
- Legends Of The Dark Knight
- Legion: Secret Files
- Legionnaires
- Legion Of Super-Heroes
- Midnighter
- New Men
- Ninjak
- Number of the Beast
- Ocean
- Punisher Summer Special
- Robin II
- Sandman
- Savage Dragon
- Secret Origins
- Sludge
- Spider-Man 2099
- Spider-Man Classic
- Star Wars: Splinter Of The Mind's Eye
- Starman
- Superman Plus
- Supreme
- Tom Strong
- Ultraverse Origins
- Uncanny X-Men
- War Of The Gods
- Who's Who In The DC Universe
- Wildcats/Aliens
- Wildstorm
- X-Men
- X-Men Vs Dracula
- Youngblood Strikefile
[edit] External links
- Strongman of America: An Interview with Chris Sprouse, Death Cookie, July 28, 2002
- Chris Sprouse: Comics The Way He Sees It, Comics Bulletin, April 29, 2008