Jim Balent

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Jim Balent

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Nationality	American
Area(s)	Penciller

Jim Balent is an American comic book illustrator from Pennsylvania. He is perhaps best known for his long run on Catwoman between 1993 and 1999. Balent has also drawn Batman and Lobo for DC Comics, as well as some of the issues of Purgatori for the independent comic publisher Chaos! Comics. Balent usually draws women with extremely large breasts. Increasingly, he has drawn the majority of his women completely naked.

In 1999, Balent left mainstream comics to form his own company, BroadSword Comics, which publishes Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose. Balent writes and draws Tarot himself. The main characters of the series are often nude. Broadsword Comics also reprinted Vampfire, which was created, written and drawn by Balent's wife Holly Golightly (also known as Fauve) who is currently also the colorist on Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose. She also served as the model for Tarot herself.

BroadSword also produces new titles like 3 Little Kittens and Holly's School Bites.