Joe Bennett (penciller)

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Joe Bennett

Birth name	Benedito José Nascimento
Born	February 3, 1968 Belém, Pará, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Area(s)	Penciller; Inker

Benedito José Nascimento, better known as Joe Bennett (born February 3, 1968), is a Brazilian comic book artist.

[edit] Biography

Joe Bennett was born in Belém.

His first major work in comics was Ravage 2099 for Marvel Comics in 1994. Since then, he has worked on several Marvel titles such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America (vol. 2), Fantastic Four (vol. 3), The Incredible Hulk (vol. 2), Thor, and most recently Captain America & the Falcon. He has also worked for other major publishers such as in Chaos! Comics, CrossGen, Dark Horse, DC Comics and Vertigo.

In 2004-2005, he worked on DC's Hawkman (vol. 4). Other credits include Conan the Barbarian, Doc Samson, Elektra (vol. 2), Hawkeye (vol. 3), Nova (vol. 3), X-51: Machine Man, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Birds of Prey, Hawkgirl, The Green Hornet, Mark of Charon and Supreme.

In 2005, he signed a three-year contract to work exclusively for DC Comics. Bennett recently finished working with other artists on the maxiseries 52. Bennett is currently working on Checkmate, written by Greg Rucka. He served as a fill-in penciller for the fifth issue of Salvation Run.