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Chris Batista
Batista at the 2011 Big Apple Convention
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Penciller
Notable works
Spaceknights
The Legion
Robin

Chris Batista is an American comic book artist, known for his work on a number of titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including Steel, Spaceknights and Thunderbolts.

Career

Batista is an alumnus of Manhattan's School of Visual Arts, having studied under Klaus Janson, who helped obtain for him his first professional work.[1]

Titles Batista has contributed to include Steel (1993–1995),[2] Spider-Man 2099 (1994), Spaceknights (2000–2001), Thunderbolts (2002–2003), The Legion (2003–2004), JLA (2005) and has provided art for several issues of DC Comics weekly year-long comic book series 52 (2006–2007).

He also penciled an arc of DC's Robin with Chuck Dixon.[3] He has recently pencilled the second volume of Booster Gold, starring the eponymous time-traveling hero.

Personal life

Batista resides in New York City.[1]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ a b Chris Batista Archived June 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Wizard World, accessed April 21, 2011.
  2. ^ Manning, Matthew K.; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "1990s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. Steel finally stepped out of Superman's shadow in his own ongoing series by writers Jon Bogdanove and Louise Simonson, and artist Chris Batista. ((cite book)): |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Rogers, Vaneta (October 11, 2007). "Chris Batista Moving to Robin". Newsarama. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007.

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Preceded byPatrick Zircher Thunderbolts artist 2002(with Patrick Zircher) Succeeded byManuel Garcia Preceded byDavid Baldeon Robin artist 2008 Succeeded byJoe Bennett
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