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Chris Batista

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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

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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

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Batista resides in New York City.[1]

Bibliography

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Notes

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  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.

References

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Preceded by Thunderbolts artist
2002
(with Patrick Zircher)
Succeeded by
Preceded by Robin artist
2008
Succeeded by