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Area(s)
  
Writer, Artist

Movies
  
30 Days of Night

Education
  
Curtin University

Role
  
Comic book artist

Name
  
Ben Templesmith


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Born
  
7 March 1984 (age 40) Perth, Western Australia (
1984-03-07
)

Nationality
  
Dual: Australian and British

Notable works
  
30 Days of Night Fell Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse Singularity 7 Welcome To Hoxford

Awards
  
International Horror Guild Award For Best Illustrated Narrative

Books
  
30 Days of Night: Red Snow, Fell Volume 1, The Nightmare Factory, Blood‑Stained Sword, Conluvio

Similar People
  
Steve Niles, Warren Ellis, Ashley Wood, Colleen Doran, Michael Gaydos

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Ben Templesmith (born 7 March 1984) is an Australian comic book artist best known for his work in the American comic book industry, most notably the Image Comics series Fell, with writer Warren Ellis, and IDW's 30 Days of Night with writer Steve Niles, which was adapted into a motion picture of the same name. He has also created book covers, movie posters, trading cards, and concept work for film.

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Early life

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Templesmith was born 7 March 1984, in Perth, Western Australia. He graduated from Curtin University with a bachelor's degree in Design, and holds a diploma of Cartoon and Graphic Art from the Australian College of Journalism.

Career

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Templesmith produced his first commercial American comics work in 2002, providing the art for Todd McFarlane Productions' Hellspawn, which was published by Image Comics. He has gone on to create his own original works as well as contribute to many licensed properties at various publishers, most notably IDW Publishing, with which he had an exclusive agreement through most of 2008 and part of 2009 before returning to being a freelancer.

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Other licensed properties that Templesmith has worked on include illustrating "Dark Journey", a story in issue #17 of the Dark Horse Comics anthology series Star Wars Tales in 2003, and the covers to Devil's Due Publishing's Army of Darkness: Ashes to Ashes #1 in 2004 and IDW's G.I. Joe #0 in 2008.

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Original works Templesmith has produced include the miniseries Welcome to Hoxford, the New York Times best-selling Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse Tommyrot: The Art of Ben Templesmith, Conluvio and Choker at Image Comics with writer Ben McCool. He also provided a number of covers for the Oni Press series Wasteland.

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In April 2012 DC Entertainment announced that Templesmith will be one of the artists illustrating a new digital Batman series whose stories will be set outside of the regular DC continuity.

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Starting in November 2014, Templesmith launched Gotham by Midnight from DC Comics with writer Ray Fawkes.

Awards

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  • 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Illustrated Narrative (with Thomas Ligotti, Joe Harris, Stuart Moore, Michael Gaydos, Colleen Doran and Ted McKeever for The Nightmare Factory)
  • 2007 Spike TV Scream Award for Best Comic Book (with Steve Niles for 30 Days of Night)
  • 2010 Eagle Award for Favourite Colourist
  • Nominations

  • 2005 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series (for 30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow, with Steve Niles)
  • 2005 Eisner Award for Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (for 30 for Days of Night: Return to Barrow)
  • 2006 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series (with Warren Ellis for Fell)
  • 2006 Eisner Award for Best New Series (with Warren Ellis for Fell)
  • 2006 Eisner Award for Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (for Fell)
  • 2007 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series (with Frank Beddor, Liz Cavalier for The Looking Glass Wars: Hatter M)
  • 2007 Eisner Award for Painter/Multimedia Artist (for The Looking Glass Wars: Hatter M)
  • 2006 International Horror Guild Award for Illustrated Narrative (with Steve Niles for Dark Days)
  • 2006 International Horror Guild Award for Graphic Narrative (with Steve Niles and Ashley Wood for 30 Days of Night issues 1 -3)
  • 2007 Horror Guild Award for Illustrated Narrative (for Wormwood Gentleman Corpse: Birds, Bees, Blood & Beer)
  • References

    Ben Templesmith Wikipedia