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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Tony Harris

Role
  
Artist


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Area(s)
  
Writer, Penciller, Inker, Colourist

Notable works
  
Starman, vol. 2Ex MachinaJSA: Liberty FileJSA: Unholy Three

Awards
  
Nominated for five Eisner Awards

Books
  
Ex Machina Deluxe, March to War, Ex Machina First Hun, Ex machina: Tag, Down

Similar People
  
James Robinson, Brian K Vaughan, Mark Millar, Mike Mignola, Bob Kane

Tony Harris (born 1969) is an American comic book artist, known for his work on series such as Starman, Iron Man, and Ex Machina. He has been nominated for five Eisner Awards.

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Tony Harris (artist) THROW ME THE IDOL Art of Tony Harris

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Career

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Harris began his comics career in 1989. Initially he flitted from assignment to assignment, and worked on T-shirts and ads to pay the bills during dry spells in his comics work. He rose to prominence in 1994 with the publication of DC comics’ Starman. Summarizing his career up to this point, he remarked "When you jump around as a freelancer, it's easy to have your attention span dwindle down to that of a gnat. When I got Starman, I had to buckle down and just get serious about the work." Co-created with James Robinson, Starman led the two to critical acclaim and eventually an Eisner Award for the "Sand and Stars" story arc.

Tony Harris (artist) Word Balloon Podcast Tony Harris Part 2

After four and a half years on Starman, Harris left to pursue other projects but remained as cover artist on Starman for another year and a half. During this time he was also one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios.

Tony Harris (artist) A Week of Tony Harris Day 3 Process Early Work

He pencilled the series Ex Machina with Brian K. Vaughan, published by Wildstorm from 2004 to 2010, and War Heroes with Mark Millar, published by Image Comics, which has only had 3 issues published as of 2013. In April 2010, Following the completion of Ex Machina, Harris announced that he and B. Clay Moore would produce a series called The Further Adventures of the Whistling Skull, this was later turned into JSA Liberty Files: The Whistling Skull, tying it into the earlier JSA Liberty Files stories he did, and the first issue saw print in December 2012. Concurrently with this, he launched a new series with Steve Niles, 'Chin Music', set to start in April 2013, then a new creator owned series, Roundeye: For Love.

Tony Harris (artist) New Avengers 33 variant cover by Tony Harris Comic

In the late 1990s he moved on to form Jolly Roger Studio, in Macon, Georgia.

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Other works include key frame animation and story boards for Chevrolet commercial, illustration for Cartoon Network, product design and illustration for Universal's The Mummy.

Controversy

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In November 2012, Harris posted a controversial essay about female cosplayers on his Facebook page, which drew congratulations from some of his fans, but criticism from others for being sexist.

Technique

Harris makes extensive use of models and photo reference in his work, and composes panels featuring multiple characters with models he uses to represent specific characters. Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days, the first collected trade paperback of that series, featured a "Cast of Characters" page showing the 12 models that starred as the characters in that storyline, followed by a gallery showing how several excerpted pages from that story progressed from photo to pencil art to inks to colors.

Award nominations

  • 1995 Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist (for Starman)
  • 1997 Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist (for Starman)
  • 1997 Eisner Award for Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team (with Wade Von Grawbadger, for Starman)
  • 2006 Eisner Award for Best Cover Artist (for Ex Machina)
  • References

    Tony Harris (artist) Wikipedia