Latest Comic Guest Announcement - DOUG WHEATLEY

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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Doug Wheatley

Attending: Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Artist: Star Wars, Blade: The Vampire Hunter; King Tiger

FANS OF the sci-fi universe created by director George Lucas will undoubtedly recognise Doug Wheatley's name not only from his 2005 adaptation of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for Dark Horse but also through his work on many other of the Portland, Oregon-based publisher's Star Wars comics, most notably 2006's Star Wars: Dark Times and its sequels.

Although he had produced a cover for Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter #3 back in 1999, the Canadian artist's association with Lucas's creation began in earnest in 2003, by which time he had been drawing comics for almost exactly nine years.

Hired by Marvel in 1994, Wheatley illustrated a single issue [#18] of Nightstalkers before being assigned as regular penciller on Blade: The Vampire Hunter for which he drew all 10 issues. After those came fill-ins on Punisher War Journal and Conan with 1995's Double Edge: Omega one-shot squeezed in between.

The artist next drew the Magic: The Gathering – Elder Dragons two-parter for Acclaim's Armada imprint while also working on Killer Instinct #4 for Acclaim itself and contributing to a 1997 issue [#8] of The Batman Chronicles for DC. After that came the artist's first Dark Horse work although, after drawing both issues of Myst: The Book of the Black Ships, he moved back to Acclaim where he illustrated a couple of Eternal Warrior one-shots for its Valiant imprint.

His next project was Hulk/Sub-Mariner '98 for Marvel after which he pencilled all four issues of Dark Horse's Aliens: Apocolypse – The Destroying Angels followed by 2000's Superman: Lost Son of Krypton two-parter and its 2003 sequel, the Superman: Last Stand on Krypton one-shot, for DC.

From then until the end of 2013, Wheatley was almost exclusively occupied at Dark Horse with Star Wars although he was also increasingly in demand for covers and pinups. With his work in Lucas's sandbox at an end, in 2014 he contributed to all four issues of Blackout for Dark Horse for which he is currently drawing the recently launched King Tiger four-parter.