Latest Comic Guest Announcement - JIM CHEUNG

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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Jim Cheung

 

Attending: Saturday & Sunday

 

ARTIST: Young Avengers; Avengers: The Children's Crusade; New Avengers: Illuminati; Scion

MARVEL Comics Presents #170 marked Jim Cheung's professional entrance into the world of comics. His 1994 Red Wolf eight-pager (on which he was credited as Jimmy Chung) led to fill-ins on two DC titles the following year.

Coming hot on the heels of those issues of Justice League Task and The Ray was a return to the House of Ideas where the British artist pencilled a three-issue run on Force Works before becoming regular penciller on Iron Man. There he worked on seven issues while also beginning to make his mark as a cover artist, initially on issues of Panini's UK reprints of Marvel comics but by 1997 for the House of Ideas itself. Prior to that, however, he drew 1996's Black Knight: Exodus one-shot.

Cheung then illustrated all but one of the 12 issues of 1997's Maverick after which came a dozen issues of X-Force that took Cheung into 2000. At that point he signed on with the fledgling CrossGeneration Comics, an ambitious and audacious enterprise that required all its writers and artists to move to its Florida base.

The company collapsed in 2004. In the less than four years it was in existence Cheung drew all but 11 of the first 39 issues of Scion (one of Crossgen's launch titles) moving on to a 2003 fill-in on Route 66. After that came the two issues of the aborted Brian Pulido's Lady Death – The Wild Hunt released by Code 6, an imprint set up to publish titles outside the Sigilverse (as the Crossgen Universe was known).

At the start of 2004 and prior to the publication of the Lady Death comic, the artist made his way back to Marvel, where he has remained ever since. Initially producing covers, he eased himself back into storytelling with contributions to the first and last issues of Elektra: The Hand and an 11-pager in Spider-Man Unlimited #6 before launching Young Avengers, for which he pencilled 10 of the 2005 title's 12 issues.

Going forward, with demand for his cover art steadily increasing, Cheung only drew the occasional contribution to anthologies although he sporadically illustrated the occasional fill-in or annual. That was until 2007 when he pencilled the five-issue New Avengers: Illuminati. There was a three-year wait for his next major project, the nine issues of Avengers: The Children's Crusade, while the one after that (Infinity #1) didn't come along until 2013.

Named a "Young Gun" (one of a handful of artists that Marvel's then editor-in-chief Joe Quesada considered to have the talent necessary to become "a future superstar penciller") in 2005, Cheung is currently focussing on his cover work.