Paul Limgenco is the resident watercolor/gouache artist for Spent Pencils Studios. He joined the studio in 2008. He prefers to work with traditional media rather than digital. His creative background includes working on concept art for video games and book cover painting. ——————————————— The pieces shown above are original paintings, two of the over 40… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine(s) by Paul Limgenco

Francis Manapul is a comic book artist living in Toronto, Canada currently working for DC comics. His list of credits include Adventure Comics, Superman/Batman, Legion of Super-Heroes and the upcoming relaunch of The Flash. In the past he’s worked on titles like Iron and the Maiden, Necromancer, Sept Guerrieres, Tomb Raider, Darkness, G.I Joe and… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine and Witchblade by Francis Manapul

Thanks to Danny Truong for donating this great piece to the auctions! It’s massive – almost 22″ x 34″. Djief Bergeron worked for many years in the fields of 2D-3D animation and video game design. In those years he designed environments and characters for platforms and online games. In 2005, he joined Grafiksismik Studio as… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Djief Bergeron

Marvin Law – http://marvin000.deviantart.com/gallery/ – is an up and coming comic book artist, based out of Toronto, Ontario (Canada); where he was also born and raised.  Marvin is a successful illustrator/designer working on projects ranging from Image Comics (Pact#2), Tokyopop (pin up in Blank Vol. 1), Beach Studios (pin up in Storm Hawks#1) to designing… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Marvin Law

Daniel Kim (born 1983 , in Toronto) is the artist and writer behind the Clone Manga collection of webcomics, which include April & May & June, Kanami, Nana’s Everyday Life, Paper Eleven, Penny Tribute, H.H. and Tomoyo42’s Room. Much of the content of these comics is geared towards a mature audience and, as the website’s… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Dan Kim

Born in Italy in 1969, Raffaele Ienco came to Canada at age 4 and found the wonderful world of comics. Ienco is best known for writing and drawing (coloring and lettering) “Devoid of Life” (science-fiction/horror) from Image Comics — published September 2008. The story involves a hidden planet that is discovered in our solar system… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Raffaele Ienco

J. Korim graduated from the Classical Animation Program at Sheridan College. Since then he’s worked in comic books (Neozoic for Red 5 Comics, Rotogin for Sunscript Studios), video games, animation, short films, advertising, even album covers. He’s also an experienced storyboard artist, illustrator, conceptual design, etc… “anything that requires a drawing board and whole lotta… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine and Jean Grey by J. Korim

Craig Yeung is an illustrator and works on comics. Some of the books he’s worked on are X-men, Spider-Man, Runaways, Captain Britain and MI13, X-Factor, Power of the Valkyrie and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Currently working on Mighty Avengers and S.W.O.R.D. for Marvel Comics.  www.csyeung.deviantart.com. ——————————————— The piece shown above is one of over 40 pieces… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Craig Yeung

Kurt donated these two prints to the auction: Kurt Lehner is a Canadian Illustrator & Animation Artist. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, & ever since his childhood, has had an absolute passion for Comic Book & Fantasy Art. A graduate from the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, his career started in… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine(s) by Kurt Lehner

Diana Tamblyn is an Ignatz-nominated cartoonist who has been actively writing and drawing mini-comics for over 10 years now. Her artwork has appeared in two solo art shows, and various group shows. She’s exhibited her comics at small press fairs and comic book shows in both Canada and the US. Works include “The Rosie Stories”… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Diana Tamblyn

Jim Su was a Senior Character Modeller for Daemon Rising and My Two Bobs. He is also credited as producer of “The Art of ReBoot”. Jim Su, a professional illustrator and CGI artist. He began further education and training in York University from 1996 to 1999, picking up a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Visual… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine vs. Guardian by Jim Su

Jason Roussel is a penciller/inker/creator whose work is featured regular in comics produced by McHozer Comics – a Canadian based comic book studio. ——————————————— The piece shown above is one of over 40 pieces of original artwork featuring Wolverine donated to the Joe Shuster Awards for the Visions of an Icon Art Show and Sale… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Jason Roussel

Gibson Quarter is a comic book artist /illustrator/designer/freelancer. The comic work he’s best known for is the ‘War on Drugs’ strips written by Alan Grant, and published by WASTED. He has also illustrated many stories published in FUTUREQUAKE magazine, along with ZARJAZ and DOGBREATH. BOOTCAMP COMICS features my art in a number of stories, details… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Gibson Quarter

Dave Cullen is an east coast based artist whose work has appeared in Frecklebean Comics. ——————————————— The piece shown above is one of over 40 pieces of original artwork featuring Wolverine donated to the Joe Shuster Awards for the Visions of an Icon Art Show and Sale by Canadian artists. The pieces were exhibited twice… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine and Nightcrawler by Dave Cullen

Artist David Day has done it all – pencilling, inking, colouring, lettering and painting for comic books, fine art pieces, fantasy & science fiction book covers, collectible card games, trading cards, gaming modules, and children’s books. Recently Day has been working for Marvel Digital Comics, Topps trading cards and the Arthur Child Museum & Historical… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by David Day

By day Jonathon Dalton is an elementary school teacher in the town of Mission, just outside Vancouver. By night his main ambition seems to be drawing comics, a few of which have been published, and most of which are on his website. Some day he hopes to get paid for the comics he makes. Jonathon… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine and Jubilee by Jonathon Dalton

Dale Eaglesham is a veteran comic book illustrator who has been working in the industry since 1986. He has worked with DC Comics, Marvel, Dark Horse, and CrossGen, among others. In January 2009, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, where he will be illustrating the Fantastic Four. Working on this legendary series is a… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Dale Eaglesham

Rebecca Kraatz was born in British Columbia in the Okanagan Valley. She has worked at a car racetrack in the ticket booth, in a candy store, putting screws on car battery terminals, as a layout artist for newspapers, as a make-up artist and hair-stylist, as a rag picker, a seamstress and selling vintage clothing. Nova… Read More Visions of an Icon: Wolverine by Rebecca Kraatz