| Adam Hughes | |
 Hughes in June 2007 |
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| Born | May 5, 1967 Riverside, New Jersey |
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| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker |
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Adam Hughes is a comic book artist known mostly for his renditions of pinup-style female characters, and his cover work on titles such as Wonder Woman and Catwoman.
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Career
In 1987, Hughes penciled two short stories and the first issue of the character Death Hawk, created by Mark Ellis. In 1988 Hughes' work appeared in Comico's Maze Agency with co-creator/writer Mike W. Barr, and stayed on the book for one year. When Maze Agency was canceled by Comico, DC Comics offered him a job on Justice League America. He did both covers and internal renditions on that series for two years, before switching to providing covers only.
He was one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios, his tenure lasting from 1991 until 2005. Hughes then had a short stint at Dark Horse Comics, spent working on Ghost. This series was an important run for him; this is where he started adjusting his technique, using an art nouveau influence along with Adobe Photoshop in his work.
He has also had stints on Penthouse Comix, Legionaires and PlayStation Magazine.
In late 1998 he began a successful five-year run as cover artist on DC Comics Wonder Woman, which brought him critical acclaim. He had successful runs on Tomb Raider from Top Cow Comics, and wrote and illustrated the interiors of the two-issue miniseries, Gen¹³: Ordinary Heroes from Wildstorm.
When Wizards of the Coast created their d20-based Star Wars RPG, he created designs for both the original and revised core rulebooks, as well as the Star Wars: Invasion of Theed adventure game mini-RPG. When he reused his portrait of the Jedi guardian, Sia-Lan Wezz (his favorite character), for the cover of "Star Wars: Purge" as a gag, there was such editorial interest that she was written into the story as one of Darth Vader's early victims.[1]
Bibliography
Interior comics work includes:
- Eagle #9-12 (1987)
- Star Rangers #2-3 (1987)
- Warriors #1-3 (1987 - 1988)
- Death Hawk #1 (1988)
- Blood of Dracula #4-5, 7-11 (1988 - 1989)
- Maze Agency #1-5, 8-9, 12; Annual #1 (1988 - 1990)
- Nexus vol.2 #57 (1989)
- Justice League America #31-35, 37-40, 43-44, 45 (4 pages), 51 (1989 - 1991)
- Dark Horse Presents #50 (1991, also writer)
- Star Trek: Debt of Honor (1992)
- Team Titans #1 (1992)
- Titans Sell-out Special (1992)
- X-Men Annual #1 (1992)
- Pat Savage: the Woman of Bronze - Family Blood Special (1992)
- Legionnaires #7, 9-10, 12 (1993 - 1994)
- Comics Greatest World: Ghost (1993)
- Sensational She-Hulk #50 (1993, 2 pages)
- Solution #5 (1994)
- Penthouse Comix #1-5 (1994 - 1995)
- Ghost #1-3 (1995)
- Gen¹³: Ordinary Heroes #1-2 (1996, also writer)
- Savage Dragon: Sex & Violence #1-2 (1997, layouts only)
- WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Modern Age (1997)
- Wizard #94 (1999)
- The Dreaming #55 (2000, 2 pages)
- Superman/Gen¹³ #1-3 (2000, writer only)
- Wildstorm Thunderbook (2000, also writer)
- Many Worlds of Tesla Strong (2003, 5 pages)
- Tomb Raider: The Series #32 (2003, writer only)
Covers
- X-Men Classic #71-79 (1992)
- Vampirella #1-3 (Harris Comics)
- Wizard #83,94,129,162
- Gen¹³: Ordinary Heroes (Image)
- Voodoo #2-4 (Image)
- Imagine, Stan Lee: Batman (DC Comics)
- Imagine, Stan Lee: Flash (DC Comics)
- Imagine, Stan Lee: Catwoman (DC Comics)
- Imagine, Stan Lee: Green Lantern (DC Comics)
- Imagine, Stan Lee: JLA (DC Comics)
- Imagine, Stan Lee: Aquaman (DC Comics)
- Ghost TPB (Dark Horse)
- Gate Crasher TPB (Wizard Entertainment)
- Wonder Woman (Volume 2) #139-146,150-161,164-174,176-178,184-197 (DC Comics)
- Rose and Thorn #1-6 (DC Comics)
- Tomb Raider #32-34,42-50 (Image)
- JSA Classified #1-2 (DC Comics)
- Star Wars: Legacy #1-7 (Dark Horse)
- "Star Wars: Purge" (Dark Horse)
- Catwoman (volume 2) #43-82 (DC Comics)
Notes
- ^ Purge Cover Production Sketches, rebelscum.com, January 10, 2006
References
External links
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- Newsarama.com[dead link]
- Hughes' profile at StarWars.com[dead link]
- Talking to Adam Hughes - Part 1, Broken Frontier, October 22, 2007
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