| Tim Bradstreet | |
|---|---|
 Bradstreet at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, October 18, 2009. |
|
| Born | Timothy Bradstreet February 16, 1967 Cheverly, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Penciller |
| Official website | |
Timothy "Tim" Bradstreet (born February 16, 1967, in Cheverly, Maryland), is an artist and illustrator, best known for his work on comic books (covers and interiors), book covers, movie posters, roleplaying games and trading cards.
Contents |
Career
Bradstreet has been working professionally ever since he graduated high school in 1985. He is primarily self-taught, choosing - instead of institutional training - to begin shaping his talent under the tutelage of fellow illustrator Steve Venters at Fantasmagraphics. With Venters' guidance, Bradstreet began illustrating role-playing games, honing his skills while pursuing his long-time ambition to draw comics. In 1990, he got his big break, working with industry legend Tim Truman on Dragon Chiang.
His work on role-playing games continued with GDW’s Twilight 2000 and FASA’s Shadowrun. Bradstreet’s work on White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade garnered him much critical praise. This, in turn, led to the addition of many major comic book publishers to his clientèle. He has since drawn for scores of comic and game related projects including Activision's Vampire: Bloodlines video game, Dark Horse's Hard Looks and Another Chance to Get It Right (with author Andrew Vachss), Star Wars, Clive Barker’s Age of Desire, Marvel's The Punisher and Blade, and Vertigo’s Gangland, Unknown Soldier, Human Target, and Hellblazer.[1] Bradstreet was awarded the 1996 Best Artist award by the International Horror Guild.[2] He was nominated for the 2005 Art award for the International Horror Guild for his Hellblazer covers.[3] Bradstreet has also been nominated for the 2002 Best Cover Artist Eisner Award for his Hellblazer covers.[4]
In 2000, he joined director Guillermo Del Toro as a conceptual artist helping work on the visual design for the film Blade 2. In 2003, Bradstreet worked on a number of movie posters for the Marvel/Lions Gate film, The Punisher and also worked on the black and white stop motion animated scene set in Kuwait for the extended cut DVD.
Bradstreet was also the regular cover artist for two books, Marvel’s The Punisher and Vertigo/DC’s Hellblazer. He has created over 70 covers for both books in the past five years.
In 2006, the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden used Bradstreet's design for the cover of their album A Matter of Life and Death.
Bradstreet’s style is a distinctive one, once described by him as ‘stylistic photorealism’. His work combines the use of posed photography with pencils, inks and coloring. This method is in keeping with the icons of gritty urban horror that are often the subject of his work. This is not to imply a limited range as Bradstreet has worked on subject matter ranging from high fantasy to science fiction, tied together by little other than his trademark photorealism and a ubiquitous brick wall or two.
Bradstreet and wife Missy live in San Diego, California.
Bibliography
 |
Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page. (September 2008) |
Comics work (interiors) includes:
- Hellblazer #141 (with Warren Ellis, Vertigo, 1999)
Covers
Comic covers include:
- Human Target #1-4 (miniseries, April-July 1999)
- Hellblazer #134-215
- Punisher #1-60 [5]
Notes
- ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "John Constantine Hellblazer", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 102-111, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
- ^ "IHG Award Recipients: 1996" (in English). International Horror Guild. http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#1996. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ "IHG Award Recipients: 2005" (in English). International Horror Guild. http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2005. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ "2002 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards" (in English). Comic Book Awards Almanac. http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/eisner02.shtml. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
- ^ http://marvel.com/catalog/?cover_art=Tim%20Bradstreet
References
- Tim Bradstreet at the Comic Book DB
- Tim Bradstreet at Marvel.com
External links
- Official website (down as of 10/23/08)
- The Online World of Timothy Bradstreet - blog
- Punisher #4 at Marvel.com shows a Bradstreet cover.
- Tim Bradstreet at Pen & Paper RPG database lists much of Bradstreet's work in the role-playing game industry
Interviews
- PopImage Interview, Oct.2000
- Tim Bradstreet talks 'Batman/Deathblow,' other projects, Comic Book Resources, August 1, 2001
- April 2007 Interview with Tim Bradstreet for Sequential Tart Webzine
- Tim Bradstreet, Two Decades - Part 1, the Early Years, Newsarama, September 22, 2008
- Tim Bradstreet - 20 Years, Part 2: Starting as an Artist, Newsarama, September 24, 2008
- Tim Bradstreet - 20 Years, Part 3 - Photo Realism, Newsarama, September 25, 2008
- Tim Bradstreet - 20 Years, Part 4 - The "Fiasco in Philly", Newsarama, September 26, 2008
- Tim Bradstreet - 20 Years, Part 5 - Meeting The Punisher, Newsarama, September 30, 2008
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
