Travis Charest (born 1969) is a
Canadian
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comic book
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penciller
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, inker and
painter
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, known for his work on such books as ''
Darkstars
The first Darkstars were a group of intergalactic policemen that appeared in comic books published by DC Comics. They were introduced in ''Darkstars'' #1 (October 1992 in comics, 1992), and were created by Michael Jan Friedman and Larry Stroman. ...
'', ''
WildC.A.T.s
Wildcats, sometimes rendered WildCats or WildC.A.T.s, is a superhero team created by the American comic book artist Jim Lee and writer Brandon Choi.
Publication history
The team first appeared in August 1992 in the first issue of their epon ...
'', ''
Grifter
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Arts and entertainment
* Grifters (band), a 1990s American indie rock band
* ''The Grifters'' (novel), a 1963 American novel by Jim Thompson
* ''The Grifters'' (film), a 1990 American adaptation of the novel
* Grifter (ch ...
/
Shi
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* ''Shi'', proposed gender-neutral pronoun
* Shi (kana), a kana in Japanese syllabaries
* Shi language
* ''Shī'', transliteration of ...
'', ''
WildC.A.T.s/X-Men:
The Golden Age'' and ''
The Metabarons
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''. He is known for his detailed line work and muted color palette, and is a much sought-after cover artist, having done extensive cover work for many other books, such as various ''
Star Wars
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'' series from
Dark Horse Comics
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. His work has influenced artists such as
Chrissie Zullo,
Shelby Robertson
Shelby Robertson is an American comic book illustrator, known for his distinctive style pinup renditions of attractive fictional female characters. His detailed rendering of heavily muscled figures has been compared to that of Frank Frazetta and ...
,
and
David Marquez.
Early life
Charest was born in 1969
["Travis Charest"]
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History
Discussion about having a c ...
. Retrieved October 4, 2013. on a farm
['' Wizard'' #41 (January 1995). pp 124-125.] in the small Canadian town of
Leduc, Alberta
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History
Leduc was established in 1891, when Robert Telford, a settler, who had bought ...
. His parents held various jobs, though he has stated that his mother and sister were skilled designers,
and attributes his early childhood interest in drawing to them.
[
His earliest exposure to genre illustration came through '']Metal Hurlant
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'', which his uncle collected. American comics were not among his earliest reading, and his initial drawings were of life, such as animals.[
]
Career
Charest did not initially know how to parlay his drawing ability into a career, as there were no schools where he lived for such an endeavor, and did not foresee it as a profession.[ He worked a number of dead-end jobs,][ and it was while living on his own at age 18 or 19, and became friends with people who read comics, that he realized he could make a career out of it.][ Charest cites ]Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola (; born September 16, 1960) is an American comics artist and writer best known for creating ''Hellboy'' for Dark Horse Comics, part of a shared universe of titles including ''B.P.R.D.'', '' Abe Sapien'', '' Lobster Johnson'', '' Wit ...
, Adam Hughes
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, and Brian Bolland
Brian Bolland (; born 26 March 1951)Salisbury, Mark, ''Artists on Comic Art'' (Titan Books, 2000) , p. 11 is a British comics artist. Best known in the United Kingdom as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology '' 2 ...
among his artistic influences,["FAQ: "Who are your favorite artists?"]
The Official Unofficial Travis Charest Gallery. December 1, 2000. Retrieved March 9, 2013 as well as many artists from the early 20th century.
Charest spent six months continuously producing new sample art and sending them to various publishers, including Marvel Comics
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and DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...
.[ In 1992 he got his first paid work,] when DC Comics hired him to provide the art for a Flash
Flash, flashes, or FLASH may refer to:
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Fictional aliases
* Flash (DC Comics character), several DC Comics superheroes with super speed:
** Flash (Barry Allen)
** Flash (Jay Garrick)
** Wally West, the first Kid ...
story in ''Showcase '93'' #3 (March 1993).[ Charest drew the book from a ]full script
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, which he said meant that he did not have to make as many storytelling choices as he would have with a plot script
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, explaining in a 2020 interview, "My weak point is storytelling, I'm not a great storyteller. I'm good with cars and atmospheric things."[
He followed that initial Flash story with another one that appeared in ''Flash Annual'' #5 (August 1992), which he calls "my first real thing", and then a story focusing on an arm wrestling match between the ]Hulk
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and the Thing
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* An object
* Broadly, an entity
* Thing-in-itself (or ''noumenon''), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant
* Thing theory, a branch of critical theory that focuses ...
written by Peter David
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in '' Incredible Hulk Annual'' #18.[
He later became the regular artist on '']Darkstars
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'', illustrating issues 4 - 7.[ He also produced cover work for other DC titles such as '' The Outsiders'', '']Batman
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'', and ''Detective Comics
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''.
Charest was then contacted by publisher Jim Lee
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, who offered him work for Wildstorm Productions
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.[ Charest's first work for that studio was a pinup that appeared in '']WildC.A.T.s
Wildcats, sometimes rendered WildCats or WildC.A.T.s, is a superhero team created by the American comic book artist Jim Lee and writer Brandon Choi.
Publication history
The team first appeared in August 1992 in the first issue of their epon ...
'' #0 (June 1993).[Charest, Travis (March 1999). "Welcome!". '']Wildcats
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'' (vol 2) #1 Wildstorm Productions
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, p. 31. Later that same year, he illustrated ''WildC.A.T.s Special #1'' (November 1993). He subsequently illustrated back-up stories featuring Voodoo and Warblade in issues 8 and 9 of the regular series (February and March, 1994). He became the regular artist of the series with issue #15, illustrating the title during the runs of writers James Robinson and Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell' ...
. While his initial work for Wildstorm was characterized by large amounts of cross-hatching, which was popular among the Image Comics
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founders and their imitators, Charest's style began to evolve as he looked to other designers that piqued his interest. His last regular issue on ''WildC.A.T.s'' was #31 (September 1996), though he later returned to illustrate the title's 50th issue (June 1998). He also did many covers and unpublished private commissions.[
In 1999, Charest joined writer ]Scott Lobdell
Scott Lobdell (; born 1960) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter known for his work on numerous ''X-Men'' series for Marvel Comics in the 1990s, various work for DC Comics in the 2010s, namely ''Red Hood and the Outlaws, Teen Titans ...
on a second series of ''Wildcats
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'', illustrating five of the first six issues. Charest felt that his ''Wildcats'' both work, both under Moore and Lobdel, had begun to "slide," and that it was time to do something different. During the San Diego Comic-Con
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that year, the president of the French publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés
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invited Charest to lunch, where he offered the artist the opportunity to work on ''The Metabarons
''The Metabarons'' or ''The Saga of The Meta-Barons'' is a science fiction Comics, comic series relating the history of a dynasty of perfect warriors known as the Metabarons. ''The Metabarons'' series was written by creator Alejandro Jodorowsky a ...
''. Charest, having long-enjoyed ''L'Incal
''The Incal'' (; French: ''L'Incal'') is a French graphic novel series written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and originally illustrated by Jean Giraud. ''The Incal'', with first pages originally released as ''Une aventure de John Difool'' ("A John Di ...
'' by Moebius, had aspired to work for the same publisher, and was "thrilled" by the offer, relating, "I was very young, ambitious and they told me that I could make complete pages, painted, not just drawn in pencil. I was going to live in Paris with my girlfriend, painting all day. 'It will be great!' I told myself."[
In 2000 Charest moved to Paris,][ where he worked with filmmaker/artist ]Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (; born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean-French avant-garde filmmaker.
Best known for his 1970s films '' El Topo'' and '' The Holy Mountain'', Jodorowsky has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his wor ...
on the ''Metabarons'' graphic novel
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''Weapons of the Metabaron''. Charest, having grown tired of superheroes, accepted the job, and planned to paint the entire graphic novel, something he had never done before. The process of that work went much more slowly than Charest had anticipated, and he illustrated only the first 29 pages of the book.[ Travis describes the feedback he received from his colleagues thus: "My editor encouraged me to be faster, while Jodorowsky always said, 'Don't listen to them, I'll distract them, you do what you want.'" Because Charest could only paint two or three pages a month, and he and his girlfriend had trouble paying the bills that incurred from living in Paris, they left the city][ after only a couple of years,][ and returned to the United States, where Charest's girlfriend could work.][ Humanoid Publishing selected Serbian artist ]Zoran Janjetov
Zoran Janjetov ( sr-cyr, Зоран Јањетов; born 23 June 1961) is a Serbian comics artist. Janjetov is among most prominent comics creators of former Yugoslavia, published worldwide. He is best known as the illustrator of '' Avant l'Incal'' ...
, who previously worked on the ''Incal'' books ''John Defaul'' and ''Technopriests'', to complete the art for the project.[ Confessing that it was too much for him to handle at that point in his career, Charest stated in a 2020 interview that he no longer wished to paint interior pages, as it took him a week to paint an interior page, and that if he wished to produce fully-illustrated work, he would only do pencils and have another artist paint it.][
By 2007 Charest had settled in California. Among his subsequent work was cover art for ]David Morrell
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's ''Captain America
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: The Chosen'' mini-series. He also ran the free webcomic strip ''Spacegirl'' on his MSN group.[ In 2008, a limited edition printed volume hardcover of ''Spacegirl'' was self-published by Charest and Big Wow Art, collecting the first 56 strips of the series.
]
Technique and materials
Charest usually prefers not to employ preliminary sketching practices, such as layouts, thumbnails or lightbox
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Several varieties exist, depending on their purpose:
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ing, in part due to impatience, and in part because he enjoys the serendipitous way in which artwork develops when produced with greater spontaneity. He also prefers to use reference only when rendering objects that require a degree of real-life accuracy, such as guns, vehicles, or characters of licensed properties that must resemble actors with whom they are closely identified, as when he illustrated the cover to '' Star Trek: The Next Generation: Embrace the Wolf'' in 2000.
Charest previously illustrated on regular illustration board
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provided by publishers, though he disliked the non-photo blue
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lines printed on them. By 2000, he switched to Crescent board for all his work, because it does not warp when wet, produces sharper illustrations, and is more suitable for framing because it lacks the non-photo blue lines.
Charest uses mainly 2H lead to avoid smearing, and sometimes HB lead
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. For ink wash
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, he uses Rapidograph
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ink, and waters it down to three hues in order to achieve light gray, medium and charcoal tones, in addition to straight black. He applies the wash with watercolor brushes of various sizes. To ink linework he uses Rapidographs of all sizes. For color work, Charest uses Aquarelle watercolor pencils and acrylic paint
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for airbrush work. He also uses white Pelikan
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ink for additional effects such as highlights, fades and blends. Charest stated in 2000 that while he did not use a computer for his artwork, he would be using one soon, and anticipated they would be a necessity for professional artists.[ By the 2020s, he was producing artwork digitally, which allows him to complete pieces more quickly. His cover for '' Batman/Catwoman'' #6 (October 2021), for example, was made entirely in this method, which he explained was due to time constraints that required him to finish it more quickly.]
According to Charest, the time he needs to finish a given page varies, depending on how fast his editor needs it, and what he is being paid, though because he came to prefer producing artwork that takes longer than the norm to complete by the time he left Wildstorm
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, he stated in 2000 that he no longer found it feasible to be the regular artist on a monthly series. He points to '' WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age'' as an example of a book that took him considerable time (under a year), though he stresses that he finished it on time.[
]
Influence
Charest's work has influenced artists such as Chrissie Zullo,[ ]Shelby Robertson
Shelby Robertson is an American comic book illustrator, known for his distinctive style pinup renditions of attractive fictional female characters. His detailed rendering of heavily muscled figures has been compared to that of Frank Frazetta and ...
,[ and David Marquez.][
]
Personal life
As of 1995, Charest was living in San Diego, California
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.[ As of 2020, he had a wife and a ten-year-old daughter.][
]
Bibliography
Interior comic work
*''The Flash
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Annual'' #5: "Family Business" (with Mark Waid
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and Craig Boldman, DC Comics, 1992)
*''The Incredible Hulk
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Annual'' #18: "Mano A Mano" (with Peter David
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, Marvel
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** Marvel Universe, a fictional shared universe
** Marvel Music, an imprint of Marvel Comics
...
, 1992)
*''Darkstars
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'' #4-7 (with Michael Jan Friedman
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, DC Comics
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DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...
, 1993)
*'' Showcase '93'' #3: "Delay of Game" (with Michael J. Martinek, DC Comics, 1993)
*''DC Universe: Trinity'' #1: "Darkstars" (with Michael Jan Friedman, DC Comics, 1993)
*'' Green Lantern Corps Quarterly'' #6: "What Price Honor?" (with Ruben Diaz, DC Comics, 1993)
*'' WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams'' (Wildstorm
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):
** "Destiny's Hand" (with Steve Gerber
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, in ''Special'' #1, 1993)
** "Voodoo: Passed Lives" (with Steven T. Seagle, in #8, 1994)
** "Warblade: The Bonds of Blood & Steel" (with Jeff Mariotte
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, in #9, 1994)
** "End Program" (with James Robinson, in #15-17, 1994–1995)
** "Hard Hunt" (with James Robinson, in #18, 1995)
** "Wild Storm Rising" (with James Robinson, in #20, 1995)
** "Call of the Wild" (with Alan Moore
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, in #21, 1995)
** "...as It is in Heaven" (with Alan Moore, in #25, 1995)
** "Khera" (with Alan Moore, in #26, 1996)
** "Cataclysm" (with Alan Moore, Dave Johnson and Aron Wiesenfeld, in #28, 1996)
** "Fire from Heaven, Parts Seven and Thirteen" (with Alan Moore and Ryan Benjamin, in #29-30, 1996)
** "Cats & Dogs" (with Alan Moore, Jim Lee and Josh Wiesenfeld
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, in #31, 1996)
** "Reincarnation" (with Alan Moore, in #50, 1998)
*''Gen¹³
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'' #0: "Things Change" (with Brandon Choi
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, Wildstorm, 1994)
*''Union
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** ''Un ...
'' #7: "One Month" (with Mike Heisler
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Heisler got his start in the in ...
, among other artists, Wildstorm, 1995)
*''Grifter
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* ''The Grifters'' (novel), a 1963 American novel by Jim Thompson
* ''The Grifters'' (film), a 1990 American adaptation of the novel
* Grifter (ch ...
/Shi
Shi or SHI may refer to:
Language
* ''Shi'', a Japanese titles#Shi, Japanese title commonly used as a pronoun
* ''Shi'', proposed gender-neutral pronoun
* Shi (kana), a kana in Japanese syllabaries
* Shi language
* ''Shī'', transliteration of ...
'' #1-2: "Final Rites" (with Brandon Choi, Jim Lee, Peter Gutierrez, Billy Tucci
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and Ryan Benjamin, Image
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, 1996)
*'' WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age'' (with Scott Lobdell
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, one-shot, Wildstorm, 1997)
*''Captain America
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v2'' #7: "Crossroads" (with James Robinson, among other artists, Marvel, 1997)
*'' Aliens: Havoc'' #2 (with Mark Schultz, among other artists, Dark Horse
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Th ...
, 1997)
*''Wildcats
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v2'' (Wildstorm
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** "Balance of Terror" (with Scott Lobdell, in #1, 1999)
** "Second Skin" (with Scott Lobdell, in #2, 1999)
** "Flavors" (with Scott Lobdell, in #3, 1999)
** "Firefight" (with Scott Lobdell, Carlos D'Anda and Anthony Winn, in #4, 1999)
** "The Chase" (with Scott Lobdell, Joe Casey
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and Scott Benefiel, in #6, 2000)
*''Metabarons
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, Les Humanoïdes Associés
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):
** ''Sans Nom, le Dernier des Métabarons (The Last Metabaron)'' (one-shot, 2002)
** ''Les Armes du Meta-Baron (Weapons of the Metabaron)'' (with Zoran Janjetov
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, graphic novel
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, 2008)
*'' Ultimates Saga'' (with C.B. Cebulski and Mindy Owens, Marvel, 2007)
*''Captain America
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, Marvel, 2011)
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*''Darkstars
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'' #1-3, 8-11 (DC Comics
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, 1992–1993)
*''Detective Comics
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'' #652-653 (DC Comics, 1992)
*''Batman
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'' #488-490 (DC Comics, 1993)
*'' Robin III: Cry of the Huntress'' #3 (DC Comics, 1993)
*''Outsiders
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'' #1α, 1Ω (DC Comics, 1993)
*'' WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams'' #19, 22-24, 40 (Wildstorm
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, 1995–1997)
*''Shattered Image
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'' #2 (Image
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, 1996)
*''Wetworks
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'' #32 (Wildstorm, 1997)
*'' Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday'' #1 (Wildstorm, 1997)
*'' Phantom Guard'' #1 (Wildstorm, 1997)
*'' Stormwatch'' #1 (Wildstorm, 1997)
*''Wildcore
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'' #1 (Wildstorm, 1997)
*''DV8
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'' #14 (Wildstorm, 1997)
*''Gen¹³
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'' #25 (Wildstorm, 1997)
*''Battle Chasers
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'' #1 (Cliffhanger
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, 1998)
*'' C-23'' #0-3 (Image, 1998)
*''Danger Girl
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'' #3 (Cliffhanger, 1998)
*''Wildcats
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'' #5, 7-11 (Wildstorm, 1999–2000)
*'' Star Trek: The Next Generation: Embrace the Wolf'' GN (Wildstorm, 2000)
*'' Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'' #1, 3-6, 25 (Dark Horse
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, 2006–2008)
*'' Star Wars: Legacy'' #14-19, 28 (Dark Horse, 2007–2008)
*'' Captain America: The Chosen'' #1-6 (Marvel
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, 2007–2008)
*'' Star Wars: Dark Times'' #11 (Dark Horse, 2008)
*'' Star Wars: Rebellion'' #15 (Dark Horse, 2008)
*'' Invincible Iron Man'' #3 (Marvel, 2008)
*'' Atomika'' #10 (Mercury
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, 2009)
*'' Skaar: Son of Hulk'' #11 (Marvel, 2009)
*'' Star Wars: Purge – Seconds to Die'' #1 (Dark Horse, 2009)
*''Astonishing X-Men
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'' #31 (Marvel, 2009)
*'' Avengers: The Children's Crusade'' #2 (Marvel, 2010)
*''The Mighty Thor
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'' #1 (Marvel, 2011)
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Travis Charest
at the Big Comic Book DataBase
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Travis Charest Art Gallery
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1969 births
Canadian comics artists
People from Leduc, Alberta
Franco-Albertan people
Living people