David Hahn is a western Montana-based comic book artist born in 1967. He is best known for his work illustrating the comic book mini-series '' Bite Club'' and its sequel ''Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit'' for

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, where he also illustrated stories for '' Robin'', ''

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'', ''Batman: The Ultimate Training Guide'', and ''

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''.

Career

Much of his early work was published by

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in '' Fun and Perils in the Trudyverse''. Hahn later moved his work to

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and restarted the series under the name ''

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'', which garnered him an Eisner Award nomination. He has also written an X-Men story for ''

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'' #11 for

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and drawn a story for

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's '' The Escapist'' #5, written by

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, drawn several issues of Marvel Adventures:The Fantastic Four, as well five issues of ''

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''. In 2011, he released his second creator-owned alternative mini-series, a five-issue story called ''All Nighter'', published by Image Comics. In May 2013,

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announced that David would replace Xin Ye as the artist for '' Erfworld''. As a way to learn to draw the Erfworld characters, he started by drawing the art for ''E is for Erfworld the Erfabet Book''. He also provided art for the Book 2 epilogues and provided the art for part of Book 3 until September 2015 after which he bowed out and Xin Ye returned. He recently pencilled the artwork for DC Comics' ''Batman '66 Meets the Man From UNCLE'' cross-over mini-series as well as wrapping up his creator-owned four-issue post-apocalyptic story, Dayglow, published by Publish Enemies and currently available in digital download format from Comixology. David is a founding member of the Portland, Oregon collective

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(formerly Periscope Studio).

Works

* Aztec Empire (graphic novel)

References

External links

davidhahnart.com
Hahn's official website Living people 1967 births American comics artists {{US-comics-artist-stub