Eduardo Barros (born August 18, 1967) is a Brazilian
comic book artist
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, better known by his pen name of Eddy Barrows. He is best known for his work at
DC Comics
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on such titles as ''
Birds of Prey
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'', ''Countdown to Adventure'', ''
Action Comics
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'', ''
Superman
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'', ''
Teen Titans
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Belém do Pará
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,
Brazil
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. He and his parents moved to
Belo Horizonte
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,
Minas Gerais
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when he was 2 years old. During his childhood, his mother introduced him to ''
Turma da Mônica
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The series originated in a newspaper comic ...
'' – a Brazilian comic by Maurício de Sousa – and works from the Disney company. She read them to him, and Barrows immediately fell in love with comics immediately, eventually starting to draw. While never having gone to school specifically for art, Barrows studied animation for two to three years before becoming a working artist.
His favorite character is Chico Bento.
Career
When Barrows was 22 years old, Belo Horizonte he began working by doing some pictures for school books, books for kids, and publicity agencies. During this time, Barrows gave up comics for a while. When he was 24, he returned to comics by doing tests for Art & Comics Studios. When he got approval, he began training for six months. Soon after, a career in comics quickly began. His first work was a tie-in comic for the then-
World Wrestling Federation
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on
Stone Cold Steve Austin
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at
Chaos Comics
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. After six issues of that series, Barrows felt he needed "more practice" and took a hiatus from comics in 2001.
He came back to comics in 2003, when landed ''
G.I. Joe
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'' for
IDW Publishing
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. Barrows described the experience as "amazing," finally feeling ready and satisfied with his work. Barrows became the official artist of the book until April 2004, when he again decided to leave comics and spend more time on the '' Jornal Estado de Minas'', a local newspaper. In mid-2004, Joe Prado called Barrows asking If he would like to come back to Art & Comics Studios, which he accepted.
After illustrating a comic book for
Avatar Press
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, he submitted three test pages to
DC Comics
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, after which they hired him to work on ''Bloodhound''. Following that, Barrows contributed to ''Batman: Secret Files Villains 2005'' and three issues of ''
Birds of Prey
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''. From there, Barrows became an artist on the weekly series '' 52'' and then teamed with writer
Gail Simone
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Eddie Berganza
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offered ''Countdown To Adventure''.
Barrows' took over penciling duties with a year-long run on ''
Teen Titans
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'' with writer
Sean McKeever
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Career
Since the end of his creator-owned teen drama series ''The Waiting Place'', which was published from 1997 to 2002, ...
, as well as being teamed with writer
Greg Rucka
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for a run on DC's longest running title, ''
Action Comics
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''. As of 2010, Barrows has become one of the main artists for DC's ''Superman'' family of titles, collaborating with writer James Robinson on the Man of Steel's tie-in miniseries to the ''
Blackest Night
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'' event, illustrating the main story in
Free Comic Book Day
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's ''
War of the Supermen
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'' zero-issue, and providing the covers to that main series.
Barrows began his run as artist on DC's ''Superman'', with writer
J. Michael Straczynski
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for the writer's run on the main ''
Superman
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'' title, beginning with the " Grounded" story arc with a ten-page entry in issue #700 (August 2010).
Action Comics
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Nightwing
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Flamebird
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) #875–876 (2009)
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Atom
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Secret Files and Origins
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'' #1 (2005)
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Birds of Prey
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Blackest Night
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**'' JSA'' miniseries, #1–3 (among other artists) (2010)
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Superman
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**'' Tales of The Corps'' 3-issue miniseries, #2 (2009)
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Adam Strange
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Animal Man
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Detective Comics
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Firestorm
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'' vol. 3, #21 (along with
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'' vol. 4, #41–42 (along with
Philip Tan
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Justice League of America
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'' vol. 4, #34 (along with Ardian Syaf) (2009)
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Martian Manhunter
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Nightwing
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'' vol. 3 #0–3, 5–10, 15–16 (2011–2013)
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Suicide Squad
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'' vol. 4 #11–15 (backup stories, 2016–2017)
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Superman
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Superboy
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Teen Titans
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