Joshua Middleton (sometimes credited as Josh Middleton) is an artist and designer working in the animation, film, comics, and book industries. In 2004 he was nominated for an

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as "Best Cover Artist" for his work on Marvel's ''

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'', '' X-Men Unlimited'', and '' New Mutants''.

Career

Middleton started his career as a comic book artist in 2000 as penciler for

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's '' Meridian'', written by Barbara Kesel. After that, he joined a small independent British publisher,

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, planning to release there his creator-owned series ''

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'', but only did a preview issue in early 2002, along with some other work for the publisher. After contributing covers and short stories to Marvel's '' X-Men Unlimited'' series beginning in late 2002, he signed an exclusive contract in 2003, and created ''

'' with Joe Quesada as writer, but left the title after four issues in 2004 when his contract ran out. Following his stint at Marvel he signed exclusively with DC Comics in 2004. His first DC series was '' Superman/Shazam: First Thunder'', a miniseries that launched in September 2005. Along with illustrating some short stories and single issues, Middleton also served as regular cover artist for the Vertigo series '' American Virgin'' and DC Comics' '' Supergirl'' ongoing series. Middleton worked as one of the conceptual artists on the 2005 science fiction film ''

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''. Since then he has been working as an artist for Warner Bros. Animation. Middleton began working for WB Animation in October 2009 as a character designer, but was quickly promoted to be an art director for the '' Green Lantern: The Animated Series'', where he has worked hand-in-hand with Bruce Timm to carve out the look and feel of the first Warner Brothers' CG television series. In addition to his comic book work, Joshua Middleton has illustrated book covers for several major publishers, including

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, Viking, Tor, and Disney Press. Middleton has also served as a conceptual artist/illustrator for feature films produced by Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Disney,

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, and Sony Pictures Animation. In late 2010, Middleton decided to leave animation and return to his work in comics. Middleton has been the cover artist for the '' Aquaman'' and ''

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'' series for DC Comics. He drew the 1980s variant cover for ''Action Comics'' #1000 (June 2018).

Bibliography

*'' Meridian'' #1–6 (with Barbara Kesel,

, 2000) *''

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'' #nn (with

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and Ben Oliver,

, 2002) *'' X-Men Unlimited'' ( Marvel): ** "Sacrificial Worlds" (with Kaare Andrews, in #37, 2002) ** "Fear" (with Nunzio DeFilippis and

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, in #42, 2003) *''

'' #0 (script and art, Com.x, 2002) *''

'' #1–4 (with Joe Quesada, Marvel, 2003–2004) *'' Street Fighter'' #11 (with

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, UDON, 2004) *'' Wildstorm Winter Special'': "The Survivor" (with

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, Wildstorm, 2004) *'' Superman/Shazam: First Thunder'' (with Judd Winick, DC Comics, 2005–2006) *'' Fables'' #53: "Porky Pine Pie" (with Bill Willingham, Vertigo, 2007) *'' Outsiders: Five of a Kind: Metamorpho/Aquaman'': "Rogue Elements" (with Tony Bedard and G. Willow Wilson, one-shot, DC Comics, 2007) *'' Convergence: Wonder Woman'' #1–2 (with Larry Hama, miniseries, DC Comics, 2015)

Covers only

*'' X-Men Unlimited'' #40, 47, 49 ( Marvel, 2003) *'' New Mutants'' #1–6 (Marvel, 2003) *''

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'' #11–12 (Marvel, 2004) *''

'' #5–7 (Marvel, 2004–2005) *'' Majestic'' #1 ( Wildstorm, 2005) *''

'' #3 (

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, 2005) *''

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'' #36 ( DC Comics, 2006) *'' American Virgin'' #4–14 ( Vertigo, 2006–2007) *'' All-Flash'' vol. 2 #1 (DC Comics, 2007) *'' JLA: Classified'' #50–54 (DC Comics, 2008) *'' Supergirl'' #34, 36–43, 45–51 (DC Comics, 2008–2009) *'' Vixen: Return of the Lion'' #1–5 (DC Comics, 2009) *'' The War that Time Forgot'' #8 (DC Comics, 2009) *'' Wonder Woman'' vol. 3 #30 (DC Comics, 2009) *''Wonder Woman'' #611, 614 (DC Comics, 2011) *''

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'' vol. 5 #13–14 (DC Comics, 2011) *'' Aquaman'' vol. 8 #1-present (DC Comics, 2016–present) * ''Action Comics'' #1000 (DC Comics, 2018)

References

External links

*
Joshua Middleton's Blog
*
Joshua Middleton
at Mike's Amazing World of Comics

at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators {{DEFAULTSORT:Middleton, Joshua American comics artists American conceptual artists Living people Year of birth missing (living people)