Jim Cheung (; born 1972) is a British

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, known for his work on the series such as ''

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'', '' New Avengers: Illuminati'', ''

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'' and '' Avengers: The Children's Crusade''.

Career

Cheung worked on several Marvel series during the mid- to late 1990s. He also worked on ''

'' for

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in the early 2000s. He later returned to Marvel, where he illustrated the five-issue '' New Avengers: Illuminati'' mini-series for Marvel Comics, and then pencilled two more issues of ''New Avengers''. He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's "Young Guns", a group of artists that, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief

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, have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller". Other "Young Guns" include

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, David Finch,

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. Cheung illustrated the 2010-2012 miniseries '' Avengers: The Children's Crusade''. In addition to interior comics work, he has drawn several covers including those of "''

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''" " Spider-Men" and the

. In 2015, Marvel enlisted Cheung to create an ''

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'' poster for a panel devoted to that TV series at that year's

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. He drew the Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy limited series in 2016 with writer

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. in February 2018 Cheung created promo art for a relaunched Marvel universe began , called the Fresh Start. That March , it was announced that Cheung would be the artist on a relaunched ''

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'' series.

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

Interior work

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'' *'' Avengers: The Children's Crusade'' #1-9 * Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #9 (select pages) *''

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'' Free Comic Book Day *'' The Clone Conspiracy'' #1-5 (2016) *'' Elektra: The Hand'' #1, #5 (select pages) *''

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'' #1-12 *''Marvel 2-in-One '' #1-2, #6 *'' New Avengers'' #25, 40, 42, 43 *'' New Avengers: Illuminati'' #1-5 *''

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'' #371 *''

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'' #1 *''

'' #82 *'' Avengers: The Initiative'' #1-5, Annual #1 *'' Avengers & X-Men: AXIS'' #1-9 *'' Cable'' #73 *''Casualties of

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: Captain America/Iron Man'' one-shot (both covers) *'' Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways'' #1-4 *'' Civil War: Casualties of War: Iron Man/Captain America'' (one shot, 2007) *''

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'' #525-526 *'' Fantastic Four: Foes'' #1-5 *''

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'' one-shot (2007) *'' New Avengers: Illuminati'' #1-5 *''

'' #322-324, 327-330 *'' Iron Man: Director of SHIELD'' Annual #1 *''Marvel 2-in-One'' #3 (2017) *'' New Avengers'' #4 (variant), Annual #2 *'' New Avengers/Transformers'' #1 *'' Secret Warriors'' #1-22 *'' Spider-Men'' #1-5 *'' Ultimate Nightmare'' #5 *''

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Had Formed the

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'' #1-12 *''Young Avengers Special'' #1 *''Young Avengers Presents'' #1-6 *''

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'' vol. 4 #1, 7, 14-17 (2018-2019) *'' DC's Year Of The Villain'' #1 (2019) *'' Legion Of Super-Heroes: Millenium'' #2 (2019)

CrossGen Comics

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'' (October 1–7, 2003) (vol XLVII NO.40)

Bubble Comics

*'' Time of the Raven'' #5

Notes

References

External links

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Jim Cheung
on Marvel.com
Official websiteJim Cheung Art
on Instagram {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheung, Jim 1972 births Living people British comics artists