Viktor Bogdanovic is a comic book artist best known for his work on DC and

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superheroes.

Biography

Bogdanovic was born in Basel, Switzerland (where he attended School of Arts) and moved to

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with his family. He started drawing his own Superman and Spider-Man stories at the age of 12. His first paid work was drawings for a piercing shop. Viktor did a few indie books before he got the chance to work on his first mini-series for Image Comics, which was called ''Reality Check''. His career really took off after his ''Batman: Arkham Knight'' run written by

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. Bogdanovic co-created New Super-Man with Gene Luen Yang, and followed that with short stints on Superman with

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and Terrifics with

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. In 2020, he collaborated with Benjamin Percy on a story for ''Wolverine'' #1, which topped the sales charts in February, and was the regular artist on volume 7 before going back to DC. His style was influenced by

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and others. Bogdanovic is of Serbian descent and studied at The Faculty of Philology at the

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Bibliography

Image Comics

*''Reality Check'' (2013)

DC Comics

*''Batman: Arkham Knight'' (2015) *''Suicide Squad Most Wanted: Deadshot and Katana'' (2016) *''New Super-Man'' (2016) *''Action Comics'' (2016) *''The Silencer'' (2018) *''The Terrifics'' (2018) *''Detective Comics'' (2021)

Marvel Comics

*''Wolverine'' (2020)

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bogdanovic, Viktor American comics artists 1981 births Living people