Yıldıray Çınar is a Turkish

comic book artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

known for his work on the

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''.

Career

Çınar helped create a photocopy-

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publishing group called Capa Comics group in 1997, to which he has continued to contribute up until today from time to time. Capa Comics group has established links with several bigger publishers today and both Yıldıray and his colleagues have published their work in national magazines on several occasions, under common banners of Capa Comics group and the other publisher. His creations from this time include ''Sürgün'', ''Maskeli'', ''Karabasan'' and ''İman Limited''. Although remaining in

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, Çınar started producing for the American comic book market. He was first hooked up with Digital Webbing Press and illustrated stories of ''Nothingface'' and ''Fist of Justice'' which appeared in numerous issues of the anthology

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work began started with a pin-up he draw for ''

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'' #118. He subsequently illustrated a short story for ''Savage Dragon'' #126. He later worked on

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's Image series ''

'', on which he served as regular penciler beginning with #27. After working on the

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series ''

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'', he began as the regular artist on ''

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'', which debuted in 2010 under veteran ''Legion'' writer

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. He has been named the artist, with writer Tom Taylor, of "Superior

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" at

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, starting November 2014.

Personal life

Çınar currently lives in

.Home page of Çınar's official website
; "About me" section; Accessed October 22, 2010.

Bibliography

Comics

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'' #126 (short story) *''Nothingface GN'' (

Digital Webbing Digital Webbing is an American comic book publishing company founded by Ed Dukeshire.Digital Webbing Presents Digital Webbing is an American comic book publishing company founded by Ed Dukeshire.Noble Causes ''Noble Causes'' is an American comic book series created and written by Jay Faerber, illustrated by a variety of artists and published by Image Comics. The series follows the lives of the Nobles, a wealthy superhero family in the Image Univers ...

'' #27–40 (with

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, February 2007 - March 2009) *'' Tales of the Starlight Drive-In'' (

, July 2008) *''

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'' #14–16, 21–22 (with Jay Faerber, Image Comics, June–September 2008, April–June 2009) *''

'' #69, 71–76, 79–82 (pencils, with

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, May–December 2009) *''

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'' #888 (cover,

, May–December 2009) *''

'' vol. 6 #1–16 (with

, DC Comics, May 2010, forthcoming) *'' Fury of Firestorm'' #1–6, #9–12, #0 (DC Comics, 2011) *'' Earth 2'' #7, #8, #13, #15.1 (DC Comics, 2012) *''

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'' #3 (DC Comics, 2013) *'' Adventures of Superman'' #5 (DC Comics, 2013) *''

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'' #9, #22 (DC Comics, 2013) *''

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'' #26-31 (DC Comics, 2014) *''

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'' #1-4, 7, 9 (

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, 2014-2015) *'' Captain America: Steve Rogers (Vol. 1)'' #16 (Marvel Comics, 2017) *''

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'' #1-6 (DC Comics, 2016-) *''

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'' #4-5 (Marvel Comics, 2017) *''

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'' #12-14, #17-19, #22-23 (Marvel Comics, 2018) *''

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(Vol. 2)'' #5 (Marvel Comics, 2019) *''

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Annual (Vol. 3)'' #1 (Marvel Comics, 2019) *''

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'' #3, #6, #9 (Marvel Comics, 2019) *''The Marvels'' #1-12 (Marvel Comics, 2021-2022) *'' Joe Fixit (Vol. 1)'' #1 (Marvel Comics, 2023)

Sketch cards

Sketch card work includes: *''Women of Marvel Sketch Cards'' (Rittenhouse Archives, 2008) *''Fantastic Four Archives Sketch Cards'' (Rittenhouse Archives, 2008) *''X-Men Origins: Wolverine Sketch Cards'' (Rittenhouse Archives, 2009) *''Spider-Man Archives Sketch Cards'' (Rittenhouse Archives, 2009)

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