Brett Booth is an
American
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comic book artist
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. He is best known for his work on
Backlash, a character he co-created with
Jim Lee
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at the
Wildstorm Studios.
Biography
Following his Wildstorm work, Booth has also illustrated the exploits of some of
Marvel Comics
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' best known characters such as
Spider-Man
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, the
Fantastic Four
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, and the
X-Men
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.
The artist then expanded his career when he contributed illustrations for the Anthropomorphic How-To book: Freaks! How To Draw Fantastic Fantasy Creatures.''
He is currently active as a
paleoartist drawing dinosaurs for various publications and websites as well as continuing to draw comic books. Booth designed the cover of the Dynamite Entertainment horror comic Vampire Huntress Neteru. He illustrated
DC Comics
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'
Justice League of America
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, with author
James Robinson (comics)
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, series from issue #54 until #60, the title's final issue.
On July 6, 2011, it was announced that Booth will be handling the pencilling duties on the new
Teen Titans
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#1 that comes out as part of
The New 52
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.
Booth also drew for Kyle Higgin's
Nightwing
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Although ...
.
[Dc comics 2012] Booth stated to
Newsarama
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History
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that he had been pushing for Wally West to enter the New 52 for a while, and became the artist for Flash Annual 3, the first New 52 appearance of Wally.
Notes
References
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External links
Brett & Jess Booth's blog
American atheists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
American comics artists
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