Jen Bartel is an American illustrator and comic artist, best known for her work for

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and

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. She co-created the comic ''Blackbird'' for Image with Sam Humphries. She won an Eisner Award for her work as a cover artist in 2019.

Career

Bartel was scouted for mainstream comics cover work after she published her fan art on social media platforms. Bartel created the cover art for ''Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy'', and ''DC: Women of Action'', both published by Chronicle Books. She created graphic designs for

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brand shoes featuring the

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character Captain Marvel, and

character

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tied in with the releases of the ''Captain Marvel'' and ''Avengers: Endgame'' films in 2019. Bartel also created graphic designs for the Puma and

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character

Harley Quinn Harley Quinn is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Quinn was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm as a comic relief henchwoman for the supervillain Joker in '' Batman: The Animated Series'', and debuted in i ...

timed to coincide with the release of the

film '' Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)''.

Awards

She won an Eisner Award for her work as a cover artist on Blackbird (

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) and Submerged (Vault) in 2019, and was nominated in 2020. In 2018, The Marvel Comic ''America'' to which Bartel contributed as one artist among 18 creators, was nominated for a GLAAD media award.

References

External links

Official Bartel website
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