ChrisCross
ChrisCross | |
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ChrisCross at the New York Comic Con in February 2008. | |
Born | Christopher Williams |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Artist |
Notable works |
Blood Syndicate Captain Marvel Firestorm |
ChrisCross (born Christopher Williams) is a comic book illustrator, known mostly for his stints pencilling Milestone Comics' Blood Syndicate and Heroes, Marvel Comics' Captain Marvel and Slingers, and DC Comics' Firestorm.
Education and career
Williams attended New York City's School of Visual Arts in the early 1990s. While doing so, he caught his big break doing work for the DC Comics imprint, Milestone Comics, which sought to publish a line of comics aimed at attracting a more multicultural audience.
He has also worked on other series such as Firestorm and The Outsiders for DC comics. He is currently working on a series of hardcover graphic novels for international publishing house, Humanoids, Inc., and has returned to the States to continue American comics, starting on Midnighter #11.[1]
Bibliography
Interior comic work includes:
- Blood Syndicate #3, 5-14, 16-17, 19, 21-23, 25-30 (with Ivan Velez, Jr., Milestone, 1993–1995)
- Worlds Collide: "Chapter Seven" (with various writers and artists, one-shot, Milestone, 1994)
- Hardware #11: "Shadow and Act" (inks on Denys Cowan, written by Dwayne McDuffie, Milestone, 1994)
- Icon #20: "The Big Bang Theory" (with Dwayne McDuffie, Mark D. Bright and John Paul Leon, Milestone, 1994)
- Shadow Cabinet #17: "No Difference in the Dark" (inks on John Paul Leon, written by Matt Wayne, Milestone, 1995)
- Man Against Time #4: "The Butterfly Effect" (with Brett Lewis and David Quinn, Image, 1996)
- Heroes #1-4 (with Matt Wayne, Milestone, 1996)
- Xero #1-8, 11 (with Christopher Priest, DC Comics, 1997–1998)
- Solar, Man of the Atom: Hell on Earth #1-4 (with Christopher Priest and Patrick Zircher, Acclaim, 1998)
- New Year's Evil: Dark Nemesis: "Turncoat!" (with Dan Jurgens, one-shot, DC Comics, 1998)
- X-Man #35-38, Annual '98 (with Terry Kavanagh, Marvel, 1998)
- Slingers #1-3, 5-6, 9-10 (with Joe Harris, Marvel, 1998–1999)
- Shadowman v3 #3: "Asylum Seeker" (with Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, Acclaim, 1999)
- Captain Marvel v3 #0-3, 6-10, 12-13, 15-16, 19-25, 27, 29-30 and v4 #1-3, 5 (with Peter David, Marvel, 1999–2003)
- The Craptacular B-Sides #1: "Graduation Day" (with Brian David-Marshall, co-feature, Marvel, 2002)
- X-Men Unlimited #48: "Control" (with Chuck Austen, anthology, Marvel, 2003)
- Outsiders v3 #4-6: "Brothers in Blood" (with Judd Winick, DC Comics, 2003–2004)
- JLA #83, 90 (with Joe Kelly, DC Comics, 2003–2004)
- Firestorm v3 #1-5 (with Dan Jolley, DC Comics, 2004)
- Néféritès: L'Embaumeur (with Sylviane Corgiat and Patrick Galliano, graphic novel, Les Humanoïdes Associés, 2006)
- Dead High Yearbook: "Chapter Three: Devil Dog of the Damned" (with Jennifer Camper, graphic novel, Penguin Books, 2007)
- Welcome to Tranquility #8: "Zombie Zeke in: Dead End Highway" (with Gail Simone, co-feature, Wildstorm, 2007)
- Midnighter v1 #11: "Anthem, Part Two" (with Keith Giffen, Wildstorm, 2007)
- Justice League of America v2 #29: "Star Struck!" (with Len Wein, DC Comics, 2009)
- Gotham Gazette #1-2: "Stephanie Brown" (with Fabian Nicieza, co-feature, DC Comics, 2009)
- Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #1, 3-4, 6 (with Joe Casey, DC Comics, 2009)
- Milestone Forever #2: "Hardware Escape" (with Dwayne McDuffie, John Paul Leon and Denys Cowan, Milestone, 2010)
- Spike: The Devil You Know #1-4 (with Bill Williams and José María Beroy, IDW Publishing, 2010)
- Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes #5 (with Paul Tobin, Marvel, 2010)
- T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents v3 #2: "Live Fast, Die Young" (with Nick Spencer and CAFU, DC Comics, 2011)
- Superman/Batman #81-84: "Sorcerer Kings" (with Cullen Bunn, DC Comics, 2011)
- Supergirl v5 #65-67: "This is Not My Life" (with Kelly Sue DeConnick, DC Comics, 2011)
- Batwing #4: "Better at Terrible Things" (with Judd Winick, DC Comics, 2012)
- Action Comics v2 #5-6 (with Sholly Fisch, co-feature, DC Comics, 2012)
- Smallville Season Eleven #13-15, 19, 21: "Detective" (with Bryan Q. Miller, digital, DC Comics, 2012)
- Superboy v5 #20: "A Wretched H.I.V.E." (with Justin Jordan and various artists, DC Comics, 2013)
- Green Lantern Corps v3 #18, Annual #1 (with Peter Tomasi, DC Comics, 2013)
- Bloodshot v3 #0 (with Matt Kindt, Valiant, 2013)
- Archer & Armstrong v2 #15-17: "Sect Civil War" (with Fred Van Lente and Khari Evans, Valiant, 2013–2014)
- Justice League Dark #23.1: "Twisted" (with Dan DiDio, Ann Nocenti and various artists, DC Comics, 2013)
- Bloodshot and the H.A.R.D. Corps (with Joshua Dysart and Christos N. Gage, Valiant):
- "Get Some" (with Bart Sears, in #17-19, 2014)
- "Rise and Fall" (with Joseph Cooper and Valentine De Landro, in #0, 2014)
- Katana #9: "Ghost Warriors" (with Ann Nocenti and Cliff Richards, DC Comics, 2014)
- Green Lantern/New Gods: Godhead: "Chapter One" (with Van Jensen and Justin Jordan, among other artists, one-shot, DC Comics, 2014)
- Convergence: Justice League of America #1-2: "Heroes Interrupted" (with Fabian Nicieza, DC Comics, 2015)
Covers only
- Icon #7-8, 40 (Milestone, 1993–1996)
- Blood Syndicate #24, 35 (Milestone, 1995–1996)
- Long Hot Summer #1 (Milestone, 1995)
- My Name is Holocaust #5 (Milestone, 1995)
- Heroes #5-6 (Milestone, 1996)
- Xero #9-10, 12 (DC Comics, 1998)
- X-Man #39 (Marvel, 1998)
- Slingers #4, 7-8, 11-12 (Marvel, 1998–1999)
- Captain Marvel v3 #5 (Marvel, 2000)
- Black Panther v2 #24 (Marvel, 2000)
- Generation X #74 (Marvel, 2000)
- Noble Causes v1 #3 (Image, 2002)
- Captain Marvel v4 #11, 13, 20-25 (Marvel, 2003–2004)
- Firestorm v3 #6 (DC Comics, 2004)
- Angel: The Curse #3 (IDW Publishing, 2005)
- Spider-Man: The Clone Saga #6 (Marvel, 2010)
- Irredeemable #13 (Boom! Studios, 2010)
- Velocity v2 #1 (Top Cow, 2010)
- New Crusaders #2 (Red Circle, 2012)
- Watson and Holmes #4 (New Paradigm, 2013)
- Bloodshot and the H.A.R.D. Corps #16 (Valiant, 2013)
- Unity #0, 15 (Valiant, 2014–2015)
- X-O Manowar v3 #33, 46 (Valiant, 2015–2016)
References
- ↑ Catching up with ChrisCross Archived September 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine., Newsarama, September 6, 2007
External links
- The ChrisCrosser Blog
- The ChrisCrossr picture blog
- ChrisCross-X facebook page
- ChrisCrosser FanPage
- The New ChrisCrosser Blog