Bo Hampton
Bo Hampton (* 1954 ) is an American comic book artist and illustrator of storyboards for cartoons and advertising films.
Life and work
Bo Hampton, whose younger brother is the draftsman Scott Hampton , trained as an academic draftsman in the 1970s at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and in Will Eisner's studio . He then worked as a full-time comic artist for fifteen years before taking on work for animation and computer game productions as well as for commercial advertising.
His work as a comic artist includes the comic novel Viking Glory , which was published by DC-Comics , the Batman - One-Shot Batman: Castle of the Bat (1994), also by DC, some issues of the Marvel Comics- produced series New Mutants and the graphic novel Verdilak , based on a short story about a vampire by AK Tolstoy.
After spending a year at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Hampton switched to the television industry, where he has since worked as a storyboard artist on cartoon and commercials. The list of his work in the field of animation includes among others Extreme Ghostbusters and Superman , while Hampton has worked as an artist for advertising productions in the past, among other things, on advertising campaigns for clients such as “Papa John's Pizza”, “Bellsouth”, “Coca-Cola” and “Motorola” " has worked. The advertising agencies that employ him routinely include McCann-Erickson DC, Pearson McMahon Fletcher and England, Indianapolis, Fricks-Firestoen Atlanta and others.
On August 22, 2012, he and Robert Tinell published the 196-page comic Riven for Dark Horse Comics .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hampton, Bo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American comic artist and storyboard artist for cartoons and advertising films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |