Imaginarium 2019 is proud to welcome author, publisher, artist, and comic creator Jeff Whiting as a Spotlighted Guest! From once landing a job inking over Ben Edlund’s pencils for the original Tick series, to working on numerous titles in the Ultraverse line-up, including Street Fighter, Prime, UltraForce, Rune, Prototype, and Hardcase, to writing, drawing, lettering, and coloring his own book, Shanghai, Jeff is an incredible talent that attendees of the Imaginarium Convention will have the opportunity to meet and learn from during our extensive programming! We are looking forward to having Jeff with us this year!
About Jeff Whiting:
The first comic book I ever plunked down 35 cents for was Amazing Spider-man #176 in 1978, and from there I was hooked on sequential art. I couldn’t pass a convenience store without running in and check the comic racks for new books. Before long, I was copying drawings by some of my favorite artists, like George Perez, John Byrne, and Jim Starlin, and knew that a career in comic art was what I wanted. I got started doing backgrounds for artist John Beatty, and then landed a job inking over Ben Edlund’s pencils for the original Tick series at New England Comics. From there, I went on to work for Malibu Comics, doing art chores on Street Fighter, and a slew of other titles in the Ultraverse line-up, including Prime, UltraForce, Rune, Prototype, and Hardcase, followed by a smidgen of work in Wetworks for Homage Studios, and some pages in “World of Warcraft” for DC Comics.
Desiring to have more control over my art, and a bigger creative input, I began self-publishing my own full-color book, Shanghai, in 1997 under my own imprint, Durendal Comics. I wrote, drew, lettered and colored the entire project myself. Later, the imprint mutated into Brick House Digital, as I began using 3D rendered art in sequential form. I self-published a second full-color Shanghai comic in 1999 as one of the first completely digital art comic books on the market. I was able to hire cover artists Douglas Schuler, Quinton Hoover, George Perez and John Royle for the books. After a long break, I returned to self-publishing in 2016 with Extraterrestrial and followed that up with Cancer Man & Gout Boy and a revival of Shanghai in 2018.