TOP INDUSTRY ARTIST TO SHOWCASE INKS AT WINDSOR COMICON
Windsor ComiCon welcomes Scott Hanna to its comic guest line-up for 2018.
Windsor, ON. Windsor ComiCon is pleased to announce its next comic guest for the 2018 season through American artist and notable inker, Scott Hanna.
As an Eisner Award winning artist in the graphic novel industry, Hanna has been drawing and inking comic books for over 30 years. His work has been published in over 1,000 comics and graphic novels, and he’s inked over 22,000 pages of comics art.
At DC Comics, Hanna has work on a variety of their major titles, more notably a five-year run on Detective Comics starring Batman along with the Green Lantern Corps while working with local legend David Finch on Wonder Woman as well as Lee Weeks on Superman: Lois and Clark.
At Marvel Comics, Hanna has worked on all the top characters at the company including the Avengers, Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men and the Hulk to name a few. He’s also drawn Spider-Man for fifteen years, working on almost every title starring the wall-crawler.
Currently, Hanna is working on Wonder Woman, Legacy and Superman for DC Comics as well as Black Panther and the Crew, Venom and X-Men Blue for Marvel. See link here for a complete listing of Hanna’s work: https://bit.ly/2GGf8QC
Of special note, Hanna received a total of seven Inkwell Awards for “Favourite Inker”, “Most Adaptable Inker” and “Props Award” from 2010-2016, the 2005 Wizard Fan Award for “Best Inker” and the 2002 Eisner Award for “Best Serialized Story” – Amazing Spider-Man #30-35. His work appeared in the Smithsonian’s 9/11 anniversary exhibit with artwork from the book HEROES. He has also had a one-man show at the Storefront Artist Project in Pittsfield, MA; ‘The Art of Scott Hanna’, where his art was feature in a 2010 exhibit at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in NYC; and he had a one man show at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, PA in 2015. More recently, his work was exhibited in The Society of Illustrators Art of Spider-Man exhibit. Hanna is a founder of the Arts and Fashion Institute in PA with his wife Pamela Ptak, where he teaches classes in sequential art, anatomy, drawing and cartooning.
“We’re excited to welcome Scott Hanna to our show,” says Windsor ComiCon President, Colin Douglas. “Fans of all ages will delight in his work through their favourite characters in the Marvel and DC Universes.”
Scott Hanna is presented by YQG Rocks.
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Jeremy Renaud
General Manager – Windsor ComiCon
Phone: 519.566.1735 I Email: jeremy@windsorcomicon.com
ABOUT WINDSOR COMICON: Windsor ComiCon is an all-ages event, featuring popular genres such as: comics, sci-fi, horror, gaming, and anime / cosplay. The colossal event will take place inside The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor (September 29-30, 2018). Advance tickets are on sale at www.windsorcomicon.com
