Scott Hampton

Scott Hampton ( born 1959 in High Point, North Carolina) is an American comic book artist.

Life and work

Hampton began as his brother Bo Hampton at work in the 1980s as a professional comic artist, after both had been trained in the 1970s, among others, Will Eisner. The first work was published in the Hamptons was the six -page story Godfather Death Epic Illustrated in 1982 brought out.

Worked to the series in which Hampton has since then include Batman, Black Widow and Sandman for DC Comics, as well as Hellraiser and Stark Trek for Dark Horse publishing. Artistic remarkable number of works Hamptons are mainly because he often does not draw comics, but paints, a technique that has been practiced only since the 1980s, and their forerunners Hampton counts: his work on the series Silverheels at the publisher Pacific Comics from 1983 are regarded as one of the first works on the basis of this manufacturing technique. The in this way as a succession of dark melancholic scenes visualized by Hamtpon with impressionistic impact graphic novel Batman: Night Cries, which approximates to a gentle way, the issue of child molestation, brought him and the author of the comic novel, Archie Goodwin, 1993, an award the prestigious Harvey Award.

More recent comic work Hamptons, who lives in Chapel Hill in the U.S. state of North Carolina with his wife Letitia, are Spookhouse, a series of horror stories was published in 2004 at IDW Publishing and the One Shot Batman: Gotham County, which was published by DC in 2005.

In his private property ( " creator owned " ) is the independent comic book series The Upturned Stone, the film rights to what has been advertised, among other things David Foster. Hampton itself has emerged in movies -driven ways in recent years as a director of independent film production Tontine, which had its premiere in April 2006.