Bo Hampton

Bo Hampton ( born 1954 ) is an American comic book artist and illustrator of storyboards for animated films and commercials.

Life and work

Bo Hampton, whose younger brother of artist Scott Hampton 's, was trained in the 1970s at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and in the studio by Will Eisner for academic draftsman. As a result he was fifteen years working as a professional cartoonist, before he took over work for cartoons and video game productions as well as for commercial advertising.

His work as a cartoonist includes, among other things, the graphic novel Viking Glory, which appeared in DC Comics, the Batman one-shot Batman: Castle of the Bat (1994 ), also in DC, some books that produced by Marvel Comics series New Mutants and the graphic novel Verdilak that on a short story about a vampire by AK Tolstoy is based.

After working for a year at the Savannah College of Art and Design Hampton moved to the television industry, where he has since collaborates as a storyboard artist at Cartoon TV and commercial productions. The list of his works in the field of animated film includes inter alia Extreme Ghostbusters and Superman, while as an artist for commercials in the past, among other things, to advertising campaigns for clients such as " Papa John 's Pizza ", " BellSouth ", " Coca Cola" and Hampton "Motorola" has worked. The advertising agencies that deal with it routinely include McCann -Erickson DC, Pearson McMahon Fletcher and England, indianapolis, Fricks - Firestoen Atlanta and others.

On August 22, 2012, he published with Robert Tinell the comprehensive 196 page comic Riven for Dark Horse Comics.