Ethan Van Sciver
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Van Sciver at the Big Apple Comic Con in Manhattan, October 2, 2010.
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| Born | Ethan Daniel Van Sciver September 3, 1974 Utah |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker |
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Notable works
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Green Lantern: Rebirth The Flash: Rebirth "Sinestro Corps War" |
Ethan Daniel Van Sciver (born September 3, 1974) is an American comic book artist, best known for illustrating a number of titles including Green Lantern, Superman/Batman, New X-Men, and The Flash: Rebirth. He is the older brother of alternative cartoonist Noah Van Sciver.
Van Sciver was born in Utah and grew up in southern New Jersey. He decided on a career in the comic book field after seeing Superman: The Movie as a child, but read comics "mostly just... for the pictures, until John Byrne's The Man of Steel in 1986, when he began reading them more intently.
Van Sciver was involved in art in various forms before his comics work, speaking in 2005, he said:
All through high school I did all kinds of strange art jobs for money. I painted murals of Native Americans. I took a much envied job at the Cherry Hill Mall as a caricaturist. I had to wear a tuxedo, but I was 'Goth', so I also wore eye-makeup and a big clunky ankh around my neck, just under my bowtie. Because of that job, I did private parties where I'd basically show up at your Bar Mitzvah like a clown and draw all of your friends. That somehow led to a job where I illustrated about 12 children's books, which somehow led to a job where I designed bootleg Beavis and Butt-head neckties for some criminal Pakistani business, which led straight back to me doing airbrushed t-shirts that said 'Insane in the Membrane'.
Van Sciver cites Chris Claremont and Jon Bogdanove's Fantastic Four vs. X-Men as a strong influence, telling a group of fans at Comic-Con International, "I'm trying in my own comics to recreate the feeling I got from that four-issue miniseries."
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