Eric Wight
| Eric Wight | |
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| Born | November 15, 1974 |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Artist |
Eric Wight (born November 15, 1974) is an American professional artist, illustrator and animator. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts and currently lives in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Career
Wight is the author of the manga, My Dead Girlfriend. He illustrated the comic book adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. He was the recipient of the 2004 Russ Manning Award.
He is perhaps best known as the 'ghost artist' for television character, Seth Cohen on the former Fox TV series The OC and is the creator of 'Atomic County'. For the HBO TV show Six Feet Under he created the fake vintage comic "Blue Twister".
Wight was also an animator, working with Warner Bros. during the heyday of their animated output, working on such cartoons as Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, and others.
Bibliography
Books
- Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom (May 2009)
- Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 (Feb 2010)
- Frankie Pickle and the Mathematical Menace (June 2011)
- Sword of Fools (Summer 2011)
- Frankie Pickle and the Land of the Lost Recess (Fall 2011)
- Frankie Pickle and the Invasion of the Polka Dots (Spring 2012)
- Sword of Fools (Summer 2011)
- Everyone Loves Bacon (Fall 2015)
The Magic Shop Series, written by Kate Egan with Magician Mike Lane
- The Vanishing Coin, April 2014
- The Incredible Twisting Arm, April 2014
- The Great Escape, October 2014
- The Disappearing Magician, June 2015
Graphic Novels
also frankie pickle
Comic Books
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight #20 (art supervisor)
- Justice League of America #0 & #12 (interior); #7 (cover/layouts)
- Spike vs. Dracula #1-4 (covers)
- Action Comics Annual #10 (interiors)
- The Goon #9 (interiors)
- The Legion #25 (interiors)
- JLA - Z #3 (pin-up)
- The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1 & #5
- Hellboy Weird Tales #2
TV
- The O.C. (ghost artist of Seth Cohen and creator of The Atomic County)
- Six Feet Under (illustrated The Blue Twister Golden Age comic book in Episode #48: "Grinding the Corn")
External links
- Eric Wight at the Internet Movie Database
- Profile on TOKYOPOP's website
- Eric Wight's official site
- Eric Wight Interview at Legions of Gotham