- Scott Hampton
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awards =Scott Hampton is an American
comic book artist well known for his painted artwork. He is the brother of fellow-comics-creatorBo Hampton .Biography
Scott Hampton was born in 1959 in
High Point, North Carolina . A freelance comic book artist known for his diversity, Hampton has illustrated such iconic properties asBatman , Sandman, Black Widow,Hellraiser , andStar Trek in addition to work on his creator-owned projects such as "The Upturned Stone".He began his career following in the footsteps of brother and fellow comic book creator
Bo Hampton . Both Scott and Bo studied underWill Eisner in 1976. Scott's first professional comics work was the three-page story "Victims" published inWarren Publishing 'sVampirella #101 in 1981. Scott's work on "Silverheels" fromPacific Comics in 1983 is regarded as the first continuing painted comic. His latest works include "Spookhouse," released in 2004 byIDW Publishing , in which he adapted his favorite ghost stories into sequential form, and "Batman: Gotham County" line fromDC comics in 2005. Scott is currently working full time on the creator-owned series "Simon Dark " with writerSteve Niles forDC Comics ."The Upturned Stone" was optioned in Summer of 2005 for film production by
David Foster , but the studio lost the option and the story was recently optioned by another producer. Scott is also pursuing a passion outside of comics: film making. He completed his first short independent film "The Tontine" in April, 2006. It's his loose adaptation of a 21 page comic piece that he worked on and appeared by the same name in theHellraiser comic series. The 29 minute film was shot at the same cabin used in Eli Roth's "Cabin Fever (film) ". There are versions of it available to view onMyspace (partial),Google Video (full), andYoutube (split into 3 parts).Scott lives with his wife Letitia in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina .Awards
*1993
Harvey Award for excellence in presentation for Batman: Night CriesExternal links
* [http://www.mothcomix.com/html/Artists/Hampton-Scott.asp The homepage of Scott Hampton]
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