- Jeff Matsuda
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awards =Jeff Matsuda is a Japanese-American
Emmy award-winningconcept artist ,comics artist , andanimator in theUnited States . He served as the chief character designer for both "Jackie Chan Adventures " and "The Batman", and is the president and creative director ofX-Ray Kid Studios . Matsuda was discovered byRob Liefeld after submitting some "WildC.A.T.S." samples pages to Liefeld'sExtreme Studios andJim Lee 'sWildstorm . However, Matsuda's first published artwork, depicting the "X-Force " character Cable, appeared in the letter art section of "Wizard Magazine ".While at Extreme, he penciled issues of the
Image Comics titles: "Brigade, Team Youngblood, Youngblood Strikefile, Troll" and "New Men". Matsuda moved on to work forMarvel Comics beginning with some pages for "X-Men Prime", which eventually lead to runs on "X-Factor" and "Wolverine" in addition to work on individual issues of "X-Men , Generation X, Avengers" and some pinup drawings in "X-Men Unlimited ".Matsuda was later reunited with Liefeld at
Awesome Comics which published "Kaboom", written by award-winning writerJeph Loeb . The protagonist of the title featured a third spelling of its creator's first names, Geoff, though in Loeb's case, Jeph is actually short for Joseph.Jeff Matsuda leads the team designing the look of
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External links
* [http://www.jeffmatsuda.com/ Jeff Matsuda website]
* [http://jeffmatsuda.blogspot.com/ Jeff Matsuda's Blog site]
* [http://www.x-raykid.com/ X-Ray Kid Studios website]
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