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Chris Sprouse

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July 30, 1966 in Charlottesville, Virginia, The United States

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http://sprousenet.blogspot.com/

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Chris Sprouse was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the age of 3 he moved with his family to New Delhi, India where he first discovered comics as he was unable to play outside due to the dangerous amount of snakes in the house yard. When he was 6, his family returned to the United States to Dale City, Virginia, where he continued to read and draw comics. Before his debut in comics, Sprouse drew a comic strip entitled "Ber-Mander", for the school newspaper ("The Hyphen"), while attending Gar-Field Senior High School in Dale City, Virginia. After graduating in 1984, Sprouse attended James Madison University where he studied graphic design.

Sprouse launched his career in mainstream comics in 1989, his first credited work being a Chemical Ki...more Chris Sprouse was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the age of 3 he moved with his family to New Delhi, India where he first discovered comics as he was unable to play outside due to the dangerous amount of snakes in the house yard. When he was 6, his family returned to the United States to Dale City, Virginia, where he continued to read and draw comics. Before his debut in comics, Sprouse drew a comic strip entitled "Ber-Mander", for the school newspaper ("The Hyphen"), while attending Gar-Field Senior High School in Dale City, Virginia. After graduating in 1984, Sprouse attended James Madison University where he studied graphic design.

Sprouse launched his career in mainstream comics in 1989, his first credited work being a Chemical King story in an issue of DC Comics' Secret Origins. He then did a Two-Face story for Batman Annual #14 and then moved on to the limited series Hammerlocke. Sprouse then took on the sci-fi series Legionnaires, featuring teenaged versions of the characters in the Legion of Super-Heroes series, and eventually moved on to a number of one-shot and fill-in issues before illustrating a Star Wars mini-series, Splinter of the Mind's Eye, for Dark Horse Comics.

He then worked for Extreme Studios as the regular penciller of New Men, and in 1997, Sprouse drew several issues of Supreme, scripted by Alan Moore for the same publisher. After Supreme ended, a year later he and Moore created Tom Strong for America's Best Comics, for which Sprouse won two Eisner Awards in 2000, for Best Single Issue and Best Serialized Story. Sprouse was also the penciller and co-creator on the 2004 Ocean mini-series, written by Warren Ellis and published by DC Comics. In 2007, Ocean was optioned for film.

In 2006, he began pencilling Wildstorm's Midnighter ongoing series, a spin-off of The Authority.

He has also been announced as the artist on the first issue of Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne with Grant Morrison as writer.

Sprouse currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Xan.(less)

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Chris Sprouse's Blog

Chris Sprouse isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but he does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from his feed.

Rocketeer Adventures 2 #3 Out Today!Rocketeer Adventures ...

Rocketeer Adventures 2 #3 Out Today!

Rocketeer Adventures 2 #3 hits the stands of local comic shops near you today. It features a story written by David Lapham (writer of Stray Bullets ), drawn by me, inked by Karl Story and colored by Jordie Bellaire. Rocketeer Adventures 2 #3 is also available for digital download via the Comixology app if you read comics on your iPad, Kindle Fire or Nook Tab... read more »

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Books by Chris Sprouse

Average rating: 3.89 · 7,414 ratings · 334 reviews · 24 distinct works

	Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste by Warren Ellis (Goodreads Author), Darick Robertston (Illustrator), Brian Michael Bendis (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 1,599 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tom Strong, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse 3.71 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne by Grant Morrison, Chris Sprouse (Illustrator), Frazer Irving (Illustrator) 3.48 avg rating — 781 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Tom Strong, Vol. 2 by Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse, Todd Klein 3.70 avg rating — 494 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Supreme: The Return by Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse (Artist) 3.76 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ex Machina: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris (Illustrator), Chris Sprouse (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tom Strong Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 by Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse (Illustrator) 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Batman: Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler by Mark Waid (Editor), Bill Finger, Gardner F. Fox 3.39 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tom Strong Deluxe Edition Vol. 2 by Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Ocean by Warren Ellis (Goodreads Author), Karl Story (Illustrator), Chris Sprouse (Illustrator) 3.48 avg rating — 594 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating: