Terry Austin
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Terry Austin (b. August 23, 1952) is an American comic book artist, working primarily as an inker.
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Early life and career
Austin grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Wayne State University. He got his start as an assistant to Dick Giordano and Neal Adams, doing "Crusty Bunker" jobs for Adams' Continuity Associates. Austin came to prominence inking Marshall Rogers' pencils on a celebrated run of Batman stories for DC's Detective Comics in the mid-1970s (collaborating with writer Steve Englehart). In 1977, Austin moved to Marvel Comics, where he and Rogers teamed up again on Doctor Strange.
X-Men
Soon afterward his run on Doctor Strange, Austin and penciler John Byrne became the new art team on Uncanny X-Men. With writer Chris Claremont they produced a series of stories — particularly The Dark Phoenix Saga — that turned the title into the top-selling American comic.
Post X-Men
Austin decided to leave Uncanny X-Men in 1981, after learning of Byrne's departure, and has since worked on a variety of titles for both Marvel and DC, including Doctor Strange (over the pencils of Paul Smith and Dan Green), Superman (over Byrne), Justice League America (over Kevin Maguire) and Green Lantern (over Darryl Banks).
Influence
Austin's extremely smooth yet precise style has been highly influential on the inkers that have followed him, such as Andy Lanning, Scott Williams and Art Thibert.
Writing and penciling
He has also worked as a writer, primarily for Marvel's X-Men titles and a short run on the Bill Mantlo/Ed Hannigan-created characters Cloak and Dagger. Austin wrote and inked the Dark Horse Comics' adaptation of Splinter of the Mind's Eye produced in 1995.
His rare penciling jobs can be seen on the covers of Uncanny X-Men nos. 123 and 142, as well as his self-published book, Austin Art: 60 Pages of Drawings by Terry Austin.
Selected works
- Detective Comics 471-479
- Superman vs Muhammad Ali (background inks)
- The Uncanny X-Men and The New Teen Titans
- Uncanny X-Men 108-143
- Batman vs Predator II: Bloodmatch
- Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye
- New Mutants vol. 1 #41-42, 53-61, 64-66
- New Mutants Special Edition #1
- Austin Art: 60 Pages of Drawings by Terry Austin (self-published, 2003)
