Billy Tan
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 Tan at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, October 17, 2009. |
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| Nationality | Malaysian |
| Area(s) | Artist |
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Billy Tan Mung Khoy, commonly known as Billy Tan, is a Malaysian comic book artist.
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[edit] Early ife
Billy Tan grew up in Malaysia and moved to the United States in 1989 to study business at the University of Kentucky. He began working as a penciler for Image Comics in the 1990s.[1]
[edit] Career
Tan became the regular artist of the Marvel Comics series Uncanny X-Men in 2006. In 2008, he was invited to draw New Avengers Secret Invasion tie-in issues #41 and 43-44, before being offered to replace Leinil Francis Yu as the new regular artist on the title.[2]
[edit] Bibliography
Comics work (interior pencil art) includes:
[edit] Image
- 21 #1-2 (full art); #3 (along with Marc Silvestri) (1996)
- Codename: Stryke Force #9-13 (1994–95)
- Cyberforce/Stryke Force: Opposing Forces #1-2 (1995)
- Darkness/Tomb Raider Special, one-shot (2005)
- Ripclaw #3 (1995)
- Spirit of the Tao #2 (1998)
- Tales of the Witchblade #2-4, 6 (1997–98)
- Tomb Raider #7, 11-12 (2000–01)
- Tomb Raider: Arabian Nights, one-shot (2004)
- Tomb Raider/Darkness Special, one-shot (2001)
- Witchblade #36 (1999), #100 (1-page, among other artists) (2006)
- Witchblade: Obakemono, one-shot (2002)
[edit] Marvel
- Dark Reign: The List: Daredevil, one-shot (2009)
- Daredevil #508-512
- Marvel Knights Spider-Man #13-18 (2005)
- New Avengers #41, 43-44, 46-54 (2008–09)
- New Avengers Finale (2-pages among other artists) (2010)
- Shadowland, miniseries, #1-5 (2010)
- Star Trek/X-Men, one-shot (among other artists) (1996)
- Thor #604-609 (2010)
- Ultimate Comics Fallout #5 (2011)
- Uncanny X-Men #469-471, 475-476, 478-479, 481-482, 484-486, 492-494 (2006–08)
- X-23, miniseries, #1-6 (2005)
- Uncanny X-Force #9 (2011)
- X-Men: Legacy #209 (2008)
[edit] Image/Marvel
[edit] References
- ^ Siow, Catherine. "Fantasy come true." All Malaysia.info (May 31, 2003).
- ^ WWC: Avenging Art: Tan, Banning & Brevoort Talk, Newsarama, June 29, 2008
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Billy Tan at the Comic Book DB
