![]() ![]() Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics’ X-Force and Quasar (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane. Greg Capullo is a self-taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed Batman series for DC Comics. He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and his son, Jack Presley. He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook, and other journals, and has a short story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. ![]() His works include Batman, All-Star Batman, Batman: Eternal, Superman Unchained, American Vampire, and Swamp Thing. Scott Snyder is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and one of the most critically acclaimed scribes in all of comics. ![]()
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