Scottie Young
| Skottie Young | |
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| Born |
April 3, 1978 Fairbury, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Artist |
| Awards | Inkwell Award for The All-in-One Award (2013) |
| http://www.skottieyoung.com | |
Skottie Young (born April 3, 1978) is an American comic book artist, children's book illustrator and writer. He is best known for his work with various Marvel Comics characters, his comic book adaptations of L. Frank Baum's Oz books with Eric Shanower and a series of novels with Neil Gaiman.
Young moved from Tennessee to Chicago in 2000 at which time he began working for Marvel Comics. Early projects included illustrating the Spider-Man Legend of the Spider Clan mini-series as part of the Marvel Mangaverse as well as the Human Torch and the New X-Men for which he also wrote an issue.
Young illustrated a six issue New Warriors mini-series released beginning in June 2005, written by Zeb Wells featuring the team as the stars of a reality TV show.
He has drawn covers for many books including Cable & Deadpool, Spider-Man, Deadpool and Iron Man along with a popular series of Baby Variant covers for dozens of Marvel titles
He has gained critical acclaim for his work on the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award winning series The Wonderful Wizard of Oz published by Marvel Comics. The follow-up graphic novel The Marvelous Land of Oz also made the New York Times Best Sellers List. Young has continued to collaborate with writer Eric Shanower to adapt the third and fourth books in the Oz series Ozma of Oz and Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz respectively. He and Shanower are set to adapt the fifth book in the series, The Road to Oz.
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