Trevor Von Eeden
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| Born | Trevor Von Eeden July 24, 1959 Georgetown, Guyana |
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Black Lightning Batman Green Arrow Power Man and Iron Fist The Original Johnson |
Trevor Von Eeden (born July 24, 1959) is a comic book writer/artist known for his work on such titles as Black Lightning, Batman, Green Arrow, Power Man and Iron Fist, and the biographical series The Original Johnson.
Von Eeden was born in Guyana and moved to New York City when he was 11 years old. According to Von Eeden, he remembers drawing in his early teens in order to alleviate the boredom of junior high school, beginning with anatomical studies of faces and hands, which he says are the most difficult things to draw accurately, in the margins of his notebooks. He was introduced to comics through the collection of his best friend. Influences included Neal Adams, John Buscema, and Curt Swan. Von Eeden's best friend encouraged him to submit sample artwork to DC Comics; at the same time, Von Eeden was studying medicine at Columbia University.
Trevor Von Eeden's comic book career began at age 16, when DC Comics editor Jack C. Harris hired him to illustrate prototype assignments with the "Legion of Super-Heroes" and Weird War Tales. Soon after, Von Eeden was officially hired to design and draw the company's first African-American superhero to have his own title, Black Lightning.
About three years later, Von Eeden began to suspect he had gotten that job because of his skin color, which displeased him and resulted in his writing what he called a five-page mission statement that said "in detail exactly what I wanted to create — the kind of style I thought would express myself most effectively, while also telling a story in the most dramatic way possible. I wrote everything down that I could think of — the details, form, and purpose of the style of art that I'd wanted to create."
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