Daniel Robert Epstein: Ben Templesmith

DANIEL ROBERT EPSTEIN: Ben Templesmith

At the young age of 29, Ben Templesmith has already become one of the most popular comic book artists working today. He first broke through drawing the Steve Niles written 30 Days of Night and since then has become one of the premiere horror comic book artists. 30 Days of Night is being made into a film starring Josh Hartnett. The story is about a small town in Alaska where it becomes night for an entire month and then a clan of vampires show up to tear the town apart. But Templesmith has also just...

one of my very very favorite artists

Great interview, I really enjoyed reading it. Not only is Ben Templesmith a fantastic artist (and one of my favorites); but he also happens to be one of the coolest people I've had the privilage of meeting.
He did some sketches for me and was kind enough to take this picture with me at the San Diego Comic Con back in 2005 -- He's awesome!

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sweet. he is my favorite artist, and i just randomly bought wormwood the other day so now im even more excited to read it!

Hooray for Perth comic artists!

Ben's a pretty quiet type from what I hear - apparantly I stood next to him at a comic launch here in Perth once and didn't know it till later - sigh, my brush with fame squandered!

He's got 4 times my talent and he's 10 years younger damnit After reading his liejournal for some time though, Ben really does work hard with some near impossible deadlines so I don't envy that. I wish him every continued success.

A great interview and a really interesting guy. He's got one of the strangest minds I've ever encountered I think he's kind of shot up to be one of my favourite artists in any medium, and the humour in Fell and Wormwood are just spectacuar.