Bart Whitman Sears (born 1963) is an American

comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the literar ...

, toy and packaging designer and author, known for his work on such books as ''

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'', '' Legends of the Dark Knight'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Violator'', ''The Helm,'' and The Masters.Austin Hough Publisher Power Comics, Inc.

Career

In addition to comic art, Sears has worked as a designer of action figures and packaging, most notably for Hasbro on the C.O.P.S.,

G.I. Joe ''G.I. Joe'' is an American media franchise and a line of action figures owned and produced by the toy company Hasbro. The initial product offering represented four of the branches of the U.S. armed forces with the Action Soldier ( U.S. Army), A ...

, and

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toy lines and on many of the early

X-Men The X-Men are a superhero team in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, the team first appeared in Uncanny X-Men, ''The X-Men'' #1 (September 1963). Although initial ...

action figures for ToyBiz. Sears ran his own comic company briefly in 1994, called Ominous Press, which published three creator owned titles. In 2000, he joined

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as an artist, and was later promoted to act as one of the company's art directors. After the collapse of CrossGen, Sears returned to work at

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on books like ''

Captain America and the Falcon ''Captain America and the Falcon'' is a title used by multiple American comic books published by Marvel Comics featuring the superheroes Captain America and Falcon (comics), Falcon. It was used as the cover title for Captain America (comic book), ...

'', ''Sabretooth: Open Season,'' and ''Weapon X: Days of Future Now'', before returning to

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to work on a relaunch of

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. Sears worked in-house for

Heatwave Interactive Heatwave Interactive is an Austin, Texas based video game developer founded in 2007 by M. Tomas, Anthony Castoro, and Donn Clendenon. Titles Heatwave has developed games and apps for several platforms: * ''iSamJackson'', an application featuring ...

(2008–2010) creating concept art and story for several properties, as well as developing in-game assets for multiple games across various platforms. He then launched Ominous Studios, Inc, through which he created and directed the production of concept art and assets for game developers and studios. Sears has also taught at

The Kubert School The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, commonly known as The Kubert School or Joe Kubert School, is a private for-profit art school focused on cartooning and graphic art located in Madison, New Jersey. It teaches the principles of se ...

and is the author of the monthly series Brutes and Babes that was featured in early issues of ''

Wizard Magazine ''Wizard'' or ''Wizard: The Magazine of Comics, Entertainment and Pop Culture'' (previously titled ''Wizard: The Guide to Comics'' and ''Wizard: The Comics Magazine'') was a magazine about comic books, published monthly in the United States by ...

'', as well as the how-to book ''Drawing Powerful Comics: Volume One''. Sears continues to create art and content for various projects.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sears, Bart 1963 births American comics artists Artists from Ithaca, New York DC Comics people Marvel Comics people Living people The Kubert School alumni