Zhang Bin ( zh, s=张彬; born May 16, 1974) is a mainland Chinese

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artist and illustrator, who works under the

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"Benjamin" (). Zhang has done

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s for

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New Mutants #1 Zhang Variant Unveiled

, November 17, 2009 and illustrations for the music video to " J'aimerais tellement" with French popstar

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and the cover for that song's parent album ''Vous Remercier''. Zhang generally works in

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using a pen with a

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and image editing software (e.g. Corel Painter).

Selected works

Comics

* ''One Day'' (2002) * ''Remember'' (2004) * ''Orange'' (2006) * ''Savior'' (2010)

One-shots and additional works

* ''

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'' (2007) * '' Sky Doll Lacrima Christi #1'' (Marvel, 2010)

Covers

Comics covers

* ''X-Men Origins: Emma Frost'' (Marvel, 2009) * ''

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'' #1-2, #4 (Marvel, 2009)

Album covers

* ''Vous Remercier'' (2009), by

Art Books

* ''Io: Art of the Wired'' (2004) * ''Flash'' (2008)

Music Videos

* ''J'aimerais tellement'' by

(2009) * ''Je me perds'' by Jena Lee (2009)

References

External links

Zhang's Blog
at Xiao Pan
Zhang Bin
at Comicvine

at

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Interviews

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Chinese comics artists Living people 1974 births Artists from Heilongjiang {{Manhua-stub