Billy Tan Mung Khoy, commonly known as Billy Tan, is a

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

comic book 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 literary ...

Early life

Billy Tan was born in

and moved to the United States when he was 18, in 1989 to study business at the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a Public University, public Land-grant University, land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical ...

. He began working as a

penciler A penciller (or penciler) is an artist who works on the creation of comic books, graphic novels, and similar visual art forms, with a focus on the initial pencil illustrations. In the American comic book industry, the penciller is the first step ...

for

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in the 1990s.

Career

Tan became the regular artist of the

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series ''

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'' in 2006. In 2008, he was invited to draw the ''

New Avengers The New Avengers are a team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The title has been used for four American comic book series. The first two were written by Brian Michael Bendis and depicted a version of Ma ...

'' issues #41 and 43-44 that tied into the "

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" storyline, before being offered to replace

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as the new regular artist on the title. Tan took over the flagship ''

Green Lantern Green Lantern is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. They fight evil with the aid of rings that grant them a variety of extraordinary powers, all of which come from imagination, fearlessness, ...

'' title as ongoing penciller beginning with issue #21. He works together with writer

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, who replaced Geoff Johns as series writer.

Bibliography

Image

*''21'' #1-2 (full art); #3 (along with

Marc Silvestri Marc Silvestri (born March 29, 1958) is an American comic book artist, creator and publisher. He is CEO of Top Cow Productions and Image Comics. Early life Marc Silvestri was born on March 29, 1958, in Palm Beach, Florida.Rosenberg, Aaron (M ...

) (1996) *'' Codename: Stryke Force'' #9-13 (1994–95) *''

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/Stryke Force: Opposing Forces'' #1-2 (1995) *''

Darkness Darkness is the condition resulting from a lack of illumination, or an absence of visible light. Human vision is unable to distinguish colors in conditions of very low luminance because the hue-sensitive photoreceptor cells on the retina a ...

/Tomb Raider Special'', one-shot (2005) *'' Ripclaw'' #3 (1995) *''Spirit of the Tao'' #2 (1998) *''Tales of the Witchblade'' #2-4, 6 (1997–98) *''

Tomb Raider ''Tomb Raider'', known as ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' from 2001 to 2008, is a media franchise that originated with an Action-adventure game, action-adventure video game series created by British video game developer Core Design. The franchise i ...

'' #7, 11-12 (2000–01) *''Tomb Raider: Arabian Nights'', one-shot (2004) *''Tomb Raider/Darkness Special'', one-shot (2001) *''

Witchblade ''Witchblade'' is an American comic book Ongoing series, series published by Top Cow Productions, an imprint (trade name), imprint of Image Comics, which ran from November 1995 to October 2015. The series was created by Top Cow founder and owne ...

'' #36 (1999), #100 (1-page, among other artists) (2006) *''Witchblade: Obakemono'', one-shot (2002)

Marvel

*'' Dark Reign: The List: Daredevil'', one-shot (2009) *''

Marvel Knights Spider-Man ''The Sensational Spider-Man'' (vol. 2) is a comic book series starring Spider-Man and published monthly by Marvel Comics for 41 issues between 2004 and 2007. It was originally published under the Marvel Knights imprint (as ''Marvel Knights Spi ...

'' #13-18 (2005) *''

'' #41, 43-44, 46-54 (2008–09) *''New Avengers Finale'' (2-pages among other artists) (2010) *'' Shadowland'', miniseries, #1-5 (2010) *''

Star Trek ''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the Star Trek: The Original Series, series of the same name and became a worldwide Popular culture, pop-culture Cultural influence of ...

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 ...

'', one-shot (among other artists) (1996) *''

Thor Thor (from ) is a prominent list of thunder gods, god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding æsir, god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology, sacred g ...

'' #604-609 (2010) *'' Ultimate Comics Fallout'' #5 (2011) *''

'' #469-471, 475-476, 478-479, 481-482, 484-486, 492-494 (2006–08) *''

X-23 Laura Kinney (designation X-23) is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with Wolverine (character), Wolverine, whose codename she has also used, and the X-Men. The characte ...

'', miniseries, #1-6 (2005) *''

Uncanny X-Force ''Uncanny X-Force'' was a comic book ongoing series published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Rick Remender and artist Jerome Opeña, the first volume of the series continued the story of Wolverine (character), Wolverine and his X-Force team f ...

'' #8-10 (2011) *'' X-Men: Legacy'' #209 (2008) *'' Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates'' #13 (2012) *''

A+X An axe (; sometimes spelled ax in American English; American and British English spelling differences#Miscellaneous spelling differences, see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for thousands of years to shape, split, a ...

'' #3 (2012) *'' Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon'' #1-6 (covers only) (2021)

Image/Marvel

*'' Elektra/ Cyblade'', one-shot (1997)

DC Comics

*''

'' vol 5. #21-26, 28-29, 31-35, 39-42, 44-50, 52, Annual #3 (2013-2016) *'' New Superman'' #7-8,11-14

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tan, Billy Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Malaysian comics artists