Chris Bunting is a British comic book writer.

Biography

Bunting's first professional comic book work was printed in

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's ''Shoujo'' #4 in 2005. After that he released the book ''How to Break into Comics'', also published by

. Bunting then went on to spearhead the Mr. T comic series, based on the character of that name in the A-Team television series, which was published by AP Comics, a UK small press publisher. He was instrumental in securing the license and wrote and edited the series. Only two issues were released before the publisher closed, however, resulting in Bunting and the comic transferring to another publisher, who printed the final issue in the comic series. From 2005-2006, Bunting scripted the ''Action Man'' comic for

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UK based on the iconic action figure. Along with the current cast of characters, Bunting also brought back long forgotten characters like villain Anti Freeze, and even showed Action Man’s base for the first time, complete with accessories, weapons and other long forgotten character, Raid. Bunting has also scripted many other comics, including a story that appeared in the

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section of ''

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''. Bunting has also done regular feature writing for the likes of ''

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'' and ''

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''. In February

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publisher Mohawk Media released an all-new ''Mr. T''

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. Entitled ''Mr. T: Limited Advance Edition Graphic Novel'' it was limited to 4,000 copies. The regular worldwide edition of the ''Mr. T''

was released in December 2008. Bunting authored both editions. Later that same month, Mohawk Media announced a range of merchandising based on the ''Mr. T''

. Bunting also acted as Design and Creative Director for both the products and graphic novels.More T, anyone?
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Notes

External links

Official site

Interviews

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June 2005 interview about ''Mr. T''Interview with Christopher Bunting about the Mr. T Limited Advance Edition Graphic Novel
Jazma Online, May 24, 2008
Interview with Christopher Bunting about the Mr. T Limited Advance Edition Graphic Novel
Pop Rock Candy Mountain, April 25, 2008
Mr. T: An Eighties Icon Returns!
Broken Frontier, May 28, 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Bunting, Chris British comic strip cartoonists English comics writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)