John Lucas is an American comic book

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contributor to both DC Comics, DC and Marvel Comics, Lucas has also produced a great deal of small press work, as well as "Valkyries" (with Steve Moore (comics), Steve Moore) for ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''.

Bibliography

Comics work includes: *''After Houdini'' (Insight Comics) *''Atomic Chili: The Illustrated Joe R. Lansdale'' (Mojo Press) *''Before Houdini'' (Insight Comics) *''Civil War: Front Line'' inker (Marvel Comics) *Codename: Knockout (Vertigo Comics, Vertigo/DC Comics) *''Desperadoes (comics), Desperadoes'': "Epidemic" (One-shot (comics), one-shot, Homage Comics) *''Dick Tracy'' (syndicated strip, GoComics) *Joe R. Lansdale, ''Drive-In 3: The Bus Tour'' (aka ''Drive-In 3'') (Subterranean Press) *The Exterminators (comics), ''The Exterminators'' inker (Vertigo/DC Comics) *''Fantastic Four Vol. 6 #7'' inker, with Aaron Kuder (Marvel Comics) *''Forever Maelstrom'' (DC Comics) *''Generation M (comics), Generation M'' inker (Marvel Comics) *''Living in Infamy'' (Ludovico Technique LLC, Ludovico Technique) *''Negative Burn'' #47 (Caliber Press) *''Occurrences: The Illustrated Ambrose Bierce'' (Mojo Press) *''Starman (DC Comics Modern Age), Starman'' (DC Comics) *''Star_Trek_comics#Wildstorm, Star Trek'' (Wildstorm#The_DC_years, Wildstorm/DC Comics) *''Superman: The Man of Steel'' (DC Comics) *''Mojo Press#Weird_Business, Weird Business'' artist on "Green Brother" and inker (credited as Little Johny Lovecloud) on "Dinosaur Love" (Mojo Press) *''The Wild West Show'' (Mojo Press) *''Valkyries (comics), Valkyries'' (with Steve Moore (comics), Steve Moore, in ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'' #1377–1382, 2004) *''X-Men Unlimited Vol. 2'' (Marvel Comics)

References

Other sources
John Lucas
at 2000 AD online

External links

*
A Baker's Dozen With . . . John LucasComic Art GalleryPodcast interview with cIndyCenter.com 2008
*http://johnlucasart.wordpress.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Lucas, John Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Comics inkers