John R. Statema is an illustrator.

Career

He has drawn comics for many publishers, starting in the mid-1980s. He has done work for several small press companies, on titles like '' The Hero Alliance'' and ''

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''. For

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, he has done art on '' Manhunter'', ''

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'', and others. In the early 1990s, for

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, he illustrated '' The Solution'' and ''

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''. For

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, he did art on ''

Avengers Unplugged ''Avengers Unplugged'' is a six-issue limited series published by Marvel Comics. The series ran irregularly from October 1995 to August 1996. Mark Gruenwald was the editor for issues #5–6. John Statema did artwork for the series. According t ...

'' and ''

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''. He also worked for

First Comics First Comics is an American comic book publisher that was active from 1983 to 1991 and then from 2011 to present (stylized as 1First Comics), known for titles like '' American Flagg!'', '' Grimjack'', ''Nexus'', ''Badger'', '' Dreadstar'', and '' ...

on ''Evangeline'' and ''

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''. Statema has done artwork for numerous supplements to TSR's '' Marvel Super Heroes'' role-playing game, including the covers for the adventures ''MX1, Nightmares of Futures Past'' (1987), ''MX2, The X-Potential'' (1987), and ''MX4, Flames of Doom'' (1987), and he also did artwork for TSR's ''Marvel Superheroes Adventure Gamebooks'' including ''An X-Cellent Death'' (1987). His ''

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical ...

'' artwork includes '' Wildspace'' (1990), ''

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'' (1991), '' The Dragon's Den'' (1992), and '' The Ruins of Myth Drannor'' (1993). Statema has also worked as a character designer on the

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cartoon series ''

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'', and for

Stan Lee Media Stan Lee Media, Inc. (SLM) was an Internet-based creation, production and marketing company that was founded in 1998, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2000, and ultimately dismissed from bankruptcy in November 2006. In its early yea ...

and

Sony Animation Sony Pictures Animation Inc. (also referred to as Sony Animation Studios and abbreviated to SPA) is an American animation studio owned by Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures Entertainment through their Motion Picture Group division and founded ...

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