Kyle baker artist biography
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Profiles in Black Cartooning: Kyle Baker
Over a more than 30-year career, Kyle Baker has seemingly made his mark in every corner of mass media, from Cartoon Network to The New York Times. But it’s in the comics world that his boundless creative energy has truly taken flight, whether he’s reimagining existing characters or creating them anew.
Growing up in New York City in the 1970s, Baker was an avid fan of comics of all sorts, but particularly newspaper strips and Mad magazine. He honed his own cartooning skills by sketching characters from the Muppets and Disney movies, and also experimented with animation through homemade flip books and stop-motion films.
As a senior in high school, Baker landed an internship at Marvel Comics, where his duties initially entailed filing fan mail and making photocopies. Before long, though, his obvious interest and talent in the field led to a job inking backgrounds in Marvel superhero comics. Since his first love was humor, he also contin
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Kyle Baker
Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!
Kyle Baker is the greatest cartoonist of all time. He has bestowed his gifts upon such fortunate institutions as DISNEY, WARNER BROTHERS FEATURE ANIMATION, HBO, DREAMWORKS, CARTOON NETWORK, MARVEL COMICS, DC COMICS, SAATCHI AND SAATCHI, WATSON-GUPTILL, RCA/BMG, RANDOM HOUSE, NICKELODEON MAGAZINE, RUGRATS, SCHOLASTIC GOOSEBUMPS and others. MOST RECENT WORK Includes Storyboards for Cartoon Network's "CLASS OF 3000 CHRISTMAS" in 2007. He was also a featured "guest art director" on an earlier episode of the series. He is a writer and artist on Disney Channel's PHINEAS AND FERB show, which debuted in 2008. Baker currently produces the comic book series SPECIAL FORCES for Image Comics. Image Comics has also published the latest installment of the BAKERS book series, titled BABIES AND KITTENS. Watson-Guptill is publishing Baker's art instruction manual HOW TO DRAW STUPID this year. Harry Abrams
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Kyle Baker
American cartoonist, comic book writer and artist
Kyle John Baker[2] (born 1965)[3] is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man.
Baker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work in the comics field.
Biography
[edit]Early life and career
[edit]Kyle Baker was born in the Queens, New York City,[4] the son of art director John M. Baker and high-school audiovisual-department manager Eleanor L. Baker.[2] He has a brother and a sister.[4] Their parents had both attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and their father, who, Baker said, "worked in advertising [and] made junk mail", would "draw pictures for us and entertain us."[4] Aside from this exposure to art, Baker has said, his early artistic influences included comic book artist Jack Kirby, caricaturistJack Davis, and pain