Lopresti, Aaron

Born in Portland, Loprestihas worked on a wide variety of characters including : Spiderman The X-men, The Hulk, The Avengers, Batman, Plastic Man, Green Lantern, Superboy, Xena, Star Trek, Gen 13, Mystic, and the self published Atomic Toybox. In 1995 he founded the successful comic art studio, Studiosaurus that lasted until 1998. His comic fluences are: Frazetta, Berni Wrightson, Neal Adams, Michael Golden, Steranko, Brian Bolland, and anyone else who is good. Illustrators who have influenced Aaron over the years are: Frazetta(again), James Bama, William Stout, JC Leyendecker, Brian Froud, Vargas, Elvgren, Robert McGinnis and Chuck Jones. Some of Aaron’s favorite contemporary artists would include: Adam Hughes, Travis Charest, David Finch, Mike Ploog, Peter DeSeve, Krueger, Walt Simonson, Alan Davis, Barry Smith, Rudy Nebres and Dale Keown.