Jim Cheung

British comic book artist

Jim Cheung
Cheung at the New York Comic Con
Born	1972 (age 51–52)
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Penciller
Website: Jim Cheung Art

Jim Cheung (/tʃʌŋ/; born 1972) is a British^[1] comic book artist, known for his work on the series such as Scion, New Avengers: Illuminati, Young Avengers and Avengers: The Children's Crusade.

He co-created the Marvel superhero team the Young Avengers, including its members: Kate Bishop, Hulkling, Iron Lad, Patriot (Eli Bradley), Speed, and Wiccan.

Career

Cheung worked on several Marvel series during the mid- to late 1990s. He also worked on Scion for Crossgen Comics in the early 2000s. He later returned to Marvel, where he illustrated the five-issue New Avengers: Illuminati mini-series for Marvel Comics, and then pencilled two more issues of New Avengers. He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's "Young Guns", a group of artists that, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller". Other "Young Guns" include Olivier Coipel, David Finch, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov and Steve McNiven.^[2] Cheung illustrated the 2010-2012 miniseries Avengers: The Children's Crusade.^[3] In addition to interior comics work, he has drawn several covers including those of "Avengers vs. X-Men" "Spider-Men" and the Young Avengers.

In 2015, Marvel enlisted Cheung to create an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. poster for a panel devoted to that TV series at that year's San Diego Comic-Con.^[4] He drew the Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy limited series in 2016 with writer Christos Gage and Dan Slott.^[5]

in February 2018 Cheung created promo art for a relaunched Marvel universe began, called the Fresh Start.^[6] That March, it was announced that Cheung would be the artist on a relaunched Justice League series.^[7]

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

Interior work

Avengers #35 (2014)
Avengers Finale
Avengers: The Children's Crusade #1-9
Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #9 (select pages)
Black Knight: Exodus #1
Civil War II Free Comic Book Day
The Clone Conspiracy #1-5 (2016)
Elektra: The Hand #1, #5 (select pages)
Force Works #15-17
Giant-Sized Avengers Special #1 (2007)
Infinity #1, #6 (2013)
Iron Man #325 (50/50), 600
Marvel Comics Presents #170
Marvel Comics Presents #1-12
Marvel 2-in-One #1-2, #6
New Avengers #25, 40, 42, 43
New Avengers: Illuminati #1-5
Maverick #1-11
Original Sin #0 (2014)
Spider-Man Unlimited #6
Uncanny X-Men #371
X-Force #82-84, 86–88, 90, 94–95, 98-100
X-Men Unlimited #14 (1997)
Young Avengers #1-6, 9-12

Covers

A-Force #1
Astonishing X-Men #1
Avengers #82
Avengers: The Initiative #1-5, Annual #1
Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #1-9
Cable #73
Casualties of War: Captain America/Iron Man one-shot (both covers)
Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways #1-4
Civil War: Casualties of War: Iron Man/Captain America (one shot, 2007)
Darth Vader #1-2
Fantastic Four #525-526
Fantastic Four: Foes #1-5
Hulk vs Fin Fang Foom one-shot (2007)
New Avengers: Illuminati #1-5
Iron Man #322-324, 327-330
Iron Man: Director of SHIELD Annual #1
Marvel 2-in-One #3 (2017)
New Avengers #4 (variant), Annual #2
New Avengers/Transformers #1
Secret Warriors #1-22
Spider-Men #1-5
Ultimate Nightmare #5
Uncanny X-Men #493 (variant)
What If...Magneto and Professor X Had Formed the X-Men Together?
What If... House of M #1
World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound #1-5
X-Factor (vol 3) #27 (variant)
X-Force #101
X-Men #207 (variant)
Young Avengers #1-12
Young Avengers Special #1
Young Avengers Presents #1-6
Avengers vs. X-Men #1-12

DC Comics

Justice League vol. 4 #1, 7, 14-17 (2018-2019)
DC's Year Of The Villain #1 (2019)
Legion Of Super-Heroes: Millenium #2 (2019)

CrossGen Comics

Scion #1-6, 8–11, 13–16, 18–21, 23–26, 31–32, 35–36, 38-39

Village Voice

Kill Bill (October 1–7, 2003) (vol XLVII NO.40)

Bubble Comics

Time of the Raven #5

Notes

^ Marvel Spotlight: Warren Ellis/Jim Cheung Marvel Comics 2006
^ Young Guns Sketchbook at Marvel.com
^ Richards, Dave (18 April 2010). "C2E2: Heinberg & Cheung Launch "Children's Crusade"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
^ Spiegel, Danny (July 13, 2015). "Fandemonium!", TV Guide. p. 22.
^ Comic Book Resources (13 October 2016). "Spidey's Clone Conspiracy Brings Back The Dead, & Maybe New Controversy". cbr.com. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
^ Adams, Tim (20 February 2018). "Marvel's Fresh Start: Who's Who & What to Expect from the New Initiative". CBR.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
^ Marston, George. "OFFICIAL: JUSTICE LEAGUE Relaunches With SNYDER, CHEUNG & JIMENEZ". Newsarama. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2020.