Ed Benes

José Edilbenes Bezerra (born November 20, 1972), better known by his professional name Ed Benes, is a Brazilian comic book artist, known for his work for DC Comics, on such titles as Birds of Prey, Supergirl, Superman, and Justice League of America.

Ed Benes
Born	José Edilbenes Bezerra (1972-11-20) November 20, 1972 Alto Santo, Ceará, Brazil
Nationality	Brazilian
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker
Notable works	Birds of Prey Justice League of America, vol. 2 Supergirl, vol. 3 Superman, vol. 2 WildC.A.T.S.

Early life

José Edilbenes Bezerra was born November 20, 1972, in Alto Santo, a small town in the Brazilian state of Ceará, in the northeast region of the country. He has lived in Limoeiro do Norte, a medium town also in Ceará state, since he was 14 years old. He began drawing on his own in 1989, referencing the artwork from his brother's comic books. He also took a correspondence art course, though he did not finish it.[1]

Career

Benes' got his first professional work in 1993, after he mailed out sample art, and was discovered by Neal Adams, who gave him the job of illustrating Samuree for Continuity Comics in 1993.[1] In the 1990s Benes began to work for Marvel where he did art for multiple comic book titles, including a Captain Marvel six-part miniseries.

He later moved to DC Comics, where continued penciling more work for titles such as Gen¹³, Birds of Prey, Supergirl (vol. 3), and Superman (vol. 2). In 2006 Benes was assigned to provide art to for writer Brad Meltzer's run on Justice League of America series,[2] which he drew until 2009. He subsequently contributed to Batman and Birds of Prey (vol. 2) titles, and Steel.

In 2018, Benes released the first comic he also wrote along with penciling, Nina & Ariel. Financed through crowdfunding, the title takes an adult comics approach inspired by Fire and Ice, where two female warriors try to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.[3][4]

Studio and teaching

Ed Benes began the Ed Benes Studio for aspiring comic book artists, which currently offers several courses on illustration and techniques in sequential storytelling, and hosts lectures and workshops.[5]

Bibliography

Cover to Supergirl#78. Art by Ed Benes.

DC

• Action Comics #836 (among other artists), Annual #13 (2006–10)
• Artemis: Requiem, miniseries, #1-6 (1996)
• Batgirl, vol. 4 #13 (2012)
• Batman #687 (2009)
• Batman: The Dark Knight, vol. 2, #8 (2012)
• Birds of Prey #56-65, 67, 70, 72, 75, 79-80 (2003–05)
• Birds of Prey, vol. 2, #1-4 (2010)
• Blackest Night: Titans, miniseries, #1-3 (2009)
• Codename: Knockout #15-18 (2002)
• Countdown to Infinite Crisis #1 (among other artists) (2005)
• DC Universe #0 (among other artists) (2008)
• Deathstroke, the Terminator Annual #3 (1994)
• Detective Comics, vol. 2, #10 (2012)
• Flash, vol. 2, Annual #7 (1994)
• Gen 13 #45-50, 52, 54-59, 61-63, 67, 71-74 (1999-2002)
• Green Lantern, vol. 4, #49 (2010)
• Green Lanterns #8 (2016)
• Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #10 (2016)
• Gunfire #0, 6-7, 10-13 (1994–95)
• Justice League of America, vol. 2, #0-7, 9-10, 12, 14-15, 17-19, 22-23, 25-27 (2006–09)
• Justice League Task Force #24 (1995)
• Red Lanterns #1-7 (2011–12)
• Steel #1 (one-shot) (2011)
• Supergirl, vol. 3, #75-80 (2002–03)
• Supergirl, vol. 4, #6 (2006)
• Superman #649 (among other artists) (2006)
• Superman, vol. 2, #217-219, 221-223, 225-226 (2005–06)
• Superman, vol. 3, #27 #29-31 (2014)
• Superman, vol. 4, #15 (among other artists, 2016)
• Superman/Batman #50, 78 (2008–10)
• Superman/Wonder Woman #28 (2016)
• Teen Titans, vol. 3, Annual #1 (among other artists) (2006), #68 (2009)
• Thundercats: The Return, miniseries, #1-5 (2003)
• Untold Tales of Blackest Night #1 (among other artists) (2010)
• Wonder Woman, vol. 2, (Artemis) Annual #6 (1997)

Marvel

• Captain America, vol. 2, #12 (along with Joe Bennett) (1997)
• Captain Marvel, miniseries, #1-4, 6 (1995–96)
• Gladiator/Supreme (along with Carlos Mota) (1997)
• Iron Man, vol. 2, #12 (among other artists) (1997)
• Silver Surfer, vol. 2, #124 (1997)
• Uncanny X-Men #351 (1998)
• What If?, vol. 2, (Hulk) #80 (along with Kerry Gammill) (1995)

Other publishers

• Glory #11-12 (Image)
• WildC.A.T.S. #44-50 (1998) (Image)
• Samuree, vol. 2, #4 (Continuity)

Notes

1. "Biography". edbenesart.com. Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2012-04-09. Reprinted from Wizard magazine Brazil #5 (late 2003)
2. Cowsill, Alan; Dolan, Hannah, ed. (2010). "2000s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. Dorling Kindersley. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9. After the success of Identity Crisis, best-selling novelist Brad Meltzer was given the job of relaunching the Justice League of America in the title's second series. With Ed Benes providing the pencils, Meltzer stripped the Justice League back to basics.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
3. Nina & Ariel: An original Ed Benes story (NSFW)
4. Nina & Ariel Review (in Portuguese)
5. "Ed Benes Studio". edbenestudio.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-23.

References

• Ed Benes at the Grand Comics Database

External links

• Official website
• official website at the Wayback Machine (archived June 27, 2013)
• Ed Benes at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Ed Benes on deviantART at the Wayback Machine (archived November 5, 2011)
• Ed Benes on Instagram

Preceded by Leonard Kirk	Supergirl artist 2002–2003	Succeeded by Ian Churchill
Preceded by Casey Jones	Birds of Prey artist 2003–2005	Succeeded by Joe Bennett
Preceded by Jim Lee	Superman artist 2005–2006	Succeeded by Carlos Pacheco
Preceded by none	Justice League of America artist 2006–2009	Succeeded by Mark Bagley
Preceded by Claude St. Aubin	Birds of Prey artist 2010	Succeeded by Ardian Syaf