Loston Wallace
Encyclopedia
Loston Wallace is a freelance comic book
artist and comics-licensing illustrator, based in North Carolina
.
Wallace began his freelance art career in 1996, providing interior illustration for role-playing game
s such as Pinnacle Entertainment
's Deadlands RPG and FASA Corporation's Battletech and Mechwarrior games. He worked as a freelance illustrator for roleplaying games for five years, working on games like Shadowrun, West End's Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and GURPS
Old West.
In 1998, Wallace began freelancing for DC Comics
' licensing department, illustrating Batman Animated and Superman Animated children's books, based on the television animated series. In 2001 Loston penciled Klyde & Meriem, a 40-page Cavewoman
one-shot comic for Basement Comics
that was written by James Robert Smith
and inked by Kim DeMulder.
In 2002, Wallace was invited by Jim Keefe
to guest pencil a Sunday strip for King Features' comic strip
Flash Gordon
. This strip followed the last Al Williamson
Flash Gordon strip. Loston then penciled several stories in the Elvira, Mistress of the Dark comic book series, working on stories written by Richard Howell and Janet Hetherington. Loston's pencils matched up with veteran comic inkers like Bob Wiacek
and Bob McLeod.
Wallace continued to produce licensing artwork with DC Comics, working on such books as Batman: Deep Freeze, Superman: Stop the Presses!, and contributing artwork to the Catwoman retrospective, Catwoman: The Life & Times of a Feline Fatale. In 2005 he illustrated the storybook Superman Returns: Thank You, Superman!, an official Superman Returns
movie tie-in book produced by DC Comics and Meredith Books. He also contributed pencils to two Krypto the Super Dog books based on the popular Cartoon Network
television series.
Meredith Books hired Wallace to illustrate the official Spider-Man 3 Sound Book in 2006, which was a tie-in storybook/toy product based on the Spider-Man 3
feature film. Andrew Park
provided colors on this particular project.
In 2007 Wallace illustrated a Step Into Reading book for DC Comics and Golden Books called DC Super Friends: Flying High (to be released in 2008). Wallace again teamed up with colorist Andrew Park to illustrate another storybook for DC Comics and Meredith books called Batman: Race Against Crime. This book was published alongside the release of the highly anticipated The Dark Knight
film.
Currently, Wallace is pencilling a comic called Lorna, Relic Wrangler, a one-shot comic book written by Micah Harris that is to be published by Image Comics
.
Wallace has been a featured guest at the Gen Con
, Dragon Con
, and Heroes Convention
gaming and comics conventions.
Marvel Entertainment
FASA Corporation
Iron Crown Entertainment
Pinnacle Entertainment
West End Games
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
artist and comics-licensing illustrator, based in North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
.
Biography
Wallace attended The Kubert School from 1994-1996. In 1996, Wallace married Carolyn Waterson, who had also attended the Kubert School.Wallace began his freelance art career in 1996, providing interior illustration for role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
s such as Pinnacle Entertainment
Pinnacle Entertainment
Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. is a gaming and hospitality company based in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada that was created in 1938. It owns and operates casinos in the United States and Argentina.- Company names over time :...
's Deadlands RPG and FASA Corporation's Battletech and Mechwarrior games. He worked as a freelance illustrator for roleplaying games for five years, working on games like Shadowrun, West End's Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and GURPS
GURPS
The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting...
Old West.
In 1998, Wallace began freelancing for DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
' licensing department, illustrating Batman Animated and Superman Animated children's books, based on the television animated series. In 2001 Loston penciled Klyde & Meriem, a 40-page Cavewoman
Cavewoman
Cavewoman is an American comic book published primarily by Basement Comics and additionally by Caliber Comics and Avatar Press. The story follows superhuman Meriem Cooper, a voluptuous barefoot jungle goddess in a snakeskin bikini, who battles dinosaurs...
one-shot comic for Basement Comics
Basement Comics
Basement Comics is an independent comic book publisher owned by Budd Root. Basement Comics is best known for publishing the popular good-girl title Cavewoman A division of Amryl Entertainment, Basement Comics is based in Mount Airy, North Carolina, and was founded in 1993.In addition to Root,...
that was written by James Robert Smith
James Robert Smith
James Robert Smith is an American author. His first novel, The Flock was published August 2, 2006 by Five Star.- External links :*...
and inked by Kim DeMulder.
In 2002, Wallace was invited by Jim Keefe
Jim Keefe
Jim Keefe is the most recent artist to contribute original art and stories to the Flash Gordon comic strip. Born January 20, 1965 he attended Joe Kubert's School of Cartoon and Graphic Art after a very brief career at a more traditional institution....
to guest pencil a Sunday strip for King Features' comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. Also inspired by these series were comics such as Dash...
. This strip followed the last Al Williamson
Al Williamson
Alfonso "Al" Williamson was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western and science-fiction/fantasy...
Flash Gordon strip. Loston then penciled several stories in the Elvira, Mistress of the Dark comic book series, working on stories written by Richard Howell and Janet Hetherington. Loston's pencils matched up with veteran comic inkers like Bob Wiacek
Bob Wiacek
Bob Wiacek is an American comic book artist and writer, working primarily as an inker.-Career:Wiacek got his start in the mid-1970s as a member of the "Crusty Bunkers" inking collective. For a short time in 1975–1976 he inked backgrounds on Superman for DC Comics...
and Bob McLeod.
Wallace continued to produce licensing artwork with DC Comics, working on such books as Batman: Deep Freeze, Superman: Stop the Presses!, and contributing artwork to the Catwoman retrospective, Catwoman: The Life & Times of a Feline Fatale. In 2005 he illustrated the storybook Superman Returns: Thank You, Superman!, an official Superman Returns
Superman Returns
Superman Returns is a 2006 superhero film directed by Bryan Singer. It is the fifth and final installment in the original Superman film series and serves as a alternate sequel to Superman and Superman II by ignoring the events of Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace .The film stars...
movie tie-in book produced by DC Comics and Meredith Books. He also contributed pencils to two Krypto the Super Dog books based on the popular Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
television series.
Meredith Books hired Wallace to illustrate the official Spider-Man 3 Sound Book in 2006, which was a tie-in storybook/toy product based on the Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film written and directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the third film in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man...
feature film. Andrew Park
Andrew Park
Andrew Park born in Lafayette, Indiana is an American Theatre Director and puppeteer. Park is the current Artistic Director of the John G. Shedd Aquarium and Chicago’s Quest Theatre Ensemble.-Career:...
provided colors on this particular project.
In 2007 Wallace illustrated a Step Into Reading book for DC Comics and Golden Books called DC Super Friends: Flying High (to be released in 2008). Wallace again teamed up with colorist Andrew Park to illustrate another storybook for DC Comics and Meredith books called Batman: Race Against Crime. This book was published alongside the release of the highly anticipated The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight (film)
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, the film is part of Nolan's Batman film series and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins...
film.
Currently, Wallace is pencilling a comic called Lorna, Relic Wrangler, a one-shot comic book written by Micah Harris that is to be published by Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
.
Wallace has been a featured guest at the Gen Con
Gen Con
Gen Con is one of the largest and most prominent annual gaming conventions in North America. It features traditional pen-and-paper, board, and card-style games, including role-playing games, miniatures wargames, board games, live action role-playing games, collectible card games, non-collectible...
, Dragon Con
Dragon Con
Dragon*Con is a North America multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place once each year in Atlanta, Georgia...
, and Heroes Convention
Heroes Convention
Heroes Convention, or HeroesCon, is a comic book convention that takes place in June in Charlotte, North Carolina. The convention has been held since 1982, and it is one of the largest independent comic book conventions in the United States, as well as being the oldest event still taking place...
gaming and comics conventions.
Licensing work
DC ComicsDC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
- Golden Books
- SUPER FRIENDSSuper FriendsSuper Friends is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes, which ran from 1973 to 1986 on ABC as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup...
: FLYING HIGH (Step Into Reading)
- SUPER FRIENDS
- Meredith Books
- BATMAN: RACE AGAINST CRIME (children's storybook)
- SUPERMAN RETURNS: THANK YOU, SUPERMAN! (official movie tie-in book)
- Landoll children's story & activity books
- Batman: Deep Freeze
- Batman: Guardian Of Justice
- Batman: Crime Solver
- Batman: The Dark Knight
- Superman: Stop The Presses!
- Superman: On The Loose
- Superman 400-Page Special
- DC Ultimate Color/Activity Book
- Chronicle BooksChronicle BooksChronicle Books is a San Francisco-based American publisher of books for adults and children.The company was established in 1968 by Phelps Dewey, an executive with Chronicle Publishing Company, then-publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999 it was bought by Nion McEvoy, great-grandson of...
- CATWOMAN: LIFE & TIMES OF A FELINE FATALE (character retrospective book)
- Scholastic Corporation children's story & activity books
- KRYPTO THE SUPER DOG: TEST PILOT PUPPY
- KRYPTO THE SUPER DOG: DOG STARS ON PATROL
Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment, LLC , formerly Marvel Enterprises and Toy Biz, Inc., is an American entertainment company formed from the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. and Toy Biz, Inc....
- Meredith Books
- SPIDER-MAN 3 SOUND BOOK (official movie tie-in book)
Comic books
- Klyde & Meriem (one-shot, Basement ComicsBasement ComicsBasement Comics is an independent comic book publisher owned by Budd Root. Basement Comics is best known for publishing the popular good-girl title Cavewoman A division of Amryl Entertainment, Basement Comics is based in Mount Airy, North Carolina, and was founded in 1993.In addition to Root,...
) - Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Claypool ComicsClaypool ComicsClaypool Comics is an American comic book publishing company created in 1993, known for publishing such titles as Peter David's Soulsearchers and Company and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark comics, as well as Richard Howell's Deadbeats and, , Phantom of Fear City...
) - Lorna, Relic Wrangler (Image ComicsImage ComicsImage Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
)
Role-playing games
Eden Studios- ALL FLESH MUST BE EATEN: FIST FULL O' ZOMBIES (supplement)
FASA Corporation
- Battletech
- EXPLORER CORPS (supplement)
- FREE WORLDS LEAGUE (supplement)
- SHATTERED SPHERE (supplement)
- THE DRAGON ROARS (supplement)
- FIELD MANUAL: LYRAN ALLIANCE (supplement)
- FIELD MANUAL: COMSTAR (supplement)
- FIELD MANUAL: FEDERATED SUNS (supplement)
- FIELD MANUAL: CAPALLAN CONFEDERATION (supplement)
- CRUCIBLE: PRINCIPATE FACTIONS BOOK (supplemnt)
- Mechwarrior
- RPG (3rd Edition) (rule book) (supplement)
- GUIDE TO SOLARIS (supplement)
- NORTHWIND HIGHLANDERS (supplement)
- SHADOWRUN: RIGGER 2 SOURCEBOOK (supplement)
Iron Crown Entertainment
- ROLEMASTER: CHANGLING COMPANION (supplement)
Pinnacle Entertainment
- Deadlands
- THE WEIRD WEST RPG (rule book)
- THE WEIRD WEST RPG (2nd edition) (rulebook)
- MARSHAL'S SCREENS (Gamemaster's screens & adventure book)
- THE QUICK & THE DEAD (supplement)
- DIMESTORE NOVEL: PERDITION'S DAUGHTER (adventure book)
- BOOK O' THE DEAD (supplement)
- SMITH & ROBARDS (supplement)
- HUCKSTERS & HEXES (supplement)
- RASCALS, VARMITS & CRITTERS (supplement)
- GHOST DANCERS (supplement)
- FIRE & BRIMSTONE (supplement)
- FIST FULL O' GHOSTROCK (supplement)
- LAWDOGS (supplement)
- THE GREAT MAZE BOX SET
- RIVER O' BLOOD BOX SET
- CITY O' GLOOM (supplement)
- TWISTED TALES (supplement)
- THE GREAT RAIL WARS (miniature strategy game)
- THE POKER DECK (novelty)
- LOST ANGELS (supplement)
- HELL ON EARTH RPG (rule book)
- HELL ON EARTH RADIATIONS SCREENS (Gamemaster's screens & adventure book)
- HELL ON EARTH WASTED WEST (supplement)
- HELL ON EARTH ROAD TO HELL (supplement)
- HELL ON EARTH HELL & HIGH WATER (supplement)
- HELL ON EARTH BRAINBURNERS (supplement)
West End Games
- INDIANA JONES & THE SKY PIRATES (supplement)
- STAR WARS: INSTANT ADVENTURES (supplement)
Illustrations
- Weird New Jersey magazine
- Weird U.S.Weird U.S.Weird U.S. is a reality television series, and book of the same name, on the History Channel starring Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman as they hunt the United States looking for weird history, hauntings, and legends because, as they say, "history is full of weirdos." It is produced by KPI TV...
Barnes & NobleBarnes & NobleBarnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered at 122 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District in Manhattan in New York City. Barnes & Noble also operated the chain of small B. Dalton...
book series:- Weird New Jersey
- Weird U.S.
- Weird Texas
- Weird Florida
- Weird Maryland
- Illustration of the Jersey DevilJersey DevilThe Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variations...
in an episode of the History Channel's Weird U.S. television show.
External links
- Loston Wallace showcase — Joe Kubert School "Kubertsworld" website gallery
- Art4Comics gallery of Wallace's preliminary art.
- Comics Continuum review of Klyde & Meriem
- Mention in Kim DeMulder Daredevil interview on ManWithoutFear.com