Billy Tan
Billy Tan Mung Khoy, commonly known as Billy Tan, is a Malaysian comic book artist.
Billy Tan
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- Birth Name
- Billy Tan Mung Khoy
- Nationality
- Malaysian
- Born
- 1970
- Occupation
- comics artist
- Languages
- English
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Billy Tan Mung Khoy, commonly known as Billy Tan, is a Malaysian comic book artist.
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Key facts
• Birth Name — Billy Tan Mung Khoy • Nationality — Malaysian • Art — y • Children — Gavin Tan (eldest son) Unnamed Daughter • Website — www.billytanart.com • Nonus — y
Early life
Early life
Billy Tan was born in Malaysia and moved to the United States when he was 18, in 1989 to study business at the University of Kentucky. He began working as a penciler for Image Comics in the 1990s.
Career
Career
Tan became the regular artist of the Marvel Comics series Uncanny X-Men in 2006. In 2008, he was invited to draw the New Avengers issues #41 and 43-44 that tied into the "Secret Invasion" storyline, before being offered to replace Leinil Francis Yu as the new regular artist on the title. Tan took over the flagship Green Lantern title as ongoing penciller beginning with issue #21. He works together with writer Robert Venditti, who replaced Geoff Johns as series writer.
Image
Image
• 21 #1-2 (full art); #3 (along with Marc Silvestri) (1996) • Codename: Stryke Force #9-13 (1994–95) • Cyberforce/Stryke Force: Opposing Forces #1-2 (1995) • Darkness/Tomb Raider Special, one-shot (2005) • Ripclaw #3 (1995) • Spirit of the Tao #2 (1998) • Tales of the Witchblade #2-4, 6 (1997–98) • Tomb Raider #7, 11-12 (2000–01) • Tomb Raider: Arabian Nights, one-shot (2004) • Tomb Raider/Darkness Special, one-shot (2001) • Witchblade #36 (1999), #100 (1-page, among other artists) (2006) • Witchblade: Obakemono, one-shot (2002)
Marvel
Marvel
• Dark Reign: The List: Daredevil, one-shot (2009) • Marvel Knights Spider-Man #13-18 (2005) • New Avengers #41, 43–44, 46-54 (2008–09) • New Avengers Finale (2-pages among other artists) (2010) • Shadowland, miniseries, #1-5 (2010) • Star Trek/X-Men, one-shot (among other artists) (1996) • Thor #604-609 (2010) • Ultimate Comics Fallout #5 (2011) • Uncanny X-Men #469-471, 475–476, 478–479, 481–482, 484–486, 492-494 (2006–08) • X-23, miniseries, #1-6 (2005) • Uncanny X-Force #8-10 (2011) • X-Men: Legacy #209 (2008) • Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #13 (2012) • A+X #3 (2012) • Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon #1-6 (covers only) (2021)
Image/Marvel
Image/Marvel
• Elektra/Cyblade, one-shot (1997)
DC Comics
DC Comics
• Green Lantern vol 5. #21-26, 28–29, 31–35, 39–42, 44–50, 52, Annual #3 (2013–2016) • New Superman #7-8,11-14
Identity
Identity
Billy Tan is recorded as comics artist.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1970
Billy Tan was born in 1970.
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- 1.Creator Spotlight: Billy Tan - Marvel and DC Comic Book Artist. YouTube. 4 octobre 2019.
- 2.Siow, Catherine. "Fantasy come true." All Malaysia.info (May 31, 2003).
- 3.Transcript: A Little Bit of Genius Episode 6 with Billy Tan. nordangliaeducation.com. 25 février 2020.
- 4.WWC: Avenging Art: Tan, Banning & Brevoort Talk. Newsarama. 29 juin 2008.
- 5.Exclusive Interview: Robert Venditti and Billy Tan on 'Green Lantern. MTV Geek. 20 février 2013.
- 6.Interview: Billy Tan. timeoutshanghai.com. novembre 2016.
- 7.Tan Comics. tancomics.com.
- 8.Comics Series. tancomics.com.
- 9.X-Men Legends #7 (November, 2021) Marvel, 2021 Series. Grand Comics Database.
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