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John Heebink is an American comic book and comic strip artist. He is known for his work on Elvira, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,  Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD and Quasar.

Career Heebink’s first published, credited comic book stories were in Fantagraphics’ MetaCops! (1991), a tongue-in-cheek historical fantasia by writer Link Yaco. Much of his other early work was as assistant to artists Ricardo Villagrán and Mike Manley. Marvel Comics hired Heebink in 1992 to pencil the concluding issues of Marvel’s Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD.

Heebink’s Marvel career included runs on SHIELD, Quasar, and the lead story in Daredevil Annual #9 in 1993. Unable to get more Marvel work, Heebink moved on to work for publishers Claypool Comics (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark; Peter David’s Soulsearchers & Co.) and Hamilton (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Eek! the Cat and various horror anthologies).

In the mid-‘90s artist Mike Manley invited Heebink and other friends including Bret Blevins, Ande Parks, Phil Hester, Andy Kuhn (who would later ink Heebink’s work on The Bod from Image Comics) and Scott Cohn to take part in his self-published, light-hearted creator-owned anthology series, Action Planet Comics. Heebink contributed stories starring his characters Wrathbone and Bitchula, doing script, art and lettering.

At the end of the ’90s, Heebink and writer-artist Rick Remender collaborated on the graphic novel Doll and Creature, which was Remender’s first non-humor comic, and--at over 80pp.--Heebink’s first long-form work. The series was inked by Heebink’s mentor Mike Manley.

In 2007 Heebink met artist Tony Talbert in a bar in San Francisco’s seedy Tenderloin district. There began two long creative partnerships and friendships, as Heebink committed to ink Talbert and writer Jason McNamara’s self-published comics title Sucker, a series billed as a “grindhouse vampire epic.”

The third and final Sucker volume is in progress as of late 2023, with the addition of longtime DC and Marvel penciler Chris Marrinan and inker Peter Secosh. Heebink penciled and colored an issue of Vampirella from a Dan Brereton script in 2008, with Manley inks.

In both 2007 and 2010, Heebink ghosted four total weeks of the long-running newspaper comic strip Judge Parker, subbing for the ailing Eduardo Barreto, who sadly died in 2011.

Heebink inked the pencil artwork of Tony Talbert again on Out with a Bang, written by Stuart Moore, a series for the vertical-scroll comics app/site Stēla.

Influences Heebink lists his influences as Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, Wood, Kirby, Frank Robbins, Dan Panosian, Klaus Janson, John Watkiss. External Links https://www.heebink.com Heebink's work on ComicArtFans.com https://www.comicartfans.com/my/GalleryRoom.asp?GSub=83877 Heebink on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/johnheebink/ https://www.instagram.com/suckercomic/