Howard Bender

Howard Bender is a freelance comics artist, illustrator, letterer, and colorist. Howard is best known to the Star Wars community as a comic book artist/penciller for Marvel UK's Star Wars Weekly in the late 1970s.

Biography

Howard studied at the Art Students League, Artist Guild, and the Ivy School of Professional Art and is a member of both The National Cartoonists Society and The National Caricaturist Network. In 1972, he co-founded the Pittsburgh Comics Club. After contributions to fanzines and lettering jobs at Marvel in the 1970s, he went to work for the big companies in the 1980s, starting with Richie Rich at Harvey. He has contributed to DC's ghost and superhero titles and on some smaller titles for Marvel. He was additionally present at First Publishing with Ghostbusters and Munden's Bar and at Gladstone with Dread of Night and Maggots. In the early 1990s, he worked with the Archie characters for Archie Comics. Bender has also done the daily strips Mr. Fixitt, Billy & Pop! and Sherlock Holmes Minute Mysteries.

He currently lives in Ocean County, New Jersey.

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