Phil Hester (comics)

Phil Hester (born 1966) is an American comic book artist, penciller and writer.

Early life

Phil Hester is an alumnus of the University of Iowa.

Career

Hester's pencilling credits include Swamp Thing, Brave New World, Flinch, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Clerks: The Lost Scene, The Crow: Waking Nightmares, The Wretch (nominated for the 1997 Eisner Award for Best New Series), Aliens: Purge, and Green Arrow.

During his run on Green Arrow, he created the characters Mia Dearden and Onomatopoeia with writer Kevin Smith as well as Constantine Drakon with writer Judd Winick.

Hester co-created Uncle Slam and Firedog with his Green Arrow collaborator, artist Ande Parks. He also created El Diablo, a new character (with a common name in DC Comics) who debuted in an eponymous limited series. His last comic 13 Steps was adapted in a Comedy Horror film.

Hester is currently writing the new adventures of Golden Age hero The Black Terror for Dynamite Entertainment, based on plot ideas by Alex Ross, as part of the Project Superpowers Universe.

He also wrote DC's Wonder Woman, based on the notes and outline by J. Michael Straczynski, after Straczynski left the title.

In December 2020 he was announced as the new artist on Superman, alongside writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson.

Known for his extensive collection of original comic art, he is the originator of the "Hester paradox", wherein a collection is so large that it is prohibitively expensive to insure and yet is too valuable not to insure.

Bibliography

Ant-Man
Clerks: The Lost Scene
Deep Sleeper
Nightwing
El Diablo (pencils, with writer Jai Nitz and inks by Ande Parks, 6-issue limited series, September 2008)
Four Letter Worlds
Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #1–4
Green Arrow
Firebreather
Mythic
Nails
Namor
Oversight (anthology of many previously published short pieces)
Rust vol.3
S.T.A.T" (Security Through Acquired Talents)
Stronghold
Swamp Thing
Teddy and the yeti
The Anchor Issues 1–8
The Atheist
The Coffin
The Creeper
The Darkness: Accursed
The Holy Terror
The Wretch
Timecop (comics)
Ultimate Marvel Team-Up #2–3
Uncle Slam and Firedog
Wonder Woman #605–614