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Loston Wallace (born 1970) is an American freelance comic book artist and comics-licensing illustrator.
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 games 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 illustrating 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.
Bibliography
= Licensing work
=DC Comics
Golden Books
Super Friends: Flying High (Step Into Reading)
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 Books
Catwoman: Life and 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 Star on Patrol
Marvel Entertainment
Meredith Books
Spider-Man 3 Sound Book (official movie tie-in book)
= Comic books
=Klyde & Meriem (one-shot, Basement Comics)
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Claypool Comics)
Lorna, Relic Wrangler (Image Comics)
= Comic strips
=Flash Gordon Sunday newspaper comic strip (King Features, 2002)
= 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 (supplement)
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 US Barnes & Noble book series:
Weird New Jersey
Weird U.S.
Weird Texas
Weird Florida
Weird Maryland
Illustration of the Jersey Devil in an episode of the History Channel's Weird U.S. television show.
References
External links
Official website
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
= Interviews
=Legions of Gotham interview
Comic Book Bin website interview about Wallace's unreleased comic book Strange Passages
ToonZone interview