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{{Short description|American comic book and cartoon artist (born 1954)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}
| birth_place = [[North Carolina]]
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'''Bo Hampton''' (born 1954 in North Carolina)<ref name=interview /> is an American comic book and cartoon artist.<ref name=lambiek>{{cite web | title=Bo Hampton |url=http://lambiek.net/artists/h/hampton_bo.htm | publisher=[[Lambiek]] |accessdate=21 June 2010}}</ref> He is the older brother of fellow comics-creator [[Scott Hampton]].<ref name=interview>[[Bob Andelman|Andelman, Bob]]. [https://aspiritedlife.com/2006/07/scott-hampton-bo-hampton-interview/ "Scott Hampton & Bo Hampton Interview,"] ''A Spirited Life'' (July 17, 2006).</ref>
 
'''Bo Hampton''' (born [[1954]] in [[United States]])He graduated from the [[School of Visual Arts]], [[New York City]], where he studied under [[Will Eisner]] and [[Al Williamson]]. (Hampton later worked as Eisner's studio assistant.)<ref name=interview /> He drew, wrote, and painted [[comics]] and [[graphic novel]]s for 15 years, always with a bent toward [[Realism (visual arts)|realism]] that was fairly uncommon in the medium. Some art highlights from that period include ''Viking Glory'' a 96 -page [[graphic novel]] for D.C.[[DC Comics]], ''Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' for [[Tundra publishingPublishing]] and ''Verdilak'', a horror story co-written and painted for [[NBM publishingPublishing]].
 
Hampton spent a year as a professor at [[Savannah College of Art and Design]], helping to develop the original incarnation of their Sequential Arts program before moving into the realms of storyboarding animated shows and TV commercials. He was behind one of the most popular UK adverts of all times — "Smash Means Mash."{{cn|date=December 2019}}
He has worked on ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' for [[SONY]] (TV and Full length video feature) as well as [[Superman]] ([[Warner Bros.]].) and [[Batman]] animation for [[Cartoon Network]] spot. He has done live storyboard work for commercial clients including ''Papa John's Pizza'', [[Bellsouth]], [[Coca-Cola]], [[Motorola]] and many more. Ad agencies that use his work regularly include McCann-Erickson [[Washington, D.C.]], Pearson McMahon Fletcher and [[England]], [[Indianapolis]], Fricks-Firestone [[Atlanta]] and over 40 more all over the U.S.
He has done live storyboard work for commercial clients including ''Papa John's Pizza'', [[Bellsouth]], [[Coca-cola]], [[Motorola]] and many more. Ad agencies that use his work regularly include McCann-Erickson [[District of Columbia|D.C.]], Pearson McMahon Fletcher and [[England]], [[Indianapolis]], Fricks-Firestone [[Atlanta]] and over 40 more all over the U.S.
 
==Selected works==
* ''[[The Saga of Swamp Thing]]'' #14–15 ([[DC Comics]], June–July 1983)
*[[New Mutants]] vol. 1 #63▼
* "Girl of My Schemes," in ''[[Alien Worlds]]'' #4 ([[Pacific Comics]], Sept. 1983)
* ''[[Moon Knight]]'' #34, 36–38 ([[Marvel Comics]], Nov. 1983, Mar. 1984–July 1984)
* "The Maiden and the Dragon," in ''[[Alien Worlds]]'' #9 ([[Eclipse Comics]], Jan. 1985)
* ''Greylore'' #1–5 ([[Sirius Comics]], 1985–1986)
▲*''[[New Mutants]]'' vol. 1, #63 (Marvel Comics, May 1988)
* ''[[Total Eclipse (comics)|Total Eclipse]]'' #1–5 (Eclipse Comics, May 1988–Apr. 1989)
* ''Viking Glory — The Viking Prince'' (DC Comics, Aug. 1991)
* ''Legend of Sleepy Hollow'' ([[Tundra Publishing]], 1992)
* ''[[Legends of the Dark Knight]]'' #35–36 (DC Comics, Aug. 1992)
*''[[Batman: Castle of the Bat]]'' (DC Comics, 1994)
* ''Uther: The Half Dead King'' ([[NBM Publishing]], 1994)
* ''Verdilak'' (NBM Publishing, 1996)
*''Batman: Other Realms'' (DC Comics, 1998)
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* ''[[The Dreaming (comics)|The Dreaming]]'' #43 ([[Vertigo Comics]], Dec. 1999)
* "The Willful Death of a Stereotype," in ''Expo 2001'' ([[Small Press Expo|The Expo]], 2001)
* ''Demons of Sherwood'' ([[IDW Publishing]], 2009)
 
==References==
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==External links==
* {{official|http://www.bohampton.net}}
*[http://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/hampton_bo.htm Bo Hampton artistics]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060220110343/http://www.dragoncon.org/people/hamptob.html Dragon Con Biography]
 
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