Jackson "Butch" Guice (born June 27, 1961, in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American comic book artist who has worked in the comics industry since the 1980s.
Growing up in the 1960s, Guice was fond of "the legendary stop-motion animator and filmmaker" Ray Harryhausen, whose influence can be seen in some of Guice's work, most notably the Humanoids project Olympus.
His first credited comics work was on issue #48 the toy-spin-off title Micronauts (D...
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Jackson "Butch" Guice (born June 27, 1961, in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American comic book artist who has worked in the comics industry since the 1980s.
Growing up in the 1960s, Guice was fond of "the legendary stop-motion animator and filmmaker" Ray Harryhausen, whose influence can be seen in some of Guice's work, most notably the Humanoids project Olympus.
His first credited comics work was on issue #48 the toy-spin-off title Micronauts (December 1982), although he had previously ghosted for Pat Broderick on Rom Annual #1 (1982). He notes that "[b]oth were breaking points for me getting into comics".
Prior to his work appearing in Marvel's Mego-licenced Micronauts title, Guice "had been doing a little bit of fanzine work", and "designing patches and emblems for a small company in North Carolina." On the strength of his fanzine work, (and, Guice believes, at the behest of Rom Annual writer Bill Mantlo) Marvel editor Al Milgrom offered him a tryout on Micronauts. Guice recalls...
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