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Terry Austin (born August 23, 1952) is an American comic book artist, working primarily as an inker...

Terry Austin (born August 23, 1952) is an American comic book artist, working primarily as an inker. He is best known for his work embellishing John Byrne's pencils on The Uncanny X-Men from 1977–1981. Austin grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Wayne State University. He got his start as an assistant to Dick Giordano and Neal Adams, doing "Crusty Bunker" jobs for Adams' Continuity Associates. Austin came to prominence in 1976–1977, inking Marshall Rogers' pencils on a celebrated run of Batman stories for DC's Detective Comics (collaborating with writer Steve Englehart). During this same period, Austin inked Al Milgrom on Marvel Comics' Captain Marvel, and then teamed up with Rogers again over at Marvel on Doctor Strange. Soon after his run on Doctor Strange, Austin and penciler John Byrne became the new art team on Uncanny X-Men. With writer Chris Claremont they produced a series of stories — particularly The Dark Phoenix Saga — that turned the title into the top-selling American comic. Austin decided to leave Uncanny X-Men in 1981, after learning of Byrne's departure, and has since worked on a variety of titles for both Marvel and DC, including Doctor Strange (over the