Eddy Barrows

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Eduardo Barros (born August 18, 1967) is a Brazilian

Birds of Prey, Countdown to Adventure, Action Comics, Superman, Teen Titans, and 52
.

Early life

Barrows was born on in

Maurício de Sousa – and works from the Disney company. She read them to him, and Barrows immediately fell in love with comics, eventually starting to draw. While never having gone to school specifically for art, Barrows studied animation for two to three years before becoming a working artist.[1]

His favorite character is Chico Bento.[1]

Career

When Barrows was 22 years old, Belo Horizonte he began working by doing some pictures for school books, books for kids, and publicity agencies. During this time, Barrows gave up comics for a while. When he was 24, he returned to comics by doing tests for Art & Comics Studios. When he got approval, he began training for six months. Soon after, a career in comics quickly began. His first work was a tie-in comic for the then-

Chaos Comics where he did six issues of that series, in 2001, Eddy Barrows believed that he needed to practice and improve his work, he had contact with Romulo Soares, from Lynx Studio, who was one of the contacts in Brazil for Glass House Graphics, an American studio that represented Art & Comics in the USA (at that time the contract between these companies had ended), and from that contact Eddy Barrows began tests and samples for a long period already working with Lynx Studio (Glass House Graphics did not believe in the work of Eddy Barrows, but Lynx Studio believed and started the partnership against Glass House Graphics), after this test period, Eddy Barrows started doing independent projects with Lynx Studio, until in 2003 the great opportunity arose in a story arc in GI Joe: Frontline (Image) and Cobra Reborn (Image), there were 6 magazines made with Lynx Studio, in addition to of other independent works, at the end of that arc, and because he did not have an exclusive contract with Lynx Studio, Joe Prado took advantage and called Eddy Barrows directly, convincing him to go back to work with Art & Comics in 2004...[1]


After illustrating a comic book for

The All-New Atom. After leaving Atom, editor Eddie Berganza offered Countdown To Adventure.[1]

Barrows' took over penciling duties with a year-long run on

James Robinson on the Man of Steel's tie-in miniseries to the Blackest Night event, illustrating the main story in Free Comic Book Day's War of the Supermen zero-issue, and providing the covers to that main series.[2]

Barrows began his run as artist on DC's Superman, with writer J. Michael Straczynski for the writer's run on the main Superman title, beginning with the "Grounded" story arc with a ten-page entry in issue #700 (August 2010).[3]

Bibliography

DC Comics

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Eddy Barrows Talks Titans". Titanstower.com. June 4, 2012. Archived from the original on November 2, 2007. Retrieved May 10, 2010.
  2. ^ "DCU IN 2010: THE WAR OF THE SUPERMEN BEGINS | DC Comics". DC Comics. December 7, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  3. DC Comics.com. Archived from the original
    on March 25, 2010. Retrieved June 24, 2010.

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