Celebrating Women in Comics: Jan Duursema

05/22/2014 9:34am

MAY 21

NAME: Jan Duursema

A SENTENCE ABOUT WHAT COMICS-RELATED WORK YOU DO AND/OR ARE KNOWN FOR:

Artist for Star Wars comics including Republic, Jedi, Legacy, Darth Maul, Episode II and Dawn of the Jedi; Ghost, Hawkman, X-Factor, Elric, and lots more titles.

What are your favorite working tools?

Pencil and lightsaber.

What talent would you most like to have?

The ability to speak to Kaiju.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Creating worlds for others to live in.

If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

In my imagination. My studio is cleaner there so I can find stuff . . . and there's a beach.

What is it that you most dislike?

The fact that we don't have flying cars and transporters yet.

Who are your heroes (fiction or non)?

My folks for believing in my dream of becoming an artist. Joe Kubert for helping me achieve my dream of becoming an artist.

MAY 21

NAME: Jan Duursema

A SENTENCE ABOUT WHAT COMICS-RELATED WORK YOU DO AND/OR ARE KNOWN FOR:

Artist for Star Wars comics including Republic, Jedi, Legacy, Darth Maul, Episode II and Dawn of the Jedi; Ghost, Hawkman, X-Factor, Elric, and lots more titles.

What are your favorite working tools?

Pencil and lightsaber.

What talent would you most like to have?

The ability to speak to Kaiju.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Creating worlds for others to live in.

If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

In my imagination. My studio is cleaner there so I can find stuff . . . and there's a beach.

What is it that you most dislike?

The fact that we don't have flying cars and transporters yet.

Who are your heroes (fiction or non)?

My folks for believing in my dream of becoming an artist. Joe Kubert for helping me achieve my dream of becoming an artist.

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