Artist Tod Smith began his comics career by attending the Joe Kubert School in Dover, NJ back in the late seventies for three semesters, then migrated to CT where he found himself working in the art studio of Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin for about a year. That lead to a week inking backgrounds for the great comic artist Gil Kane, before being offered the penciling chores on The Omega Men, his first solo gig, at DC Comics.
Next came The Vigilante and several other projects for DC, followed by a run on The Green Hornet for NOW Comics, and a variety of fill-ins for Marvel, including Conan, The Silver Surfer, and the Scarlet Spider. This led to his being offered the penciling for Darkhawk, a fairly new character at Marvel, which he did for two years, right up to the Marvel implosion of the mid-nineties
In the late nineties, he collaborated with fellow Kubert School alumnus Thomas Yeates on the syndicated Zorro strip written by Don McGregor, for two years, until the strips cancellation. About this time he also decided to try his hand at humor rather than heroes, and did his first job as penciler on an Elvira, Mistress of the Dark story for Claypool Comics, beginning an association that would last almost a decade, up to the cancellation of that book and the reorganization of Claypool in 2006. It remains one of his favorite experiences as a cartoonist.
More recently Tod has done a series of educational childrens books for Capstone Press, and two fictional adaptations for their sister company, Stone Arch Books, as well as two New Look graphic novels for Archie Comics.
Tod would like to say Thanks to my fans and readers for enjoying my work over the years, and please feel free to drop me a line, Id love to hear from you.
Best wishes,
Tod G. Smith
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