Joe Benitez
Comic book artist who began his career at Top Cow. Co-creator of Weapon Zero, Magdalena, and the steampunk character and series Lady Mechanika.
Name:
Joe Benitez
Aliases:
Birth date:
May 21st, 1971
Home town:
Unknown
Country:
USA
Joe Benitez has worked on some of the industries hottest titles: The Darkness, Batman, Witchblade, Michael Turner's Soulfire, The Justice League of America, and his own projects Wraithborn and Lady Mechanika. He is also the co-creator of Weapon Zero and Magdalena.
Top Cow
Top Cow Productions discovered him in 1993 at the San Diego Comicon where David Wohl liked his work and showed it to Marc Silvestri he liked it and hired Joe. Working for Top Cow Productions, Joe has dished out a lot of good artwork.
Aspen & Benitez Production
While working for Aspen MLT, Benitez wrote and drew his own series entitled, Lady Mechanika. He stated that the Mega Con in Florida inspired some of the characters that he drew. There were a lot of people at this convention dressed in Steampunk inspired costumes. Benitez gained an admiration for this type of style that merged Victorian style clothing with high tech gear and gadgets.
The first four Lady Mechanika comics (issues #0-3) were co-published by Aspen MLT and Benitez Production. Since then, all subsequent Lady Mechanika comics and the Wraithborn series have been self-published through Benitez Productions exclusively.
