13 Facts About Kyle Baker

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Kyle John Baker was born on 1965 and is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man.

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Kyle Baker was born in the Queens, New York City, the son of art director John M Baker and high-school audiovisual-department manager Eleanor L Baker.

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Kyle Baker became background assistant to Marvel inker Josef Rubinstein, and later assisted Vince Colletta and Andy Mushynski.

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Kyle Baker cited Marvel artists Walt Simonson, Al Milgrom and Larry Hama and writer and editor-in-chief Jim Shooter as providing him art and storytelling advice.

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Kyle Baker achieved recognition and won an Eisner Award for his 1990 graphic novel Why I Hate Saturn, published by the DC Comics imprint Piranha Press.

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Kyle Baker spent three years illustrating the weekly strip "Bad Publicity" for New York magazine.

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Kyle Baker's animation has appeared on BET and MTV, and in animated Looney Tunes projects, including the animated feature Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

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Kyle Baker was "guest art director" for Cartoon Network's Class of 3000, and storyboarded the Class of 3000 Christmas special.

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In 1994, Kyle Baker directed an animated video featuring the hip hop singer KRS-One, called "Break The Chain".

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Kyle Baker wrote and drew all but two issues of the 20-issue comedic adventure series Plastic Man vol.

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In 2006, his company, Kyle Baker Publishing, serialized a four-part comic book series about Nat Turner, and published the series The Bakers, based on his family life, in two anthologies, Cartoonist and Cartoonist Vol.

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Kyle Baker has continued to provide comics material sporadically to Marvel, DC and Image Comics through at least 2010.

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That same year, Kyle Baker hosted the comics industry's Harvey Awards.