Michael A Hernandez is an American comics artist known by the pen name Michael Bair, who is best known for his work as an inker.
15 Facts About Michael Bair
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Michael Bair's work includes Marvel Comics' Alpha Flight, and DC Comics' Hawkman.
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Michael Bair is best known for inking Rags Morales' pencils since 2002, most notably on the miniseries Identity Crisis.
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Between 1984 and 1985, Michael Bair worked for Eclipse Comics, drawing covers and interior pencils for Aztec Ace, pencils and inks for Crimson Dawn, and backup features for Sabre.
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Michael Bair's pencils graced the pages of Firestorm, and his inks appeared in Captain Atom in the late 1980s, during which time he inked the Catwoman mini-series written by Mindy Newell.
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Michael Bair contributed work to DC's guidebook titles, including Secret Origins and Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe from 1985 to 1989.
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Between 1987 and 1995, Michael Bair drew a number of covers for Marvel Comics, pencilling, inking and occasionally painting several.
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Michael Bair contributed pencils and inks to the Wild Cards anthology for Epic Comics, before - c - switching mostly to inking duties, including on Sleepwalker and What If.
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Michael Bair provided both pencils and inks to the first five issues of the Hellstorm series in 1993.
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In mid-1997, Michael Bair working for DC Comics again, cementing his almost-exclusive switch from pencils to inks with the miniseries The Kents over pencils by Timothy Truman and half of JLA: Year One with series artist Barry Kitson.
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In 2002, Michael Bair inked covers by Tom Grummett for Power Company, before first teaming with penciller Rags Morales on Geoff Johns and James Robinson's Hawkman relaunch.
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Morales said "when I saw the magic that Michael Bair added to my work, I knew I had to stick with this dude".
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Michael Bair continued to ink Morales' pencils on Identity Crisis and a few issues of Wonder Woman with writer Greg Rucka.
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Michael Bair later inked issues in Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers metaseries, including two covers and one interior of the Bulleteer miniseries with penciler Yanick Paquette.
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In 2007, Michael Bair inked Morales' pencils on Peter Tomasi's run on Nightwing.