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Welcome to the Website for Dave Beaty &
Pencil Neck Studios!

Dave Beaty is known mostly for his work on Comic Books as both a freelance artist and for his many creator-owned projects. Explore career highlights and buy signed comics and original art directly from the artist at DaveBeaty.com!

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Artist for Batman Inc.

Scott Clark and Dave Beaty used traditional & digital tools to create the art for this installment in Grant Morrison's legendary run- when Waynetech's launch of Interworld is plagued by a series of "virtual murders," Batman teams up with Oracle to hunt down the culprit in a simulated environment that's slowly collapsing into post-apocalyptic, zombie-haunted chaos. A computer-generated Batman adventure that brings Dark Knight justice to a wild new frontier to face a new and virulent menace. In a world of numbers, does everything have a price?

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Inker for Brightest Day

In this follow-up to BLACKEST NIGHT, twelve heroes and villains were resurrected by a white light expelled deep within the center of the earth. Now, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman, Jade, Osiris, Hawk, Captain Boomerang and Zoom must discover the mysterious reason behind their return and uncover the secret that binds them all.

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Superboy &
the Legion of Superheroes

Cover Inker for Superboy & The Legion of Superheroes: The Early Years. Witness new retellings of Superboy's first meeting with Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad as they bring him into the future in these tales from ADVENTURE COMICS #515-520. How will The Boy of Steel handle it when he learns of his destiny as the World's Greatest Super Hero?

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Inker for DC Comic's Grifter

GRIFTER is branded a serial killer when he begins hunting and exterminating inhuman creatures hidden in human form that only he can see! With GRIFTER the only hero who can see them, it isn't long before the DAEMONITES are out to kill him! 

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Cover Artist for TMNT

This dynamic cover illustration for IDW Publishing's series Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 features Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo in action atop a subway car against a city skyline, born from a collaborative creative partnership between Andy Carreon and Dave Beaty.

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Artist for Dick Tracy Comic Strip

Dick Tracy, the comic strip, has been in constant publication since 1931. Created by Chester Gould, it was at one time the most popular and influential comic strip in the United States. Batman's rogues' gallery would be a bit more bland, I feel, without the DIck Tracy comic strip's own rogues showing how fun, visually creative, and truly unique a villain could be. You can read Dave & Writer Eric Costello's story in the GoComics.com archive.

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Artist and Co-Creator of Red Skirts

Meet Ensign Marianne "Merry" Meredith: a genetically engineered genius, former science-division prodigy, and a total disaster when it comes to social skills. After a minor administrative accident involving an undocumented alien lifeform and a very disgruntled tribunal, Merry finds herself stripped of her blue lab coat and handed a death sentence detail: reassignment to the GGC Audacity's toughest security squad.  

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