Howard Chaykin

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Recent work in 2010 he wrote Die Hard: Year One, a comic about John McClane from the Die Hard series for Boom! Studios. Marvel in June 2010 published a Rawhide Kid miniseries drawn by Chaykin and written by Ron Zimmerman.
Chaykin wrote and drew the Avengers 1959 five-issue miniseries, a spinoff of a storyline introduced in The New Avengers. The first issue was released in October 2011. Chaykin helmed a reboot of the science-fiction character Buck Rogers beginning in August 2013, again in the capacity of both artist and writer. He continues to be active working for both DC and Marvel.

An American comic book artist who apprenticed under the legendary Neal Adams, working at Adams’ home in the Bronx led to his first work at DC Comics. Chaykin did some work for DC before moving to Marvel. He had his big break in 1976, when he landed the job of drawing the Marvel Comics adaptation of the first Star Wars film, the first ten issues Chaykin drew set the stage for the saga and well the rest is history.