Larry Hama
Larry Hama was born in June, 1949 in New York City. Originally planning on a career in cartooning or fashion design, Hama attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, where he majored in advertising art and illustration. Some of his earliest writing jobs were doing scripts for Sally Forth and Cannon over Wally Wood plots. Hama's comic book career began with an eight-page story in DC's Secrets of the Sinister House, which was inked by Neal Adams. He worked at Neal Adam's Continuity studios drawing storyboards and did work cartooning, as an illustrator and an ad-artist (Hama would end up working on the first American Nintendo print ad campaign). Mr. Hama spent a long stint at Marvel Comics from the 1970s-1990s, penciling numerous comics including Ka-Zar, John Carter and Moon Knight. Despite the fact that he considered himself an artist first, and a writer secondary, Hama made his mark on the industry as a scripter when Marvel Comics acquired the license to produce a comic book based on Hasbro's revived G.I. Joe line. Mr. Hama is largely credited for the invention of the G.I. Joe mythos as it is known today, creating characters such as Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow and Cobra Commander. More recently, Mr. Hama brought these characters back to the animated world by scripting the CGI movie, GI JOE: Spy Troops. Today, Mr. Hama continues to write for both comics and movies, and his fans highly anticipate the release of his most recent film, All Ages Night.Source: www.comicskins.com
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