Benjamin Zhang Bin Explained

Zhang Bin 本杰明
Birth Date:	16 May 1974
Birth Place:	Heilongjiang, China
Notable Works:	Orange Remember

Zhang Bin (Chinese: s=张彬; born May 16, 1974) is a mainland Chinese manhua artist and illustrator, who works under the pen name "Benjamin" (Chinese: 本杰明).

Zhang has done variant covers for Marvel Comics^[1] and illustrations for the music video to "J'aimerais tellement" with French popstar Jena Lee and the cover for that song's parent album Vous Remercier.

Zhang generally works in digital painting using a pen with a graphics tablet and image editing software (e.g. Corel Painter).

Selected works

Comics

• One Day (2002)
• Remember (2004)
• Orange (2006)
• Savior (2010)

One-shots and additional works

• Seven Swords (2007)
• Sky Doll Lacrima Christi #1 (Marvel, 2010)

Covers

Comics covers

• X-Men Origins: Emma Frost (Marvel, 2009)
• New Mutants #1-2, #4 (Marvel, 2009)

Album covers

• Vous Remercier (2009), by Jena Lee

Art Books

• Io: Art of the Wired (2004)
• Flash (2008)

Music Videos

• J'aimerais tellement by Jena Lee (2009)
• Je me perds by Jena Lee (2009)

External links

• Zhang's Blog
• Zhang Bin at Xiao Pan
• Zhang Bin at Comicvine
• Zhang Bin at Lambiek

Interviews

• Interview by About.com
• Interview by Paul Gravett

Notes and References

1. http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.7662.New_Mutants_%231_Benjamin_Variant_Unveiled New Mutants #1 Zhang Variant Unveiled