Ken Branch a freelance illustrator for over 20 years. His back ground includes many different jobs, from working in a hospital during his school years to a life as a cartoonist. He went to school at the Joe Kubert School of Cartooning and Graphic Arts. After his schooling his path lead him into advertising for a few years and from there to New York where he worked at two different clothing design companies. He worked on an array of different clothing lines for companies such as Disney, Mattel’s Barbie, Eddie Bauer and many others.

Over the next few years he would work during the day and slowly started getting work as an inker in the comic book field which he did at night. He began working full-time for many comic companies as an inker in the early ‘90’s.  He worked on such titles as Justice League of America, Wonder Woman and Dark Stars for DC Comics, and various other titles for Marvel, Valiant and others.

In the Mid 1990’s the Comic book industry fell on hard times and he would found it necessary to broaden his horizons. His love of sports would then open a new and more challenging adventure, painting of sports memorabilia, painting portraits on such items as baseballs, bats, boxing gloves, etc. In the late 90’s he found a growing interest from clients for prints and original art to have athletes sign.  He began to attend many of the local Sport shows in the area and his work has been sought out by athletes and Companies alike. Over the last year he has worked for such companies as Stars and Pinstripes (Alfonso Soriano affiliated company) and All American Collectibles (known through out the Sports Industry as the top sports Art Company). Selling them a number of Original Paintings. He also painted Two Paintings of Alex Rodriguez for a meet and greet when A-Rod came to the Yankees. His reputation continues to impress and grow with each new year..

Branch’s artwork has graced the cover of a national published magazine The Comic Buyers Guide #1623 of the Justice League of America. In ‘07 he won a Spike Award for best graphic novel ‘28 Days Later’. He is currently working for Topps Card Company doing Sketch Cards for Heroes Season 2 (July ‘08 release) and MLB Baseball ( Oct. ’08) Indiana Jones Masterpiece (Dec. ’08), NBA Hardwood (Dec.’08) and Star Wars Galaxy(Jan ’09). Currently painting Topps Football and Baseball Chicle card sets.

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