Ben Templesmith is an artist and writer most widely known for his work in the American comic book industry where he has received multiple nominations for the industry’s top prize, the Eisner Award.
As a comic artist his most notable works have been 30 Days of Night (which has now spawned a major motion picture) and Fell. His other projects include the critically acclaimed serial Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse which he also writes, as well as Hatter M, and Singularity 7.
He has also worked on the Star Wars, Army of Darkness, Silent Hill and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer properties and produces art and design for music bands, dvds, toys, and film concept work.
Ben was raised in Western Australia and earned a degree in Design from Curtin University. He currently lives in San Diego, California.
Reach him by email: contact @ templesmitharts dot com
Ben is not currently accepting commissions. Sorry.
Ben Templesmith is an artist and writer most widely known for his work in the American comic book industry where he has received multiple nominations for the industry’s top prize, the Eisner Award.
As a comic artist his most notable works have been 30 Days of Night (which has now spawned a major motion picture) and Fell. His other projects include the critically acclaimed serial Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse which he also writes, as well as Hatter M, and Singularity 7.
He has also worked on the Star Wars, Army of Darkness, Silent Hill and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer properties and produces art and design for music bands, dvds, toys, and film concept work.
Ben was raised in Western Australia and earned a degree in Design from Curtin University. He currently lives in San Diego, California.
Reach him by email: contact @ templesmitharts dot com
Ben is not currently accepting commissions. Sorry.
Been all over lately with no less than 5 people showing it to me the other day. Not least from Warrenellis.com.
And it looks cool. Yes, not all animation has to have singing dancing donkeys and be musicals aimed at people who only recently discovered that a toilet may be preferable to soiling themselves ( Though that demographic is constantly shifting upwards these days, I will give you that. )
Enjoy.
And what the hell, this one blows me away every time.
My precious arrived today.


The Third Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse TPB. ( Vol 01 going back to print, vol 02 almost sold out ) Look for Vol 03 out in a few months. This be the advance copy. Because I am special. Apparently.
Since I'm now based at IDW Publishing global headquarters, if you happen to order any book I've done off the IDW Publishing online store, from now on they should now come signed by me as well for no extra charge.
And damn, thanks to all who are picking my stuff up. Wormwood TPB just got another 2 printings. ( One is a special Sci-Fi book club edition, the other is simply because it sold out. ) Wormwood TPB volume 02 is sold out from IDW with only a few hundred left at Diamond. And it's not been out long.
Tommyrot, my art book is also sold out. ( The online store has maybe 4 left ) So it should also see a new printing shortly.
Doing a lot of stuff right now I'm excited as hell about, but alas, can't say or show what they are. Yet.
Will show some more Welcome to Hoxford stuff shortly. The rare luxury I have of having a little more time from the start of this one means I have a chance to do up decent cover work and promo stuff ( well at least to my mind! )
What he's done with the flags is brilliant. See more here.
"We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO." 
I warn you, this vid is nothing but swear words and naughty, nasty things.
So of course, I love it.
American health care isn't too hot. ( I'm being polite ) It's one thing to try and recover from a gun shot, it's another to have to worry about the hugely excessive medical bills that may destroy your life anyway. David Pirkola is a comics retailer who got shot shot while being robbed at his store last weekend. As with the case of Josh Medors and his cancer struggle, please give a little if you can.
I'm donating some 30 Days of Night original art pages for an ebay charity auction to be held at some point so look out for em.
Cleaning out my hard drive, and don't remember posting these up ( well, for a long while I couldn't ) But you may have seen these in various 30 Days of Night books around when the movie came out.
The beautiful Melissa George, as Stella. 
This here is Zurial. The visual is different to the Zurial I had named in the comic pitch vamp pinups I originally did, but at least the name made it in! And John was an awesome bloke, disturbingly suited to being a vamp.
He is THE Zurial, so it's his version that is in 30 Days of Night: Red Snow. 