Brian Haberlin

Brian Haberlin is an American comic book artist, writer, editor and producer. He is best known as the co-creator of the Witchblade franchise and for his digital art style.

Career

Brian Haberlin earned his MA at Loyola Marymount University, and started his career at Lorimar/Warner Brothers Television, but eventually gave up his job at Warner Brothers in order to pursue a career in comics at Top Cow Productions, where he served as Vice President of Creative Affairs. There he co-created Witchblade, prompted by the lack of realistic female superheroes in comics. The Witchblade franchise has since expanded to include multiple spin-offs, a live action television series, an anime, and an upcoming film adaptation.

Haberlin formed his own studio in 1995, producing commercial illustrations and digitally coloring for Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Image Comics. He then started Avalon Studios with Whilce Portacio in 1998. Avalon Studios published Stone, a fantasy series which incorporated elements of Filipino mythology,Area 52, a science fiction title set to be adapted into a feature film, with a tentative release date of 2013, and M-Rex, which has been adapted into the successful Cartoon Network series Generator Rex.