Thomas Yeates
Thomas Yeates is an American comic strip and comic book artist best known for illustrating the comic strips Prince Valiant and Zorro and for working on characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Early life
Thomas Yeates was born in Sacramento, California and began drawing at a young age. He attended Utah State University for two years.Career
Yeates was part of the first graduating class from The Kubert School. His first published comics work was "Preacher" a five-page backup feature in Sgt. Rock #312. He provided spot illustrations for a Batman prose story in Detective Comics #500 written by Walter B. Gibson, longtime writer of The Shadow. Yeates and Jack C. Harris briefly revived Claw the Unconquered as a backup feature in The Warlord #48–49. "Dragonsword" was a backup feature by Paul Levitz and Yeates which appeared in The Warlord #51–54. In 1982, Yeates and writer Martin Pasko revived Swamp Thing in a new series titled Saga of the Swamp Thing. Timespirits was created by Stephen Perry and Yeates for the Epic Comics line. In 1987, he drew a comics adaptation of Captain EO for Eclipse Comics, with stereoscopy effects by Ray Zone. In 1989, Amazing Heroes named the comic the third best 3D comic of all time, praising Yeates' artwork. Neil Gaiman asked him to draw The Sandman but Yeates declined the offer.Yeates drew the Universe X: Beasts and Universe X: Cap one-shots for Marvel in 2001. On April 1, 2012, Yeates began drawing the Prince Valiant comic strip, replacing Gary Gianni.
Yeates collaborated with Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier on the Groo vs. Conan crossover for Dark Horse Comics in 2014.