Jon Sommariva started his professional career as a 3D artist and animator, but he always had a passion and desire to someday draw comic books. It wasn’t long before the chance to make this dream a reality presented itself. In 2002, Jon was offered his first professional gig drawing a back-up story in Jay Faerbers Noble Causes for Image comics. Jon quit his comfortable day job and the journey to become a freelance comic book artist began.
Jon is an Aussie artist, born and working from Sydney, Australia. In 2002 and 2003 he spent some time living in Chicago working with studio mates Skottie Young and Greg Titus. It was around this time that Jon illustrated a Star Wars Tales story and was also working on Go Boy 7 for Dark Horse comics. Go boy 7 was the flagship book for Dark Horses Rocket comics line. Go Boy 7 was also optioned by Disney and Jon was hired to do some design work for the animated series. Unfortunately the show never made it out of development.
Following Go Boy 7, Jon decided to try some creator owned comic work. He teamed up with his old friend Jay Faerber and they co-created Gemini for Image comics. So far there have been 4 issues of Gemini, with issue 5 in the works. Jon also worked on the comic book version of Sony’s popular online game Free Realms. The comic was published by Wildstorm/ DC comics. A collected edition of all 6 issues he worked on has just been released in November 2010.
Aside from his regular comic book work, Jon has been keeping busy on a number of projects including: work with Jeff Matsuda and X-Ray Kid studios, design work for animation, children’s book illustrations and also some Marvel sketch cards for Upperdeck. He has also self-published his own art book which is titled: Ozmosis Chills. Book One has sold out, but Jon will have copies of Ozmosis Chills II available at Supanova.
Jon looks forward to seeing all his fans at both the Brisbane and Melbourne shows and will be appearing each Saturday 10.30am to 5.30pm and each Sunday 11am to 5pm.
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