Ben Caldwell is a cartoonist who has worked in a variety of art and design fields over the past decade, including toy design, animation development, children's book illustration, and comic book illustration. Most of his work has been for Toybiz, on projects including The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

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, Spider-Man

Spider-Man

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, the X-Men

X-Men

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, WCW, and Harry Potter

Harry Potter

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. He has contributed to Justice League Unlimited

Justice League Unlimited

Justice League Unlimited is an American animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the...

 covers, Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

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 children's books, and Star Wars: Clone Wars

Star Wars: Clone Wars (comics)

Star Wars: Clone Wars is a 9 volume series of trade paperbacks published by Dark Horse Comics between 2003 and 2006 that collect various comics dealing with the Clone Wars...

 comic art. His most widely known work is the Action! Cartooning series of 'how-to' books, while his Dare Detectives comic, nominated for the Russ Manning Award

Russ Manning Award

The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award is an American award presented to a comic book artist whose first professional work appeared within the previous two years. It was named after comic book artist Russ Manning...

 for Most Promising Newcomer in Cartooning in 2005, has received less commercial and critical attention.

Caldwell's recent cartoon/comic work includes the All-Action Classics comics, with Dracula

Dracula

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, Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the Town of "St...

, The Odyssey, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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, and The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

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. His most recent comic is an oversized Wonder Woman story, for DC Comics' Wednesday Comics

Wednesday Comics

Wednesday Comics was a weekly anthology comic book launched by DC Comics on July 8, 2009. The twelve issues of the title were published in 14" x 20" broadsheet format, deliberately similar to Sunday newspaper comics sections...

series (Mark Chiarello, ed.).

Ben Caldwell graduated from the Parsons School of Design for Illustration, and Eugene Lang College for Ancient History. He lives in New York with his wife, baby daughters, dog, and large collection of Chinese murder mysteries.He also wrote a series of graphic novels called the "Dare Detectives."