Happy Birthday Jan Duursema!!!

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After a contribution to Heavy Metal in 1979, Jan Duursema received her first steady job drawing issues of Sgt. Rock.
She went on to create Arion, Lord of Atlantis with Paul Kupperberg in an issue of Warlord (#55) which led to his own ongoing series of which Jan drew most of the 35 issue run.

She worked on the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons comic for 3 years straight, while continuing to do work here and there for DC and Marvel.
She worked with John Ostrander on Hawkman and Hawkworld and again with Ostrander on the Nightwing chapters of DC Tangent Universe.
She pencilled a few issues of the Hulk and had work on various X-Projects, including a few arcs on X-Factor.

Her most notable work however, was over at Dark Horse.
Jan Duursema became the go-to Star Wars artist for Dark Horse after drawing issue #2 of Chewbacca.
She re-teamed with past collaborator John Ostrander, drawing close to 100 issues of Star Wars comics for the company, including two very popular Darth Maul mini series with Ron Marz.
As she was working on Episode I prequels before the movie came out, aspects of her work were used in the film, especially the wildly popular Aayla Secura and her sometimes partner Quinlan Vos.

Lucasfilm entrusted both Ostrander and Duursema to create the expanded Legacy timeline of the Star Wars Universe, taking place 130 years after Episode IV.
She also inspired a Star Wars character based on her appearance and personality, a Jedi named Ur-Sema Du.

Duursema is a graduate of the Kubert School, where she met her husband and fellow comic artist Tom Mandrake.

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http://www.bornglorious.com/person/?pi=/m/0266_v0

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Spider-Man & Mary Jane

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Marvel Girl

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X-Factor Vol.1 #108: Pencils, by Jan Duursema

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http://every-day-is-special.blogspot...-duursema.html

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X-Factor #109 pg. 8: Pencils by Jan Duursema

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UXM #305 cover

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Phenomenal artist, her work was a highlight when I was reading my way through the 90s X-Men comics. Her Polaris is my favourite of any artist, but she drew the heck out of everything!

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https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/10...-frank-miller/

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From Uncanny X-Men #305. Pencils by Jan Duursema
Outside Opal's home, Rogue, Bishop & Iceman fight off a group of armored soldiers whom Cerebro detected as genetic anomalies,

each of whom collapses into a chemical ooze upon defeat.
Aboard the Blackbird, the X-Men attempt to interrogate one of the soldiers they captured,

but when he refuses to talk, Rogue touches him,

causing her body to mutate horribly to mimic.

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Is there a colored version of the above depicted Marvel Girl and Cyclops image or is it only in black and white.

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Is there a colored version of the above depicted Marvel Girl and Cyclops image or is it only in black and white.

Oh that is a commission she finally found the time to do for me last year so only black and white

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You got a commision piece from Jan Duursema?