# Challenge - Identify the comic artist
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-identify-the-comic-artist/680157
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 30, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-identify-the-comic-artist/680157 "2014-01-30T19:49:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-identify-the-comic-artist/680157/1 "2014-01-30T19:49:48Z")
The Straight Dope is pretty hot at movies and novels, but let’s see how you do at comic artists! Years ago at a tiny comic convention, I got a Batman sketch from an artist - I came across the sketch again today and would like to know who that was. It likely wasn’t a big name, given the size of the convention.
There is a signature on the picture, but the last name is indecipherable to me. I have it posted here :
> **[Unknown Artist - Identification Sought](https://candid-gamera.tumblr.com/post/75070862535/unknown-artist-identification-sought)**
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> So, I am off of work today due to a power outage, and I'm going through some old boxes of stuff, sorting and organizing, and I have come across a sketch I got from a comic artist at a dinky little...
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### Author:  [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-identify-the-comic-artist/680157/2 "2014-01-30T19:57:02Z")
I think it might be [Scott Hampton.](http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/bernie-wrightson-scott-hampton-sketch.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-identify-the-comic-artist/680157/3 "2014-01-30T22:01:12Z")
Dang, that took 8 whole minutes! Next time come back with a real challenge!
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/challenge-identify-the-comic-artist/680157/4 "2014-01-31T14:09:17Z")
Somebody on Tumblr got it in no time flat, too! I am suitably impressed.