Chris Burnham
Chris Burnham – Aritist, DAYS MISSING
Chris Burnham is a Chicago-based comic artist, illustrator, animator and designer. He was born in Connecticut, raised in Pittsburgh and graduated Summa Cum Laude from The George Washington University with a major in Electronic Media and minors in Marketing, Finance and Fine Arts.
Career highlights from his near-decade of professional experience include being the in-house art director of The House Theatre of Chicago for over six years, animating cereal commercials for Trix & Lucky Charms, creating JumboTron races for the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Phoenix Suns, providing chapter illustrations for the superheroic fiction anthology Who Can Save Us Now?, illustrating three exhibits at the Spertus Children’s Museum in Chicago, co-creating the critically acclaimed graphic novel Nixon’s Pals, and achieving his life-long ambition of drawing comics for a living. Selected comics work includes X-Men: Divided We Stand, X-Men: Manifest Destiny, Boston Blackie: Bloody Shame, Fear Agent and Elephantmen. His latest work is the Marvel Mystery Comics 70th Anniversary Special, where he had the opportunity of drawing the Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch teaming up to fight Nazi robots.
Burnham is a company member of The House Theatre of Chicago, a founding member of Ten Ton Studios, and a loving uncle.