Daniel Spencer Hipp is an American

United States

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 comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 author

Comic book creator

A comic book creator is someone who creates a comic book or graphic novel.The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S...

 and illustrator.

Biography

In 2004 Dan Hipp caught the attention of Image Comics

Image Comics

Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

 Publisher Erik Larsen

Erik Larsen

Erik J. Larsen is an American comic book writer, artist and publisher. He is best known for his work on Savage Dragon, as one of the founders of Image Comics, and for his work on Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.-Early life:...

 and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Mark Andrew Smith's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy Buzzards

Amazing Joy Buzzards

The Amazing Joy Buzzards is a comic book series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Dan Hipp. The Amazing Joy Buzzards was first published in January 2005 by Image Comics.The Amazing Joy Buzzards ran as two limited series...

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In 2007 Dan Hipp wrote and drew his three volume creator owned series from Tokyopop

Tokyopop

Tokyopop, styled TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx, is a distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa, and Western manga-style works. The existing German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga, as well...

titled Gyakushu!. Gyakushu has been reprinted into Italian by publisher Renior Comics.