Biography

Ben Templesmith was born 7th of March 1978, he attended the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia when he was seventeen and graduated with a Bachelor in Design degree, majoring in Illustration, in 1998. After graduating he worked as a freelance artist for several years until he produced his own commercial work in 2002 on Todd McFarlane's Hellspawn. He has gone on to create his own original works as well as contribute to many licensed properties at various publishers, most notably, Image Comics and IDW Publishing, with which he had an exclusive agreement through most of 2008 and part of 2009.

Since early 2008 Templesmith lives in San Diego, California.

He is left-handed. He has two cats.

Ben Templesmith's works

Hellspawn (artist, Image Comics, 2002)
30 Days of Night (co-creator & artist, with Steve Niles, IDW Publishing, 2002)
Dark Days (co-creator & artist, with Steve Niles, IDW Publishing, 2003)
Criminal Macabre (artist, with Steve Niles, Dark Horse Comics, 2003)
Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse (creator & writer/artist, LOFI Magazine, 2004-2006, IDW Publishing, 2006-present)
30 Days of Night: Return to Barrow (co-creator & artist, with Steve Niles, IDW Publishing, 2004)
Singularity 7 (creator & writer/artist, IDW Publishing, 2004)
Blood-Stained Sword (co-creator & artist, IDW Publishing, 2004)
Silent Hill: Dying Inside (artist, with Scott Ciencin, IDW Publishing, 2004)
30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales (co-creator & artist, with Matt Fraction, IDW Publishing, 2004-2005)
Hatter M (artist, with Frank Beddor and Liz Cavalier, Image Comics, 2004-2006)
Shadowplay (co-creator & artist, IDW Publishing, 2005)
Fell (co-creator & artist, with Warren Ellis, Image Comics, 2005-present)
30 Days of Night: Red Snow (co-creator & writer/artist, IDW Publishing, 2007)
Dead Space (artist, with Antony Johnston, 2008, Image Comics)
Welcome To Hoxford (creator & writer/artist, IDW Publishing, 2008)
Doctor Who - The Whispering Gallery (artist, with Leah Moore & John Reppion, 2009)