About

Jun Kim
aka, Jun Bob Kim and Junkyeong Kim.

Born 1972. South Korea.

Even from early childhood, Jun Kim has been drawing on every blank surface he encountered, much to the dismay of his parents. Fearing his potential demise as a “starving artist”, his well-meaning parents initially discouraged his ever-growing ambition. Despite the absence of formal art education, the burning desire for drawing never left.

Throughout the learning years, every notebook, paper scraps, napkins (and even textbooks) were not spared from serving as his canvas. Jun’s early interests were mainly in illustrating sports cars, He-Man, Thundercats, monster trucks, and Man-hwa; however, his love of sequential art birthed with the purchase of his first American comic book – Uncanny X-Men #271.

When finally the parents’ blessing to attend an art institute came, circumstances diverted the artist to a liberal arts college instead. Determined to make lemonade out of lemon, Jun illustrated and designed every chance he had, serving as the editorial cartoonist for the school publication and the sole-commissioned artist for the college marketing. Jun Kim’s first sequential art project, a mini series named Holy War was published via the university newspaper in 1992. Upon his graduation in 1995 with a B.S. degree in Marketing and Business Administration, the project came to an abrupt ending with mere 8 published issues. Even with the limitations of the publishing format, Holy War received an honorable mention at the Regional Collegiate Publishing Award.

After an eight year hiatus from the comics world, Jun Kim picked up the drawing tools once again in 2002 with full determination to make his mark in the world of comics. Since then, he was one of the final three artist considered by Marvel for EPIC’s Phantom Jack project, have illustrated several covers, and continues the art chore on Kevin Grevioux’ Darkstorm Studio project The Viewers. Based out of East Texas, he tries to balance his comics workload with his wife and 8 years old son, a full time job, freelance graphics and multimedia design, church and art commissions.