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Michael Jay "Mike" Harris (born 1962) is an American comic book artist who was active in the industry from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Harris was able to use his personal interests in weapons and martial arts to establish himself as an illustrator for characters like The Punisher and G.I. Joe, and titles like ''Cops: The Job'', and ''No Escape''. ==Biography== Harris attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School ('79) where he studied under Frank McCourt and School of Visual Arts, where he studied under Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Marshall Arisman, and Gil Stone;〔(Harris entry, ) ''Who's Who of American Comic Books'', 1928–1999.〕 Harris's influences included J. C. Leyendecker, Heinrich Kley, and Neal Adams.〔 Breaking into the industry in 1985, Harris worked as a fill-in artist on several Marvel Comics titles, such as ''Web of Spider-Man'', ''The 'Nam'', ''Nomad'', and ''Nova: Deathstorm''. Harris (with writer David Michelinie) co-created the Spider-Man enemies Chance and Foreigner, both in ''Web of Spider-Man'' #15 (June 1986). Later, Harris contributed to ''Punisher War Zone'', and ''Punisher War Journal'', and illustrated the Marvel limited series ''Cops: The Job'', ''No Escape'', and ''Dragon Strike''. During the 1980s, before becoming a Marvel Comics regular, Harris also freelanced for DC Comics (where he illustrated, among others, ''All-Star Squadron''), Comico, Deluxe Comics, Eclipse Comics, Fantagraphics, First Comics, and Harris Publications. In the mid-1990s, Harris worked for Tekno Comix/Big Entertainment on such titles as ''Lost Universe'' and ''Lady Justice''. During this period Harris also did some G.I. Joe mini-comics, which were packaged with the toys; and illustrated a Magnus, Robot Fighter trading card for Valiant Comics. Leaving comic books in 1997, Harris moved on to the computer game and animation industries. He has had no significant credits since 1999. Harris was commissioned as an armored cavalry officer in 1988, and is proficient with a variety of small arms, armor weapons and demolitions. He is also a martial arts student, having studied judo, aikido, Taekwondo, and T'ang Soo Do.〔Harris bio, ''Punisher: The Prize'' (Marvel Comics, 1990).〕 He has served in a variety of positions with the Army Reserve and National Guard, and was assessed to the Active Guard Reserve program in 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Harris (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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