Michael Cho is an illustrator, cartoonist and occasional writer based in Toronto, Canada.

Using bold strokes and a vintage sensibility he renders some of our favorite comic book characters that seem to pop off the page.

If you are a fan of the legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby and DC: The New Frontier’s artist Darwyn Cooke, then the vibrant work of Michael Cho will be right up your alley!

Comic-Con International revealed the art for this year’s Souvenir Book at a special event co-sponsored with the CBLDF. The event, part of Will Eisner Week, was held at the Society of Illustrators in New York City on Wednesday, March 4. The CCI/CBLDF event was part of an ongoing series of education programs offered by the two organizations.

This year’s book features an incredible cover by illustrator Michael Cho (whose book, Shoplifter, was one of the best reviewed graphic novels of 2014), celebrating the legacy of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Eisner’s character debuted in 1940 as a Sunday newspaper supplement and in its heyday reached over 5 million readers each week. Eisner ended the strip in 1952, but it went on to have an amazing afterlife in both reprints and new stories, starting in the 1960s and continuing through today. It’s a testament to Eisner’s work that The Spirit has stood the test of time and continues to entertain and inspire fans, readers, comic creators, and filmmakers. Eisner’s vivid and cinematic storytelling, rich with characterization, wit, and just plain great drawing, is as enjoyable today as when it was first published.

In addition to cover artist Michael Cho, the event featured artists John Cassaday (Star Wars), Paul Pope (Battling Boy), and editor Charles Kochman (Abrams ComicArts, editor of the upcoming book, Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel by Paul Levitz), in conversation with CBLDF executive director Charles Brownstein (whose book Eisner/Miller featured a long interview between Will and Frank Miller). The panelists discussed Eisner’s ongoing influence and inspiration for creators and why he is considered one of the masters of comic art. Eisner would have been 98 years old on March 6. He died in 2005, creating new graphic novels up until the very end. Will Eisner Week is an annual celebration in March promoting graphic novel literacy, sequential art, free speech awareness, and the legacy of Will Eisner.

The Comic-Con International Souvenir Book is a full-color, keepsake trade paperback that is published each year and given free to all attendees at the event (while supplies last). Comic-Con International 2015 will be held July 9-12 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Michael Cho will create a unique variant cover for 24 of their titles in the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe. The celebrated artist will deliver exclusive covers that will see a slew of characters transform “into Pop objects while still maintaining their individual personalities as characters,” according to Marvel Senior Vice President, Executive Editor Tom Brevoort.

The covers can be found as variants for the following titles:

– A-Force #3
– All-New Wolverine #5
– All-New, All-Different Avengers #5
– Amazing Spider-Man #7
– The Astonishing Ant-Man #5
– Captain Marvel #2
– Daredevil #4
– Doctor Strange #5
– Guardians of Infinity #3
– All-New Hawkeye #4
– Howard The Duck #4
– Invincible Iron Man #6
– The Mighty Thor #4
– Ms. Marvel #4
– Old Man Logan #2
– Rocket Raccoon & Groot #2
– Scarlet Witch #3
– Spider-Gwen #5
– Spider-Man #1
– The Totally Awesome Hulk #3
– The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #5
– Uncanny Inhumans #5
– Venom: Space Knight #4
– Vision #4

French Paper Art Club and Geek-Art are proud to release this gorgeous screenprint officially licenced through DC Comics. Michael Cho knocked it out of the park with his vintage take on The Man of Steel.

Available tomorrow (Wednesday February 24, 2016) on French Paper Art Club.

Michael Cho shared this about the print:“I’ve always liked that old tagline about Superman – that he stood for ‘Truth, Justice and the American Way’.  I like positive, optimistic super-heroes and Superman is just about the best example of that, so I was trying to present that attitude in this painting.”

Superman: Truth, Justice and The American Way
By Michael Cho
4 color screenprint
Limited Edition of 120
Size: 17’x24′
DC Comics Officially Licensed
40 euros

WonderCon Anaheim 2017 special guest Michael Cho is the illustrator behind this year’s amazing WCA Program Book cover. And best of all, you can wear it, too!

This year’s cover/T-shirt combo includes the original, Silver Age incarnations of some of TV’s most popular superheroes, including (clockwise from upper left) Rip Hunter, Time Master, Supergirl, Green Arrow, The Flash, Black Canary, and J’onn J’onzz, Manhunter from Mars. Modern day versions of these DC Comics heroes appear on the CW each week, in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, Arrow, and The Flash.

Cho is best known for his variant cover work on titles such as Marvel’s Civil War II, and his covers for DC’s graphic novel collections of Golden and Silver Age stories, such as the Flash, Justice League of America, Superman, Batman, and many more. He’s also the writer/illustrator of the graphic novel, Shoplifter, published by Pantheon in 2014. Michael will have a table in WonderCon’s Artists’ Alley this year, so make sure and stop by and get your book signed! Michael’s art will also be featured in an ad for the convention appearing in DC Comics publications during the month of March.

This year’s official WonderCon Anaheim T-shirt will be available for sale at the show only. Cho’s design (shown below) is just one of three official WCA 2017 shirts that will be offered this year.

This Wednesday, Bottleneck Gallery is taking a stroll down Crime Alley with Michael Cho’s newest Batman print!

Michael’s print, which originally appeared as the cover to Batman: The Golden Age Volume 3, features the classic, Golden Age comics aesthetic for everybody’s favorite dynamic duo, Batman and Robin! Michael’s comic art, and his covers for the Batman: The Golden Age volumes combine and intertwine past comic art and modern comic art in wonderful ways, and the gallery is happy to be able to offer this officially licensed print!

Also, be on the lookout for a brand new collaboration between Michael, Vice Press and Bottleneck that will be on sale at Thought Bubble.

Michael’s print will be available for purchase Wednesday September 5, 2018 at 12PM ET at bottleneckgallery.com!

Batman: The Golden Age Vol III by Michael Cho
Fine art giclée
16 x 20 inches
Hand-numbered edition of 125
$45

With it being Batman Day there seemed no better time than to announce the latest collaboration with Bottleneck Gallery; Batman and Robin by Michael Cho!

Vice Press will be bringing the “Thought Bubble Edition” to their tables in the “Ask For Mercy” Marquee at Thought Bubble next weekend, Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd of September!

There will also be another edition available at an upcoming show overseas. Stay tuned for more information on that.

Batman and Robin by Michael Cho
Thought Bubble Edition of 80
40x50cm
£20

Bottleneck Gallery will release Detective Comics Volume 2 #1000 cover prints by Michael Cho tomorrow. The poster features a myriad of Batmen! The Caped Crusader’s had a long history of alternate Batties, and Michael’s brought them all together. Michael’s art is brilliantly bright, and features a gorgeous Golden Age comic aesthetic.

The prints will be available for purchase Friday May 10th at 12PM ET HERE.

Detective Comics Vol. 2 #1000 by Michael Cho
Giclee print
16 x 24 inches
Hand-numbered edition of 150
$40

Detective Comics Vol. 2 #1000
Blue Variant by Michael Cho
Giclee print
16 x 24 inches
Hand-numbered edition of 75
$45

Detective Comics Vol. 2 #1000
Yellow Variant by Michael Cho
Giclee print
16 x 24 inches
Hand-numbered edition of 40
$50

As part of this year’s Comic-Con@Home, Mondo will release this vibrant X-Men: Children of The Atom Print by Michael Cho on Sunday, July 26. The print will be available at mondoshop.com/comic-con.

X-Men: Children of the Atom
Screenprinted poster by Michael Cho
18″ x 24″ Screenprinted poster
Edition of 175
$50

Award-winning artist Michael Cho will bring some of Marvel’s most iconic heroes to life on a series of extraordinary variant covers this March. Done in his trademark two-tone style, these vibrant covers capture Marvel’s heroes at their most timeless versions. The two-tone variant covers will grace your favorite ongoing series this March, featuring one-of-a-kind depictions of Ant-Man, Wasp, Black Panther, Captain America, Black Widow, Doctor Strange, Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor, and Spider-Woman.

“It was a privilege and a joy to draw iconic images of the classic Marvel heroes, in the way that I remembered them from childhood,” Cho said.

Check out the covers below collect all ten Michael Cho Two-Tone variant covers when they arrive at your local comic shop this March!

Face front, True Believers! This week Mondo has two new Marvel posters focused on characters celebrating major birthday milestones in 2021.

First is a powerful Captain America poster from Phantom City Creative. The good Captain turns 80 years old this year, but you’d never know it since the First Avenger can still wield Mjolnir with the mightiest of them all. Next up is the new poster by Michael Cho for the Fantastic Four who are celebrating 60 years of being Marvel’s first family and the world’s greatest comic magazine.

Both posters on sale Friday 1/22 at 11am Central on The Drop.

Avengers: Endgame – Captain America Screenprinted Poster
Art by Phantom City Creative
24″x36″
Edition of 300
$55

Fantastic Four Screenprinted Poster
Art by Michael Cho
24″x36″
Edition of 250
$60.

What happens when Earth’s Mightiest Heroes learn who—and what—they truly are?

It starts with an epic battle in Asgard, as Loki, the god of mischief, comes into possession of a weapon of unimaginable power and assembles an army of otherworldly monsters in an effort to carry out his evil plans. Cue the Avengers—Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Giant-Man, and the Wasp—who meet this horrifying throng of beasts head-on as a thrilling, knock-down drag-out fight ensues. But when the smoke clears, what appears to be a typically raucous comic book take-down is revealed to be something very, very different—and very, very terrifying. And this discovery threatens to destroy the Avengers in a way that Loki or any other foe never has before. Because this time the enemy is . . . the Truth.

Writer Chip Kidd and artist Michael Cho have created a mind-bending, visually sumptuous saga that takes the Avengers—and you, the reader—to places that challenge everything we thought we knew about super heroes and the very nature of heroism . . . villainy . . . and existence.

Oh, and did we mention that it’s absolutely hilarious?

Welcome to The Veracity Trap, a truly profound, thought-provoking conundrum of a comic, where no one—not even the Avengers—can escape!

The book will be released on May 13, 2025 and you can pre-order it HERE.