Background
His father, Douglas Akins, was a sign painter, graphic designer and pioneering African American cartoonist at the Chicago Defender through the 1940s to 1960s before becoming the paper"s Society Editor.
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Tony Akins
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Akins is a Chicago native of Afro-Caribbean/Irish ancestry. Educational information on Akins is limited. Although in interviews he has stated that he is autodidactic.
He has association with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago through its Company-Op program
He also taught at the School in the early 1990s. The only published work by Akins that shows evidence of this is in Comico Comics Red Dragon which was written by Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets) in 1992.
At Comico Akins also worked on Elementals, another Bill Willingham creation, as penciller and cover artist. Akins drew the first comic book adaption of Terminator for National Organization for Women Comics after a critically acclaim stint on Rust with writer Fred Schiller.
Foreign First Publishing (also in Chicago) he works on titles such as Mundan"s Bar and one of a rarefied cadre of guest artists on the venerable Mike Baron/Steve Rude series Nexus.
He returned to comics with Fables #22 as a guest artist. Landed on Hellblazer: Papa Midnight, a limited series for Vertigo, then returned to Fables for "War Stories" (which can be found in the Mean Season trade paperback) before the start-up of Jack of Fables. He has also signed on as the artist for issues #5 and 6 of Wonder Woman, in The New 52 series written by Brian Azzarello.
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Membership
Akins was a founding member of the "statiCCreeps", a shadow-guild of artist/creators that pioneered a hybrid of Japanese manga in mainstream American comics during the late 1980s to early 1990s.
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