Paul Smith

Paul Smith is an American comic book artist, known for his work on The Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, American Flagg!, Nexus, GrimJack and his creator-owned book, Leave It to Chance. He began his career as an animation artist on Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings. In the early 1980s, he filled in on a variety of Marvel Comics titles. He became the regular artist on Doctor Strange starting with issue #56, cover dated December 1982, but left after just two issues so that he could work on The Uncanny X-Men. A few months after leaving The Uncanny X-Men, Smith returned to Doctor Strange for seven issues. Over the subsequent years Smith would return numerous times to work on various books of the X-Men franchise. His other works include The Golden Age and the young adults comic Leave It to Chance, both collaborations with writer James Robinson.