Every day this month I'm going to feature a current comic book art "star," someone whose work I absolutely love.

I'm mostly going to try to keep from the biggest names as much as possible, because, really, do I need to talk more about the awesomeness of JH Williams, Frank Quitely and Darwyn Cooke? Here's the archive of the artists mentioned so far!

In honor of not re-inventing the wheel, this is basically a reprinting of a Comic Book Alphabet of Cool bit I did awhile back.

Enjoy!

Pete Woods originally broke into the comic industry in the mid 90s, working as an intern at Wildstorm. While at Wildstorm, he had the chance to do fill-in work here and there. I remember seeing his work on an issue of Warren Ellis' Stormwatch and thinking, "I've never heard of this guy, but he's actually pretty good."

Stormwatch got him work on Backlash...

Perhaps based off of his Stormwatch (or Backlash) work, Woods did a fill-in stint on Ellis' former title, Excalibur.

Not Woods' best work, but it got him his next gig, a nice run on Deadpool with Joe Kelly.

Woods even drew the acclaimed Deadpool #11, which is not in any trade paperback collections by Marvel, which is weird, because it was one of the strongest Marvel issues of the 90s.

After Deadpool, Woods went to DC, where he really established himself as the artist on Robin.

On Robin, Woods went from being a good artist to being a great artist, drawing the book for almost FIFTY issues (with very few missed issues - if any, I don't recall any offhand, but I figure he had to take AN issue off here and there, right?).

From Robin, Woods went to Detective Comics.

Then he did a short stint on Catwoman leading up to One Year Later.

Woods helped bring Superman back from One Year Later.

A DC exclusive artist now, Woods' tenure at DC, which should have been on a major upswing, instead hit a bit of a down note.

First, Woods reunited with his Catwoman partner, Will Pfeifer, to do Amazons Attack, which was one of the most panned series of 2007 (Woods' art was still very good, though!).

Then Woods did a few issues of Countdown to Final Crisis.

Then he began working on Infinity, Inc. Inc. for about five issues before it was inevitably cancelled (not said as an insult of the book, but come on, when you have to completely retool a book FIVE ISSUES IN, it usually is not a great sign of longevity).

This is disheartening, because Pete Woods is one of the best artists DC has, and I'd love to see him do high profile work again. It's bizarre, and more than a bit annoying, to see a guy do the standard "do small stuff then work your way up to big stuff" journey, only to go right back down to small stuff.

Now DC seems to be mostly using him on special projects, which is fair enough, but this guy is amazing, and I'd really love to see some high-profile stuff from him - an extended run, perhaps.

Here is the website of his Studio, Periscope Studios and here is his personal website.