DeMatteis and portions of Neil Gaiman's well-known Sandman comic-book epic, Muth also wrote and illustrated several original story arcs based on existing characters and published in their entirety as graphic novels, among them Dracula: A Symphony in Moonlight and Nightmares for Marvel Comics and Swamp Thing: Roots for DC Comics. In addition to developing and illustrating the groundbreaking Moonshadow series written by J. Muth began his professional career working as a comic-book illustrator, and quickly established himself as a talent in that field. Determined to expand his influences, Muth traveled throughout England, Austria, Germany, and Japan, studying not only drawing and painting, but also stone sculpture, sho (brush calligraphy), and printmaking in classes and as an apprentice. Muth debuted his paintings and drawings in a one-man invitational exhibit at age eighteen at Wilmington College. Muth's mother took her son to museums across the United States, exposing him to the works of a wide variety of paintings, prints, drawings, and other art forms. Muth inherited his passion for the graphic arts while growing up as the son of an art teacher.
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