Ben Stenbeck
Stenbeck in 2023
Nationality	New Zealander
Area	Cartoonist, Artist
Notable works	Baltimore Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder Koshchei Hellboy Our Bones Dust
www.benstenbeck.com

Ben Stenbeck is a New Zealand comic book creator, primarily an artist. He has frequently collaborated with Mike Mignola on stories for the Baltimore series and the Hellboy Universe, and co-created the Lands Unknown series with him.

Career

He started his comic book career in 2003 when he illustrated a short Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book story in the anthology Tales of the Vampires for Dark Horse Comics.^[1] In 2008, he made his Hellboy Universe debut when he illustrated a B.P.R.D. one-shot, The Ectoplasmic Man.^[2] Since then he has worked on several titles for the Hellboy Universe including Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder,^[3] Frankenstein Underground,^[4] Koshchei,^[5] and Hellboy.^[6]

In 2010, Mike Mignola and writer Christopher Golden chose Stenbeck to illustrate the comic book adaptation of their novel, Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire.^[7][8] He continued working on Baltimore over the next five years with his final story, The Wolf and the Apostle, coming out in late 2014.^[9]

Image Comics published his first creator owned comic, Our Bones Dust in 2023.^[10] As a first-time writer, he focused on telling the story through the art with long stretches of silence.^[11] In January 2025, the Lands Unknown series he co-created with Mike Mignola will be debuting in Bowling with Corpses & Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown from Dark Horse Comics.^[12]

He also worked as a concept artist on video games and films,^[13] being part of the design department of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies.^[14] In 2005, he directed a short film called Zombie Movie.^[15]

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