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Line 30: ==Career== ===Early work=== Hughes, who had no formal training in art,<ref name=NJ.com/> began his career in 1987.<ref name=WonderCon/><ref name=HughesSketching3>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ByScmtlicI "Adam Hughes Sketching 3"]. YouTube. August 21, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2010</ref> His first comic book work was a pinup in ''Eagle'' #6. He penciled two short stories and the first issue of ''[[Death Hawk]]'', created by [[Mark Ellis (American author)|Mark Ellis]]. In 1988 Hughes became the penciller on writer [[Mike W. Barr]]'s detective series ''[[Maze Agency]]'', as his portfolio bore samples of both that series and [[Mike Gustovich]]'s ''[[Justice Machine]]''. ''Maze Agency'', published by [[Comico: The Comic Company|Comico]], and edited by [[Michael Eury]], became Hughes' first regular series and his first color work. Despite wanting to draw action-oriented superhero stories at the time, he credits his work on ''Maze Agency'', whose scripts Barr composed in the [[full script]] format, with improving his skill and confidence at storytelling. In a 2004 interview, he stated that this work also developed his preference for character-oriented stories over action-oriented ones, both as an artist and a writer. Hughes' interior pencils were inked by Eury's longtime friend [[Rick Magyar]], and because Hughes aspired to ink his own work one day, he took Barr's suggestion that he produce pinups on each issue's back cover as an advertisement for the next issue to practice inking his own pencils. It was around this time that Hughes switched to inking with a brush on the advice of [[Dave Stevens]] when Stevens looked at Hughes' samples.<ref name=BackIssue2>{{cite journal|author =[[Eury, Michael]]|title = Pro2Pro: Barr and Hughes revisit: ''The Maze Agency''|journal = [[Back Issue!]]|issue = 2|pages = 7–27|publisher = [[TwoMorrows Publishing]] After two years of providing background art or interior pencils on independent books, writer/artist Willingham introduced Hughes to [[Andy Helfer]], the editor on the [[DC Comics]] series ''[[Justice League America]]''. Helfer was impressed by Hughes' portfolio and asked Hughes to contact him when his contract expired. A few months later, after Comico went out of business, Helfer contacted Hughes, hiring him initially to draw inventory covers for issues like ''[[Mister Miracle]]'' #19, one of Hughes' favorite creations by [[Jack Kirby]]. Hughes was then made the regular artist on ''[[Justice League America]]'', with issue #31 being his first published DC Comics work.<ref name=ComicVine2.11/><ref>Hughes (2010). p. 8.</ref> At the time he began on that book, he was still working at a comics shop two days a week.<ref>Hughes (2010). Back cover.</ref> He continued doing covers and interior art on the title for two years, before switching to providing covers only.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbr.com/wc11-the-art-of-the-cover/ |title=WC11: The Art of the Cover|last=Sikula |first=Dave|website=[[Comic Book Resources]]|language=en-US|url-status=live|date=April 23, 2011|access-date=February 22, 2022|archivedate=March 24, 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324203427/https://www.cbr.com/wc11-the-art-of-the-cover/}}</ref> | |||