title: Stan Woch
text: # Stan Woch
  
  Stan Woch (born July 8, 1959) is an American comics artist who has worked on comic strips and comic books.
  
  ## Career
  
  After attending the Pratt Institute and The Kubert School, Stan Woch's early career included work as an assistant to Gray Morrow on the Barbara Cartland Romances and Buck Rogers comic strips. He then worked in the comic book industry as a penciller and inker. His first work for DC Comics was published in New Talent Showcase #1 (Jan. 1984).
  
  His credits as a penciller include the 1980s Airboy series for Eclipse Comics as well as DC Comics' Swamp Thing and World's Finest Comics. He was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series and he drew part of the "Fables & Reflections" collection of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman series. His credits as an inker include the Airboy series, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, Black Orchid, Doom Patrol, and the Robin continuing series. Woch's last new work in the comics industry was published in 1999.
  
  ## Awards and nominations
  
  His work received a nomination for the 1986 Jack Kirby Award for Best Single Issue for Swamp Thing #43 with Alan Moore.
  
  