Biografía
Thony Silas Dias de Aguiar, better known popularly as Thony Silas, is a Brazilian illustrator and comic book artist who has stood out in the US market for his work at Marvel and DC Comics publishers with some of their main icons. He has also worked for the Valiant Comics imprint, primarily as a cover artist. Born in the Brazilian town of Recife, Pernanmbuco, he has an unmistakable style, in which his dynamism and kinetics stand out. He began his career as an assistant to some illustrators in the year 2000. His early international publications included titles like Contract, The Cheng Brothers and Rage: Bane of Demons.
In 2012, Silas would go on to work with the American publisher Marvel Comics, debuting as an illustrator for The Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth, later becoming the regular artist for the Venom vol.2 series for a brief season. Later, the Brazilian artist would make the leap to the DC Comics publishing house, as a cartoonist for the Batman Beyond 2.0 (2013) headline, work that would end up alternating with his next commission for the House of Ideas: Daredevil: Dark Nights (2013).
Silas would continue to be linked to DC Comics throughout the next two years of his career, signing some of his works in titles such as Superman/Wonder Woman (2013), Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special (2015), Earth 2 (2012) or Justice. League: Gods of Monsters (2015). In 2016, he would become a cover artist for some Valiant Comics publications, including series like Ninjak or X-O Manowar, to end up at the end of that same year returning to Marvel, through the Captain Marvel vol.8 collection. From then on, his collaboration with Casa de las Ideas would continue through projects of various kinds, including Mosaic (2016), Royals (2017), X-Men: Blue vol.1 (2017) and X-Men: Gold vol.1 (2017). In 2018, he was chosen to be the artist for the miniseries Hunt for Wolverine: Mandripoor Mystery, written by screenwriter Jim Zub.