Ed Brubaker

[Hal Jordan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Brubaker



Ed Brubaker is an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and writer. Brubaker first early comics work was primarily in the crime fiction genre with works such as Lowlife, The Fall, Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives and Scene of the Crime. He later became known for writing superhero comics such as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Catwoman, Uncanny X-Men, and The Authority.

Alternative and independent comics work

Brubaker's first work in comics was as a cartoonist, writing and drawing Pajama Chronicles for Blackthorne Comics, Purgatory U.S.A. for Slave Labor Graphics, and the semi-autobiographical series Lowlife for Slave Labor and later Caliber Comics. At Caliber, he briefly edited the anthology series Monkey Wrench.

In 1991, he began contributing to the Dark Horse Comics anthology series Dark Horse Presents, a comic he would continue to contribute to intermittently throughout the decade. Among those contributions was the three part serial "An Accidental Death" (Dark Horse Presents #65–67), a collaboration with artist Eric Shanower, which garnered the two a 1993 Eisner Award nomination.

In 1997, he began to publish his cartoonist work through the small press publisher Alternative Comics. In the one-off At the Seams, a romantic triangle is explored through three stories which each depict a different participant's point-of-view. The comic was a 1997 Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection. His other work for Alternative Comics, the humorous and experimental Detour #1, was to be the first issue of a series, though only one issue was ever published. Detour was nevertheless nominated for the "Best New Series" Eisner in 1997.

The Fall, a graphic novel that was written by Brubaker and illustrated by Berlin creator Jason Lutes was published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2001. This work had previously been anthologized in five parts in Dark Horse Presents in 1998. The story involved a convenience store clerk who gets involved in a ten-year-old murder mystery after he uses a stolen credit card. In 2004 IDW Publishing announced that Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips would collaborate on a creator owned pirate series titled Black Sails for them. That series has not yet materialized and The Fall is the last independent comic book work by Brubaker to date.


DC Comics

Predating Brubaker's Alternative Comics work by two years, Vertigo Visions: Prez, Smells Like Teen President (1995) was Brubaker's first work for one of the two major American comic book publishers. Published by DC Comics' "mature readers" imprint Vertigo, the comic was a broad political satire which revamped an obscure 1970s Joe Simon creation. Brubaker worked with his "An Accidental Death" collaborator, artist Eric Shanower, again on the comic.

Brubaker's next major work for Vertigo was the four issue limited series Scene of the Crime (1999), which marked his first collaboration with both Michael Lark and Sean Phillips, two artists who would frequently work with the writer in later years. A slacker detective story set in San Francisco, the series was critically acclaimed and the first to gain Brubaker attention from Hollywood producers.

In late 2000, Brubaker signed a one-year exclusive contract with DC Comics. The contract was renewed in 2001[citation needed] That same year the writer began to do his first mainstream super-hero work, on the series Batman. He would continue to work on various series starring the Batman character until late 2003.

Returning to Vertigo in 2000, Brubaker and artist Warren Pleece produced the science fiction series Deadenders. The series lasted 16 issues before being canceled in 2001. Staying with Vertigo in 2001, Brubaker wrote the four issue Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives, which was drawn by artist Bryan Talbot.

Also in 2001, Brubaker and artist Darwyn Cooke teamed up to revamp the Catwoman character. They started with the four issue serial "Trail of the Catwoman" which ran in Detective Comics #759-762. In the serial, private detective Slam Bradley attempts to investigate the death of Selina Kyle (AKA Catwoman). The story led into a new Catwoman title in late 2001 by Brubaker and Cooke in which the character's costume, supporting cast and modus operandi were all redesigned and redeveloped. Brubaker stayed on the series, which was met with critical and fan acclaim, up until #37 (January 2004).

At the 2001 San Diego Comic Convention Brubaker and Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis discussed co-writing a story which would team up DC's Batman with Marvel's Daredevil. The two writers were enthusiastic about their ideas, which included a fight between Batman and Marvel villain Bullseye as well as another between Catwoman and Elektra. DC editors Matt Idelson and Bob Schreck were also enthusiastic, but DC executive editor Paul Levitz objected to the project due to a prior disagreement with Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada.[8] The aborted project became controversial when Bendis publicly spoke about Levitz's decision at the 2002 Wizard World Chicago comic convention. Bendis later apologized for his comments, saying that he regretted ever discussing the project in public.

In early 2003, Brubaker and writer Greg Rucka created and co-wrote the Gotham Central series. Focusing on the activities of the Gotham City Police Department, the two writers either co-wrote storylines or wrote alternate arcs separately throughout the series, which featured artwork from Brubaker's Scene of the Crime collaborator Michael Lark. The title was cancelled in 2006, shortly after Brubaker's last issue.


Wildstorm

In 2002 Brubaker did his first work for Wildstorm, (another DC imprint), with the series Point Blank which featured the artwork of New Zealand artist Colin Wilson. The series took existing concepts from the Wildstorm universe, such as Grifter (the star of the series), John Lynch and Tao and used them to set up his Sleeper series which debuted later that year.

A collaboration between artist Sean Phillips and Brubaker, Sleeper, featured a secret agent protagonist ("Holden Carver") who goes undercover in a super villain's powerful organisation, only to have the only contact he has in law enforcement fall in to a coma. With the authorities believing him a dangerous criminal, Carver is caught between the two warring sides with unclear allegiances.

In December 2003, in a unique publicity stunt conceived to help promote the first trade paperback collection of Sleeper, Brubaker organized an "arm-wrestling competition" at San Francisco's "Isotope - the comic book lounge" comic book shop. If participants were able to beat Brubaker at arm wrestling they were awarded free signed comic books. According to Brubaker, the writer wrestled 40-50 people and won most of the fights, losing only eight or nine times.

Although Sleeper was a success with critics and fans on the Internet, the series underperformed commercially, and so it was canceled after its 12th issue, only to be relaunched in 2004 with the same creators as Sleeper: Season Two. Season Two also ended with its twelfth issue, the story apparently concluded.

Brubaker's other work for Wildstorm during this period was the third volume of The Authority. Brubaker first tackled the characters with artist Jim Lee on the one issue special Coup D'état: Sleeper which showed how a series of events led the Authority (a powerful team of super-humans) to take over the United States. Later that year and throughout 2005 Brubaker and artist Dustin Nguyen produced the 12 issue The Authority: Revolution which explored the ramifications of the team's actions.


Marvel Comics

In late 2004 Brubaker, no longer exclusive to DC, began to work for their main competitor Marvel Comics. His first major work for the publisher was the fifth relaunch of the Captain America series. Paired with artist Steve Epting, Brubaker's Captain America introduced new villains and resurrected the long dead character Bucky as "The Winter Soldier". The series was a sales and critical success from its first issue.

In February 2005 Brubaker signed his first exclusive contract with Marvel, the deal allowing the writer to finish out his prior commitments for DC on Gotham Central and Sleeper. In an interview with Newsarama Brubaker attributed his shift of employer to the publishers' good treatment of him, the quality and high profile of the work Marvel was offering him and his lack of involvement in DC's "big plans" (DC's large intercompany crossover Infinite Crisis was in the final planning stages at the time). Brubaker's Marvel exclusive contract was extended and expanded in April 2006.[14]

In early 2006 Brubaker wrote two limited series for Marvel; with artist Pablo Raimondi, he wrote Books of Doom, which retold and expanded on the origin of Doctor Doom; and with artist Trevor Hairsine, he wrote X-Men: Deadly Genesis, ret-conning information about the origins of the "All New, All-Different X-Men" who first debuted in 1975.

In addition, that year Brubaker started on Daredevil, having already planned his run with Bendis. Once again teamed with artist Michael Lark, Brubaker followed Brian Michael Bendis' acclaimed stint on the title, exploring the ramifications of the character's imprisonment, which occurred at the close of Bendis' run.

He became the regular writer of Uncanny X-Men, working with artist Billy Tan and Clayton Henry, in July 2006.

A new creator-owned crime comic with Sean Phillips, Criminal, has been published by Marvel's Icon Comics imprint. It has generally received positive reviews. In 2007, Criminal won the Eisner Award for Best New Series for its first arc, "Coward." He and Phillips are now working on a new Icon series called Incognito, which Brubaker says is "about a completely amoral guy with super-powers forced to pretend he's a normal law-abiding citizen, because he's in Witness Protection, and how that shapes what he becomes. It's also a brutal noir twist on the super-hero/super-villain genre that delves more into their roots in the pulps, and it's going to be pretty over-the-top and action-packed."

Brubaker, together with Matt Fraction, co-wrote the new Iron Fist ongoing series, The Immortal Iron Fist, which started in November 2006 and quickly became one of Marvel's most popular books.

Recently, Brubaker has been pushed into the media spotlight for writing the Captain America issue involving the death of Steve Rogers. Brubaker has taken credit for conceiving the idea.[citation needed] He also wrote the mini-series that saw his return: Captain America: Reborn. He will also be writing a eight issue limited series titles The Marvels Project, as well as a new title Secret Avengers following the end of the "Siege" storyline.

Brubaker caused controversy when he implied that members of Tea Parties are necessarily racists in a Captain America comic. Brubaker apologized by stating that he wasn't entirely responsible for all the text in the book. In an interview following the controversy Brubaker stated that "I had to shut down my public email because I started getting death threats from, y'know, peaceful protesters."


Nominations

    * 1993 Eisner Award nominee - Best Writer-Artist Team ("An Accidental Death")
    * 1997 Ignatz Award nominee - Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection (At the Seams)
    * 1999 Eisner Award nominee - Best Writer (Scene of the Crime) and Best Mini-Series (Scene of the Crime)
    * 2007 Eisner Award nominee - Best Continuing Series (Daredevil with Michael Lark and Stefano Gaudiano, Captain America with Steve Epting)
    * 2010 Eisner Award nominee - Best Limited Series or Story Arc (Incognito, with Sean Phillips)

Awards

    * 2000 Prism Award ("Disguises" from Catwoman #17-19)
    * 2004 GLAAD Media Awards - Outstanding Comic Book (Catwoman by Ed Brubaker)
    * 2006 Harvey Award Winner - Best Writer (Captain America)
    * 2007 Eisner Award - Best Writer (Daredevil, Captain America, Criminal), Best New Series (Criminal with Sean Phillips)
    * 2007 Harvey Award - Best Writer (Daredevil)
    * 2008 Eisner Award - Best Writer (Captain America, Criminal, Daredevil and Immortal Iron Fist)
    * 2010 Eisner Award - Best Writer (Captain America, Criminal, Daredevil, The Marvels Project, Incognito), Best Single Issue (Captain America #601, with artist Gene Colan)


Bibliography

DC Comics

    * 9-11 - The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember #2 ("Still Life"; DC Comics, 2002)
    * The Authority: Revolution #1-12 (Wildstorm; December, 2004 - December, 2005)
    * Coup D'état: Sleeper #1 (Wildstorm; April, 2004)
    * Batman #582-586, 591-607 (DC Comics; October, 2000 - November, 2002)
    * Batman: Gotham Knights (DC Comics; Batman: Black and White back-up story "I'll Be Watching," July 2003)
    * Batman: Gotham Noir (DC Comics; March 2001)
    * Batman: The Man Who Laughs (DC Comics; February, 2005)
    * Batman: Our Worlds At War #1 (DC Comics; August, 2001)
    * Batman: Turning Points #2-3 (DC Comics; January, 2001)
    * Catwoman #1-10, 12-37 (DC Comics; January, 2002 - January, 2005)
    * Catwoman Secret Files and Origins #1 (DC Comics; November, 2002)
    * Detective Comics #758 (DC Comics; back-up story "History Lesson"; July, 2001)
    * Detective Comics #759-762 (DC Comics; back-up story "Trail of the Catwoman part 1-4", August - November, 2001)
    * Detective Comics #777-786 (DC Comics; February, 2003 - November, 2003)
    * Deadenders #1-16 (Vertigo; March 2000- June 2001)
    * Gangland #3 (Vertigo, DC Comics; "Small Time"; August, 1998)
    * Gotham Central #1-5 (DC Comics; #1-2 with Greg Rucka; February - May 2003)
    * Gotham Central #11-16 (DC Comics; #12-15 with Greg Rucka; November, 2003 - April, 2004)
    * Gotham Central #19-22 (DC Comics; July - October, 2004)
    * Gotham Central #26-27 (DC Comics; February, 2005)
    * Gotham Central #33-36 (DC Comics; with Greg Rucka; September, 2003 - December, 2004)
    * Hawkman #27 (DC Comics; June, 2004)
    * Point Blank #1-5 (Wildstorm; October, 2002 - February, 2003)
    * Robin #86 (DC Comics; March, 2001)
    * Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives #1-4 (Vertigo; August - November 2001)
    * Scene of the Crime #1-4 (Vertigo; May - August, 1999)
    * Sleeper #1-12 (Wildstorm; March, 2003 - March, 2004)
    * Sleeper: Season Two #1-12 (Wildstorm; August, 2004 - July, 2005)
    * Tom Strong #29, 30 (America's Best Comics; December, 2004 - January, 2005)
    * Vertigo Visions: Prez, Smells Like Teen President (Vertigo, 1995)
    * Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2 (Vertigo; "God and Sinners", January, 1999)
    * Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3 (Vertigo; "The Morning After", January, 2000)
Marvel Comics

    * Books of Doom #1-6 (Marvel Comics; January - June, 2006)
    * Captain America (vol. 5) #1-50 (Marvel Comics; January, 2005 - May, 2009)
    * Captain America (vol. 1) #600 - (Marvel Comics; June 2009 – present)
    * Captain America 65th Anniversary Special #1 (Marvel Comics; May, 2006)
    * Captain America: Reborn #1-6 (Marvel Comics; July, 2009 - January, 2010)
    * Captain America: Who Will Wield the Shield? (Marvel Comics; December, 2009)
    * Criminal #1-10 (Icon Comics; October, 2006 - November, 2007)
    * Criminal (vol. 2) #1-7 (Icon Comics; February 2008 - October, 2008)
    * Criminal: The Sinners #1-5 (Icon Comics; October 2009 - March, 2010)
    * Daredevil (vol. 2) #82-119, (vol. 1) 500, and Annual #1 (Marvel Comics; April, 2006 - July, 2009)
    * Daredevil: Blood of the Tarantula #1 (Marvel Comics; April, 2008)
    * Incognito #1-6 (Icon Comics; December, 2008 - September, 2009)
    * Secret Avengers #1 - (Marvel Comics; May, 2010–present)
    * Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier #1-4 (Marvel Comics; July - October 2010)
    * The Immortal Iron Fist (vol. 2) #1-14 and Annual #1 (Marvel Comics; November, 2006 - June, 2008)
    * The Marvels Project #1-8 (Marvel Comics; October, 2009 - May, 2010)
    * Uncanny X-Men #475-503 (Marvel Comics; September, 2006 - July 2008)
    * What if Aunt May Had Died instead of Uncle Ben? #1 (Marvel Comics; February, 2005)
    * Winter Soldier: Winter Kills #1 (Marvel Comics; December, 2006)
    * X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1-6 (Marvel Comics; January - June, 2006)

Other

    * Real Stuff #9 (Fantagraphics, 1992)
    * At the Seams (Alternative Press, 1997)
    * Dark Horse Presents #50, (Dark Horse Comics; "Burning Man", April, 1991)
    * Dark Horse Presents #65-67 (Dark Horse Comics; "An Accidental Death", September - November, 1992)
    * Dark Horse Presents #96-98 (Dark Horse Comics; "Here And Now", April - June 1995)
    * Dark Horse Presents #100 (Dark Horse Comics; "Bird Dog", August, 1995)
    * Dark Horse Presents #106 (Dark Horse Comics; "Godzilla's Day", February, 1996)
    * Detour #1 (Alternative Comics; 1997)
    * The Fall (Drawn & Quarterly; 2001)
    * Lowlife #1-4 (Caliber & Black Eye Books)
    * SPX '97 Comic #1 (Small Press Expo; "Mysteries?", September, 1997)

[Bucky Barnes]

Uno dei miei scrittori di fumetti preferiti, se non IL mio preferito

[Azrael]

Che facciaaaa  

Grandissimo autore... uno dei migliori  

[Un Fumettaro]

un topic su di lui ci voleva, chapeau

[American_Gaijin89]

Manca di duttilità ma se la cava.

[Nexus]

Mi manca tutta la roba DC e Devil e Doom della Marvel

Che brutta foto avete messo

[Hal Jordan]

Manca di duttilità ma se la cava.

Che brutta foto avete messo

Ho preso quella di Wiki

[American_Gaijin89]

Il cappello ha stile però 

[ThePNZ]

Uno dei migliori in circolazione al momento. Capitan America è forse la miglior serie Marvel degli ultimi anni. Anche il suo Devil è molto bello, è riuscito a proseguire bene da dove Bendis aveva lasciato.
Della DC non so bene cosa ho letto, a parte l'uomo che ride.

[Hal Jordan]

Uno dei migliori in circolazione al momento. Capitan America è forse la miglior serie Marvel degli ultimi anni. Anche il suo Devil è molto bello, è riuscito a proseguire bene da dove Bendis aveva lasciato.
Della DC non so bene cosa ho letto, a parte l'uomo che ride.

Ti consiglio di recuperare anche Criminal, Incognito e Sleeper

[Un Fumettaro]

Sleeper secondo me è la cosa più bella e geniale che abbia scritto.

[ThePNZ]

Grazie per i consigli ma passo... la lista del materiale da recuperare si sta allungando troppo. Ormai non sto più dietro alla roba che leggo! Intanto ho ordinato il volume di Detective Comics.

[Selina Kyle]

Manca di duttilità ma se la cava.

Che cattivo
Però che non sia particolarmente versatile come dicevo ieri è vero. Ma chi lo è del resto, se non Grantuzzo?

Comunque amo Bru, follemente. Lo amo perchè scrive i personaggi in maniera profonda, divina. E' fra gli autori che mi fa venire un groppo in gola, chi sono gli altri lo sapete. 
Amo Bru, perchè semplicemente, scrivendo MI fotografa l'anima. La cattura, la mette su carta.. non so come, ma ci riesce. O quantomeno, le pieghe più tristi dell'anima, più malinconiche.
Raramente, Rucka a parte (che infatti gli assomiglia tanto) ho letto personaggi femminili veri e profondi come la sua Catwoman.

Grazie di esistere, Bru.

[Hal Jordan]

Manca di duttilità ma se la cava.

Che cattivo
Però che non sia particolarmente versatile come dicevo ieri è vero. Ma chi lo è del resto, se non Grantuzzo?

Forse forse Bendis

[Geppo86]

Dico solo una cosa:
GOTHAM CENTRAL