Robert Kirkman began his meteoric rise to fame with his
self-published Battle Pope. For Image Comics, Kirkman created and
continues to write the long-running Invincible and The Walking
Dead, the latter of which AMC has turned into a smash-hit TV
series. Kirkman's Marvel credits include Marvel Knights 2099,
Jubilee, Marvel Team-Up and Irredeemable Ant-Man. His best-known
Marvel works, however, have been the blockbuster Marvel Zombies and
Marvel Zombies 2 miniseries, and the Marvel Zombies- Dead Days
one-shot.
Prolific writer/penciler/inker Karl Kesel inked the acclaimed Mark
Waid/Mike Wieringo run of Fantastic Four; he has also written
several FF stories himself, including issue #56 (2002), which
revealed the Thing's Jewish heritage. His work spans Marvel time
and space, ranging from Fantastic Four 2099 to Marvel Apes. At DC,
he wrote the 1980s Hawk and Dove, and multiple Superman titles and
spinoffs, including his co-creation Superboy (Kon-El). For Dark
Horse, he worked on media tie-ins Indiana Jones and Aliens- Space
Marines. Back at Marvel, he scripted miniseries Captain America-
The 1940s Newspaper Strip, which he also illustrated, and Captain
America- Patriot.
Mark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted,
the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter's Legacy, Nemesis,
Superior, Supercrooks, American Jesus, MPH and Starlight. Wanted,
Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2 and The Secret Service (as Kingsman- The
Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films. His DC Comics
work includes the seminal Superman- Red Son. At Marvel Comics, he
has written The Ultimates, selected by Time magazine as the comic
book of the decade; the acclaimed Wolverine saga "Old Man Logan;"
and Civil War, the industry's biggest-selling series in almost two
decades. Millar has served as producer and executive producer on
previous adaptations of his works and, following the purchase of
his Millarworld comic line by Netflix in 2017, remains the
company's president. For his services to film and literature, he
received the prestigious honor of being made a Member of the Order
of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen in 2013.
A frequent contributor to 2000 AD, Sean Phillips has penciled runs
on Uncanny X-Men, Batman- Gotham Knights and more. Phillips
collaborated with writer Ed Brubaker on Sleeper, lauded as "a
perfectly paranoid super-powered espionage tale." Phillips
continues his partnership with Brubaker on Marvel/Icon's Criminal
and Incognito.
After fine-tuning his craft at Image, artist Todd Nauck made a name
for himself on DC's Young Justice in collaboration with writer
Peter David. At Marvel, he reunited with David for Friendly
Neighborhood Spider-Man and, in a later engagement with the
web-head, drew the Obama/Spidey team-up in Amazing Spider-Man #583
- giving Nauck the honor of illustrating one of the highest-selling
Spidey stories of all time.
Artist Greg Land first gained notice with his work on DC's
Batman-family titles Nightwing and Birds of Prey. Moving to Marvel
after illustrating CrossGen's Sojourn, he drew Phoenix- Endsong.
Next up was a run on Ultimate Fantastic Four that included the
first rendering of the Marvel Zombies. Subsequently, Land penciled
the blockbuster limited series Ultimate Power before becoming a
regular artist on Uncanny X-Men.
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