Tony Bedard

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Tony Bedard aka Antony J L Bedard is a writer and editor who has worked in the comic book industry from the early 90's up until the present. He is best known for his work at Crossgen Comics, where he was under exclusive contract, and for his run writing Marvel Comics X-Men spin-off Exiles.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Starting Out at Valiant

Tony began his work in the comics industry by working at Valiant Comics as an intern. There he worked his way up through the ranks, first by lettering some of Valiants comics and becoming an Editor and Writer of several titles including Rai, Turok and Shadowman. He was often credited by his full name - Anthony Bedard. After Valiant, Tony moved to freelance work for Broadway, Malibu and Crusade Comics, where he wrote the first two issues of Shi: The Series.

[edit] DC Comics

Quickly proving himself to be a committed professional in the comics industry, Tony found himself in an editorial position at DC Comics. Here he worked on a number of projects, the most notable being the Hourman monthly. He eventually moved into the Vertigo imprint where he edited several monthly titles, including Vertigo's longest running titleHellblazer.

[edit] Crossgen

Like several of his peers, in the 00's Bedard was lured away from DC Comics by the upstart publisher Crossgeneration Comics. Bedard provided Editorial knowledge to the company as well as using his writing skills to take over CrossGen's launch title Mystic and co-create Negation with Mark Waid. Bedard would go on to write a number of series for Crossgen, including several spinoffs from the Negation as well as creating cult hit Route 666. Bedard was writing the mini-series Negation War (which featured characters from the Negation series and was meant to wrap up important plot threads in Negation and the other CrossGen titles) when CrossGen filed for bankruptcy. As a result only two issues of the series were ever published, and Bedard became the last writer of the Sigilverse.

[edit] After Crossgen

After CrossGen, Bedard began work on the Marvel Comics series Exiles, which he wrote for 44 issues, and an annual. Originally announced as leaving Exiles with #83, his run was extended by 6 issues due to Chris Claremont being diagnosed with cardiac stress. Bedard also scripted Uncanny X-Men #472-473 and Annual #1 with plots from Claremont and was the sole writer of Uncanny X-Men #474. Apart from Exiles he had a number of side projects, including the mini-series Spider-Man: Breakout and the final 6 issues of the Rogue monthly comicbook.

More recently Bedard has begun to branch out to other comic publishers. With Image Comics, Bedard put out a mini-series he created called Retro Rocket and he co-wrote 3 issues of DC Comics Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes, helping out his former Crossgen co-worker Mark Waid.

[edit] The Future

After wrapping up his run on Exiles Tony has begun to work back at DC Comics, his next work will be another story in JSA: Classified. At the Wondercon Convention [1] Bedard announced that he had signed on to a two year exclusive contract with DC Comics. His first announced projects will include writing portions of the new weekly series Countdown and a 6 issue arc on Supergirl & The Legion of Superheroes. Bedard will also be writing a Black Canary mini series and a four issue story in Batman: Confidential for the publisher, although these have yet to be given a release date.

[edit] Writing Bibliography

[edit] Valiant

[edit] Broadway

  • Powers That Be #6 (1996).
  • Starseed #7 (1996).

[edit] Crusade

  • Shi: The Series #1-2, #7-8 (1997-98).
  • Tomoe: Unforgettable Fire #1 (1997).

[edit] DC\Vertigo

  • Flinch #10 (3rd Story) (1999).

[edit] Crossgen

  • Mystic #18-43 (2001-2003).
  • Negation Prequel One-Shot (2001). Co-Writer with Mark Waid
  • Negation #1-27 (2001-2004). Note: #1 & #2 Co-Written by Mark Waid
  • Crossgen Chronicles #7 (2002).
  • Route 666 #1-22 (2002-2004).
  • Negation: Lawbringer #1 (2002).
  • Mark of Charon #1-5 (2003).
  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang #1-5 (2004).
  • Negation: War #1-2 (2004).

[edit] Marvel

  • Exiles #46-89, Annual #1 (2004-2006).
  • X-Men Unlimited Vol. 2 #6 (1st Story) (2005).
  • Rogue vol.3, #7-12 (2005).
  • X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot (2nd Story) (2005).
  • Spider-Man: Breakout #1-5 (2005).
  • What If...? Featuring Captain America #1 (2005).
  • Untold Tales of the New Universe: Psi-Force #1 (2006).
  • Uncanny X-Men #472-473 (scripts only), #474, Annual #1 (2006).
  • Marvel Adventures: The Avengers #5 - #8 (2006).

[edit] DC

  • DCU: Brave New World #1 ("Look to the Skies" framing sequence only) (2006).
  • Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes #20-22 (2006). Co-Writer with Mark Waid
  • Birds of Prey #100 (backup Black Canary story only) (2006).
  • DC: Infinite Christmas Special (Shazam! story only) (2006).
  • JSA Classified #17-18, #25 (2006, 2007).
  • Countdown #49, #45 (2007)
  • Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes #31+ (2007)

[edit] Image

  • Retro Rocket #1-4 (2006-2007).

[edit] Editing Bibliography

[edit] Valiant

  • Darque Passages #1 (1994)
  • Harbinger #27-34 (1994)
  • Ninjak #3-8 (1994)
  • Turok, Dinosaur Hunter #11-16 (1994)

[edit] Crusade

  • Angel Fire #1 (1997)

[edit] DC

  • DC One Million #1-4 (1998)
  • JLA #24 - 26, #28 - 42, #1,000,000 (1998 - 2000)
  • Hourman #1-25 (1999-2001)
  • Fanboy #1-6 (1999)
  • All Star Comics 80 Page Giant #1 (1999)
  • Day of Judgement Secret Files and Origins #1 (1999)
  • Aquaman Vol. 5 #61 - #75 (1999 - 2001)
  • Batman: No Man's Land Secret Files and Origins #1 (1999)
  • Batman: Gotham City Secret Files and Origins #1 (2000)
  • Wonder Woman #164 - 165 (2000)
  • The Spectre #1 (2001)

[edit] DC\Vertigo

  • Codename: Knockout #1-5 (2001)
  • Hellblazer #158-165 (2001)
  • Transmetroplitan #43-48 (2001)
  • Adventures in the Rifle Brigade: Operation Bollock #1-2 (2001)

[edit] References

  • Negation Space A Negation fan site that contains information on the series as well as two interviews with Tony Bedard
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