Rick Remender

Rick Remender

Remender at the New York Comic Convention in Manhattan, October 10, 2010.
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, Penciller, Inker
Notable works Fear Agent
The End League
Punisher vol. 8
Uncanny X-Force vol. 8 Venom
Official website

Rick Remender is an American comic book writer and artist who resides in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' Punisher series, as well as Fear Agent, Uncanny X-Force, and Venom.

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Career

While in the early stages of his comic book career, Remender worked in animation on such films as The Iron Giant, Anastasia, Titan A.E. and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. He penciled the final mock comic book cover in the opening sequence of Ultraviolet and taught animation and comic art part time at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

He has illustrated album covers and promo art for punk/metal bands such as NOFX, 3 Inches of Blood, Pitch Black, Lagwagon and No Use for a Name.

Remender illustrated the comic book adaptation of the movie Man With the Screaming Brain, which was published in 2005 by Dark Horse Comics and year later he drew the series The Last Christmas, which was written by Brian Posehn with Gerry Dugan and inked by Hilary Barta.

On January 8, 2007 it was announced on his column Against The Grain that he would be teaming up with French artist Paul Renaud for a Red Sonja one-shot published by Dynamite Entertainment titled "Vacant Shell".[1] He is also working on the horror line Crawl Space with Kieron Dwyer, which will include stories like XXXombies.[2] He had previously worked with Dwyer on Sea of Red[3] and Night Mary.[4]

Remender was working on the Dark Horse Comics series The End League,[5] as well as launching a giant robot series Gigantic,[6][7] he will also be relaunching Fear Agent[8] and starting a new series at Image Comics called Sorrow.[9]

He became co-author of Punisher War Journal with Matt Fraction from issue #19 to 25 and then was the main writer on the new and eighth Punisher series. IDW Publishing also released a "master edition" of Black Heart Billy.[10] In April 2009, Remender signed an exclusive writing contract with Marvel Comics[11] but was still able to release the series The Last Days of American Crime through Radical Comics.[12][13] In late 2010 he launched the new title Uncanny X-Force.[14][15]

He served as a writer on Electronic Art's game Dead Space and was the lead writer for Epic Games' Bulletstorm, which was released on February 22nd, 2011.

Bibliography

SLG Publishing

Titles published by Slave Labor Graphics include:

Image Comics

Titles published by Image include:

Dark Horse Comics

Titles published by Dark Horse include:

Marvel Comics

Titles published by Marvel include:

Other publishers

Titles published by various American publishers include:

Notes

  1. ^ There's Just Something About Sonja: Remender Talks "Vacant Shell", Comic Book Resources, January 26, 2007
  2. ^ ZOMBIE PORN: Remender has "XXXombies" in his "Crawl Space", Comic Book Resources, September 28, 2007
  3. ^ High Sea Adventure: Remender & Dwyer Exclusively Talk Images's "Sea of Red", Comic Book Resources, December 13, 2004
  4. ^ Dwyer & Remender Explore Your Nightmares In "Night Mary", Comic Book Resources, April 22, 2005
  5. ^ Remender & Canete On "The End League", Comic Book Resources, October 6, 2008
  6. ^ The Ultimate Gladiator: Remender talks "Gigantic", Comic Book Resources, June 9, 2008
  7. ^ Getting 'Gigantic' With Rick Remender, Newsarama, October 30, 2008
  8. ^ Remender's Fear Agent: Open Wound as Lead Character, Comics Bulletin, November 4, 2007
  9. ^ Rick Remender: Where Fear Meets Sorrow, Comics Bulletin, July 31, 2007
  10. ^ Rick Remender: The Secret Origin of Black Heart Billy, Newsarama, October 2, 2008
  11. ^ Remender Signs Exclusive, Marvel.com, April 5, 2009
  12. ^ Manning, Shaun (August 20, 2009). "Remender's "Last Days of American Crime"". Comic Book Resources. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22621. Retrieved March 1, 2010. 
  13. ^ Arrant, Chris (October 28, 2009). "You Will Be Brainwashed Into Compliance in "LAST DAYS"". Newsarama. http://www.newsarama.com/comics/091028-Last-Days-Of-American-Crime.html. Retrieved March 1, 2010. 
  14. ^ Richards, Dave (April 18, 2010). "C2E2: Remender Unleashes "New X-Force"". Comic Book Resources. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25821. 
  15. ^ Manning, Shaun (September 9, 2010). "Marvel's Next Big Thing "Uncanny X-Force" Call". Comic Book Resources. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28242. 

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