Becky Cloonan

Becky Cloonan is an American comic book creator, known for work published by Tokyopop and Vertigo. In 2012 she became the first female artist to draw the main Batman title for DC Comics.^[1]

Early life

Becky Cloonan was born in Pisa, Italy on June 23, 1980.^[2]

Career

Cloonan created minicomics and was part of the Meathaus collective before collaborating with Brian Wood on Channel Zero: Jennie One in 2003. Since then, her profile (and workload) has steadily risen; her best-known work to date has been the twelve-issue comics series Demo (2004), also with Wood. Wizard named Demo its 2004 "Indie of the Year." The series was also nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2005, for Best Limited Series and Best Single Issue or One-Shot (the latter of which was for Demo #7, "One Shot, Don't Miss").^[3]

Cloonan's first solo graphic novel, East Coast Rising Volume 1, was released by Tokyopop in 2006. East Coast Rising: Volume 1 marked Cloonan's third Eisner Award nomination in 2007, this time for Best New Series. She also collaborated with writer Steven T. Seagle on the Vertigo Comics series American Virgin, which was cancelled with the 23rd issue.^[4] In 2012 she became the first woman to draw the main Batman title.^[1]

She is also doing art for the series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, which is written by Gerard Way.^[5]

She created artwork for the band Leftover Crack and the hip-hop group CunninLynguists.

Bibliography

Self-published work

• Meathaus #6-8 (w/a, Meathaus Press, 2002–2006)
• nebuli (w/a, with Vasilis Lolos, 2006)
• 5 (w/a, with Rafael Grampá, Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon and Vasilis Lolos, 2007)
• MINIS (w/a, collection of original mini-comics, 2007)
• Bury Your Treasure (w/a, collection of illustrations, 2008)
• Pixu: the Mark of Evil #1-2 (w/a, with Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon and Vasilis Lolos, 2008)
• Wolves (w/a, 2011)
• The Mire (w/a, 2012)
• Demeter (w/a, 2013)

Dark Horse Comics

• 9-11 Volume 1: "Untitled" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 196 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-56389-881-0)
• MySpace Dark Horse Presents #16: "I See the Devil in My Sleep" (w/a, 2008) collected in Volume 3 (tpb, 168 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-59582-327-1)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Vampires: "The Thrill" (w, with Vasilis Lolos, one-shot, 2009) collected in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales (hc, 288 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-59582-644-0)
• The Guild: Zaboo: "Zaboo's Escape" (a, with Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, one-shot, 2011)
• Conan the Barbarian #1-3, 7 (a, with Brian Wood, 2012)
• B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth — The Pickens County Horror #1-2 (covers only, 2012)
• The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #1-#6 (a, with Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, 2013)

Image Comics

• Flight Volume 2: "Heads Up" (w/a, with Vasilis Lolos, anthology graphic novel, 432 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-58240-477-1)
• NYC Mech: beta LOVE #4 (cover only, 2005)
• 24Seven Volume 1: "In for a Pound" (a, with John G and Leland Purvis, anthology graphic novel, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-636-7)
• The Pirates of Coney Island #1-6 (covers only, 2006–2007)
• Hack/Slash #10 (cover only, 2011)
• Thought Bubble Anthology (cover only, one-shot, 2011)
• Pigs #4 (cover only, 2011)
• "Southern Cross"

DC Comics/Vertigo

• American Virgin (a, with Steven T. Seagle, 2006–2008) collected as:
  • Head (collects #1-4, tpb, 112 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1065-1)
  • Going Down (collects #5-9, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1301-4)
  • Wet (collects #10-14, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1494-0)
  • Around the World (includes #15-17 and 20-23, tpb, 224 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1831-8)
• Demo Volume II #1-6 (a, with Brian Wood, 2010) collected as Demo Volume II (tpb, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-2995-6)
• Northlanders #35-36: "The Girl in the Ice" (a, with Brian Wood, 2011) collected in Northlanders: Metal (tpb, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3160-8)
• Batman #12
• Swamp Thing Annual #1

Marvel Comics

• Strange Tales I #3: "Here Comes the King Crab!" (w/a, 2010) collected in ST2 (hc, 144 pages, 2011, ISBN 0785148221; tpb, 2011, ISBN 078514823X)
• Nation X #2: "Cajun Justice!" (w/a, 2010) collected in Nation X (hc, 360 pages, 2010, ISBN 0785138730; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0785141030)
• Osborn #5 (a, with Kelly Sue Deconnick and Emma Rios, Marvel, 2011) collected in Osborn: Evil Incarcerated (tpb, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0785151753)

Other publishers

• Revolving Hammer: "Aunty" (a, with Walter Conley, anthology, Cyberosia Publishing, 2002)
• Altered Realities: "Inversion" (a, with Sal Cipriano and Lou Platania, anthology, Cactus Fusion, 2003)
• AiT/Planet Lar:
  • Channel Zero: Jennie One (a, with Brian Wood, graphic novel, tpb, 72 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-932051-07-4)
  • Demo #1-12 (a, with Brian Wood, 2003–2004) collected as Demo (tpb, 328 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-932051-42-2)
• Vampirella Comics Magazine #4: "What Have We Become" (w/a, Harris, 2004)
• Hopeless Savages: B-Sides − The Origin of the Dusted Bunnies (a, with Jen Van Meter, Vera Brosgol and Mike Norton, one-shot, Oni Press, 2005)
• Flight Volume 3: "Conquest" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 352 pages, Ballantine Books, 2006, ISBN 0-345-49039-8)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Graphic Novel (a, with Gary Reed, graphic novel, 176 pages, Puffin Books, 2006, ISBN 0-14-240572-8)
• East Coast Rising (w/a, graphic novel, 196 pages, Tokyopop, 2006, ISBN 1-59816-468-6)

See also

• This Just In... Benefit for Indy Media

Notes

References

• Becky Cloonan at the Grand Comics Database

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Becky Cloonan.

• Official website
• Becky Cloonan's store
• Becky Cloonan's blog
• Becky Cloonan at the Comic Book DB
• Becky Cloonan at DeviantArt
• Becky Cloonan's poster design work