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54-527: Ed Brubaker ( / ˈ b r uː b eɪ k ər / ; born November 17, 1966) is an American comic book writer , cartoonist and screenwriter who works primarily in the crime fiction genre. He began his career with the semi-autobiographical series Lowlife and a number of serials in the Dark Horse Presents anthology, before achieving industry-wide acclaim with the Vertigo series Scene of

108-464: A Gran Guinigi  [ it ] for Best Serialized Comic in 2006, and was nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist in 1999 for his work on Age of Bronze . The Wonderful Wizard of Oz miniseries written by Shanower, illustrated by Skottie Young , won two Eisners in 2010, for Best Limited Series or Story Arc and Best Publication for Kids. His short story "Happily Ever After"

162-498: A cartoonist , writing and drawing Pajama Chronicles for Blackthorne Publishing , Purgatory U.S.A. for Slave Labor Graphics and several short stories for various small-press anthologies . His most well-known work of the period is Lowlife , a semi-autobiographical series first published by Caliber and later moved to Aeon Press . For Caliber, Brubaker also co-edited an anthology publication titled Monkey Wrench . In 1991, Brubaker wrote one of his earliest crime stories for

216-453: A plot script the artist works from a story synopsis from the writer (or plotter ), rather than a full script. The artist creates page-by-page plot details on their own, after which the work is returned to the writer for the insertion of dialogue. Due to its widespread use at Marvel Comics beginning in the 1960s, primarily under editor-dialogist Stan Lee and writer-artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko , this approach became commonly known as

270-437: A Brubaker/Phillips collaboration. Even so, Fatale is making a strong case for being the best of their projects." In October 2013, Brubaker signed a five-year contract to produce comics exclusively for Image. Under the terms of the deal, Image would publish any comic Brubaker brought to them without having to pitch it. Brubaker stated this arrangement was something he has always wanted. The first series released under this contract

324-585: 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." In February 2010, a controversy arose around Captain America #602, which depicted a group of anti-tax protesters, understood by some readers to be a Tea Party , which was characterized by the Falcon as exclusively white and racist group. Brubaker and Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada apologized for

378-685: A couple of paragraphs to something much longer and more elaborate". The Marvel method was in place with at least one artist by early 1961, as Lee described in 2009 when speaking of his and Ditko's "short, five-page filler strips ... placed in any of our comics that had a few extra pages to fill", most prominently in Amazing Fantasy but even previously in Amazing Adventures and other " pre-superhero Marvel " science-fiction / fantasy anthology titles. I'd dream up odd fantasy tales with an O. Henry type twist ending. All I had to do

432-604: A number of one shot comics , such as Ed Brubaker 's Prez "Smells Like Teen President" (for DC Comics ) and An Accidental Death (also written by Brubaker) published by Fantagraphics in 1993. For Marvel's Epic line, he illustrated The Elsewhere Prince (1990), based on characters created by the French cartoonist Moebius . His work has appeared in magazines throughout the USA and Europe as well as in books and on TV. Shanower won Eisner Awards for Best Writer-Artist in 2001 and 2003, won

486-454: A one-shot by Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly . In 2004, IDW Publishing announced the first creator-owned project by Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips , a pirate-themed series titled Black Sails . The creators eventually decided to shelve the series in favor of Criminal (published under Marvel 's Icon imprint), and "The Fall" remained Brubaker's last independent comics work until his move to Image in 2012. In 1995, Brubaker

540-454: A romantic triangle explored through three stories with each depicting a different participant's point-of-view. The latter story was collected by Alternative Comics into a standalone publication titled At the Seams , which in turn was nominated for Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection at the 1997 Ignatz Awards . His other work for Alternative Comics, the humorous and experimental Detour #1,

594-427: A script is known as a comics writer . In this style, the comics writer breaks the story down in sequence, page-by-page and panel-by-panel, describing the action, characters, and sometimes backgrounds and "camera" points-of-view of each panel, as well as all captions and dialogue balloons. For decades, this was the preferred format for books published by DC Comics . Peter David described his specific application of

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648-423: A script may be preceded by a plot outline, and is almost always followed by page sketches drawn by a comics artist and inked , succeeded by the coloring and lettering stages. There are no prescribed forms of comic scripts, but there are two dominant styles in the mainstream comics industry , the full script (commonly known as " DC style") and the plot script (or " Marvel house style "). The creator of

702-829: A single large volume titled Adventures in Oz , published by IDW. He has also written and illustrated a full-length Oz novel , The Giant Garden of Oz , and a collection of short Oz stories, The Salt Sorcerer of Oz . As an illustrator, he has worked on books by Oz historians, including The Wicked Witch of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes , The Rundelstone of Oz by Eloise Jarvis McGraw , The Runaway in Oz by John R. Neill , and The Third Book of Oz by L. Frank Baum . Other Oz projects include his illustrations for Paradox in Oz and The Living House of Oz by Edward Einhorn . He wrote adaptations of L. Frank Baum's first six original Oz novels for Marvel Comics , illustrated by artist Skottie Young . The first, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

756-564: A stint on Detective Comics that was cut short due to an unspecified dispute with the editors. Also in 2000, Brubaker launched his second creator-owned property at Vertigo, the science fiction series Deadenders with artist Warren Pleece , which lasted 16 issues before its cancellation in 2001. Brubaker's last work for Vertigo was Dead Boy Detectives , a four-issue The Sandman spin-off limited series illustrated by artist Bryan Talbot . In 2001, Brubaker teamed up with artist Darwyn Cooke to revamp Catwoman , redesigning and redeveloping

810-475: A supervillain's powerful organization only to have his only contact in law enforcement fall into a coma. With the authorities believing him a dangerous criminal, Carver is caught between the two warring sides with unclear allegiances. Although Sleeper was a success with critics and fans on the Internet, the series underperformed commercially. In December 2003, in a unique publicity stunt conceived to help promote

864-571: A team-up tale between DC's Batman and 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 fight between Catwoman and Elektra . DC editors Matt Idelson and Bob Schreck were also enthusiastic, but DC Publisher Paul Levitz objected to the project due to a prior disagreement with Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada . In 2002, Brubaker did his first work for Wildstorm , another DC imprint, penning

918-508: Is also known for co-creating the Winter Soldier identity of Bucky Barnes with Steve Epting . Brubaker has won numerous awards for his comics work, including seven Eisner Awards , two Harvey Awards , an Ignatz Award , and a GLAAD Media Award . In addition to his work in comics, Brubaker served as the executive producer and co-writer of the 2019 Amazon series Too Old to Die Young , directed by Nicolas Winding Refn . Brubaker

972-472: The Dark Horse anthology series Dark Horse Presents , which he would continue to contribute to intermittently throughout the decade. Among those contributions were the three-part serial "An Accidental Death", a collaboration between Brubaker and artist Eric Shanower which garnered the two an Eisner Award nomination in 1993, a Godzilla short story and another tale under the "Lowlife" title, this time

1026-452: The Marvel method or Marvel house style . Comics historian Mark Evanier writes that this "new means of collaboration . . . was born of necessity—Stan was overburdened with work—and to make use of Jack's great skill with storylines. . . . Sometimes Stan would type up a written plot outline for the artist. Sometimes, not". As comic-book writer-editor Dennis O'Neil describes,

1080-470: The 2007 Eisner Award for Best New Series. In 2008, after two volumes of Criminal , Brubaker and Phillips took a break from the series to launch another Icon title, Incognito , which Brubaker described as being "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

1134-532: The Crime and moving to the superhero comics such as Batman , Catwoman , The Authority , Captain America , Daredevil and Uncanny X-Men . Brubaker is best known for his long-standing collaboration with British artist Sean Phillips , starting with their Elseworlds one-shot Batman: Gotham Noir in 2001 and continuing with a number of creator-owned series such as Criminal , Incognito , Fatale , The Fade Out and Kill or Be Killed . He

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1188-614: The Crime and Gotham Central collaborator Michael Lark, Brubaker explored the ramifications of the character 's imprisonment which occurred at the close of Bendis' run. Another notable launch of the year was The Immortal Iron Fist , an ongoing series co-written by Brubaker and Matt Fraction which started in November 2006. Also in 2006, Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips launched their first creator-owned series Criminal , published under Marvel's Icon imprint. The title received generally positive reviews and its first arc, "Coward", won

1242-485: The Greek myth with the archaeological record" to showcase the tale in "authentic historical detail." This aim has been manifested in the ongoing comic book Age of Bronze , debuting in late 1998 from Image Comics . As of 2018, the series has been collected in four (of a projected seven) volumes: The seven volumes in their entirety will cover the complete story of the war. The books contain extensive bibliographies , for

1296-468: The Marvel method "requires the writer to begin by writing out a plot and add[ing] words when the penciled artwork is finished. . . .[I]n the mid-sixties, plots were seldom more than a typewritten page, and sometimes less", while writers in later times "might produce as many as twenty-five pages of plot for a twenty-two page story, and even include in them snatches of dialog. So a Marvel Method plot can run from

1350-416: The Marvel method over the full script method that have been cited by creators and industry professionals include: Cited disadvantages include: In a variation of the plot script, attributed to Harvey Kurtzman , the writer breaks down the story into page roughs or thumbnail sketches, with captions and dialogue jotted down inside the roughs. The artist (who is often the comic's writer as well) then fleshes out

1404-402: The Winter Soldier's handler. In 2016, Brubaker joined the writing staff for HBO's Westworld . He co-wrote the episode " Dissonance Theory " with Jonathan Nolan . In 2019, Brubaker partnered with Nicolas Winding Refn to produce Too Old to Die Young , a 10-part neo-noir miniseries for Amazon . In 2022, it was announced that Brubaker would serve as head writer and executive producer on

1458-522: The animated series Batman: Caped Crusader . In 2023, Brubaker's and Sean Phillips comic book Criminal was announced to be in development at Amazon Prime Video with him serving as writer, executive producer and showrunner. A year later, in 2024, the series was officially ordered with Jordan Harper joining as co-showrunner and Phillips as executive producer. Brubaker lives in Seattle , with his wife, Melanie. Comic book writer In comics,

1512-534: The arcs. After Brubaker and Lark left the series due to their newly-signed exclusive contracts with Marvel, Rucka decided to discontinue the title, and Gotham Central was cancelled with issue #40 (Apr. 2006). Brubaker's first work for Marvel was volume five of the Captain America series. Paired with artist Steve Epting , Brubaker introduced new villains and resurrected the long-dead supporting character Bucky Barnes as "the Winter Soldier". The relaunch

1566-500: The artist draws the story to fit all of this paste-up. This laborious and restrictive way of creating comics is no longer in general use; the last artist to use even a variation of EC style was Jim Aparo . Eric Shanower Eric James Shanower (born October 23, 1963) is an American cartoonist, best known for his Oz novels and comics, and for the ongoing retelling of the Trojan War as Age of Bronze . Eric Shanower

1620-624: The character's costume, supporting cast and modus operandi. The pair's stint started with a four-part serial "Trail of the Catwoman", published in Detective Comics #759–762, in which private detective Slam Bradley attempts to investigate the death of Selina Kyle, a.k.a. Catwoman, and continued into the new Catwoman series which launched in late 2001. Brubaker stayed on the series until #37 (Jan. 2005). During this time, Brubaker and Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis discussed co-writing

1674-484: The error would not appear in future reprints of the issue. In an interview following the controversy Brubaker stated, "I had to shut down my public email because I started getting death threats from, y'know, peaceful protesters." In January 2012, Brubaker and Phillips launched Fatale at Image . The series was initially announced as a twelve-issue maxi-series but was upgraded to an ongoing title in November 2012. Jesse Schedeen of IGN stated that "You can't go wrong with

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1728-416: The first trade paperback collection of Sleeper , Brubaker organized an arm wrestling competition at San Francisco's Isotope Comics. If participants were able to beat Brubaker at arm wrestling, they were awarded free signed comic books. According to Brubaker, he wrestled around 40–50 people and won most of the time, losing only to eight or nine contestants. During the series' run, Sleeper also took part in

1782-536: The five-issue Wildcats spin-off Point Blank . The series, drawn by New Zealand artist Colin Wilson and starring Wildcats' member Grifter , took existing characters and concepts from the Wildstorm Universe and used them to set up Brubaker's Sleeper series which debuted later that year. A collaboration with artist Sean Phillips, Sleeper starred Holden Carver, a secret agent who goes undercover in

1836-437: The full script method: "I break down each page on a panel by panel basis and label them as PANEL A, PANEL B, and so on. Then I describe what's in each panel, and then do the dialogue, numbering the balloons. I designate the panels with letters and the word balloons with numbers so as to minimize confusion for the letterer". In addition to writing the scripts, Jim Shooter drew layouts for the artist in his early work for DC. In

1890-644: The line-wide crossover " Coup d'Etat ", with Brubaker scripting the first issue of the eponymous limited series. "Coup d'Etat" featured a series of events that led the Authority , a powerful team of superhumans in the Wilstorm Universe, to take over the United States. Following the crossover, Brubaker and artist Dustin Nguyen produced the 12-issue The Authority: Revolution series which explored

1944-477: The matter, explaining that, although Brubaker did not intend the protesters to represent any particular real-life group, one of the signs depicted in the scene read, "Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag YOU!". The slogan was not in Brubaker's script and was instead added by letterer Joe Caramagna, who, under deadline pressures, used messages from signs he found online at the last minute. Quesada further assured that

1998-425: The obscure 1970s Joe Simon creation. Brubaker continued to pitch various ideas to Vertigo but kept getting rejected until Shelly Roeberg asked him to pitch "something [he] didn't think Vertigo would publish", which ended up being Scene of the Crime . The 1999 series marked Brubaker's first collaboration with two artists who would frequently work with him in later years: Michael Lark and Sean Phillips (who joined

2052-611: The origin of Doctor Doom , and X-Men: Deadly Genesis with artist Trevor Hairsine , retconning the origins of the All-New, All-Different X-Men team that debuted in 1975. After finishing Deadly Genesis in July 2006, Brubaker became the regular writer of Uncanny X-Men , working with artists Billy Tan and Clayton Henry . In addition to that, he also took over Daredevil , having already planned his run with outgoing writer Brian Michael Bendis. Once again teaming up with his Scene of

2106-718: The project as the inker for issues #2–4). A slacker detective story set in San Francisco, Scene of the Crime was critically acclaimed and brought Brubaker to the attention of Hollywood producers for the first time. In late 2000, Brubaker signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics. That same year, he wrote his first mainstream superhero work, taking over Batman with issue #582 (Oct. 2000). Brubaker would continue writing various series starring Batman and his ancillary characters until late 2003, including contributions to inter-title crossover storylines such as "Bruce Wayne: Murderer?" and " Bruce Wayne: Fugitive ", as well as

2160-558: The ramifications of the team's actions, while Sleeper was relaunched with the Season Two subtitle under the first volume's creative team. Brubaker's last major project at DC was Gotham Central , co-created by Brubaker, writer Greg Rucka and artist Michael Lark. The series focused on the activities of the Gotham City Police Department , with writers either co-scripting storylines or alternating between

2214-406: The return of Rogers, the eight-issue The Marvels Project limited series, as well as Secret Avengers , an ongoing series that followed the adventures of the eponymous team formed in the aftermath of the company-wide crossover storyline " Siege ". Brubaker's workload at Marvel increased in 2006. He wrote two limited series, Books of Doom with artist Pablo Raimondi, retelling and expanding on

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2268-562: The roughs onto full-size art board. Writer/artists Frank Miller and Jeff Smith favor this style, as did Archie Goodwin . Attributed to William Gaines (Kurtzman's publisher at EC Comics ), the EC style is similar to the Kurtzman style, except the writer submits a tight plot to an artist, who breaks it down into panels that are laid out on the art board. The writer writes all captions and dialogue, which are pasted inside these panels, and then

2322-407: The sixth book, The Emerald City of Oz . In 2020, the six Oz graphic novels were rereleased in three collected volumes. Shanower also wrote the comic series Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland for IDW . The first issue was released August 20, 2014. In February 1991, Shanower "conceived the idea to tell the story of the Trojan War in the comics medium," aiming to combine "the myriad versions of

2376-461: The story, the setting and historical Troy , drawing on the excavation work Heinrich Schliemann (et al.) and the publication Studia Troica . The book does not depict the gods or any mythical beings, with Chiron portrayed as a relatively normal human being rather than a centaur. Similarly, the Nymphs are portrayed as human priestesses rather than as supernatural beings. Shanower has also drawn

2430-492: Was The Fade Out , a Hollywood period piece made with frequent collaborator Sean Phillips. Brubaker's other projects for Image include Velvet , a spy series illustrated by his Captain America collaborator Steve Epting. In March 2009, Brubaker premiered his web series Angel of Death on Crackle . Brubaker made a cameo appearance in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier , playing

2484-591: Was a commercial and critical success from its first issue, with its most well-known storyline involving the assassination of Steve Rogers and subsequent passing of the Captain America mantle to Bucky Barnes. Brubaker wrote Captain America for eight full years, from November 2004 to October 2012, alongside several spin-off titles and associated series based around the character, including the 2009 mini-series Captain America: Reborn , which featured

2538-441: Was an Army brat." As Bucky had been killed off before Brubaker began reading comics, he assumed that the character had met his demise in an elaborate, dramatic story, only to find that he had been unceremoniously killed in a single page of The Avengers #4, which Brubaker saw as an injustice, commenting, "I was a 9-year-old kid, and I was horrified." His uncle was screenwriter John Paxton . Brubaker began his career in comics as

2592-580: Was born on October 23, 1963. Upon his graduation from Novato High School in 1981, he attended The Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey , graduating in 1984. Shanower's first major published works were the Oz graphic novels, which are The Enchanted Apples of Oz , The Secret Island of Oz , The Ice King of Oz , The Forgotten Forest of Oz , and The Blue Witch of Oz released by First Comics and Dark Horse Comics between 1986 and 1992. They are collected in

2646-427: Was contacted by DC Comics to write a story about Prez for its "mature readers" imprint Vertigo , after being recommended to the editors by his "An Accidental Death" collaborator Eric Shanower (who was already attached to the project as the artist). The result—Brubaker's first work for one of the two major American comic book publishers—was a one-shot titled Vertigo Visions: Prez , a broad political satire revamping

2700-615: Was give Steve a one-line description of the plot and he'd be off and running. He'd take those skeleton outlines I had given him and turn them into classic little works of art that ended up being far cooler than I had any right to expect. The October 2018 issue of DC Comics' in-house previews magazine, DC Nation , featured a look at the creative process that writer Brian Michael Bendis and artists Ryan Sook , Wade von Grawbadger and Brad Anderson employed on Action Comics #1004, which included pages of Bendis' script that were broken down panel by panel, albeit without dialogue. Advantages of

2754-515: Was part of How Beautiful the Ordinary : Twelve Stories of Identity , an anthology of LGBTQ short stories for young adults published in 2009. The book was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature. Shanower lives in San Diego with his partner David Maxine, who runs Hungry Tiger Press , a publisher of Oz books, Oz-related comics and compact discs, which

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2808-504: Was released in a hardcover collection on September 2, 2009. The follow-up, The Marvelous Land of Oz ' began in November 2009 as an 8 issue monthly comic series, while the third mini i.e. Ozma of Oz , began in November 2010. The fourth and fifth books, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz and The Road to Oz , were also subsequently adapted by Shanower and Young for Marvel Illustrated. The collaboration concluded with their adaptation of

2862-525: Was the child of a Navy intelligence officer, and spent much of his childhood in Guantánamo Bay , Cuba. From childhood he read comics that included Captain America and his sidekick Bucky Barnes , which were seminal in the storyline he would one day write when creating the Winter Soldier . Describing his affinity for Captain America's sidekick thus, he has stated, "I was a Navy brat, and he

2916-440: Was to be the first issue of a series, though only one issue was published. Detour was nominated for the "Best New Series" Harvey Award in 1998. Brubaker's last work for Dark Horse Presents was "The Fall", a five-part story illustrated by Berlin creator Jason Lutes about a convenience store clerk who gets involved in a ten-year-old murder mystery after he uses a stolen credit card. In 2001, all five parts were collected into

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