Wednesday Comics was a weekly anthology comic book launched by DC Comics on July 8, 2009. The twelve issues of the title were published in 14" x 20" broadsheet format, deliberately similar to Sunday newspaper comics sections. Each edition featured 15 pages, each from a different story by a different creative team.
6-521: Spearheaded by DCU Editorial Art Director Mark Chiarello , creators were approached and asked to develop stories for the characters they would most like to write. Each issue was 16 pages, with each story taking up one full page when folded out. The first Superman story was printed in USA Today and subsequent installments were posted online at the USA Today website. Each issue printed the strips in
12-516: A book author and artist, Chiarello illustrated Star Wars: The New Essential Chronology and co-authored the book The DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics with Todd Klein . In 2007 Chiarello painted sixty portraits for "Heroes of the Negro Leagues," a book on the history of Negro leagues baseball, written by Jack Morelli and published by Abrams Books. An article and interview featuring Chiarello's Negro league paintings appeared in
18-609: The Pratt Institute in the 1980's, Chiarello moved into the comic book industry. As a comic book illustrator, Chiarello painted the Batman graphic novel Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop, which earned him the 1993 National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Comic Book. He was the first colorist on Mike Mignola's creator owned comic book, Hellboy (on the series Seed of Destruction). Chiarello served as SVP, Art & Design Director for DC Comics for 27 years, before leaving
24-709: The April 2008 issue of Juxtapoz Magazine. In 2009 Chiarello painted the Spring/Summer advertising campaign for Carhartt Fashion, and in 2015, he created the limited edition Mad Monster Party poster/print for Mondo. In 2016, he also created artwork for Paul Simon’s 13th studio album Stranger to Stranger. Chiarello illustrated the cover for the Blu-ray and DVD of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus , (2019 release) and Nicholas Ray’s They Live by Night (2017 release), for The Criterion Collection . In 2020, Chiarello self-published
30-488: The company in 2019. As an editor for DC Comics, he created the Batman: Black and White , Solo , and Wednesday Comics , and was the editor of Darwyn Cooke’s series New Frontier. Chiarello was responsible for teaming up comics superstars Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb for their extremely successful run on the Batman series "Hush". Previously, Chiarello worked at Marvel Comics where he was assistant to Archie Goodwin. As
36-413: The following sequence: Wednesday Comics won the 2010 Harvey Award in the category Best Anthology. The series has been collected into an individual volume : The collected edition contains two stories not printed in the monthly released newsprint: Mark Chiarello Mark Chiarello (born October 31, 1960) is an American illustrator, art director and comic book editor. After attended
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