Paul Ryan (comics)
Paul Ryan ( born September 23, 1949 in Somerville, Massachusetts) is an American comic book artist. Ryan was known primarily as a signatory of the newspaper comic strip The Phantom.
Life and work
After visiting the St. Polycarp Grammar School in Somerville and St. Mary of the Annunciation High School, which he graduated in 1967, Ryan began to study at the Massachusetts College of Art. This he left in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in Graphic Design. In 1971, he joined the U.S. National Guard and was stationed at Fort Dix. During his officer training at the Massachusetts Military Academy in Wakefield, he was recruited by the Graphics Department of the company Metcalf & Eddy Engineering in Boston, for which he should, eleven years.
1983 Ryan's Comic History Breed was taken from the comic book publisher " Charlton Comics " in the Piety " Charlton Bullseye ". Since the series was set before the book was published with the story reached the Breed history only through the support of the small publishing house America Comics from Florida in pressure.
With the assistance of some Boston Comic dealer Ryan was eventually hired by the artist Bob Layton as his assistant. After Ryan was hired as an independent artist with his pencil drawings for numerous series of comic publisher Marvel Comics. So Ryan got as a guest artist ink and / or Bleistifzeichnungen for Series The Thing (# 27 and # 29), Iron Man (# 202), Squadron Supreme ( # 6.9 to 12 ) Eternals (# 12) and Quasar before he was hired as a regular artist for the traditional Marvel Avengers series. There were other engagements with Marvel as a draftsman for series such as West Coast Avengers, Iron Man, Fantastic Four and Ravage 2099 (# 356-414 ).
In 1992, Ryan at the request of Stan Lee, the drawings for the products marketed by King Features newspaper comic strip Spiderman. Ryan managed the newspaper equivalent of the famous cartoon series about the network swinging superhero just over three years before he moved to Marvel's competition Publisher DC Comics in 1996.
There, Ryan recorded a guest, for series such as Flash, Superboy, Green Lantern and Batman before he succeeded Tom aftermath as a regular illustrator for the quarterly series Superman: Man of Tomorrow was hired. During this time there was in 1996 also granted to him as a draftsman at the special edition Superman: participate The Wedding Album, tells of the marriage of the superhero with his " eternal love " Lois Lane and in general is one of the best-selling comic books this time the.
1999 Ryan returned briefly as a draftsman Series Fantastic Five Marvel Comics, before moving on to the publisher Wildstorm a graphic novel series Left Behind illustrated and worked as a fill-in artist for series such as Ruse and Crux.
2007 Ryan also began working as an illustrator of the Sunday newspaper circulating Comics The Phantom for King Features Syndicate, succeeding Graham Nolan.
Drawing style and influences
As an artistic influences Ryan cites Curt Swan and Wayne Boring, whose straightforward, naturalistic style finds itself in its clear drawing style.