Brian Wood (comics)

Brian Wood ( born January 29, 1972 in Essex Junction, Vermont) is an American comic book writer, illustrator and graphic designer. He is mainly known for his work as an author of comics as DMZ and Northlanders. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Career

He began his career in 1997, after his bachelor's degree in illustration at the Parsons School of Design with the five-part mini-series, Channel Zero, which was a part of his thesis. Channel Zero was released by the publisher Image Comics.

In the following years Wood has worked as a designer for various Internet companies.

Wood began his career in the comics industry as recently as 2000 continues, as an offer was submitted as a co- author for the series Generation X of Marvel publishing by Warren Ellis, who was Plotmaster the series at that time him. In the aftermath Wood worked on 13 issues of the series ( numbers 63-75 ) with, in five issues ( numbers 71-75 ), he was the principal author. The show was canceled due to restructuring of the X -Men franchise.

In the years 2001 to 2003 Wood created as a freelancer some creator -owned comics and graphic novels for various publishing companies, including as The Couriers for AIT and Fight For Tomorrow for Vertigo. Also in this season comes a six-month job as art director for AIT, where he was responsible for the design of the company logo and brand identity as well as for the cover design of several publications.

During this period he created on behalf of Warren Ellis, the covers for 14 issues of the Wildstorm - series Global Frequency. Also in the year 2003 falls the emergence of the twelve-part miniseries demo, Wood brought in not only the praise of critics as well as two nominations for the Eisner Award, but also achieved commercial success. In addition Demo increased its notoriety in the non - English speaking countries.

Because of the success of demonstration to Wood decided in 2005 for its new series Local to lean to the previous work. Local was also created in twelve issues. However, it differs in the concept that the series has a standing in the foreground main female character whose development is followed in the course of the series, which, however, does not act as a protagonist in each issue. In contrast, each issue of demo a completed story dar. Wood worked at the Local, together with the draftsman Ryan Kelly and not, as in demo with Becky Cloonan. Local published by Oni Press.

Also in 2005, he began working at the Riccardo Burchielli conceived by him series DMZ, which is published by Vertigo since June 2006, and his fame increased. Since 2007 he is also working on since 2008 are published by Vertigo series Northlanders, also thought up a concept he. Brian Wood was from 2006 to 2010 at Vertigo under exclusive contract, which allowed him to be active also for other clients.