Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker ( born November 17, 1966 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American comic book writer and signatory.
Life and work
Brubaker 1966, born at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, a clinic for members of the U.S. Navy. An uncle Brubaker's mother's side was the screenwriter John Paxton.
After visiting the colleges and some casual job Brubaker began in the early 1990s to work as a full-time cartoonist. His first work was doing a job as an author and illustrator of the series Pajama Chronicles, edited by Bakes Horne comics. This was followed by Purgatory USA and the semi- autobiographical series Lowlife for Slave Labor Graphics and Monkey Wrench for Caliber Comics.
In 1991 he started for the stories published by the Publisher Dark Horse Comics anthology series Dark Horse Presents contribute, an activity that he should continue for the rest of the decade on an irregular basis. For the 1993 published story on Accidential Death were Brubaker and his partner, the artist Eric Shanower, with a Eisner Award, the most prestigious prize of the American comic book industry, excellent. 1997 Brubaker began his own work on the Small Press publishing house to publish alternative comics.
In 1995, Brubaker his first work for DC Comics, one of the two major American publishers, in: The published in DC's Vertigo imprint grim political satire Vertigo Visions: Prez, Smells Like Teen President. Brubaker's next DC project, the four-part mini-series Scene of the Crime ( 1999), set by the subscribers to Michael Lark and Sean Phillips into the picture, which marked the beginning of a long collaboration between the artistic triumvirate. The, based in Los Angeles detective story proved to be not only a commercial success, but also brought Brubaker first attention from the American film industry and established the genre of crime fiction than his writing the main operating area.
For WildStorm publishing Brubaker wrote stories for the series The Authority, Sleeper ( # 1-12) and Sleeper: Season Two. The purchasers, with whom he worked during this time, counted inter alia Jim Lee.
2000 Brubaker signed a one-year exclusive contract with DC and took over the job author for the traditional superhero series Batman, which he was retained until 2002. There followed a two-year commitment to the series Detective Comics, which also had stories about the Batman character to the content. Brubaker's artistic partner, the most Batman stories in these four years, designed, was a draftsman Scott McDaniel. Added to this was the work of many comics about the seductive professional thief Catwoman, the Brubaker 2001-2005 employed. This began with the four-part story Trail of the Catwoman, which was # 759-762 as a so -called back- story in the back of the books, following the Batman " main story ", published in 2001 in Detective Comics, and soon afterwards in a separate series resulted that Brubaker wrote to issue # 37. As a signatory Brubaker was doing set aside Darwyn Cooke. Another project during Brubaker's DC time, which led him back to his roots as a mystery writer, the series Gotham Central, a police comic that in Batman's fictional hometown of Gotham City, the adventures of the detective on the content and Brubaker between 2003 and 2006 the team was was designed with the mystery writer Greg Rucka and artist Michael Lark.
2004 Brubaker moved to DC's main competitor Marvel Comics. There he wrote among other things on the series Daredevil, Uncanny X -Men and Captain America. Brubaker's work on Captain America thereby learned in 2007 public especially true attention enough to reports of the U.S. news channel CNN, which was due to the fact in particular that Brubaker and his partner - artist Steve Epting - the iconic title character, the patriotic super soldier Steve Rogers, left to die.
Brubaker currently lives in Seattle, Washington.