Stuart Immonen

Stuart Immonen is a Canadian comic book artist and author.

Life and work

After studying at the University of Toronto Immonen began to operate as a professional cartoonist. His first published work was the 1988 self-published comic book series published Playground which Immonen brought several orders smaller publishers.

From 1993, finally followed orders of the America's leading comic book publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics. The focus of Immonens work in the second half of the 1990s it was the work of the traditional figure of the comic book hero Superman where he worked for more than five years between 1994 and 1999. The beginning of his work on Superman was marked by a three years as a signatory of published in the series Adventures of Superman stories, most of which were written by Karl Kesel. In 1997, Immonen, succeeding David Michelinie the job of the author of Action Comics, a further series of stories about the adventures of Superman character that he almost two years, wrote until 1999. In personal union he feared doing the drawings for his stories often itself the completion of his work on Superman made ​​the turn of the year 1999/2000 published graphic novel Superman: End of Century.

Further work for DC in the 1990s were signatories Jobs for the Legion of Super Heroes Science fiction series and the four-part "event" miniseries Final Night of 1996, which deals with the idea of ​​the consequences of a lapse of the sun for humanity would.

After his move to Marvel comics drew Immonen for series like X -Men, Ultimate X -Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Hulk and Ultimate Spider -Man. The most frequent artistic partner Immonens at Marvel was the author Warren Ellis. In the first decade of the 21st century Immonen did by him together with his wife Kathryn Immonen wrote web comics and work for publishers Top Cow and Image Comics forth.

• Cartoonist
• Comic author
• Canadian
• Born in the 20th century
• Man