Brian Azzarello

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Brian Azzarello
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Azzarello at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Born (1962-08-11) August 11, 1962 (age 61)
Cleveland, Ohio
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer
Notable works
 100 Bullets
Before Watchmen: Comedian
Before Watchmen: Rorschach
Hellblazer
Joker
Lex Luthor: Man of Steel
Loveless
Wonder Woman
Awards Eisner Award (2001)

Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 11, 1962) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. In 2011, he became the writer of DC's relaunched Wonder Woman series.

Career

Brian Azzarello was the line editor for Andrew Rev's incarnation of Comico.[1]

Azzarello's first published comics work was "An Undead Evolution", a text article in Cold Blooded #1 (May 1993) published by Northstar. His first story for DC Comics was "Ares" which appeared in Weird War Tales vol. 2 #1 (June 1997). He and artist Eduardo Risso launched the 100 Bullets series for Vertigo in August 1999.[2] In addition to 100 Bullets, Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City";[3] Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire; Joker; and Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance[4]), Hellblazer and Superman ("For Tomorrow" and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel). In 2003, upon being assigned to write both the Batman and Superman titles, Azzarello told the Chicago Tribune, "DC is giving me the keys to both cars in the garage, the Maserati and the Ferrari...Somebody told me, 'Don't drive drunk.'"[5]

Mark Waid's and Alex Ross' 1996 miniseries Kingdom Come features a character named "666", who is physically modeled after Azzarello.[6]

In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin.[7] Also at Vertigo, his Filthy Rich original graphic novel was one of the two titles that launched the Vertigo Crime line.[8] Azzarello and Risso produced a Batman serial for Wednesday Comics in 2009.[9][10]

He designed the First Wave, a new fictional universe for DC Comics, separate from the main DC Universe. It starts with a Batman/Doc Savage one-shot,[11] followed by the First Wave limited series.[12]

In 2011 he began writing The New 52 relaunch of the Wonder Woman series, collaborating with artist Cliff Chiang.[13] He wrote two Before Watchmen limited series featuring the Comedian and Rorschach.[14][15] In 2014, he and Jeff Lemire, Keith Giffen, and Dan Jurgens co-wrote The New 52: Futures End.[16]

In April 2015 he was announced as the co-writer of an eight-issue second sequel to The Dark Knight Returns, titled The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, with Frank Miller. The series will be released twice-monthly starting in late 2015.[17] Andy Kubert and Klaus Janson will be the artists on the series.[18]

Influences

Azzarello cites Jim Thompson and David Goodis among his influences.[19][20]

Awards

Azzarello and Argentine artist Eduardo Risso, with whom Azzarello first worked on Jonny Double,[21] won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for 100 Bullets #15–18: "Hang Up on the Hang Low".[22]

Personal life

Azzarello is married to fellow comic book creator Jill Thompson.[23] The couple reside in Chicago.[5]

Bibliography

Early work

Vertigo

  • Weird War Tales #1: "Ares" (with James Romberger, 1997)
  • Gangland #1: "Clean House" (with Tim Bradstreet, 1998) collected in Gangland (tpb, 112 pages, 2000, ISBN 1-56389-608-7)
  • Jonny Double #1-4 (with Eduardo Risso, 1998) collected as Jonny Double: Two-Finger Discount (tpb, 104 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-56389-815-2)
  • Heartthrobs #2: "The Other Side of Town" (with Tim Bradstreet, 1999)
  • Flinch:
    • "Food Chain" (with Eduardo Risso, in #2, 1999)
    • "Last Call" (with Danijel Žeželj, in #10, 2000)
    • "The Shaft" (with Javier Pulido, in #13, 2000)
  • 100 Bullets:
    • Volume 1 (hc, 456 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3201-9) collects:
      • "100 Bullets" (with Eduardo Risso, in #1-3, 1999)
      • "Shot, Water Back" (with Eduardo Risso, in #4-5, 1999)
      • "Short Con, Long Odds" (with Eduardo Risso, in #6-7, 2000)
      • "Silencer Nights" (with Eduardo Risso, in Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3, 2000)
      • "Day, Hour, Minute...Man" (with Eduardo Risso, in #8, 2000)
      • "The Right Ear, Left in the Cold" (with Eduardo Risso, in #9-10, 2000)
      • "Heartbreak Sunnyside Up" (with Eduardo Risso, in #11, 2000)
      • "Parlez Kung Vous" (with Eduardo Risso, in #12-14, 2000)
      • "Hang Up on the Hang Low" (with Eduardo Risso, in #15-18, 2000-2001)
      • "Epilogue for a Road Dog" (with Eduardo Risso, in #19, 2001)
    • Volume 2 (hc, 416 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3372-4) collects:
      • "The Mimic" (with Eduardo Risso, in #20, 2001)
      • "Sell Fish & Out to Sea" (with Eduardo Risso, in #21-22, 2001)
      • "Red Prince Blues" (with Eduardo Risso, in #23-25, 2001)
      • "Mr. Branch & the Family Tree" (with Eduardo Risso and various artists, in #26, 2001)
      • "Idol Chatter" (with Eduardo Risso, in #27, 2001)
      • "¡Contrabandolero!" (with Eduardo Risso, in #28-30, 2001-2002)
      • "The Counterfifth Detective" (with Eduardo Risso, in #31-36, 2002)
    • Volume 3 (hc, 512 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3729-0) collects:
      • "On Accidental Purpose" (with Eduardo Risso, in #37, 2002)
      • "Cole Burns Slow Hand" (with Eduardo Risso, in #38, 2002)
      • "Ambition's Audition" (with Eduardo Risso, in #39, 2002)
      • "Night of the Payday" (with Eduardo Risso, in #40, 2003)
      • "A Crash" (with Eduardo Risso, in #41, 2003)
      • "Point off the Edge" (with Eduardo Risso, in #42, 2003)
      • "Chill in the Oven" (with Eduardo Risso, in #43-46, 2003)
      • "In Stinked" (with Eduardo Risso, in #47-49, 2003-2004)
      • "Prey for Reign" (with Eduardo Risso, in #50, 2004)
      • "Wylie Runs the Voodoo Down" (with Eduardo Risso, in #51-57, 2004-2005)
      • "Coda Smoke" (with Eduardo Risso, in #58, 2005)
    • Strychnine Lives (tpb, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-0928-9) collects:
      • "The Calm" (with Eduardo Risso, in #59, 2005)
      • "Staring at the Son" (with Eduardo Risso, in #60-63, 2005)
      • "The Dive" (with Eduardo Risso, in #64, 2005)
      • "New Tricks" (with Eduardo Risso, in #65-66, 2005-2006)
      • "Love Let Her" (with Eduardo Risso, in #67, 2006)
    • Decayed (tpb, 192 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1939-X) collects:
      • "Sleep, Walker" (with Eduardo Risso, in #68, 2006)
      • "A Wake" (with Eduardo Risso, in #69-74, 2006)
      • "Amorality Play" (with Eduardo Risso, in #75, 2006)
    • Once Upon a Crime (tpb, 192 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1315-4) collects:
      • "Punch Line" (with Eduardo Risso, in #76-79, 2006-2007)
      • "A Split Decision" (with Eduardo Risso, in #80, 2007)
      • "Tarantula" (with Eduardo Risso, in #81-83, 2007)
    • Dirty (tpb, 128 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1939-X) collects:
      • "The Lady Tonight" (with Eduardo Risso, in #84, 2007)
      • "Red Lions" (with Eduardo Risso, in #85, 2007)
      • "Rain in Vain" (with Eduardo Risso, in #86, 2008)
      • "The Blister" (with Eduardo Risso, in #87, 2008)
      • "My Lonely Friend" (with Eduardo Risso, in #88, 2008)
    • Wilt (tpb, 304 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2287-0) collects:
      • "100 Bullets" (with Eduardo Risso, in #89-100, 2008-2009)
  • Strange Adventures #4: "Native Tongue" (with Esad Ribić, 2000)
  • Hellblazer:
  • El Diablo #1-4 (with Danijel Žeželj, 2001) collected as El Diablo (tpb, 104 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1625-0)
  • Loveless (with Marcelo Frusin, Danijel Žeželj and Werther Dell'Edera, 2005-2008) collected as:
  • Vertigo Crime: Filthy Rich (with Victor Santos, graphic novel, hc, 200 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-1184-4)
  • Spaceman #1-9 (with Eduardo Risso, 2011-2012) collected as Spaceman (hc, 224 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3552-2)

DC Comics

Other publishers

References

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  21. ↑ Irvine "Jonny Double " in Dougall (2008), p. 112
  22. ↑ Irvine "100 Bullets" in Dougall (2008), pp. 11-17
  23. ↑ Rockford Register Star staff. (November 7, 2005). "Meet a couple of comic book creators". The Rockford Register Star. Pg. 1E

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Preceded by Hellblazer writer
2000-2002		 Succeeded by
Mike Carey
Preceded by Batman writer
2003-2004		 Succeeded by
Judd Winick
Preceded by Superman vol. 2 writer
2004-2005		 Succeeded by
Judd Winick
Preceded by Wonder Woman writer
2011—2014		 Succeeded by
Meredith Finch and David Finch
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