Clayton Crain

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Clayton Crain
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist
Official website

Clayton Crain is an American comic book artist, who primarily uses digital painting techniques in his art.

He is best known for his works on Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation, Venom vs. Carnage and Sensational Spider-Man (vol. 2).

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 Self-Published 2.2 1998 Acclaim 2.3 1998 Image 2.4 1999 Image 2.5 2000 Image 2.6 2001 Top Cow 2.7 2004 Marvel 2.8 2005 Marvel 2.9 2006 Marvel 2.10 2007 Marvel 2.11 2008 Marvel 2.12 Collections 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Clayton Ryder Crain born in 1975, in Oregon to Alan and Vickie Rae Crain.

He has done two Ghost Rider mini-series with writer Garth Ennis: Road To Damnation, featuring the return of Johnny Blaze as Ghost Rider and Trail of Tears, about a Civil War-era Ghost Rider.

Crain's current project is the re-launch of X-Force for which he does both the covers and interior art.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Self-Published

• Impure #1-?
• 342 #1-?

[edit] 1998 Acclaim

• Shadowman #16-20
  • First professional work
  • Issue #16 has a retail preview and rare glow in the dark edition

[edit] 1998 Image

• Curse of the Spawn #24-29

[edit] 1999 Image

• Kiss Psycho Circus #18-31

[edit] 2000 Image

• Darkness #34-36
• Sam & Twitch #14

[edit] 2001 Top Cow

• No Honor #1-4
• Universe #1-8
  • A "-1" preview issue exists
  • Tom Judge: End Of Days #1

[edit] 2004 Marvel

• Ant Man #1-4
  • This series was never published, but would have been the first comic using Crain's new technique
• Venom #14 - Cover Only
  • First cover with modern computer enhanced technique
• Silver Surfer #10 - Cover
• Marvel Knights Wolverine/Punisher #4 - Cover
• Venom/Carnage #1-4
  • First published interior work using modern style
  • Introduces Toxin

[edit] 2005 Marvel

• Toxin #2 - Cover Only
• Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation #1-6
  • Issue 1 had a special and retail edition with alternate cover

[edit] 2006 Marvel

• Marvel Knights 4 #29 - Cover
• Sensational Spider-man #26, #28
• Sensational Spider-man #27, #30-33 - Cover Only

[edit] 2007 Marvel

• Amazing Spider-man #538 1:50 Variant
• Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears #1-6
• Sensational Spider-man #35 2nd Print, 37-39 - Cover Only
• Sensational Spider-man #40
• Thunderbolts #114 1:10 Variant

[edit] 2008 Marvel

• X-Force(vol. 3) #1-6, #11-13

[edit] Collections

Trade paperback collections include:

• Ghost Rider:
  • Road to Damnation (Marvel, 6-issue mini-series, 2005, July 2006 ISBN 0-7851-1592-7)
  • Trail of Tears (Marvel, 6-issue mini-series, 2007, September 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2003-3)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website