Richard Piers Rayner

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Richard Piers Rayner
NationalityEnglish
Area(s)Penciller, Artist
Notable works
Road to Perdition
Hellblazer
AwardsRuss Manning Promising Newcomer Award (1989)

Richard Piers Rayner (/ˈrnər/) is an English comic book artist. He is best known for his work on Road to Perdition.

Biography[edit]

Richard Piers Rayner began his professional comic career in 1988, illustrating for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. His works include Hellblazer,[1] Swamp Thing, L.E.G.I.O.N., Doctor Fate, and Doctor Who. His most notable work is Road to Perdition, written by Max Allan Collins, which was adapted into a film in 2002, starring Tom Hanks, and directed by Sam Mendes.[2][3]

He is also a frequent contributor to the DC publications, Paradox Press, and is artist in residence at Middlesbrough FC.[4] In November 2008 he wrote and illustrated Middlesbrough FC - The Unseen History.

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Bibliography[edit]

His comics work includes:

  • Hellblazer #10-16 (with Jamie Delano, Vertigo, 1988-1989)
  • The Big Book Of (Paradox Press):
    • Big Book of Urban Legends
    • Big Book of Weirdos
    • Big Book of Death
    • Big Book of Conspiracies
    • Big Book of Freaks
    • Big Book of Little Criminals
    • Big Book of Losers
    • Big Book of the Weird Wild West
    • Big Book of Grimm
  • Road to Perdition (with Max Allan Collins, 204 pages, Pocket Books, June 1998, ISBN 0-671-00921-4, Titan Books, August 2002, ISBN 1-84023-534-9, Simon & Schuster, July 2002, ISBN 0-7434-4224-5, Paradox Press, April 2005, ISBN 1-56389-449-1)[6]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "John Constantine Hellblazer", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 102–111, ISBN 978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC 213309015
  2. ^ [1], Lambiek Comiclopedia (retrieved 17 September 2007)
  3. ^ "Spielberg artist moves goalposts for new book - Scarborough Evening News". www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008.
  4. ^ http://www.mfc.co.uk/page/ClubFeature/0,,1,00.html Richard's Artistic Eye
  5. ^ Comic-Con International official site: The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Road to Perdition details at DC Comics.com

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