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Brian Azzarello
Azzarello at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Born11.08.1962
Cleveland, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
100 Bullets
Hellblazer
Loveless
Lex Luthor: Man of Steel
Joker
AwardsEisner 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

Aside from 100 Bullets, Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City"; "Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire"; "Joker"), 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 Mazerati and the Ferrari...Somebody told me, 'Don't drive drunk.'"[1] Prior to his rise to prominence as a writer, he was best known as the line editor for Andrew Rev's incarnation of Comico.

In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin.[2] Also at Vertigo, his Filthy Rich original graphic novel was one of the two titles that launched the Vertigo Crime line.[3]

He also designed First Wave, a new fictional universe for DC Comics, separate from the main DC Universe/DC Multiverse. It starts with a Batman/Doc Savage one-shot,[4] followed by the First Wave limited series.[5]

In 2011 he began writing The New 52 relaunch of the Wonder Woman series, collaborating with artist Cliff Chiang.

Influences

Azzarello cites Jim Thompson and David Goodis among his influences.[6][7]

Personal life

Azzarello is married to fellow comic book creator Jill Thompson.[8] The couple reside in Chicago.[1]

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:
  • 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 Ribic, 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:
    • A Kin of Homecoming (collects #1-5, tpb, 128 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1061-9)
    • Thicker Than Blackwater (collects #6-12, tpb, 168 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1250-6)
    • Blackwater Falls (collects #13-24, tpb, 288 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1495-9)
  • 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

Awards & Homage

Azzarello and Argentine artist Eduardo Risso, with whom Azzarello first worked on Jonny Double,[9] won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for 100 Bullets #15–18: "Hang Up on the Hang Low".[10]

Mark Waid's and Alex Ross' Elseworlds comic Kingdom Come features a character named "666", who is physically modeled after Azzarello.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Mowatt, Raoul V. (November 14, 2003), "Chicagoan takes a flier with Superman, Batman", Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on November 13, 2011, retrieved November 13, 2011
  2. ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Loveless", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 116–117, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
  3. ^ Karen Berger on the Vertigo Crime Line, Newsarama, August 15, 2008
  4. ^ Renaud, Jeffrey (August 11, 2009). "Azzarello Reimagines Doc Savage". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 6, 2009.
  5. ^ Renaud, Jeffrey (October 12, 2009). "Azzarello Pulps Up DCU With "First Wave"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
  6. ^ [1]
  7. ^ Dan Phillips. "The Joker's Wild Ride". IGN.
  8. ^ Rockford Register Star staff. (November 7, 2005). "Meet a couple of comic book creators". The Rockford Register Star. Pg. 1E
  9. ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "Jonny Double", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, p. 112, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
  10. ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "100 Bullets", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, London: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 11–17, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5

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