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Rick Remender
Remender at a convention on April 27, 2013
Born (1973-02-06) February 6, 1973 (age 51)
Pasadena, California, United States
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, Artist
Notable works
Deadly Class
Fear Agent
Captain America
Seven to Eternity
Uncanny X-Force
Uncanny Avengers
Black Science
Low
Tokyo Ghost
The Scumbag
http://www.rickremender.com

Rick Remender (born February 6, 1973) is an American writer, showrunner, and producer who resides in Los Angeles, California. In comics he is best known for his work on Image Comics such as Deadly Class, Black Science, LOW as well as Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Force, Captain America, and Uncanny Avengers. In video games he wrote on EA's Dead Space and Epic's Bulletstorm. In film and television he was a showrunner/lead writer on Sony television's adaption of his book Deadly Class.

Career

While in the early stages of his career, Remender worked in animation on such films as The Iron Giant, Anastasia, Titan A.E. and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

In 1998 he teamed up with Harper Jaten and Rory Hensly to create the absurdist humor comic Captain Dingleberry. After four issues self-publishing the series was picked up by SLG Publishing. His next series, Black Heart Billy, was also at SLG with collaborator Kieron Dwyer. In 1999, while producing Black Heart Billy, Remender produced the horror comic Doll and Creature with John Heebink and Mike Manley.

From 2000 to 2003 Remender went on to co-create and direct an animated series Swing Town for Wild Brain Animation. He also produced comics and album covers for Fat Wreck Chords, a Bay Area punk label. During this time he taught comics, animation, and storyboards at the Academy of Art University, inked The Avengers, and penciled numerous issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

From 2004 to 2006 Remender launched Fear Agent, Sea of Red and Strange Girl with Image Comics, Night Mary at IDW, and he illustrated the comic book adaptation of the movie Man With the Screaming Brain, by Dark Horse Comics. A year later he drew the series The Last Christmas.

From 2007 to 2009 Remender was working on the Dark Horse Comics series The End League,[1] as well as launching a giant robot series Gigantic,.[2][3] He also relaunched Fear Agent[4] and started, for Image Comics, new horror miniseries XXXombies and Sorrow.[5] He became co-author of Punisher War Journal with Matt Fraction from issue #19 to 25 and then was the main writer on the new and eighth Punisher series. In April 2009, Remender signed an exclusive writing contract with Marvel Comics[6] but was still able to release the series The Last Days of American Crime through Radical Comics.[7][8] In late 2010 he launched the new title Uncanny X-Force.[9][10] which served as inspiration for Deadpool 2.

He served as a writer on Electronic Art's game Dead Space and was the lead writer for Epic Games' Bulletstorm, which was released on February 22, 2011.

While at Marvel he created the Uncanny Avengers with John Cassaday and the new Captain America with Stuart Immonen which served as inspiration for the ending of Avengers: Endgame.

From 2013 to 2019 Remender produced numerous creator-owned series, such as Tokyo Ghost with Sean Murphy, Death or Glory with Bengal, Black Science with Matteo Scalera, Deadly Class with Wes Craig, LOW with Greg Tocchini, and Seven to Eternity with Jerome Opeña.

In 2017 he served as a showrunner on the Russo brothers and Sony television production of his series Deadly Class. That same year he launched his own imprint, Giant Generator, at Image Comics and a production company of the same name.

In 2019 The Last Days of American Crime was turned into a feature film for Netflix.

Personal life

Remender resides in Los Angeles.[11]

Bibliography

SLG Publishing

  • Captain Dingleberry #1–7 (with Harper Jaten, 1999) collected as Captain Dingleberry: Unplugged (tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-943151-17-1)
  • Murder Can Be Fun #12: "The Ride of Your Life!" (script and art, 1999)
  • Black Heart Billy #1–2 (with Kieron Dwyer, 2000) collected as Black Heart Billy (tpb, 96 pages, AiT/Planet Lar, 2002, ISBN 1-932051-02-3)

Image Comics

Dark Horse Comics

Marvel Comics

Other publishers

Notes

  1. ^ Manning, Shaun (October 6, 2008). "Remender & Canete On 'The End League'". Comic Book Resources.
  2. ^ Furey, Emmett (June 9, 2008). "The Ultimate Gladiator: Remender talks 'Gigantic'". Comic Book Resources.
  3. ^ Arrant, Chris (October 30, 2008). "Getting 'Gigantic' With Rick Remender". Newsarama.
  4. ^ O'Shea, Tim (November 4, 2007). "Remender's Fear Agent: Open Wound as Lead Character" Archived October 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Comics Bulletin. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
  5. ^ Rick Remender: Where Fear Meets Sorrow Archived October 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Comics Bulletin. July 31, 2007
  6. ^ "Emerald City '09: Remender Signs Exclusive". Marvel.com. April 5, 2009
  7. ^ Manning, Shaun (August 20, 2009). "Remender's "Last Days of American Crime"". CBR.com. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  8. ^ Arrant, Chris (October 28, 2009). "You Will Be Brainwashed Into Compliance in 'LAST DAYS'". Newsarama. Retrieved March 1, 2010.
  9. ^ Richards, Dave (April 18, 2010). "C2E2: Remender Unleashes "New X-Force"". Comic Book Resources.
  10. ^ Manning, Shaun (September 9, 2010). "Marvel's Next Big Thing 'Uncanny X-Force' Call". Comic Book Resources.
  11. ^ Remender, Rick. "Bio". rickremender.com. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
  12. ^ Salazaar, Kat (July 23, 2014). "IMAGE EXPO ANNOUNCEMENT: The future is bleak in TOKYO GHOST". Image Comics.

References

Preceded by The Punisher writer
2008–2011
(2008 with Matt Fraction)
Succeeded by
Preceded by Thunderbolts writer
2009
Succeeded by
Preceded by Secret Avengers writer
2012–2013
Succeeded by
Nick Spencer
(Volume 2)
Preceded by Captain America writer
2012–2015
Succeeded by
Preceded by
n/a
Uncanny Avengers writer
2012–2015
Succeeded by