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Brian Wood
Brian Wood in 2007
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Essex Junction, Vermont, United States
NationalityAmerican
Known forGraphic designer, illustrator, comic books
Notable workDMZ, Demo, Northlanders
MovementContemporary
Awards5 Eisner Award nominations

Brian Wood (born 1972) is an American writer, illustrator, and graphic designer. He is known primarily as a comic book creator; Wood both writes, illustrates, and designs graphic novels and serialized monthly comic books.

During his comics career, Wood held a day job for several years as a staff designer for Rockstar Games, designing for video game franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Midnight Club, Max Payne, Smuggler's Run, and Manhunt. He has created covers for Warren Ellis's Global Frequency and his own DMZ, as well as many others. Wood's illustrations have appeared in short films for Nike.[1]

Wood was born in Essex Junction, Vermont. He relocated to New York City and graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1997.[2]

Comics career

Early career (1997–2003)

Wood's first professional work in comics was the 5-issue miniseries Channel Zero, published by Image Comics from 1997–98, created as part of a final project for graduation from Parsons School of Design. Channel Zero is set in a dystopian near-future New York City where the tenets of Mayor Giuliani have grown into a freedom-restricting government initiative called 'The Clean Act'. The protagonist is Jennie 2.5, a DIY media personality. Channel Zero was orphaned shortly after Image Comics sold out of the first print run of the collection, opting not to return to press. AiT/Planet Lar acquired it soon afterwards and has kept the graphic novel in print.

Wood was absent from comics for two years, working at a series of Internet design jobs during the dot-com boom.[3] In early 2000, Warren Ellis offered Wood a co-writing job on Marvel Comics' Generation X, as part of Ellis's Counter-X run (in which Ellis served as "Plotmaster"). Wood co-wrote issues #63–70 with Ellis, and wrote #71–75 on his own. The series was canceled as part of incoming editor-in-chief Joe Quesada's attempts to simplify the X-Men franchise.[citation needed]

Wood returned to creator-owned comics between 2001 and 2003, producing several graphic novels and miniseries, including Couscous Express, The Couriers, and Jennie One for AIT, Pounded for Oni Press, and Fight For Tomorrow for DC's imprint Vertigo. He was employed as AIT's art director for roughly six months, creating not only their current logo and branding, but covers for many of the books they published during this time. He also found time to work again with Warren Ellis, creating 14 covers for the Wildstorm series Global Frequency.

Demo and Local (2003–2005)

In late 2003, Wood quit his staff job at Rockstar Games[4] and teamed with artist Becky Cloonan to create the monthly series Demo. Each of the 12 issues told its own complete story, and included eight pages of "backmatter", bonus material that was intentionally left out of the eventual collected edition. The Demo format proved so successful that Wood went on to replicate it, with minor changes, for his 12-issue series Local at Oni Press, begun in 2005 and drawn by artist Ryan Kelly. Local differs from Demo in that it includes a focal character, Megan McKeenan, whose character arc is gradually traced through the series, although she is not always the protagonist within each issue. This difference has led Local down its own path; Wood refers to it as "transcending its 'done in one' format to really be about Megan's story, her life, that progression over time".[5]

2005–2006

2006 saw the publication of the graphic novel The Tourist from Image Comics, and Supermarket, a 4-issue series from IDW drawn by Kristian Donaldson.

The DC / Vertigo exclusive years (2006–2011)

In August 2006, DC Comics announced that Brian Wood was signed to an exclusive contract.[6]

Wood co-created DMZ, a critically acclaimed ongoing series from Vertigo for which he is best-known, Northlanders, a historical-fiction series set during the Viking Age, The New York Four and The New York Five, a young adult series, and a new Demo miniseries. For DC/Wildstorm, he wrote a DV8 miniseries with Rebekah Isaacs, and a Supernatural miniseries with Grant Bond. DMZ and Northlanders have both received Deluxe reprinting in both hardcover and paperback, in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

In August 2011, Wood discussed the conclusion of Northlanders, the ending of his exclusive and regular work for DC Comics, and the rumors he was working on a Supergirl series for the New 52.[7]

Marvel Comics (2012–2015)

Shortly after his DC Comics exclusive ended, Wood wrote a series of X-Men comics for Marvel, starting with the Wolverine & The X-Men: Alpha and Omega miniseries. He was then announced as the ongoing writer of the "adjectiveless" X-Men title and penned issues #30–37. He signed on to Ultimate Comics: X-Men and wrote issues #13–33. When his X-Men book was cancelled and relaunched as an all-female title, he was announced as the writer[8] and wrote #1–17 of that series.[9] In 2014 he signed on to Moon Knight to write issues #6–12[10]

Dark Horse Comics (2012–)

Wood shifted the bulk of his creator owned work to Dark Horse Comics following his time at DC Comics. He created and authored the five-volume The Massive, The Massive Ninth Wave (prequel), and Rebels, a historical series set during the American Revolution,[11] and Briggs Land.

For the company, he did a 25-issue stint on Conan the Barbarian, a 20-issue run on Star Wars, and a miniseries leading into the release of the Eve: Valkyrie virtual reality video game. In 2016, Wood and artist Tristan Jones launched Aliens: Defiance, a new monthly series in the mold of the original 1979 film.[12]

Wood also brought the Channel Zero, Demo, and The New York Four properties to Dark Horse, who collected and printed them in comprehensive omnibus editions.[13][14]

Image Comics (2012–)

Wood returned to Image Comics with an omnibus edition of The Couriers, followed by three new monthly series: Mara with Ming Doyle, Starve with collaborators Danijel Zezelj and Dave Stewart, and Black Road with Garry Brown.[15]

Video game career

Wood is credited as co-writing 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, created by Navid Khonsari.[16]

Film and television career

Wood is credited as writing two web series in 2012 for Geek And Sundry: An adaptation of three The Massive short stories[17][18] and an adaptation of the first story arc of his and Becky Cloonan's Conan the Barbarian.[19][20]

Wood is credited as producing the short film Future Imperfect.[21]

In 2016 Wood commenced work on Briggs Land, writing both a monthly comic book for Dark Horse Comics and a television show for AMC Networks. He is also serving as an executive producer on the series.[22]

Bibliography

Dark Horse Comics

  • Conan the Barbarian #1–25 (with Becky Cloonan, James Harren, Vasilis Lolos, and others, 2012–2014) collected as:
    • Volume 13: Queen Of The Black Coast (collects #1–6, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6165-5043-0)
    • Volume 14: The Death (collects #7–12, tpb, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6165-5123-2)
    • Volume 15: Nightmare Of The Shallows (collects #13–18, tpb, 152 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6165-5385-5)
    • Volume 16: The Song Of Belit (collects #19–25, tpb, 176 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-6165-5524-6)
  • Dark Horse Presents #8–10: "The Massive" (with Kristian Donaldson, 2012)
  • The Massive #1–30 (#1–3 with Kristen Donaldson, #4–9, #13–30 with Garry Brown and others) collected as:
    • Black Pacific (collects #1–6 + three short stories first appearing in Dark Horse Presents #8–10, 176 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6165-5132-1)
    • Subcontinental (collects #7–12, tpb, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6165-5316-2)
    • Longship (collects #13–18, tpb, 152 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6165-5446-0)
    • Sahara (collects #19–24, tpb, 152 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-6165-5508-4)
    • Ragnarok (collects #25–30, tpb, 152 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-6165-5652-8)
    • The Massive Library Edition Book One (collects #0–15, hardcover, 400 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-5067-0091-8)
    • The Massive Library Edition Book Two (collects #16–30, hardcover, 400 pages, 2016)
  • Star Wars #1–20 (with Carlos D'Anda, and others, 2013–2014) collected as:
    • In The Shadow Of Yavin (collects #1–6, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6165-5170-4)
    • From The Ruins Of Alderaan (collects #7–12, tpb, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6165-5311-1)
    • Rebel Girl (collects #15–18, tpb, 96 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6165-5483-5)
    • A Shattered Hope (collects #13–14, #19–20, plus the FCBD story, tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-6165-5483-5)
  • Channel Zero Collected Omnibus Graphic Novel (with Becky Cloonan, 2012)
  • The New York Four Collected Omnibus Graphic Novel (with Ryan Kelly, 2014, ISBN 1-6165-5605-6)
  • Demo Collected Omnibus Graphic Novel (with Becky Cloonan, 2015 ISBN 1-6165-5682-X)
  • Eve: Valkyrie (Hardcover, 96 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-6165-5767-2)
  • Rebels #1–10 (with Andrea Mutti and others, 2015–)
    • Rebels: A Well-Regulated Militia (240 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-6165-5908-X)
  • The Massive: Ninth Wave #1–6 (with Garry Brown 2015–2016)
    • The Massive: Ninth Wave Library Edition (collects #1–6, hardcover, 152 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-5067-0091-8)
  • Aliens: Defiance #1–12 (with Tristan Jones, 2016–)
    • Aliens: Defiance Vol. 1 (160 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-5067-0126-4)
    • Aliens: Defiance Vol. 2 (160 pages, 2017, ISBN tbd)
  • Briggs Land #1– (with Mack Chater, 2016–)
    • Briggs Land Vol. 1: "State Of Grace" (160 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-5067-0059-4)

Image Comics

  • The Tourist (with Toby Cypress, graphic novel, tpb, 104 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-597-2)
  • CBLDF Presents: Liberty Comics #2: "Channel Zero: Urban Combat" (script and art, 2009)
  • The Couriers (with Rob G and Brett Weldele) as "The Couriers: Complete Collection" (script, 2012, ISBN 1-6070-6641-6)
  • Mara #1–6 (with Ming Doyle, 2012)
    • Mara (136 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-6070-6810-9)
  • Starve #1–10 (with Danijel Zezelj and Dave Stewart, 2015–)
    • Starve Vol. 1 (120 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-6321-5546-X)
    • Starve Vol. 2 (120 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-6321-5832-9)
  • Black Road #1– (with Garry Brown, 2015–)
    • Black Road Vol. 1 "The Holy North" (132 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-6321-5872-8)
    • Black Road Vol. 2 "A Pagan Death" (132 pages, 2017, ISBN tbd)

Marvel Comics

  • Generation X:
    • Counter-X Volume 2 (tpb, 192 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3305-4) collects:
    • "Four Days" (with Steve Pugh and Ron Lim, in #71–74, 2001)
    • "Brand New Day" (with Ron Lim, in #75, 2001)
  • Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha and Omega #1–5 (with Mark Brooks and Roland Boschi, 2012) collected as TPB, 120 pages, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-6400-6
  • X-Men, volume 3 #30–37 (with David Lopez, 2012)
    • X-Men: Blank Generation (120 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6459-6)
    • X-Men: Reckless Abandonment (136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-6461-8)
  • Ultimate Comics: X-Men #13–33 (with Paco Medina, 2012–2013)
    • Ultimate Comics: X-Men by Brian Wood Vol. 1 (136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6136-8)
    • Ultimate Comics: X-Men by Brian Wood Vol. 2 (136 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6720-X)
    • Ultimate Comics: X-Men by Brian Wood Vol. 3 (136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-6721-8)
    • Ultimate Comics: Divided We Fall, United We Stand (408 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-785-18416-3)
  • X-Men, volume 4 #1–17 (with Olivier Coipel, Terry Dodson, Kris Anka, Clay Mann 2013–2014) collected as
    • Primer (collects #1–4, 120 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6800-1)
    • Battle Of The Atom (collects #5-6, others, HC, 148 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8906-8)
    • Muertas (collects #7–12, tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-6801-X)
    • Bloodline (collects #13–17, tpb, 136 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8972-6)
  • Moon Knight #7–12 (with Greg Smallwood and Jordie Bellaire), 2014–2015), collected as:
    • Volume 2: Dead Will Rise (tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-5409-4)
  • Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: The Rebellion Vol. 1 (with others, collects Star Wars #1–12 originally published by Dark Horse, 504 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9546-7)

DC Comics/Vertigo/Wildstorm

  • Fight for Tomorrow #1–6 (with Denys Cowan and Kent Williams, 2002–2003) collected as Fight for Tomorrow (tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1562-9)
  • DMZ (script and art, with Riccardo Burchielli, Kristian Donaldson, Nathan Fox, Danijel Žeželj, Nikki Cook, Ryan Kelly, Andrea Mutti, Cliff Chiang, David Lapham, Shawn Martinbrough and others, 2006–2012) collected as:
    • On the Ground (collects #1–5, tpb, 128 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1062-7)
    • Body of a Journalist (collects #6–12, tpb, 168 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1247-6)
    • Public Works (collects #13–17, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1476-2)
    • Friendly Fire (collects #18–22, tpb, 128 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1662-5)
    • The Hidden War (collects #23–28, tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1833-4)
    • Blood in the Game (collects #29–34, tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2130-0)
    • War Powers (collects #35–41, tpb, 168 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2430-X)
    • Hearts and Minds (collects #42–49, tpb, 192 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2726-0)
    • M.I.A. (collects #50–54, tpb, 128 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-2996-4)
    • Collective Punishment (collects #55–59, tpb, 128 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3150-0)
    • Free States Rising (collects #60–65, tpb, 168 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3389-9)
    • The Five Nations of New York (collects #66–72, tpb, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3479-8)
    • DMZ Deluxe Vol 1 (collects #1–12, HC, 304 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4300-2)
    • DMZ Deluxe Vol 2 (collects #13–28, HC, 416 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4765-2)
    • DMZ Deluxe Vol 3 (collects #29–44, HC, 392 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5000-9)
    • DMZ Deluxe Vol 4 (collects #45–59, HC, 384 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5411-X)
    • DMZ Deluxe Vol 5 (collects #60–72, HC, 296 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5843-3)
    • DMZ Book One (collects #1–12, softcover, 296 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6135-3)
    • DMZ Book Two (collects #13–28, softcover, 416 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6357-7)
    • DMZ Book Three (collects #29–44, softcover, 392 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-6548-0)
  • Northlanders (with Davide Gianfelice, Dean Ormston, Ryan Kelly, Vasilis Lolos, Danijel Žeželj, Leandro Fernandez, Fiona Staples, Riccardo Burchielli, Becky Cloonan, Simon Gane, Matt Woodson, Marian Churchland, Paul Azaceta and Declan Shalvey, 2008–2012) collected as:
    • Sven the Returned (collects #1–8, tpb, 200 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1918-7)
    • The Cross + The Hammer (collects #11–16, tpb, 144 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2296-X)
    • Blood in the Snow (collects #9–10 and 17–20, tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2620-5)
    • The Plague Widow (collects #21–28, tpb, 192 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2850-X)
    • Metal and Other Stories (collects #29–36, tpb, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3160-8)
    • Thor's Daughter (collects #37–41, tpb, 128 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3366-X)
    • The Icelandic Trilogy (collects #42–50, tpb, 200 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3691-X)
    • Northlanders Book One (2016, ISBN 1-40126-3313)
    • Northlanders Book Two (2016, ISBN 1-4012-6508-1)
  • Tales of the Unexpected: "Americana" (with Emily Carroll, one-shot, 2011)
  • Supernatural #1–6 (with Grant Bond, 2011–2012) collected as Supernatural: The Dogs of Edinburgh (tpb, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3506-9)
  • Global Frequency (covers only, 2002–2004, 2012)
  • DV8: Gods & Monsters (with Rebekah Ann Isaacs, 2010–2011) collected as DV8: Gods & Monsters (tpb, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-2973-5)

Other publishers

Design

Filmography

Awards

  • Eisner Award Nomination for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition (2004)
  • Eisner Award Nomination for Best Cover Artist (for Global Frequency) (2004)
  • Eagle Awards Nomination for Favourite Comic Book Cover (Global Frequency #7) (2004)
  • Eisner Award Nomination for Best Single Issue (Demo #7) (2005)
  • Eisner Award Nomination for Best Limited Series (Demo) (2005)
  • Winner of Grand Jury Best Short Story (Demo's "Emmy"), Lucca Comics & Games, Italy (2007)
  • Eagle Awards Nomination for Favourite Black and White Comicbook – American (Local) (2007)
  • Eisner Award Nomination for Best Writer (for DMZ, Northlanders, Local) (2008)
  • Harvey Award Nomination for Best Presentation (for "Local) (2009)
  • Eisner Award Nomination for Best Limited Series (The New York Five) (2011)

References

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  2. ^ "Brian Wood" Archived July 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Parsons School of Design. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  3. ^ Varmus, Chris (July 14, 2007). "Sketched out". The Brooklyn Paper.
  4. ^ Manning, Shaun (August 4, 2003). "WWC: Brian Wood One-on-One". Comic Book Resources.
  5. ^ "Updates, December 19, 2006". Brian Wood's LiveJournal. Retrieved December 24, 2006.
  6. ^ "WW: Chicago '06: Brian Wood Announces DC Exclusive / New Vertigo Ongoing". Newsarama. Retrieved September 10, 2006.
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  8. ^ Esposito, Joey (January 14, 2013). "Marvel Debuts All-Female X-Men". IGN.
  9. ^ Meylikhov, Matthew (May 9, 2014). "Brian Wood Out, Marc Guggenheim In for Marvel's 'X-Men'" Archived November 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Multiversity Comics
  10. ^ Arrant, Chris (June 4, 2014). "New MOON KNIGHT Creative Team Revealed". Newsarama
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Preceded by Generation X writer
2000–2001
(with Warren Ellis in 2000) 		Succeeded by
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Preceded by X-Men writer
2012–2014 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Warren Ellis
 Moon Knight writer
2014–2015 		Succeeded by
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