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Dheeraj Verma
BornOctober 22, 1967
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)writer, artist, penciller, painter, digital painter, martial artist

Dheeraj Verma (born October 22, 1967) is an Indian comic book artist/creator with International Fame. Verma is often attributed as the very first Indian who entered the US comics industry.

Early life

Dheeraj Verma was born on 22 October 1967 in Delhi, India. He attended school at N P Boys Sr Secondary School and graduated from Pannalal Girdharlal Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, University of Delhi in the year 1991. Mr. Verma spent his life in the heart of the capital, Connaught Place. As an aspiring artist he started drawing Phantom, Batman and Superman in his 3rd standard. He was impressed with Phantom and Flash Gordon.

Career

Mr. Verma started his career as artist in the Indian comic industry in 1991 with New Delhi-based publishers Parampara Comics and Fort Comics. He got noticed by the industry with 'Divaystro Ka Raja', 'Ajoobey' ( Parampara Comics) and got proper attention by the INDIAN COMICS industry from comics 'Jangaroo' ( Fort Comics). Later in December 1993 he moved on to Raj comics, leading the Indian comic company where he created his famous wolfman character Bheriya which is a one of a kind character created in the Indian comic industry. Bheriya (wolfman) represents Dheeraj’s immense love and dedication towards wild life and nature, which has always been the strongest aspects of his artwork style. His debut issue in Raj Comics was 'Bheria Aya' in the year 1994. He wrote as well as illustrated its initial issues which were a huge hit such as 'Wolfano', 'Grahano', 'Lazy', 'Tilangey' and many more. He worked on almost all the major Raj comics characters as an artist.[1] His best seller comics were from the 90’s, and all of them were drawn by him. He also worked on covers, posters, trading cards, pin-ups and other promotional merchandising for Raj comics. Dheeraj Verma was the first artist to introduce digital coloring in the Indian comic industry in 1996 through Parmanu’s Cover and then Bheria’s Digest.[1] He worked with Raj comics till April 2000. He joined a gaming company Escosoft Tech. (Division of Escort) as a Sr. Visualizer and worked there for 3 years until June 2003.[2] In 2004, he got his big break in the American comic industry with Avatar Press where he worked as an artist for writer Joe R. Lansdale, on By Bizarre Hands.[3][4] His biggest series with Avatar were Escape of the Living Dead ,[5] Plague of the Living Dead,[6][7] Yuggoth Creatures ,[8][9] Nightmare on ELM Street[10] and Night of the Living Dead.[11] He also worked on Dynamite’s ‘The complete Dracula series’ written by Alan Moore’s daughter Leah Moore.[12] He also did cover art for Marvel Comics's Invincible Iron Man .[13][14] He worked on Transformers series published by IDW Publications.[15][16][17] His first series for IDW 'Transforemers: Fall Of Cybertron' was a superhit series on ComiXology, which was launched in Aug 2012.[18] After this series he worked on Transformers: Robots in Disguise # 19 in July 2013 and it enetered in Top 300 comic, July 2013.[19]


Presently working on Lady Death ( Coffin comics, USA), as a series penciller.[20][21]

In January 2013, Dheeraj verma made his comeback in Indian comic industry with 'Jaljeevni' (Bheria Series ), it was a comeback to Raj Comics after one decade. Subhasya Sheegram (Doga), Sarvanayak series is his latest project going on with Raj comics.[22][23]

Dheeraj Verma also ventured to exhibit his painting in world renown Indian Government institute of fine arts Lalit Kala Akademi' s ART GALLERY Delhi, and made quite a buzz in the fine art circle by introducing original comics pages of Transformers and Lady Death in the gallery in a 7-day exhibition, which was Inaugurated by Mr. Taj Hassan, Spl Commissioner of Police, Crime, Delhi.[24][25]

Personal life

Married to Malti Verma in 1991 and has 2 daughters.

References

  1. ^ a b "People - Dheeraj Verma - Avatar Press".
  2. ^ "escosoft-tech.com".
  3. ^ "Joe R. Lansdale's By Bizarre Hands -- Avatar Press".
  4. ^ "Joe R. Lansdale, A Biography & Bibliography".
  5. ^ http://www.avatarpress.com/escape/
  6. ^ "plague of the living dead - Avatar Press".
  7. ^ "Plague of the Living Dead #1 (of 6) - Comics by comiXology".
  8. ^ http://www.avatarpress.com/yuggothcreatures/
  9. ^ "Antony Johnston".
  10. ^ "Avatar Press".
  11. ^ "night of the living dead - Avatar Press".
  12. ^ "Dynamite® The Complete Dracula #1 (Of 5)".
  13. ^ "Dheeraj Verma - Comics - Marvel.com".
  14. ^ "Dheeraj Verma - Comics - Marvel.com".
  15. ^ "Dheeraj Verma". IDW Publishing.
  16. ^ "Dheeraj Verma".
  17. ^ "Transformers". IDW Publishing.
  18. ^ "Transformers: Fall of Cybertron".
  19. ^ "ICv2: Top 300 Comics Actual--July 2013".
  20. ^ "lady death » Coffin Comics". Coffin Comics.
  21. ^ "B.PULIDO'S NEW LADY DEATH GRAPHIC NOVEL: EXTINCTION EXPRESS!". Kickstarter.
  22. ^ "Last 6 Month : SARVYUGAM".
  23. ^ "Last 6 Month : SARVDAMAN".
  24. ^ http://lalitkala.gov.in/upload/Gallery%20Allotment%20list.pdf
  25. ^ "Delhi Events".


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