Jump to content

Rick Leonardi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 24.0.42.254 (talk) at 05:57, 25 April 2013 (→Bibliography). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Rick Leonardi
Leonardi at the 2012 New York Comic Con.
Born (1957-08-09) August 9, 1957 (age 67)
Philadelphia
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Artist
Notable works
Cloak and Dagger
The Uncanny X-Men
The New Mutants
Green Lantern Versus Aliens
Star Wars: General Grievous

Rick Leonardi is an American comic book illustrator who has worked for various books for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including Cloak and Dagger, The Uncanny X-Men , The New Mutants, Spider-Man 2099, Nightwing, Batgirl, Green Lantern Versus Aliens and Superman. He has also worked on feature film tie-in books, such as Star Wars: General Grievous and Superman Returns Prequel #3.

Early life

Leonardi was born in Philadelphia in 1957, and grew up in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1979. His professional career began in 1980.

Career

Rick Leonardi's well-known works in the 1980s include various sporadic fill-in issues of The Uncanny X-Men and The New Mutants, as well as runs on Cloak and Dagger.

He is credited, along with fellow illustrator Mike Zeck, of designing the black-and-white costume to which Spider-Man switched during the 1984 Secret Wars miniseries, and later wore for a time. According to the Spider-Man 1/2 special, the costume began as a design by Zeck that Leonardi embellished. The plot that developed as a result of Spider-Man's acquisition of the costume led to the creation of the Spider-Man villain known as Venom[1] (though in a 2007 Comic Book Resources story, fan Randy Schueller claims to have devised a version of a black costume for Spider-Man in a story idea that he was paid for[2]).

From 1992 to 1994, Leonardi drew the first 25 issues of Spider-Man 2099 with writer Peter David (with the exception of issues 9, 14, 18, and 21).

Leonardi drew the 2000 crossover miniseries Green Lantern Versus Aliens. His subsequent series work includes the runs on Nightwing, of which he illustrated most of the issues between #71 - 84 from 2002 to 2003, and on Batgirl, of which he drew issues #45 - 52 from 2003 to 2004. Subsequent miniseries he drew include Star Wars: General Grievous in 2005, and the 2006 movie tie-in, Superman Returns Prequel #3. He followed up that with other superhero titles such as Superman #665 and #668 (2007), JLA: Classified #43 (November 2007), Witchblade #112 (January 2008), and the 2008 miniseries DC Universe: Decisions.

Leonardi provided the artwork for the Vigilante series that debuted from DC in December 2008.[3]

Bibliography

Leonardi sketching Cloak and Dagger at the 2011 New York Comic Con.

Notes

  1. ^ David, Peter. "The Wacko Theory"; Comics Buyer's Guide June 4, 1993; Reprinted in the collection But I Digress (1994); pp. 104-106
  2. ^ Cronin, Brian. "Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed Extra: Randy Schueller’s Brush With Comic History" on Comic Book Resources May 16, 2007
  3. ^ Returning to the Gun: Marv Wolfman on 'Vigilante', Newsarama, November 10, 2008

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rick Leonardi.

Template:Persondata

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Rick_Leonardi&oldid=552077624"