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Richard Piers Rayner (/ˈreɪnər/) is an English comic book artist. He is best known for his work on Road to Perdition.

Biography

Richard Piers Rayner began his professional comic career in 1988, illustrating for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. His works include Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, L.E.G.I.O.N., Doctor Fate, and Doctor Who. His most notable work is Road to Perdition, written by Max Allan Collins, which was adapted into a film in 2002, starring Tom Hanks, and directed by Sam Mendes.

He is also a frequent contributor to the DC publications, Paradox Press, and is artist in residence at Middlesbrough FC. In November 2008 he wrote and illustrated Middlesbrough FC - The Unseen History.

Awards

• 1989: Won the "Russ Manning Promising Newcomer" Eisner Award

Bibliography

His comics work includes:

• Hellblazer #10-16 (with Jamie Delano, Vertigo, 1988-1989)
• The Big Book Of (Paradox Press):
  • Big Book of Urban Legends
  • Big Book of Weirdos
  • Big Book of Death
  • Big Book of Conspiracies
  • Big Book of Freaks
  • Big Book of Little Criminals
  • Big Book of Losers
  • Big Book of the Weird Wild West
  • Big Book of Grimm
• Road to Perdition (with Max Allan Collins, 204 pages, Pocket Books, June 1998, ISBN 0-671-00921-4, Titan Books, August 2002, ISBN 1-84023-534-9, Simon & Schuster, July 2002, ISBN 0-7434-4224-5, Paradox Press, April 2005, ISBN 1-56389-449-1)

Notes

1. Irvine, Alex (2008), "John Constantine Hellblazer", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.), The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 102–111, ISBN 978-0-7566-4122-1, OCLC 213309015
2. , Lambiek Comiclopedia (retrieved 17 September 2007)
3. "Spielberg artist moves goalposts for new book - Scarborough Evening News". www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008.
4. http://www.mfc.co.uk/page/ClubFeature/0,,1,00.html Richard's Artistic Eye
5. Comic-Con International official site: The Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
6. Road to Perdition details at DC Comics.com

References

• Richard Piers Rayner at the Grand Comics Database
• Richard Piers Rayner at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

• Richard Piers Rayner at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Richard Piers Rayner on Lambiek's Comiclopedia

• English comics artists
• Living people
• Artists from Scarborough, North Yorkshire