Becky Cloonan

Becky Cloonan
Cloonan at the 2011 New York Comic Con.
Born	Rebecca Cloonan (1980-06-23) June 23, 1980 Pisa, Italy
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Notable works	Channel Zero: Jennie One Demo Flight nebuli East Coast Rising American Virgin Pixu: The Mark of Evil
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Becky Cloonan (born 23 June 1980) is an American comic book creator, known for work published by Tokyopop and Vertigo. In 2012 she became the first female artist to draw the main Batman title for DC Comics.^[1]

Biography

Becky Cloonan was born in Pisa.^[2] She went to New York's School of Visual Arts.^[3]

Cloonan created minicomics and was part of the Meathaus collective before collaborating with Brian Wood on Channel Zero: Jennie One in 2003. Since then, her profile (and workload) has steadily risen; her best-known work to date has been the twelve-issue comics series Demo (2004), also with Wood. Wizard named Demo its 2004 "Indie of the Year." The series was also nominated for two Eisner Awards in 2005, for Best Limited Series and Best Single Issue or One-Shot (the latter of which was for Demo #7, "One Shot, Don't Miss").^[4]

Cloonan's first solo graphic novel, East Coast Rising Volume 1, was released by Tokyopop in 2006. East Coast Rising: Volume 1 marked Cloonan's third Eisner Award nomination in 2007, this time for Best New Series. She also collaborated with writer Steven T. Seagle on the Vertigo Comics series American Virgin, which was cancelled with the 23rd issue.^[5] In 2012 she became the first woman to draw the main Batman title.^[1]

In 2013, she did the art for the series The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, which is written by Gerard Way^[6] and Shaun Simon. In 2014/2015, she also co-created and did cover art and stories for Gotham Academy from DC Comics.^[7]

She created artwork for the band Leftover Crack label Qn5 including CunninLynguists and Tonedeff.

In 2015, she was voted #3 of the top 50 female comics artists of all-time.^[8] She was also one of only two creators to make the list as both writer and artist, voted #14 among all-time top writers.^[9]

Bibliography

Self-published work

• Meathaus #6–8 (w/a, anthology, Meathaus Press, 2002–2006)
• nebuli (w/a, with Vasilis Lolos, 2006)
• 5 (w/a, with Rafael Grampá, Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon and Vasilis Lolos, 2007)
• MINIS (w/a, collection of original mini-comics, 2007)
• Bury Your Treasure (w/a, collection of illustrations, 2008)
• Pixu #1–2 (w/a, with Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon and Vasilis Lolos, 2008)
  • Collected as Pixu: the Mark of Evil (hc, Dark Horse, 128 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-59582-340-9)
  • Collected as Pixu: the Mark of Evil (tpb, Dark Horse, 128 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-61655-813-X)
• By Chance or Providence: Stories by Becky Cloonan (hc, 108 pages, 2014, self-published) collects:
  • Wolves (w/a, 2011)
  • The Mire (w/a, 2012)
  • Demeter (w/a, 2013)
• Black Church (as editor, w/a: Andy Belanger, 2012)

Dark Horse Comics

• 9-11 Volume 1: "Untitled" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 196 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-56389-881-0)
• MySpace Dark Horse Presents #16: "I See the Devil in My Sleep" (w/a, anthology, 2008) collected in MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3 (tpb, 168 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-59582-327-1)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Vampires: "The Thrill" (w, with Vasilis Lolos, one-shot, 2009) collected in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales (hc, 288 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-59582-644-0)
• The Guild: Zaboo: "Zaboo's Escape" (a, with Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, one-shot, 2011) collected in The Guild: Knights of Good (tpb, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-59582-900-8)
• Conan the Barbarian v2 (a, with Brian Wood):
  • "Queen of the Black Coast" (in #1–3, 2012) collected in Volume 13: Queen of the Black Coast (hc, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-61655-042-2; tpb, 2013, ISBN 1-61655-043-0)
  • "Border Fury, Part One" (in #7, 2012) collected in Volume 14: The Death and Other Stories (hc, 152 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-61655-122-4; tpb, 2013, ISBN 1-61655-123-2)
• The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys #1–6 (a, with Gerard Way and Shaun Simon, 2013–2014) collected as TTLOTF Killjoys (tpb, 160 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-59582-462-6)

DC Comics & Vertigo

• American Virgin (a, with Steven T. Seagle, 2006–2008) collected as:
  • Head (collects #1–4, tpb, 112 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1065-1)
  • Going Down (collects #5–9, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1301-4)
  • Wet (collects #10–14, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1494-0)
  • Around the World (includes #15–17 and 20–23, tpb, 224 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1831-8)
• Demo Volume II #1–6 (a, with Brian Wood, 2010) collected as Demo Volume II (tpb, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-2995-6)
• Northlanders #35–36: "The Girl in the Ice" (a, with Brian Wood, 2011) collected in Volume 5: Metal and Other Stories (tpb, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3160-8)
• Beyond the Fringe #5–6: "Ghost Writer" (a, with Jhonen Vasquez, digital, 2012) collected in Beyond the Fringe (tpb, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3798-3)
• Batman v2 #12: "Ghost in the Machine" (a, with Scott Snyder, 2012) collected in Volume 2: The City of Owls (hc, 208 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3777-0; tpb, 2013, ISBN 93-5111-661-1)
• Swamp Thing v5 Annual #1: "Rotworld: Secrets of the Dead" (a, with Scott Snyder and Andy Belanger, 2012) collected in Volume 2: Family Tree (tpb, 160 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3843-2)
• American Vampire Anthology: "Greed" (w/a, one-shot, 2013) collected in American Vampire Volume 6 (hc, 144 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4708-3; tpb, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4929-9)
• Harley Quinn v2 #0 (a, with Conner and Palmiotti, among other artists, 2014) collected in Volume 1: Hot in the City (hc, 224 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4892-6; tpb, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5415-2)
• Batman: Black and White v2 #6: "Bruce" (a, with Olly Moss, anthology, 2014) collected in Batman: Black and White Volume 4 (hc, 288 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4643-5; tpb, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5062-9)
• Gotham Academy (w with Brenden Fletcher, a by Karl Kerschl, Mingjue Helen Chen (#6–7, 11, Divergence preview), Msassyk (#11–12) and Jeff Stokely (Endgame tie-in one-shot), 2014– ...) collected as:
  • Welcome to Gotham (collects #1–6, tpb, 160 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5472-1)
  • Calamity (collects Divergence preview and #7–12, tpb, 144 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5681-3)

Marvel Comics

• Marvel Knights: Strange Tales II #3: "King Crab!" (w/a, anthology, 2010) collected in Strange Tales II (hc, 144 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4822-1; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4823-X)
• Nation X #2: "Cajun Justice!" (w/a, anthology, 2010) collected in Nation X (hc, 360 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3873-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4103-0)
• Osborn #5 (a, with Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Ríos, 2011) collected in Osborn: Evil Incarcerated (tpb, 120 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-5175-3)
• Victor Von Doom #1–4 (a, with Nick Spencer, cancelled before release)^[10][11]
• The New Avengers v2 #34 (a, with Brian Michael Bendis, among other artists, 2013) collected in Volume 5: End Times (hc, 112 pages, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6158-9; tpb, 2013, ISBN 0-7851-6159-7)
• Young Avengers v2 #15 (a, with Kieron Gillen, among other artists, 2014) collected in Volume 3: Mic-Drop at the Edge of Time and Space (tpb, 112 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8530-5)
• The Punisher v11 #1-ongoing (w, with Steve Dillon, 2016–)

Other publishers

• Revolving Hammer: "Aunty" (a, with Walter Conley, anthology, Cyberosia Publishing, 2002)
• Altered Realities: "Inversion" (a, with Sal Cipriano and Lou Platania, anthology, Cactus Fusion, 2003)
• AiT/Planet Lar:
  • Channel Zero: Jennie One (a, with Brian Wood, graphic novel, 72 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-932051-07-4)
  • Demo #1–12 (a, with Brian Wood, 2003–2004) collected as Demo (tpb, 328 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-932051-42-2)
• Vampirella Comics Magazine #4: "What Have We Become" (w/a, anthology, Harris, 2004)
• Image:
  • Flight Volume 2: "Heads Up" (w/a, with Vasilis Lolos, anthology graphic novel, 432 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-58240-477-1)
  • 24Seven Volume 1: "In for a Pound" (a, with John G and Leland Purvis, anthology graphic novel, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-636-7)
  • Southern Cross #1–6 (w, with Andy Belanger, 2015) collected as Southern Cross (tpb, 160 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-63215-559-1)
• Hopeless Savages: B-Sides − The Origin of the Dusted Bunnies (a, with Jen Van Meter, Vera Brosgol and Mike Norton, one-shot, Oni Press, 2005)
• Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Graphic Novel (a, with Gary Reed, graphic novel, 176 pages, Puffin Books, 2006, ISBN 0-14-240572-8)
• Flight Volume 3: "Conquest" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 352 pages, Ballantine Books, 2006, ISBN 0-345-49039-8)
• Blast! Comics: "Αειθαλής" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 192 pages, Giganto Books, 2006)
• East Coast Rising (w/a, Tokyopop):
  • Volume 1 (196 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-59816-468-6)
  • Volume 2 (cancelled before release)^[12]
• K.G.B. (w/a, with Hwan Cho, webcomic, Estrigious, 2009–2010)
• TOME Volume 1: "The Months That Followed" (w/a, anthology graphic novel, 200 pages, IDW Publishing, 2013)
• Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Volume 3 #4: "The Lament of Poor Lenora" (w/a, anthology, Archaia, 2015)

Covers only

• NYC Mech: beta LOVE #4 (Image, 2005)
• The Pirates of Coney Island #1–6 (Image, 2006–2007)
• Hack/Slash v2 #10 (Image, 2011)
• Pigs #4 (Image, 2011)
• Thought Bubble Anthology #1 (Image, 2011)
• B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth — The Pickens County Horror #1–2 (Dark Horse, 2012)
• Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6 (DC Comics, 2013)
• Zero #1 (Image, 2013)
• Pretty Deadly #1 (Image, 2013)
• Red Sonja v4 #5 (Dynamite, 2013)
• Wytches #1 (Image, 2014)
• Drifter #2 (Image, 2014)
• The Wicked + The Divine #5 (Image, 2014)
• Detective Comics v2 #35 (DC Comics, 2014)
• Convergence: Aquaman #1–2 (DC Comics, 2015)
• The Kitchen #1–8 (Vertigo, 2015)
• Rebels #1 (Dark Horse, 2015)

Notes

References

• Becky Cloonan at the Grand Comics Database

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Becky Cloonan.

• Official website
• Becky Cloonan's store
• Becky Cloonan's blog
• Becky Cloonan at the Comic Book DB
• Becky Cloonan at DeviantArt
• Becky Cloonan's poster design work