In 1991, Brubaker wrote one of his earliest crime stories for the Dark Horse anthology series Dark Horse Presents, which he would continue to contribute to intermittently throughout the decade.

For Caliber, Brubaker also co-edited an anthology publication titled Monkey Wrench. His most well-known work of the period is Lowlife, a semi-autobiographical series first published by Caliber and later moved to Aeon Press. for Slave Labor Graphics and several short stories for various small-press anthologies. Career Early work īrubaker began his career in comics as a cartoonist, writing and drawing Pajama Chronicles for Blackthorne Publishing, Purgatory U.S.A. Describing his affinity for Captain America's sidekick thus, he has stated, 'I was a Navy brat, and he was an Army brat.' As Bucky had been killed off before Brubaker began reading comics, he assumed that the character had met his demise in an elaborate, dramatic story, only to find that he had been unceremoniously killed in a single page of The Avengers #4, which Brubaker saw as an injustice, commenting, 'I was a 9-year-old kid, and I was horrified.' His uncle was screenwriter John Paxton. In addition to his work in comics, Brubaker served as the executive producer and co-writer of the 2019 Amazon series Too Old to Die Young, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.īrubaker, the child of a Navy intelligence officer, spent much of his childhood in Guantánamo Bay, reading comics that included Captain America and his sidekick Bucky Barnes, which were seminal in the storyline he would one day write when creating the Winter Soldier. Brubaker is best known for his long-standing collaboration with British artist Sean Phillips, starting with their Elseworlds one-shot Batman: Gotham Noir in 2001 and continuing with a number of creator-owned series such as Criminal, Incognito, Fatale, The Fade Out and Kill or Be Killed.īrubaker has won numerous awards for his comics work, including seven Eisner Awards, two Harvey Awards, an Ignatz Award, and a GLAAD Media Award.

He began his career with the semi-autobiographical series Lowlife and a number of serials in the Dark Horse Presents anthology, before achieving industry-wide acclaim with the Vertigo series Scene of the Crime and moving to the superhero comics such as Batman, Catwoman, The Authority, Captain America, Daredevil and Uncanny X-Men. Eisner Award, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2019Įd Brubaker ( / ˈ b r uː b eɪ k ər/ born November 17, 1966) is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and screenwriter who works primarily in the crime fiction genre.

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