Frank Brunner
























Frank Brunner

FrankBrunnerByLuigiNovi2.8.09.jpg
Brunner at the Vanguard booth New York Comic Con in February 2008

Born
(1949-02-21) February 21, 1949 (age 69)
Nationality
American
Area(s)
Artist
Notable works
Creepy
Doctor Strange
Eerie
Howard The Duck
Vampirella
Web of Horror

http://www.frankbrunner.net

Frank Brunner (born February 21, 1949)[1] is an American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Career


    • 2.1 Comics


    • 2.2 Film and television




  • 3 Bibliography


    • 3.1 Books


    • 3.2 Comics and magazines


      • 3.2.1 First Comics


      • 3.2.2 Marvel Comics


      • 3.2.3 Pacific Comics


      • 3.2.4 Star Reach


      • 3.2.5 Warren Publishing


      • 3.2.6 Other publishers




    • 3.3 Art portfolios


    • 3.4 Trading cards (Topps)


    • 3.5 Film


      • 3.5.1 Live-action


      • 3.5.2 Animation




    • 3.6 Record-album covers


    • 3.7 Poster prints




  • 4 References


  • 5 External links


  • 6 Further reading





Early life


Brunner attended Manhattan's High School of Art and Design. He was in the same graduating class as Larry Hama and Ralph Reese.[2] He studied at the New York University Film School.[3]



Career



Comics


Brunner entered the comics profession as a horror writer-artist for the black-and-white comics magazines Web of Horror, Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella.[4] His first work for Marvel Comics was inking an 11–page Watcher backup story in The Silver Surfer #6 (June 1969).[4] Brunner's best-known color-comics work is his Marvel Comics collaboration with writer Steve Engelhart on the supernatural hero Doctor Strange in Marvel Premiere #9-14 (July 1973–March 1974)[5] and in Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts #1–2 and #4–5 (June–August 1974 and Oct.–Dec. 1974). The two killed Dr. Strange's mentor, the Ancient One, and Strange became the new Sorcerer Supreme. Englehart and Brunner created a multi-issue storyline in which a sorcerer named Sise-Neg ("Genesis" spelled backward) goes back through history, collecting all magical energies, until he reaches the beginning of the universe, becomes all-powerful and creates it anew, leaving Strange to wonder whether this was, paradoxically, the original creation. Stan Lee, seeing the issue after publication, ordered Englehart and Brunner to print a retraction saying this was not God but a god, so as to avoid offending religious readers. The writer and artist concocted a fake letter from a fictitious minister praising the story, and mailed it to Marvel from Texas; Marvel unwittingly printed the letter, and dropped the retraction order.[6] In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Englehart and Brunner's run on the "Doctor Strange" feature ninth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".[7]


Other Marvel credits include Howard the Duck's first two solo stories in Giant-Size Man-Thing #4 and #5 (May and Aug. 1975)[8] and the first two issues of the Howard the Duck comic book series (Jan. and March 1976),[9] as well as the anthologies Chamber of Chills, Haunt of Horror, and Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction. He drew covers for the supernatural series The Tomb of Dracula and the swamp-monster series Man-Thing.[4]


Also for Marvel, Brunner adapted Robert E. Howard's sword-and-sorcery pulp fiction hero Conan the Barbarian in the 42-page story "The Scarlet Citadel", and drew many covers for the similar series Red Sonja and Savage Sword of Conan.[4] Brunner left Marvel in 1979 and wrote an essay in The Comics Journal stating that he "felt the romance with comics was over".[10]


Brunner and novelist Michael Moorcock collaborated on a comics adaptation of Moorcock's sword-and-sorcery hero Elric in Heavy Metal magazine. It was reprinted in publisher Mike Friedrich's Star Reach Greatest Hits.[4]


Brunner briefly returned to comics in the early-1980s as artist on the First Comics title Warp!, based on the science fiction play that ran briefly on Broadway in the 1970s. He then wrote and drew the graphic novel The Seven Samuroid (1984), a science-fiction takeoff of the movie classic Seven Samurai.[4]



Film and television


Brunner moved to Hollywood and began a career in movie and television animation, working on projects for Hanna-Barbera (Jonny Quest), Walt Disney Imagineering (Euro Tomorrowland movie), Warner Bros. (preproduction Batman design) and DreamWorks (Invasion USA). He was the head of character design for the Fox animated series X-Men.



Bibliography



Books




  • The Brunner Mystique (Artist Index Series Volume One) (Hendrik Sharples and Steven R. Johnson, March 1976)


  • Brunner's Beauties (Eros Comix, August 1993)


  • Eyes Of Light: the Fantasy Art of Frank Brunner (Vanguard Productions, 2002)


  • Mythos: The Fantasy Realms of Frank Brunner (Vanguard Productions, 2007)



Comics and magazines


Interior art (except where noted) includes:




First Comics



  • Warp! #1–9 (1983)


Marvel Comics




  • Chamber of Chills #2–4 (1973)


  • Doctor Strange #1–5 (also covers) (1974)


  • Giant-Size Man-Thing # 4–5 (1975) (first two Howard the Duck solo appearances)


  • Howard the Duck #1–2 (also covers) (1976)


  • Marvel Premiere (Doctor Strange feature) #4 (inker); #6, 9–14 (1972–1974)


  • Monsters Unleashed #2 (1973)


  • Mystic Hands of Dr. Strange #1 (2010)


  • Savage Sword of Conan #30 (1978)


  • Silver Surfer #6 (inker) (1969)


  • Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction #1 (1975)



Pacific Comics



  • Alien Worlds #6 (cover and interior art) (1984)


Star Reach




  • Quack #1, 6 (1976–1977)


  • Star Reach #3 (also painted cover); #10, 12 (covers only) (1974–1977)



Warren Publishing




  • Creepy #39, 45 (1971–1972)


  • Eerie #35 (1971)


  • Vampirella #10 (1971)



Other publishers




  • Adventures of Chrissie Claus #31 (cover)


  • Brunner's Carnal Delights #1 (cover) (Carnal)


  • Castle of Frankenstein (Kable News)

  • Crawdaddy!


  • Flare #29 (cover) (Hero)


  • Flare Adventures #13, 15-19 (covers) (Hero)

  • Monster Times


  • Red Sonja #2 (cover) (Dynamite Entertainment)


  • Unknown Worlds of Frank Brunner (cover) (Eclipse)


  • Silver Comics #1, 4, 6 (covers) (Silver)


  • Karmatron #20 (cover and interior art, 1987) (Cepsa)


  • War of The Worlds (covers) (Best Sellers Illustrated)


  • Witchgirls Inc. #1-3, 5 (covers)


  • Wild Stars #1-6 (covers) (Little Rocket)




Art portfolios




  • Flesh & Fantasy Bran Mak Morn

  • Elric

  • Alice in Wonderland


  • Through the Looking-Glass (Alice II)


  • Stormbringer (Elric II)

  • Flesh & Fantasy II

  • Legends of Arzack



Trading cards (Topps)



  • Jurassic Park

  • Star Wars Galaxy

  • Vampirella

  • Mars Attacks

  • Satan's Six



Film




Live-action



  • Cellar Dweller


  • From Time To Time (Disney)


  • Doctor Strange (ABC TV)

  • Dinosaur Valley Girls



Animation



  • The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

  • Sky Commanders

  • Dark Water

  • Dino-Riders


  • Once Upon a Forest (feature)


  • X-Men (1992–1995)

  • Darkstalkers

  • Skeleton Warriors

  • Extreme Ghostbusters




Record-album covers



  • Faithful Breath

  • Mandator


  • Necronomicon (German heavy metal bands)


  • Veto (German heavy metal band)



Poster prints




  • The Faerie Princess (Dreamweaver Studios)


  • Four Queens Of The Tarot (Color)


  • Dreamtide (Dreamweaver)


  • Go Ask Alice (Dreamweaver)


  • Raiders Of The Lost Egg (Vanguard)



References





  1. ^ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Iola, Wisconsin. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2010..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Arrant, Chris (June 7, 2010). "Looking Back With Larry Hama". Newsarama. Archived from the original on June 26, 2013.


  3. ^ "Frank Brunner". Lambiek Comiclopedia. November 6, 2009. Archived from the original on May 5, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2013.


  4. ^ abcdef Frank Brunner at the Grand Comics Database


  5. ^ Sanderson, Peter; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1970s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 160. ISBN 978-0756641238.CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)


  6. ^ Cronin, Brian (December 22, 2005). "Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #30". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2008. We cooked up this plot-we wrote a letter from a Reverend Billingsley in Texas, a fictional person, saying that one of the children in his parish brought him the comic book, and he was astounded and thrilled by it, and he said, "Wow, this is the best comic book I’ve ever read." And we signed it "Reverend so-and-so, Austin Texas"-and when Steve was in Texas, he mailed the letter so it had the proper postmark. Then, we got a phone call from Roy, and he said, "Hey, about that retraction, I’m going to send you a letter, and instead of the retraction, I want you to print this letter." And it was our letter! We printed our letter!


  7. ^ Sacks, Jason (September 6, 2010). "Top 10 1970s Marvels". Comics Bulletin. Archived from the original on August 3, 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.


  8. ^ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 169: "Howard the Duck returned in a new series of stories by writer/creator Steve Gerber and artist Frank Brunner in the back of Giant-Size Man-Thing."


  9. ^ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 174: "Gerber and artist Frank Brunner quickly brought Howard back...in his own comic book."


  10. ^ Brunner, Frank (November 1979). "Farewell to Comics". The Comics Journal. Stamford, Connecticut: Fantagraphics Books (51): 48–51.




External links



  • Official website


  • Frank Brunner at Mike's Amazing World of Comics


  • Frank Brunner at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators



Further reading



  • "Brunner Mystique", interview: Spectrum Magazine #3


  • Star*Reach information referenced from Comic Book Artist #2









-

Popular posts from this blog

Italian cuisine

Image
"Italian restaurant" redirects here. For the television series, see Italian Restaurant. Some typical Italian gastronomic products in a window display in Imola Pizza is one of the world's most popular foods and a common fast food item Part of a series on the Culture of Italy History People Languages Traditions Mythology and folklore Mythology folklore Cuisine Festivals Religion Art Literature Music and performing arts Music Media Television Cinema Sport Monuments World Heritage Sites Symbols Flag Coat of arms Italy portal v t e Italian cuisine History Ancient Roman cuisine Medieval cuisine Early modern cuisine Contemporary cuisine Regional cuisines Apulian cuisine Lombard cuisine Neapolitan cuisine Roman cuisine Sicilian cuisine Venetian cuisine Cuisine of Abruzzo Cuisine of Sardinia Lists Chefs Dishes Pas...
Read more

Bulgarian cuisine

Image
Part of a series on Bulgarians .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} българи Culture Literature Music Art Cinema Names Cuisine Dances Costume Sport Public holidays in Bulgaria By country Albania Australia Canada Czechoslovakia Greece New Zealand Romania Serbia South America Turkey Ukraine United States Bulgarian citizens France Germany Hungary Italy Lebanon Lithuania Macedonia Spain United Kingdom Subgroups Anatolian Balkanian Banat Bulgarians Bessarabian Bulgarian Dobrujans Macedonian Ruptsi Balkandzhii Pomaks (Bulgarian Muslims) Thracian Shopi/Torlaks Şchei Religion Bulgarian Orthodox Church Islam Catholic Church Protestant denominations Language Bulgarian Dialects Banat Bulgarian Other List of Bulgarians People of Bulgarian descent v t e Tarator is a cold soup made of yogurt, water, minced cucumber, dill, garlic, and sunflower or olive oil (Chips are...
Read more

Carrot

Image
Root vegetable, usually orange in color This article is about the cultivated vegetable. For other uses, see Carrot (disambiguation). Carrot Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade : Angiosperms Clade : Eudicots Clade : Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Apiaceae Genus: Daucus Species: D. carota Subspecies: D. c. subsp. sativus Trinomial name Daucus carota subsp. sativus (Hoffm.) Schübl. & G. Martens The carrot ( Daucus carota subsp. sativus ) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist. [1] Carrots are a domesticated form of the wild carrot, Daucus carota , native to Europe and southwestern Asia. The plant probably originated in Persia and was originally cultivated for its leaves and seeds. The most commonly eaten part of the plant is the taproot, although the stems and leaves are eaten as well. The domestic carrot ha...
Read more