Aaron Renier

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Aaron Renier is an American comics artist born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. [1] Between 2000 and 2009, he lived in Portland, Oregon and Brooklyn, New York before settling in West Town, Chicago, where he lives with his wife and fellow artist, Jessica Campbell. [2] [1] [3] His graphic novel Spiral-Bound was published by Top Shelf Productions in September 2005 and won him the 2006 Eisner award for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition". [4] [5] In 2008, he began providing illustrations for the book series The Knights' Tales written by Gerald Morris. He also Alice Shertle's 2009 picture book An Anaconda Ate My Homework. [6] He has also created The Unsinkable Walker Bean and illustrated Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. [1] He sometimes collaborates with colorist Alec Longstreth. [1]

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