Bernie Mireault

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Bernie Mireault
BornBernard Edward Mireault
1961
Marville, France
NationalityCanadian
Area(s)Writer, Penciller, Inker
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Bernard Edward Mireault (born 1961) is a Canadian comic book artist and writer.

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Biography

Mireault was born in Marville, France, where both parents were stationed while working for the Canadian Forces. In 1963, the Mireault family moved back to Canada. Raised as an Anglophone in Rawdon, Quebec, he has been an active participant in the Montreal underground comix scene, participating in the comix jams since their early inception and contributing to local zines and underground publications. At the same time he has worked in the mainstream comics industry as an artist and colourist, as well as an animator and illustrator.

Among his comics works are Dr. Robot, Mackenzie Queen, Bug-eyed Monster, The Blair Witch Chronicles , and Left Alone: The Rustin Parr Killings, Two Fisted Science: Safecracker, When is a Door?The Tragic Though Amusing History of Clay Face II, and the creator-owned comic The Jam, first published as a backup feature in Northguard from Matrix Graphic Series, and then published in its own title from 1985 by various publishers starting with Matrix Graphic Series and then Comico, Slave Labor Graphics, Tundra Publishing, Dark Horse Comics, and Caliber Press.

Mireault served as the artist on the story arc The Devil Within for Matt Wagner's Grendel comics in the late 1980s – notably coloured by Joe Matt. Mireault coloured several Grendel story arcs: Warchild, Devil's Hammer, Devil in Our Midst, Devil Tracks, Devil Eyes, Devil by the Deed, The Devil's Apprentice. As a colourist he had a long-standing collaborative relationship with Salgood Sam a.k.a. Max Douglas, a fellow Canadian artist. Together they worked on Wonder Woman Vs. the Red Menace, Muties #6: The Patriot Game, and Revolution on the Planet of the Apes .

Another long-standing collaborative relationship has been with Mike Allred, with whom he's produced Madman Jam: The Fall of the House of Escher, Creatures of the Id , and The Everyman. Mireault's character Dr. Robot first appeared as a back-up in the back of Mike Allred's Madman.

Mireault has a part-time band called Bug-Eyed Monster, for which he writes songs.

Reception

Comics critic Timothy Callahan has argued that Mireault is one of the unheralded creators who helped bring in the Modern Age of Comic Books:

Yet there's one creator who doesn't get mentioned nearly as often. A writer/artist who was combining the high Romanticism of the fantastic with the mundane life on the street as well as any of the others. A comic book creator whose visual style has rarely been duplicated, but whose sensibilities seem to predict the coming of cartoonists as diverse as Mike Mignola and Dash Shaw. I'm talking, of course, about Bernie Mireault. [1]

Bibliography

Awards

Mireault was inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame as part of the Joe Shuster Awards in 2020. [2]

Notes

  1. Callahan, Timothy (April 15, 2009). "Bernie Mireault: The Forgotten Herald of The Modern". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved April 15, 2009.
  2. "2020 Joe Shuster Awards Finalists (for work done in 2019)".

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