Bryan Edward Hill is an American author, screenwriter, musician, comic book writer, and graphic designer.
Hill was born in Chicago and moved to St. Louis, Missouri as a child, where he attended the prep academy John Burroughs School.[ citation needed ]
Hill was hired by Top Cow Productions to expand the Witchblade universe by writing the trade paperback Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box with former Top Cow Productions editor Rob Levin. [1] [2] Hill later wrote the book 7 Days from Hell for Top Cow Productions, [3] [4] and was later hired to adapt it into a screenplay. He also co-wrote Netherworld, a comic book, for Heroes and Villains. [5] [6] He co-wrote the comic book Postal with Matt Hawkins, which began publication in 2015. [7] He began writing it by himself at issue #12. [8]
In 2013, Hill began work on several feature screenplays, including the action-thriller Gone, sold to Universal Studios. [9] [10] He wrote the screen adaptation of the video game series Just Cause 2 (Square Enix). [11] [12] He has since worked on series such as Ash vs Evil Dead and Titans .
Hill has acted as a consultant on popular culture, narrative communication, and media consumption to PepsiCo, JP Morgan Chase, M&M Mars, Unilever, and Chiat/Day. Hill has written articles for the Thinktopia: NewIdeas Blog.[ citation needed ]
On June 27, 2018, Hill took over as writer for Detective Comics, for the DC character Batman, [13] for a five issue arc titled On the Outside. This arc set up for a new volume of Batman and the Outsiders written by Hill, released in December 2018, starring Batman, Katana, Black Lightning, Cassandra Cain, and Duke Thomas. [14]
In 2019 he began working with Marvel on a Killmonger miniseries. [15]
In 2024 he began to write Ultimate Black Panther with art by Stefano Caselli. [16]