Cliff Rathburn

Cliff Rathburn
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker, Colourist
Notable works	Brit The Walking Dead
Awards	Inkwell Award for The "SPAMI" Award (2011)
https://cliffrathburn.blogspot.com/

Clifford G. "Cliff" Rathburn ^[1] is an American comic book artist. He pencils, inks, colors and greyscales.

Career

Rathburn did some early work at DC Comics.^{[ citation needed ]} He later known for providing the greyscale coloring for Robert Kirkman's long-running series The Walking Dead at Image Comics. Also at Image he did the artwork on Kirkman's Reaper and Brit one-shots before going on to provide the complete art for the first six issues of Brit , his first ongoing series. In between he also worked at Marvel Comics.^{[ citation needed ]}

Rathburn inked the pencils of Simon Coleby and Tony Harris on The Authority and War Heroes , respectively.

Awards

In 2011 Rathburn was awarded the Inkwell Awards' S.P.A.M.I. (Favorite Small Press and Mainstream-Independent) Award.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2016, Rathburn was nominated for another S.P.A.M.I. ^[2]

Bibliography

• JLA #60 (pencils, with writer Mark Waid, and inks by Paul Neary, DC Comics, 1997)
• DC 1st: Superman/Lobo (pencils, with writer Keith Giffen, one-shot, DC, 2002)
• Invincible #7, 28-31, 50, 56, 59, 61-65 (inks, with writer Robert Kirkman and pencils by Ryan Ottley, Image Comics, November 2003, February–April 2006, June 2008, December 2008 - August 2009)
• The Walking Dead #6- (regular colorist/greyscales, with writer Robert Kirkman, Image Comics, March 2004-ongoing)
• Reaper (pencils, inks, & tones, with writer Robert Kirkman, one-shot, Image, 2004)
• Brit: Red White Black and Blue (pencils, with writer Robert Kirkman, inks, & tones, one-shot, Image, 2004)
• Fantastic Four: Foes (pencils, 6-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, 2005)
• Inhumans 2099 #1 (Marvel Knights 2099, Marvel Comics, 2004)
• Brit #1-6 (pencils, inks, & colors, with writer Bruce Brown, Image, 2007)
• War Heroes #1- (with writer Mark Millar and pencils, by Tony Harris, Image, July–September 2008, October 2009-ongoing)
• The Authority #8-9, 11- (inks, with writers Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning, and pencils by Simon Coleby, Wildstorm, May 2009 - ongoing)
• Reaper 2 (creator, writer, illustrator & letterer, one-shot, Image, 2011)
• Super Dinosaur #9- (inks, with writer Robert Kirkman, and pencils by Jason Howard, Image, March 2012 - ongoing)

References

1. "Blogger: User Profile: clifford g rathburn". www.blogger.com. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
2. "2016 Winners". Inkwell Awards. June 24, 2016.

• Cliff Rathburn at the Grand Comics Database
• Cliff Rathburn at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original )

External links

• Official page on Blogger