Ed Brisson

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Ed Brisson
BornEd Brisson
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Area(s)Writer, Letterer
Notable works
Murder Book, Comeback, The Violent, New Mutants, Alpha Flight, Batman Incorporated, Predator
www.edbrisson.com

Ed Brisson is a Canadian comics writer and letterer who has written for independent comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics. He's been nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Best Canadian Writer several times. [1] [2] [3]

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Career

Brisson has been making comics for over twenty years. He began writing, drawing, coloring, and lettering his own work and selling them through records shops [4] before focusing on writing and self-publishing Murder Book, a series of crime comics, in 2010, with the first two stories illustrated by Simon Roy. [5] From there, he wrote the one-shot Black River and then Comeback and Sheltered at Image Comics. [4] He would collaborate with Roy again for The Field in 2014 [6] and go on to write The Mantle [7] and The Violent [8] in 2015.

Brisson would start working with Marvel Comics in 2013, writing two issues of Secret Avengers in 2013 before being tapped to write a five-issue Bullseye mini-series in 2016 [9] and a new Iron Fist series in 2017. [10] He then took over the ongoing Old Man Logan series at issue 25 [11] writing until issue 50 and then concluding with a 12-issue mini-series Dead Man Logan. [12] In 2018, he wrote Extermination, a mini-series dealing with the time-displaced original five X-Men. [13] [14] He also became the writer, alongside Matthew Rosenberg and Kelly Thompson, of the new volume of Uncanny X-Men , [15] co-writing the book until issue 10, and then writing a new volume of X-Force [16] and Age of X-Man: Nextgen. [17]

In 2019, he wrote the limited series Contagion [18] and the ongoing series Ghost Rider [19] which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [20] He also collaborated with Jonathan Hickman in writing New Mutants for the Dawn of X. [21] In 2021, he wrote Beyond the Breach for AfterShock Comics, a science fiction story about the aftermath of a cataclysm. [22] In 2022, his Predator comic with artist Kev Walker was released, a project initially planned for 2020 but delayed. [23] After six issues, the book was relaunched in 2023 [24] and a third book, Predator: The Last Hunt, was published in 2024. [25] He also wrote the five issue Alpha Flight mini-series for the Fall of X. [26]

At DC Comics, Brisson took over as writer for Deathstroke Inc. at issue 10 [27] and became the writer for the 2022 relaunch of Batman Incorporated . [28] In 2023, he wrote the crime/horror comic Sins of the Salton Sea for AWA Studios [29] and in 2024, he published The Displaced through Boom! Studios. [30] In November 2024, he was announced as the writing for the upcoming SilverHawks comic from Dynamite. [31]

Personal life

He grew up in Oshawa, Ontario. [30] He currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife and daughter. [32] He operated the comics publishing company New Reliable Press until 2010.

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  30. 1 2 Richards, Dave (2024-03-03). "INTERVIEW: Ed Brisson Erases Oshawa, Ontario in The Displaced". CBR. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
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