Ivan Reis

Last updated
Ivan Reis
10.13.12IvanReisByLuigiNovi1.jpg
Reis at the 2012 New York Comic Con
NationalityBrazilian
Area(s) Penciller
Notable works
 Action Comics
Aquaman vol. 7
Blackest Night
Brightest Day
Ghost
Green Lantern vol. 4
Justice League
Rann–Thanagar War
Avengers Icons: The Vision
Captain Marvel

Ivan Reis is a Brazilian comics artist. He is known for his work on comic books such as Dark Horse Comics' Ghost , Marvel Comics' Captain Marvel and Avengers Icons: The Vision and DC Comics' Action Comics , Green Lantern and Aquaman series. According to collaborator Geoff Johns, Reis's drawing style resembles those of Alan Davis and Neal Adams. [1]

Contents

Career

For three years, Reis worked for Maurício de Sousa in Brazil. He began his international career for Dark Horse Comics working on Ghost , starting with issue #17 and acting as regular artist until the series concluded with issue #36. Other work for Dark Horse included The Mask , Time Cop, and Xena . He later worked for Lightning Comics. [2]

At Vertigo, he pencilled an issue of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles . [3] He became better known for Lady Death at Chaos! and CrossGen. At Marvel Comics, Reis worked on The Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night, Avengers Icons: Vision , Captain Marvel , Iron Man , The Defenders , and The Avengers .

Since 2004 Reis has worked for DC Comics on Action Comics , Teen Titans , Rann–Thanagar War , Superman , and Infinite Crisis . Reis started pencilling Green Lantern vol. 4 with issue #10 (May 2006). [4] Reis left Green Lantern after issue #38 (March 2009) to draw the Blackest Night limited series (June 2009 – May 2010) [5] and its follow-up limited series Brightest Day (July 2010 – June 2011). [6] [7] Reis was the regular penciller of writer Geoff Johns' run on Aquaman vol. 7, which premiered in September 2011. Reis drew it for the first 13 issues before moving to Justice League where he replaced Jim Lee. [8] [9] Johns and Reis introduced the Crime Syndicate of America into the New 52 continuity in Justice League #23 (Oct. 2013). [10] Reis drew the first issue of Grant Morrison's The Multiversity in 2014. [11] Reis drew the first issue of Brian Michael Bendis' The Man of Steel limited series [12] and collaborated with Bendis on the relaunched Superman ongoing series in 2018. [13]

On December 1, 2023, Reis was announced to be the tenth creator to join Ghost Machine, [14] [15] a cooperative media company, whose formation had been announced in October at the New York Comic Con, which would publish creator-owned comics through Image Comics. [16] [17] Reis would reunite with Johns on the horror title Hyde Street, which Image Comics described as combining "Blackest Night's fantastic scope with Twilight Zone's thought-provoking drama." Reis illustrated variant covers for Ghost Machine #1, [14] [15] an anthology ashcan comic to be published in January 2024, that would introduce Ghost Machine's four shared universes, [18] including Hyde Street. The Hyde Street series would debut later that year. [14] [15] On December 3, [19] Reis confirmed on his Instagram page that he was leaving DC Comics, after a 20 year stint with the publisher. [20]

Bibliography

Chaos! Comics

CrossGen

Dark Horse Comics

DC Comics

  • Action Comics (Lana Lang) #812; (Superman) #813–819, 822–825 (with writer Chuck Austen, 2004–05)
  • Aquaman , vol. 7, #1–13, #0 (with writer Geoff Johns, 2011–12)
  • Batman , vol. 3, #6 (2016)
  • Blackest Night , miniseries, #0–8 (with writer Geoff Johns, 2009–10)
  • Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps, miniseries, #3 (with writer Geoff Johns, 2009)
  • Brightest Day #1–14, 16–24 (with writers Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi, among other artists, 2010–11)
  • Countdown to Infinite Crisis #1 (with writer Geoff Johns, 2005)
  • Cyborg #1–6 (with writer David F. Walker, 2015–16)
  • DC Comics – The New 52 FCBD Special Edition #1 (among other artists, 2012)
  • DC Comics: The New 52 Zero Omnibus (cover art, 2012)
  • DC Universe #0 (among other artists) (2008)
  • DC Universe: Rebirth #1 (among other artists; and variant cover artist first printing, 2016)
  • DCU Holiday Special #1 (among other artists) (2009)
  • 52 #22 (Green Lantern backup story, with writer Mark Waid, 2006); #51 (Justice League backup story, with writer Mark Waid, 2007)
  • Green Lantern , vol. 4, #10–17, 21–25, 29–38, Super Spectacular (with writer Geoff Johns, 2006–11)
  • Infinite Crisis , miniseries, #4–7 (among other artists) (2005–06)
  • Infinite Crisis Special: Rann–Thanagar War #1 (with writer Dave Gibbons, 2006)
  • Justice League , vol. 2, #8, 12, 15–17, 19, 22–24, 26–28, 30, 35 (with writer Geoff Johns, 2012–14)
  • Justice League of America, vol. 4, #25 (with writer Dwayne McDuffie, among other artists, 2008)
  • Justice League of America, vol. 5, #1, 4, 12–14, 17 (2017)
  • Justice League of America: Rebirth #1 (2017)
  • Justice League of America: The Atom - Rebirth #1 (cover art, 2017)
  • Justice League of America: Vixen - Rebirth #1 (cover art, 2017)
  • Justice League of America: The Ray - Rebirth #1 (cover art, 2017)
  • Justice League of America: Killer Frost- Rebirth #1 (cover art, 2017)
  • Kamandi Challenge #5 (with writer Bill Willingham, 2017)
  • The Man of Steel, miniseries, #1 (with writer Brian Michael Bendis, 2018)
  • The Multiversity #1–2 (with writer Grant Morrison, 2014–15)
  • Rann–Thanagar War miniseries, #1–6, Special #1 (with writer Dave Gibbons, 2005–06)
  • Superman , vol. 2, #223 (with writer Mark Verheiden, 2006)
  • Superman, vol. 4, #14 (2017)
  • Superman, vol. 5, #1–15, 18-21, 25-28 (2018-2020)
  • Superman/Batman: Secret Files 2003 (with writer Geoff Johns)
  • Teen Titans/Outsiders Secret Files 2003 (with writer Geoff Johns)
  • Teen Titans/Legion Special #1 (with writers Geoff Johns and Mark Waid, 2004)
  • Untold Tales of Blackest Night #1 (among other artists) (2010)

Vertigo

WildStorm

Image Comics

Marvel Comics

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aquaman</span> DC Comic book superhero

Aquaman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, the character debuted in More Fun Comics #73 .. Initially a backup feature in DC's anthology titles, Aquaman later starred in several volumes of a solo comic book series. During the late 1950s and 1960s superhero-revival period known as the Silver Age, he was a founding member of the Justice League. In the 1990s Modern Age, writers interpreted Aquaman's character more seriously, with storylines depicting the weight of his role as king of Atlantis.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dan Jurgens</span> American comics artist and writer

Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline "The Death of Superman" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, Jon Kent, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for six years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Geoff Johns</span> American comic book writer

Geoffrey Johns is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and film and television producer. Johns's work on the DC Comics characters Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash, and Superman has drawn critical acclaim. He co-created the DC character Courtney Whitmore based on his deceased sister. He also expanded the Green Lantern mythology, adding in new concepts and co-creating numerous characters. Among the DC characters and concepts he co-created are Larfleeze, the Sinestro Corps, the Indigo Tribe, the Red Lantern Corps, Atrocitus, the Black Lantern Corps, Jessica Cruz, Hunter Zolomon, Tar Pit, Simon Baz, Bleez, Miss Martian, and Kate Kane.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kevin Maguire (artist)</span> American comics artist

Kevin Maguire is an American comics artist, known for his work on series such as Justice League, Batman Confidential, Captain America, and X-Men.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Doug Mahnke</span> American comic book artist and penciller (born 1963)

Douglas Mahnke is an American comic book artist, known for his work and penciling books including The Mask, JLA, Batman, Final Crisis, and Green Lantern.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ethan Van Sciver</span> American comic book artist

Ethan Daniel Van Sciver is an American comics artist. He illustrated and drew covers for a number of superhero titles in the 2000s, primarily for DC Comics, including Green Lantern and The Flash: Rebirth, and New X-Men for Marvel Comics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patrick Gleason (artist)</span>

Patrick Gleason is an American comic book artist and writer. He has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Image Comics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">DC Comics Absolute Edition</span> Series of archival quality printings of graphic novels

DC Comics Absolute Edition is a series of archival quality printings of graphic novels published by DC Comics and its imprints WildStorm Productions and Vertigo. Each is presented in a hardcover and slipcased edition with cloth bookmark consisting of one or more books which include restored, corrected and recolored versions of the original work, reprinted at 8 by 12 inches. Also included are supplemental materials regarding the creation of the work, including sketches, comic scripts and memos.

<i>Sinestro Corps War</i> DC Comics crossover event

"Sinestro Corps War" is an American comic book crossover event published by DC Comics in its Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps titles. Written by Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons and drawn by Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, and Ethan Van Sciver, the 11-part saga was originally published between June and December 2007. In addition to the main storyline, four supplemental "Tales of the Sinestro Corps" one-shot specials and a Blue Beetle tie-in issue were concurrently released.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francis Manapul</span>

Francis Manapul is a Filipino Canadian comic book artist and writer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peter Tomasi</span> American comic book editor and writer (born 1967)

Peter J. Tomasi is an American comic book editor and writer, best known for his work for DC Comics. As an editor, he oversaw numerous comic books featuring the Justice League, including series starring various members of that team such as Batman, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, and the Flash. As a writer, he has written titles featuring Batman-related characters, such as Batman and Robin and The Outsiders, and Green Lantern-related series such as Blackest Night, Brightest Day and Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors. He also wrote the screenplay for the animated movie The Death of Superman.

<i>Blackest Night</i> Limited DC comics crossover series

"Blackest Night" is a 2009–10 American comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics, consisting of an eponymous central miniseries, written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, along with a number of tie-in issues. Blackest Night involves Nekron, a personified force of death who reanimates deceased superheroes and seeks to eliminate all life and emotion from the universe. Geoff Johns has identified the series' central theme as emotion. The crossover was published for eight months as a limited series and in both the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps comic titles. Various other limited series and tie-ins, including an audio drama from Darker Projects, were published.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sterling Gates</span> American comic book writer (born 1981)

Sterling Gates is an American comic book and television writer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shane Davis</span> American comic book artist

Shane Davis is an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman and Batman for DC Comics.

<i>Green Lantern</i> (comic book) Comic book series featuring the DC Comics heroes of the same name

Green Lantern is an ongoing American comic-book series featuring the DC Comics heroes of the same name. The character's first incarnation, Alan Scott, appeared in All-American Comics #16, and was later spun off into the first volume of Green Lantern in 1941. After 38 issues, that series was cancelled in 1949. When the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, was introduced, the character starred in a new volume of Green Lantern starting in 1960.

<i>Brightest Day</i>

Brightest Day is a 2010–11 crossover storyline published by DC Comics, consisting of a year-long comic book maxiseries that began in April 2010, and a number of tie-in books. The story is a direct follow-up to the Blackest Night storyline that depicts the aftermath of the events of that storyline on the DC Universe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The New 52</span> DC Comics superhero comic books series

The New 52 is the 2011 revamp and relaunch by DC Comics of its entire line of ongoing monthly superhero comic books. Following the conclusion of the "Flashpoint" crossover storyline, DC cancelled all its existing titles and debuted 52 new series in September 2011. Among the renumbered series were Action Comics and Detective Comics, which had retained their original numbering since the 1930s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Fabok</span> Canadian comic-book artist

Jason Fabok is a Canadian comic-book artist. He has worked almost exclusively for DC Comics for the entirety of his career. His work has been featured in acclaimed series such as Batman, Detective Comics, Justice League, and the Eisner Award-winning Swamp Thing: The Talk of the Saints short story.

This is a bibliography of the comic book writer Geoff Johns, who has been writing superhero comics for over twenty years.

References

  1. ↑ "Geoff Johns Conquers the Universe". Comic-Con Magazine. San Diego Comic-Con International: 11. Winter 2010.
  2. ↑ Ivan Reis at the Grand Comics Database
  3. ↑ Irvine, Alex (2008). "The Invisibles". In Dougall, Alastair (ed.). The Vertigo Encyclopedia. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 92–97. ISBN   978-0-7566-4122-1. OCLC   213309015.
  4. ↑ Rogers, Vaneta (October 9, 2009). "Reis of the Black Lanterns: Ivan Talks Blackest Night". Newsarama. Archived from the original on December 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ Cowsill, Alan (2010). "2000s". DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 339. ISBN   978-0-7566-6742-9. Artist Ivan Reis handled the vast array of characters with amazing skill, bringing out the emotional core of Johns' brilliant script.
  6. ↑ Rogers, Vaneta (February 19, 2009). "Ivan Reis: Preparing for Blackest Night". Newsarama. Archived from the original on December 8, 2013.
  7. ↑ Cowsill "2000s" in Dolan, p. 341: "Cowritten by Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi, and illustrated by Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, and Joe Prado, Brightest Day was the start of the next chapter in the history of the DC Universe."
  8. ↑ Johnston, Rich (August 14, 2012). "Ivan Reis To Move From Aquaman To Justice League?". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012.
  9. ↑ Johnston, Rich (August 20, 2012). "Geoff Johns To Leave Aquaman With Ivan Reis". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on October 24, 2012.
  10. ↑ Manning, Matthew K. (2014). "2010s". Batman: A Visual History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. p. 338. ISBN   978-1465424563. Writer Geoff Johns and artist Ivan Reis unveiled the true masterminds between the recent infighting among the various Justice Leagues.
  11. ↑ Rogers, Vaneta (August 21, 2014). "Vivisecting Multiversity With Ivan Reis & Joe Prado". Newsarama. Archived from the original on October 19, 2014.
  12. ↑ Salvatore, Brian (May 30, 2018). "Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, Art Team Behind The Man of Steel #1, Talk About What Makes Superman Special". Multiversity Comics. Archived from the original on August 4, 2018. This story has extra weight behind it, as it is Brian Michael Bendis's first big story at DC, and a sort of reset for the Superman status quo.
  13. ↑ Rogers, Vaneta (July 9, 2018). "Bendis' Superman Going to 'Farthest Reaches of Everything DC has to Offer'". Newsarama. Archived from the original on July 10, 2018. With artist Ivan Reis on Superman, Bendis will be writing a story he calls 'very big, with big stories and big villains and big goings-on in the DC Universe, the kind of things only Superman can handle.'
  14. 1 2 3 Dominguez, Noah (December 1, 2023). "Image Comics' Ghost Machine Collective Adds Blackest Night Artist Ivan Reis". SuperHeroHype. Archived from the original on December 5, 2023. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
  15. 1 2 3 "JUST ANNOUNCED: Superstar Artist Ivan Reis Joins GHOST MACHINE!". Ghost Machine Productions. December 1, 2023. Retrieved December 5, 2023– via YouTube.
  16. ↑ Gustines, George Gene (October 12, 2023). "A Comic Book Upstart Seeks to Shake Up the Industry". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 14, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  17. ↑ "NYCC 2023: Ghost Machine Launches A Cooperative Media Company". Graphic Policy. October 16, 2023. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  18. ↑ Marsden, Megan (October 12, 2023). "NYCC '23: GHOST MACHINE announces comic printing partnership with Image Comics". Comics Beat. Archived from the original on October 21, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  19. ↑ Reis, Ivan (December 3, 2023). "(Untitled)". Instagram. Archived from the original on December 5, 2023. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
  20. ↑ Brooke, David (December 2, 2023). "Artist Ivan Reis reveals he no longer works for DC Comics". AIPT. Archived from the original on December 5, 2023. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
Preceded by Action Comics artist
2004–2005		Succeeded by
Preceded by Green Lantern vol. 4 artist
2006–2009		Succeeded by
Preceded by
n/a
 Aquaman vol. 7 artist
2011–2012		Succeeded by
Pere Perez
Preceded by
n/a
 Justice League of America vol. 5 artist
2017		Succeeded by
Stefan Petrucha
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.