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Ronn Sutton (born December 17, 1952) [1] is a Canadian illustrator and comic book artist that has drawn several hundred comic books over the past four decades. This includes a nine-year stint illustrating nearly 50 issues of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark [2] for Claypool Comics from 1998 to 2006.
A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Although comics has some origins in 18th century Japan, comic books were first popularized in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1930s. The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the U.S. in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics. The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.
Claypool Comics is an American comic book publishing company that was founded in 1993, known for publishing such titles as Peter David's Soulsearchers and Company and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark comics, as well as Richard Howell's Deadbeats and,, Phantom of Fear City. Ed Via is Claypool's publisher and editor-in-chief, while Richard Howell serves as editor.
Ronn's comics career began in 1973 with his artwork appearing in issues of the Canadian newsstand comic ORB Magazine, [3] as well as anonymously penciling and inking many pages of Howard Chaykin's Sword of Sorcery for DC Comics (although he hid his initials drawn into a sword handle in issue #3, page 23). [4] Over the decades he has drawn for a variety of publishers that have included Vortex Comics, Renegade Press, Northstar, Brainstorm, Draculina, Caliber Comics, Millennium Publications, Claypool Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Moonstone Books and more. Ronn has drawn issues of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Vampira, Draculina, Fear Agent, The Phantom, Honey West and many others.
Howard Victor Chaykin is an American comic book artist and writer. Chaykin’s influences include his one-time employer and mentor, Gil Kane, and the mid-20th century illustrators Robert Fawcett and Al Parker.
Sword of Sorcery was an American sword-and-sorcery comics anthology featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, heroes and rogues created by Fritz Leiber. Published bi-monthly by DC Comics, it ran for five issues in 1973, with a cover price of 20¢. The title was written by Denny O'Neil and featured art by Howard Chaykin, Walt Simonson, and Jim Starlin.
DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Global Brands and Experiences. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies. The majority of its publications take place within the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous culturally iconic heroic characters, most notably Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, among many others. The universe also features well-known supervillains such as Lex Luthor, the Joker, Catwoman, and the Penguin. The company has published non-DC Universe-related material, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and many titles under their alternative imprint Vertigo.
In 2015, Motorbooks published the 96 page graphic novel Lucifers Sword M.C.: Life and Death in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club, scripted by Hells Angel Phil Cross and illustrated by Sutton. [5] As well, that same year saw publication of the true military comic Victims of War, written by Colonel Pat Stogran and illustrated by Sutton, about PTSD and other difficulties suffered by veterans who had served in Afghanistan. [6]
Pat Stogran is a retired Colonel of the Canadian Forces Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) and was Canada's first Veteran's Ombudsman. In 2010, Stogran criticized the Conservative government's choice to enforce the New Veterans Charter, which was signed into law by the previous Liberal government in 2005 after approval by all parties. Among other changes, it took away veterans' disability pensions in favour of a one-time lump sum payment. These were deemed inadequate when compared to compensation received by civilians who were similarly injured in industrial accidents. In 2017 he was briefly a candidate for the federal leadership of the New Democratic Party.
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country in Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and in the far northeast, China. Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is 32 million, mostly composed of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks.
Sutton has done extensive magazine illustration for Maclean's, Canadian Business, Saturday Night (magazine), Owl (magazine), National Post, etc., as well as providing freelance courtroom sketches for seven years for TV and newspapers. Ronn has worked periodically in animation (The Savage Dragon (TV series), Rescue Heroes (TV series)), provided over 90 on-screen drawings for true crime television series Natural Born Outlaws, and was nominated thirteen times between 1997 and 2009 for the Prix Aurora Award, the Canadian science fiction award for Artistic Achievement]. [7]
Maclean's is a Canadian news magazine that was founded in 1905, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events. Its founder, publisher J. B. Maclean, established the magazine to provide a uniquely Canadian perspective on current affairs and to "entertain but also inspire its readers". In 1994, Rogers Media, announced in September 2016 that Maclean's would become a monthly beginning January 2017, while continuing to produce a weekly issue on the Texture app. In 2019 Rogers Media sold Maclean's to St. Joseph Communications.
Canadian Business is the longest-publishing business magazine based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and founded in 1927. The print edition terminated at the end of 2016. Beginning in January 2017, the magazine published online only.
Saturday Night was a Canadian general interest magazine. It was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1887 and was Canada's oldest general interest magazine. The magazine ceased publication in 2005.
Ronn Sutton has often collaborated with writer Janet Hetherington on a variety of published comics since the early 1990s.
Janet L. Hetherington is a Canadian writer and artist. She was a winner of a Prix Aurora Award for Canadian science fiction excellence in 1999 for her work in co-curating a "60 Years of Superman" exhibit.
Beginning March 10, 2018, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc launched an online weekly comic strip adaptation of the Burroughs novella "The Man-Eater", [8] written by Martin Powell, drawn by Ronn Sutton and coloured by Becka Kinzie as a regular ongoing feature.
