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| Ryan Ottley | |
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 Ottley in June 2021 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker |
| Pseudonym(s) | WyA, old signature on early Invincible |
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| http://www.ryanottley.com | |
Ryan Ottley is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for work on Image Comics' Invincible and Marvel Comics' Amazing Spider-Man .
Ottley began drawing Invincible with issue 8, and continued on the book for 14 years, drawing 127 issues of its 144-issue run. [1] [2] During the course of his work on the book he co-created characters including Battle Beast, [3] Angstrom Levy, Conquest, [4] and Powerplex. [5]
In an interview with comic book website Project Fanboy, Ottley discussed how he got into the comic book industry after being fired from his previous job working in a medical supply warehouse. Ottley decided now was a great time to try to get into comics again and began actively building exposure for his work on the internet through the websites digitalwebbing.com and penciljack.com. [6]
Ottley penciled the first five issues of Kirkman and Todd McFarlane's Haunt , an ongoing series which debuted October 7, 2009. Ottley indicated on the letters page of issue #5 that he left in order to focus on Invincible. [7]
In 2012, Ottley was one of several artists to illustrate a variant cover for Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead #100, which was released July 11 at San Diego Comic-Con. [8]
In 2016, Image Comics published Grizzly Shark, a three-issue miniseries written and drawn by Ottley, [9] [10] and has an average critics rating of 7.1 out of 10 on the review aggregator website Comic Book Roundup. [10]
In 2018 Marvel Comics relaunched a new volume of The Amazing Spider-Man , with writer Nick Spencer. Ottley supplied the art for 20 issues of the run. He co-created the villain Kindred with Nick Spencer. His work drew praise from Jesse Schedeen of IGN, who stated, "Ottley's expressive figure work and dynamic fight scenes make him a natural fit." [11]
In 2021, Ottley was announced as the artist on that year's relaunched Hulk , teaming him with writer Donny Cates. [12] In November 2022, it was announced that following Cates departure as writer of Hulk for personal reasons, Ottley would take over as the writer for the remainder of the series, starting with issue 11. [13]
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