Tom Raney

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Tom Raney
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Raney at the 2012 New York Comic Con
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Artist
Notable works
Stormwatch , Outsiders

Tom Raney is an American comic book artist known for illustrating titles as Annihilation: Conquest , Alpha Flight , Ultimate X-Men and Uncanny X-Men for Marvel Comics, DV8 and Stormwatch for Image Comics, and Outsiders for DC Comics.

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Early life

Tom Raney attended Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey. In 1986, he met his future wife there, Gina Going. Raney, who was a year ahead of Going in the school's three-year program, was introduced to her by an instructor. [1]

Career

Raney's first paid work was Forgotten Realms for DC Comics. His first work with his wife Gina Going-Raney was The Warlock Chronicles, a series that was published by Marvel Comics. [1]

Raney is best known for his work on such series as Annihilation: Conquest , Alpha Flight , Ultimate X-Men , Uncanny X-Men , DV8 , Stormwatch , and Outsiders .

Recent work includes the limited series Dark Reign: Hawkeye , with writer Andy Diggle. [2]

Personal life

Raney and his wife, Gina Going-Raney, married in 1990, shortly after graduation from the Kubert School. They live in Sparta Township, New Jersey, on the eastern shore of Lake Mohawk. [1]

Bibliography

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Image

Marvel

Other publishers

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