Brian Azzarello
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Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 11, 1962) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter.
He came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, which was released by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo.
He became the author of DC's relaunched Wonder Woman series in 2011.
Early life
Azzarello grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where his mother owned a restaurant and his father was a salesman. He loved monster and war comic books as an infant but not so much as a superhero. He studied painting and printmaking at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where painting and printmaking were among his interests. Azzarello left Chicago in 1989 after many years of being in various blue-collar positions, where he became interested in Black Lizard Press, a small publishing house that reprinted hardboiled detective and noir fiction. Jill Thompson, a comic book artist who was working for DC Comics' imprint Vertigo, was also visited by him.
Personal life
Azzarello is married to fellow comic book author Jill Thompson. The pair met in Chicago.
The character "666" from Mark Waid and Alex Ross' 1996 mini-series Kingdom Come is physically reproduced after Azzarello.
Career
Azzarello began working in comics in 1992 and joined Comico as the production coordinator. He was quickly promoted to managing editor before moving to Editor-in-Chief — or, as he was often credited, "line editor" — the position he held from 1993 to the company's demise in 1997. Jill Thompson, Azzarello's wife, introduced him to Lou Stathis, an editor at DC Comics' Vertigo, who wanted to move away from the light fantasy stories the imprint was known for at the time, and Azzarello was hired as a writer. He contributed short stories to a number of Vertigo's anthology books as well as penned Jonny Double, a limited series that commemorated his first collaboration with Argentine artist Eduardo Risso. Azzarello and Risso released 100 Bullets, a hardboiled noir film for Vertigo, in August 1999. Azzarello's use of regional and local accents, as well as the regular use of slang and oblique, metaphorical words in his characters' dialogue, was noted throughout the series. Azzarello's other Verigo projects include a run on Hellblazer, artist Marcelo Frusin's 2005 western series Loveless, and an original graphic novel Filthy Rich, one of the two Vertigo Crime series's oldest works.
"DC is giving me the keys to both cars in the garage, the Maserati, and the Ferrari in 2003," Azzarello said in Chicago Tribune. The results were the 6-issue "Batman: Broken City" and the 12-issue "Superman: For Tomorrow," which was supposed to be the center of a larger storyline made up of several interconnected mini-series, including one written by Azzarello, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel. The campaign, which was unofficially dubbed "Superstorm" due to the fact that the mini-series were edited by the Wildstorm imprint's staff, caused Luthor to become a separate work that was only vaguely connected to "For Tomorrow." Azzarello began writing more Batman-related stories in the years that followed, including the 2008 graphic novel Joker, a Wednesday Comics serial, and Flashpoint: Batman — Knight of Vengeance. Azzarello co-writer of an eight-issue sequel to The Dark Knight Returns, titled The Dark Knight III: The Master Race, starring Frank Miller and artist Andy Kubert, was revealed in April 2015. In late 2015, the series, which was released bi-monthly, was announced. Artist Lee Bermejo created the Batman: Damned three-issue series for the DC Black Label imprint.
Azzarello was one of the designers of First Wave, a new comic book line for pulp characters that was then-recently acquired by DC Comics, but it was set outside the main DC tradition. Batman/Doc Savage, He wrote the first one-shot for the line, continuing with the First Wave limited series. Azzarello was instrumental in the relaunch of the Wonder Woman series in 2011 with artist Cliff Chiang. The pair remained on the team until issue #35 (Dec. 2014). Azzarello produced two limited series for the Before Watchmen project in 2012, focusing on Comedian and Rorschach. Azzarello, alongside Jeff Lemire, Keith Giffen, and Dan Jurgens, co-writer of the weekly drama The New 52: Futures End in 2014.
Azzarello unveiled the 12-issue Moonshine with frequent collaborator Eduardo Risso at Image. Issue #33, the series's oldest issue, was reissued in 2019 as an ongoing title.