Paul Ryan (born in 1949 in Massachusetts) is an American comic book and comic strip artist. Ryan has Worked extensively for Marvel Comics and DC Comics on a number of super-hero comics. Currently I have pencils and inks the daily and Sunday comic strip The Phantom for King Features Syndicate. [ 1 ]
Biography Early years
Paul Ryan St. Polycarp Attended Grammar School (Somerville, Massachusetts) and Graduated from St. Mary of the Annunciation High School in 1967. I Graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design. After Graduationfan and aspiring artist in the Silver Age, He Was Influenced by the work of Wayne Boring and Curt Swan on Superman.
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]In 1961, Ryan Became a big fan of the Fantastic Four of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, having "Bought the first issue at the tender age of 11." [ 4
] I've Also Acknowledged events as a youth That I Studied the work of Hal Foster, Sy Barry, Dan Barry, and Mac Raboy, adding "I'm pretty much anybody Influenced by Whose work I admire. " [5 ] It Was Not Until 1983, However, That Circumstances and Opportunity prompter him to write and draw His first comics story, Which I titled BREED. This comic WAS done in response tgeneral or "open audition" offer from Charlton Comics. Had Charlton recently institute program whereby Would They publish the best of the work submitted by aspiring comic book artists in Charlton Bullseye. There Was No Money Involved But Charlton Would Give the artist 50 copies of the printed piece. The artist Would Then Have published work to show Marvel Comics or DC Comics in the Hopes of landing a job with the Big Two. Accepted Charlton But Ryan's story Unfortunately the title was canceled BREED Before saw print. The Remaining stories from Bullseye ended up in the hands of Bill Black of Americomics in Florida, and Black published BREED. This Ryan Brought to the Attention of comic book stores in the Boston area. When Marvel Artist, Bob Layton, moved to Boston and needed an assistant, the employees at these stores recommended Paul Ryan to Layton. Ryan worked for Layton for a year doing his backgrounds, and through him met the editors and staff at Marvel. By this time Ryan, having taken a circuitous route toward a career in comic art, was in his early 30s. [ 6 ] \n Marvel Comics
\nSoon, Ryan was getting assignments of his own, starting with inking (The Thing #27 and #29) and then moving on to penciling (Iron Man #202, Squadron Supreme #6, 9, 10, 11, 12, Eternals #12, and a Thor Graphic Novel).
[6 ] \n In 1986, writer Mark Gruenwald and Ryan co-created DP7 for Marvel’s New Universe imprint. CHk (“I got beat up a lot”, he jokes),
[3 ] and his emotional identification with comic characters has continued into his professional years: “I find that while I’m illustrating a story I become so focused that I feel as if I’m in the story, taking the part of each of the characters as I draw them”, Ryan says.
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Notes
\n^ About the Phantom (KFS) \n ^
ab “Artist Draws on His Childhood Dreams, Published on: 2007-06-17, By Susan Chaityn Lebovits, Boston Globe”. The Boston Globe. 2007-06-17 . http://www.boston.com/news/loca
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