STATS Becky Cloonan Born: June 23, Pisa, Italy. Lives: Brooklyn, NYC. Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Becky Cloonan is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator who started self-publishing mini comics in 1999. Since then she has gone on to work with Vertigo, Dark Horse, Harper Collins and Marvel, with editions of her work published in several countries around the world. She still tries to self-publish a new mini comic every year. <3 Becky

APPEARANCES ★ May 17- Traveling Man. Leeds, England. With the Kill Shakespeare boys! ★ May 18- FORBIDDEN PLANET! Mega-Signing. London, England. 7-9pm! ★ May 19-20- KAPOW. London, England. ★ June 22-24- Heroes Con. North Carolina. It's my birthday! WOOO! :D ★ July 12-15- Comic Con. San Diego. NEW RELEASES May 30 - The Channel Zero Collection Apr 10 - Dracula (Illustrated Classics) Apr 11 - Conan the Barbarian #3 Apr 5 - The Mire (TCAF Debut)

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CONAN THE BARBARIAN Written by Brian Wood with art by Becky Cloonan Published by Dark Horse (2012) Cover illustrations: Massimo Carnevale Colorist: Dave Stewart In this sweeping adaptation of Robert E. Howard's fan-favorite "Queen of the Black Coast," Conan turns his back on the civilized world and takes to the high seas alongside the pirate queen B�lit, setting the stage for an epic of romance, terror, and swashbuckling. This is Conan as you've never seen him, with the combination of one of Robert E. Howard's greatest tales and the most dynamic creative team in comics!

DRACULA Written by Bram Stoker with illustrations by Becky Cloonan Published by Harper Design (Illustrated Classics) (2012) The novel that made vampire a household word, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" has been delighting - and chilling - readers for well over 100 years. Now the immortal Count returns in this stunning new edition, offering the complete text of Stoker's dark masterwork adorned with more than 50 original illlustrations by renowned, award-winning artist Becky Cloonan. A more contemporary Count Dracula - rendered edgier, more colourful and stylishly macabre with Victorian overtones, through Cloonan's unparalleled artistic skill and unique visual imagination - takes flight in this magnificent hardcover volume.

THE MIRE by Becky Cloonan Self Published (2012) 28 pages with a 3 color silk-screened cover. Order it online! The much anticipated follow-up to 2011's WOLVES, THE MIRE is a self-contained story set on the eve of battle, when a humble squire is given the task of delivering a letter to a decomposing castle in a swamp. Met with mysterious apparitions, he slowly unveils the truth about why he was sent there, as his past is re-written over the course of twenty two pages. ★ I don't have any reviews yet, but @andybelanger tweeted that "The content in that narrative could punch out Tyson!" which is pretty good. I'll add some quotes after the book comes out!

WOLVES by Becky Cloonan Self Published (2011) 24 pages with a 3 color silk-screened cover. Order it online, or download it for $0.99! As a lone hunter tracks an elusive beast through the forest, he reflects on his life and past love through a series of flashbacks, bringing the story to a climax that is as romantic as it is violent. This powerful mini-comic lends itself to multiple read-throughs, never giving concrete answers but (like the best enigmatic endings) leaves your own conclusions satisfying. This critically-acclaimed short story also made CBR's "Top 100 comics of 2011" list, coming in at #67! ★ "Beautiful, haunting, and refreshingly mysterious." -Mike Mignola ★ "Wolves has three of my favorite things- swords, blood, and beards. I can't grow a beard and this comic had me longing for more advanced genes. And by the way it's beautiful." -Gerard Way ★ "Wonderful and haunting! Becky Cloonan's amazing brush fills in those shadowy places and dark recesses that go bump in the night!" -Guy Davis ★ "I love Becky Cloonan's work - and never more so than when she's working on her own material. This stuff is just beautiful." -Frank Quitely ★"In 'Wolves,' Becky Cloonan gives readers a haunting, beautiful and tragic tale of horror, sword and sorcery, and doomed romance. It's a short done in one story but the visceral action and characters' emotions jump right off the page and pull you into the mysterious tale. In 20 pages of story and art, Cloonan tells one of the best and most powerful stories of 2011."- CBR Staff Writer Dave Richards

NORTHLANDERS: The Girl in the Ice (issues #35-#36) By Brian Wood with art by Becky Cloonan. Published by DC/Vertigo (2010) Set during a period of civil war, an Icelandic fisherman finds the body of a young girl embedded in the thick ice ringing his lake. Unable to leave her, he goes to great lengths to excavate the corpse and vows to solve the mystery of her death. But when warriors associated with the local clan come around, he's driven to conceal the body, and events quickly spiral out of his control. ("The Girl in the Ice" will be collected in the METAL TPB, out in July.) ★ "The first thing that hits you upon opening the book is the breathtaking art. The landscapes, the pacing of the character -- it's a sight to beholdÉ Becky Cloonan delivers on the spot." -Comixology ★ "Becky CloonanÕs art is some of the best work of her entire career. It is simply gorgeous." - The Comic Book Shoppe ★ "...perhaps [Cloonan] and Wood bring out the best in each other as collaborators." -13 Minutes ★ "NORTHLANDERS is probably my favourite book coming out of DC right now." -Warren Ellis

DEMO By Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan. Published by DC/Vertigo Short stories of normal people with extra-normal abilities, Demo is "what the X-Men would be if they were created today" (CBR). This pioneering series blazed the trail for dozens of indie books and has been translated and published around the world. ★ "DEMO altogether is less reminiscent of other comics series than of a thematic rather than continuous-narrative novel, such as John Horne Burns' The Gallery (1947). High praise, maybe, but deserving." ÑBOOKLIST ★ "There isn't a single story here that I didn't love, that didn't make me think, that didn't thud home in my heart" - BoingBoing ★ "The short slice-of-life format becomes more emotionally captivating than nearly any ongoing series I have come across. Every single story made me stop, made me think, made me grasp at straws in order to relate." - Girl's Entertainment Network ★ Indie Of The Year - Wizard Magazine ★ Selected for the New York Public Library's "Books For The Teen Age" 2007 ★ Selected for the American Library Association's Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for teens.

PIXU: The Mark of Evil By Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Fábio Moon, and Vasilis Lolos Published by Dark Horse (2009) This gripping tale of urban horror follows the lives of five lonely tenants - strangers - whose lives become intertwined when they discover a dark mark scrawled on the walls of their building. The horror sprouts quite innocently from a small seed and finds life as something otherworldly, damaged, full of love, hate, fear, and power. As the walls come alive, everyone is slowly driven mad -- defenseless against the evil in the building, stripped of free will, leaving only confusion, chaos, and eventual death. Originally self-published as a two-volume book, this groundbreaking work features a deluxe presentation in a hardcover edition with a sketchbook section. ★ The story telling here is beautiful, creating a real sense of dread and supernatural menace. Smart, subtle and genuinely disturbing. -Mike Mignola ★ Pixu is a four-way collaborative Horror comic, and it works. The level at which Pixu crept under my skin was unexpected. -Alex Carr, Omnivoracious ★ Nominated for "Best Anthology" in the 2009 Harvey Awards.

AMERICAN VIRGIN By Steve T. Seagle and Becky Cloonan. Published by DC/Vertigo (2006-2008) Adam Chamberlain is a 20-year-old youth minister, a best-selling author, and most important, the head of a rabid national virginity movement. But practicing virgin or not, Adam is about to lose it when his girlfriend is killed. ★ Spiritual and grungy, a wholly original piece of work... It takes religion, a subject usually approached in pop culture with either bloodless piety or tiresome blasphemy, and gives the matter some hard, honest thought. -Entertainment Weekly ★ Steven T. Seagle tests our moral tolerance with a stunning new graphic novel, American Virgin. -Penthouse Magazine ★ GLAAD Media Award Nominee for Outstanding Comic Book

EAST COAST RISING By Becky Cloonan. Published by Tokyopop Becky Cloonan's East Coast Rising takes a decidedly urban approach to the pirate life with a mixture of punk rock, street gangs and a half-submerged wasteland once known as New York... this graphic novel marks the full-length debut of Eisner-nominated artist Cloonan. For longtime fans, it's a book they've heard about for years; for the newcomer, it's an ideal opportunity to discover a cartoonist praised by Entertainment Weekly and the Village Voice as a talent to watch. (Publishers Weekly) ★ How can one of the most exciting and unconventional comic artists on the scene turning her hand to a work marketed as OEL in a high spirited adventure not be a real treat? ...In a work like East Coast Rising brings together the energy of pop energy of comics with a modern and informed look. Like a painting with evident brush strokes, in Cloonan's work the ink lines visual convey the energy of creation in the bold style. -Ain't It Cool News ★ Nominated for Best New Series in the 2007 Eisner Awards. ★ Finalist for Japan's 1st International Manga Award (2007). ★ Tragically canceled after volume 1, leaving 130 completed pages of volume 2 in limbo. You can, however, see 18 pages on my blog.

Channel Zero: JENNIE ONE By Brian Wood with art by Becky Cloonan Published by Dark Horse What happened to Jennifer Havel that turned her into info-terrorist and media-slut Jennie 2.5, heroine of the internationally-acclaimed graphic novel CHANNEL ZERO? CZ: JENNIE ONE tells the story as she drops out of art school and builds her socio-political consciousness during one of the most turbulent and violent periods of American history... the passing of the Clean Act and the loss of free speech. Artist Becky Cloonan puts the perfect images to Brian Wood's story: a perfect complement to the original Channel Zero but with a style all its own. A must-have for even the most casual Channel Zero fan. ★ Becky Cloonan, who has been kicking out some stellar mini-comics over the past few years... She brings an organic quality to the story that stands in stark contrast to the harsh world that Wood has created, combining for a worthy follow-up to the original CHANNEL ZERO. -ArtBomb.net ★ Prequel to Brian Wood's Channel Zero, and Becky Cloonan's first major published work.

This is a selection of some of the compilations I've been involved with over the last few years. Most of them are in print, just click on the image to get more information about each book.

For a larger selection of my illustrations please see my blog Ink and Thunder, where I update new work, and sometimes talk about process and all that. There is also an archive of some older work over on my DeviantArt account going back several years.