Richard Piers Rayner

Richard Piers Rayner began his professional comic career in 1988, illustrating for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. His works include Hellblazer,^[1] Swamp Thing, L.E.G.I.O.N., Doctor Fate, and Doctor Who. His most notable work is Road to Perdition, written by Max Allan Collins, which was adapted into a film in 2002, starring Tom Hanks, and directed by Sam Mendes.^[2][3]

He is also a frequent contributor to the DC publications, Paradox Press, and is artist in residence at Middlesbrough FC.^[4] In November 2008 he wrote and illustrated Middlesbrough FC - The Unseen History.

• 1989: Won the "Russ Manning Promising Newcomer" Eisner Award^[5]

His comics work includes:

• Hellblazer #10-16 (with Jamie Delano, Vertigo, 1988-1989)
• The Big Book Of (Paradox Press):
  • Big Book of Urban Legends
  • Big Book of Weirdos
  • Big Book of Death
  • Big Book of Conspiracies
  • Big Book of Freaks
  • Big Book of Little Criminals
  • Big Book of Losers
  • Big Book of the Weird Wild West
  • Big Book of Grimm
• Road to Perdition (with Max Allan Collins, 204 pages, Pocket Books, June 1998, ISBN 0-671-00921-4, Titan Books, August 2002, ISBN 1-84023-534-9, Simon & Schuster, July 2002, ISBN 0-7434-4224-5, Paradox Press, April 2005, ISBN 1-56389-449-1)^[6]

• Richard Piers Rayner at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Richard Piers Rayner on Lambiek's Comiclopedia