| Birth Place: | Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Area: | Writer |
| Notable Works: | The Mask B.P.R.D. |
John Arcudi is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on The Mask and B.P.R.D. and his series Major Bummer.
Arcudi grew up in Buffalo, New York. He attended Columbia University as an English major and developed an appreciation for the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and William Faulkner.
Arcudi worked for Malibu Comics upon its founding in 1986, working on its Eternity line. That same year he started writing for comics, making his first sales to Savage Tales and Savage Sword of Conan for Marvel Comics, and becoming a regular contributor to the humor magazine Cracked.
Arcudi worked on a number of comic books based on films, including RoboCop, Terminator, Predator, Alien, and The Thing. Two of these graphic works were subsequently adapted as full-length novels published by Bantam Books. Arcudi's series Barb Wire, featuring bounty hunter and bartendress Barbara Kopetski, was adapted into a film of the same name starring Pamela Anderson.
Arcudi also scripted several stories for Dark Horse Presents, such as the series "The Creep", and the police procedural "Homicide". Arcudi's comics crime fiction also includes several scripts for and .
For Dark Horse Comics, Arcudi worked on developing the second incarnation of the character The Mask first in Mayhem #1–4, and then in a series of books illustrated by Doug Mahnke. Arcudi's work formed the basis of the 1994 feature film starring Jim Carrey. He later also worked on the spin-off television series. Arcudi and later Mahnke teamed up for several projects following The Mask, including the DC Comics series Major Bummer, which focused on a group of ineffectual superheroes.
Arcudi also served as writer on the Wildstorm Productions series Gen13, illustrated by Gary Frank and Cam Smith, and during a run on DC's Doom Patrol, illustrated by Tan Eng Huat.
Arcudi invented the character Captain Daimio for the series B.P.R.D., which he writes with Mike Mignola. Arcudi had contributed a "B.P.R.D." story to the Hellboy comic issued in conjunction with the film as a premium from Wizard Entertainment. Arcudi later wrote a number of separate B.P.R.D. series.
Arcudi contributed the Superman story to Wednesday Comics.[1] [2] He also created a graphic novel called A God Somewhere with Peter Snejbjerg providing the art.[3] [4]
Aside from working in the comic media, Arcudi has also worked briefly in animation. He has written two episodes of , and one episode of the motion comics based on the comic Batman Black and White.
| Title | Date | Publisher | ISBN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Best of Dark Horse Presents – Volume 1 | November 1989 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Terminator: Tempest | September 1991 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Predator: Big Game | August 1992 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Aliens: Genocide | December 1992 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Best of Dark Horse Presents – Volume 2 | January 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Mask | May 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Thing from Another World and Climate of Fear | September 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Robocop: Prime Suspect | October 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Mask Returns | August 1994 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Barb Wire | January 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Mask Strikes Back | June 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Aliens: Stronghold | July 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Decade | April 1997 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Gen 13: I Love New York | September 1999 | DC Comics | ||
| Scatterbrain | December 2001 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Batman: Black & White – Volume 2 | October 2003 | DC Comics | ||
| Thunderbolts: How to Lose | November 2003 | Marvel Comics | ||
| Hellboy: Weird Tales – Volume 1 | December 2003 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 4: The Dead | September 2005 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 5: The Black Flame | July 2006 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 6: The Universal Machine | January 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Dwight T. Albatross's The Goon: Noir | July 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Aliens Omnibus – Volume 2 | December 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 7: Garden of Souls | January 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Terminator Omnibus – Volume 1 | February 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Predator Omnibus – Volume 2 | February 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 8: Killing Ground | May 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Mask Omnibus – Volume 1 | August 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Barb Wire Omnibus | August 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| MySpace Dark Horse Presents – Volume 1 | September 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Aliens Omnibus – Volume 5 | October 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| MySpace Dark Horse Presents – Volume 2 | January 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Mask Omnibus – Volume 2 | March 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 10: The Warning | April 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 11: The Black Flame | October 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 12: War on Frogs | April 2010 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Wednesday Comics | June 2010 | DC Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. – Volume 14: King of Fear | November 2010 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 2 (omnibus) | August 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 1: New World | August 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D.: Being Human | November 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Witchfinder – Volume 2: Lost and Gone Forever | January 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 2: Gods and Monster | January 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 3 (omnibus) | March 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Abe Sapien – Volume 2: The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories | April 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 3: Russia | August 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 4 (omnibus) | November 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Lobster Johnson – Volume 2: The Burning Hand | November 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 4: The Devil's Engine & The Long Death | December 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| The Creep | April 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 6: The Return of the Master | August 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D.: 1948 | September 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Abe Sapien – Volume 3: Dark and Terrible and The New Race of Man | December 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 7: A Cold Day in Hell | January 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Lobster Johnson – Volume 3: Satan Smells a Rat | February 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 8: Lake of Fire | April 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Sledgehammer 44 – Volume 1 | May 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Batman: Black & White – Volume 4 | July 2014 | DC Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 9: The Reign of the Black Flame | September 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Hellboy: Weird Tales (omnibus) | November 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Lobster Johnson – Volume 4: Get the Lobster! | December 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 10: The Devil's Wings | March 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D.: 1946–1948 (omnibus) | June 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Rumble – Volume 1: What Color of Darkness? | June 2015 | Image Comics | ||
| Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 | August 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 11: Flesh and Stone | September 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 12: Metamorphosis | December 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 13: Metamorphosis | December 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ||
| Rumble – Volume 2: A Woe That Is Madness | February 2016 | Image Comics | ||
| B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 13: End of Days | May 2016 | Dark Horse Comics |