Ryan Sook Explained

Birth Place:San Jose, California
Nationality:American
Cartoonist:y
Pencil:y
Ink:y
Color:y
Notable Works:Seven Soldiers

Zatanna
X-Factor

Sortkey:Sook, Ryan
Subcat:American

Ryan Sook is an American comic book artist, known for his work on books such as Seven Soldiers: Zatanna, X-Factor and The Spectre. His style has been compared to that of Mike Mignola, Adam Hughes, and Kevin Nowlan.[1]

Career

Sook's first professional work was in Challengers of the Unknown #15, published in 1998. For the next two years, he worked primarily on books for Dark Horse, including several stories set in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, as well as two creator-owned projects in Dark Horse Presents: Witch's Son & Ragnok, with writer John Arcudi. He has also inked over Matt Smith's pencils in Lobster Johnson: The Killer in My Skull, a back-up story in #1.

In 2001, he earned critical and fan praise for his work on The Spectre for DC Comics. He left the book in 2002 to draw the first spin-off mini-series from Mike Mignola's Hellboy, BPRD: Hollow Earth.[2]

From 2003 to 2010, Sook worked primarily for DC Comics focusing more on coverwork than interior sequential pages. His work in this time period includes: with Dan Slott,[1] Hawkman with Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti[3] [4] and Seven Soldiers: Zatanna with Grant Morrison and X-Factor with Peter David for Marvel. He has also worked on several books for Wildstorm.

In 2009, Sook garnered his highest critical praise to date for his work on the Kamandi story in Wednesday Comics, written by Dave Gibbons. For the twelve-part serialization, he handled all of the art chores including lettering.

Sook has been compared to Mike Mignola, Adam Hughes and Kevin Nowlan and has as well been influenced by them, but he also draws inspiration from Alphonse Mucha, JC Leyendecker and Norman Rockwell, among many others.[1]

Sook created the poster for the American TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "S.O.S. Part 1".[5]

Bibliography

Interior comic work includes:

"Know Evil" (with John Ostrander, one-shot, DC Tangent, 1998)

"Killer in My Skull" (inks on Matt Smith, written by Mike Mignola, one-shot, Maverick, 1999)

Zatanna #1-4 (with Grant Morrison, DC Comics, 2005)

"Crisis of Faith" (with Ron Marz, anthology one-shot, Top Cow, 2008)

"Charlie Brown and Snoopy" (script and art, anthology, KaBOOM!, 2015)

Rebirth: "Escaping the Grave, Part 1" (with Dan Jurgens, one-shot, DC Comics, 2016)

Covers only

Rose and Thorn #1 (DC Comics, 2012)

Ozymandias #6 (DC Comics, 2013)

Dungeons & Dragons

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Peter . Bangs . Arkham Interview: Artist Ryan Sook . . May 15, 2003 .
  2. Web site: Keith . Giles . Ryan Sook, Paranormal Researcher . . November 14, 2001 .
  3. http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0402/18/ New Hawkman Team
  4. Web site: Arune . Singh . L(S)ook Up in the Sky! Ryan Sook Talks "Hawkman" . . September 15, 2004 .
  5. Towers . Andrea . May 6, 2015 . Penultimate Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Art of Evolution sets the stage for an intense finale -- exclusive . live . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518082417/http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/06/penultimate-agents-shield-art-evolution-sets-stage-intense-finale . May 18, 2015 . May 14, 2015.

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