Rick Leonardi

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Rick Leonardi is an American comic book illustrator.

Biography

Leonardi was born in Philadelphia in 1957, and grew up in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1979. His professional career began in 1980.

His work is characterized by his use of dynamic figure work (particularly evident in his "Spider-Man" work), and panel composition that often involves shifting of the camera eye and perspective.

His well-known works include various sporadic fill-in issues of "The Uncanny X-Men " and "The New Mutants", as well as runs on "Cloak and Dagger", "Spider-Man 2099", "Nightwing," "Batgirl," and "Green Lantern Versus Aliens".

He is credited, along with fellow illustrator Mike Zeck, of designing the black-and-white costume to which Spider-Man switched during the 1984 "Secret Wars" miniseries, and later wore for a time. According to the "Spider-Man" 1/2 special, the costume began as a design by Zeck that Leonardi embellished. The plot that developed as a result of Spider-Man's acquisition of the costume led to the creation of the Spider-Man villain known as Venom.

His most recent works have included the 2005 four-issue miniseries, "Star Wars:" "General Grievous" the 2006 movie tie-in, "Superman Returns Prequel" #3, "Superman" #665 and #668 (2007), "" #43 (November 2007), and "Witchblade" #112 (January 2008).

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

*"Cloak and Dagger" Vol. 1 #1-4 (Marvel)
*"Cloak and Dagger" Vol. 2 #1-4, 6 (Marvel)
*"Cloak and Dagger" Vol. 3 #12-16 (Marvel)
*"Spider-Man 2099" #1-8, 10-13, 15-17, 19, 20, 22-25 (Marvel)
*"Daredevil" #248, 249, 277 (Marvel)
*"Uncanny X-Men" #201, 212, 228, 231, 235, 237, 252 (Marvel)
*"New Mutants" vol. 1 #38, 50 (cover only), 52-53, 78 (Marvel)
*"Fantastic Four 2099" #1 (Marvel)
*"Painkiller Jane" #1-5 (Event)
*"Nightwing" #57, 59, 71-75 (DC)

References

*comicbookdb|type=creator|id=547|title=Rick Leonardi
* [http://www.lambiek.net/leonardi_rick.htm Rick Leonardi] at Lambiek's Comiclopedia

External links

* [http://www.whatashock.com/doasales/rl.html A page of Leonardi works]
* [http://www.doasales.com/curr/art/leonardi.html Another page of Leonardi works]
* [http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/credits/rick_leonardi.html A partial Leonardi checklist]