John Arcudi
John Arcudi | |
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![]() Arcudi at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 10, 2010 | |
Born | Norwalk, Connecticut |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | 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 "devoured the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and William Faulkner with equal enthusiasm."[1]
Career[]
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.[volume & issue needed]
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 Batman: The Dark Knight and Batman: Black and White.[volume & issue needed]
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; see below.) 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.[2][3] He also created a graphic novel called A God Somewhere with Peter Snejbjerg providing the art.[4][5]
Aside from working in the comic media, Arcudi has also worked briefly in animation. He has written two episodes of The Mask: The Animated Series, and one episode of the motion comics based on the comic Batman Black and White.[6]
Bibliography[]
Comics[]
- Abe Sapien (with Mike Mignola)
- The Haunted Boy
- The Abyssal Plain #1–2
- The Devil Does Not Jest #1–2
- The New Race of Man #1–2
- "Subconscious" published in Dark Horse Presents (2014) #11
- Aliens: Alchemy #1–3
- Aliens: Genocide #1–4
- Aliens: Stronghold #1–4
- Aquaman #25–29, 32–39
- Batman Black and White vol. 5 #6 (with James Harren)
- #4, 7
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #162-63
- B.P.R.D. (with Mike Mignola)
- "Born Again" published in Hellboy: Premiere Edition
- The Dead #1–5
- The Black Flame #1–6
- The Universal Machine #1–5
- Garden of Souls #1–5
- Killing Ground #1–5
- "Revival" published in MySpace Dark Horse Presents #8–9
- War on Frogs #1–4
- The Ectoplasmic Man
- "Out of Reach" published in Free Comic Book Day: Hellboy (2008)
- The Warning #1–5
- The Black Goddess #1–5
- King of Fear #1–5
- Casualties
- 1948 #1–5
- B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth (with Mike Mignola)
- New World #1–5
- Seattle
- Gods #1–3
- Monsters #1–2
- Russia #1–5
- "An Unmarked Grave" published in Dark Horse Presents (2011) #8
- The Long Death #1–3
- The Devil's Engine #1–3
- The Return of the Master #1–5
- A Cold Day in Hell #1–2
- Wasteland #1–3
- Lake of Fire #1–5
- The Reign of the Black Flame #1–5
- The Devil's Wings #1–2
- The Broken Equation #1–2
- Grind
- Flesh and Stone #1–5
- Nowhere, Nothing, Never #1–3
- Modern Prometheus #1–2
- End of Days #1–5
- Cometh the Hour #1–5
- Barb Wire #1–8
- Baseball Greats #1: The Jimmy Piersall Story
- Brass #1–6
- The Creep #0–4
- Dark Horse Comics #1–7, 17–19
- Dark Horse Presents (1986) #23–29, 46, 48–49, 53–58, 60–61, 63–64, 115, 122–23, 146–49
- Dark Horse Presents (2011) #8, 11–13
- Dark Horse Presents (2014) #11, 19–21, 26
- Dark Horse Presents Annual 1997
- Dark Horse Presents: Aliens #1
- Doom Patrol, vol. 3, #1–22
- Excalibur #104, 105
- Flinch #12
- Gen 13, #25–40
- Gen 13: Carny Folk #1
- The Goon: Noir #2
- Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 #1–5
- Hellboy: Weird Tales #4—"Abe Sapien: Star of the B.P.R.D."
- Homicide #1
- Image+ (2017) #2
- Justice League of America: Destiny #1–4
- Justice League of America: Superpower #1
- Lobo/Mask #1–2 (with Alan Grant)
- Lobster Johnson (with Mike Mignola)
- The Burning Hand #1–5
- The Prayer of Neferu
- Caput Mortuum
- Satan Smells a Rat
- A Scent of a Lotus #1–2
- Get the Lobster #1–5
- A Chain Forged in Life
- The Glass Mantis
- The Forgotten Man
- Metal Monsters of Midtown #1–3
- Garden of Bones
- The Pirate's Ghost #1–3
- Mangekyō
- The Machine #1–4
- Major Bummer #1–15
- Martian Manhunter, vol. 2 #5
- Mayhem #1–4
- The Mask #0–4
- The Mask Returns #1–4
- The Mask Strikes Back #1–5
- Motorhead #1
- MySpace Dark Horse Presents #6, 8–9, 12, 26
- Predator: Big Game #1–4
- RoboCop: Prime Suspect #1–4
- RoboCop: Roulette #1–4
- Rumble (2014) #1–15
- Rumble (2017) #1–present
- Savage Sword of Conan #150-52, 158, 165, 182
- Savage Tales, second series, #5, 7–8
- Silver Sable #26
- Sledgehammer 44 (with Mike Mignola)
- Sledgehammer 44 #1–2
- Lightning War #1–3
- Solo #2, 6
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #38 (cover image only)
- Terminator #1–4
- The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear #1–4
- Thunderbolts #76–81
- Total Carnage #1–4, 6–10
- Walter: Campaign of Terror #1–4
- Warlock and the Infinity Watch #34–35, 37–40, 42
- What if...? Vol. 2, #50
- Wednesday Comics #1–12 – Superman (writer), with art by Lee Bermejo. (2009)
- : Lost and Gone Forever #1–5 (with Mike Mignola)
Graphic novels[]
- A god Somewhere with Peter Snejbjerg, published by WildStorm, June 2010, 200 pages, ISBN 978-1401226831 / ISBN 978-1401232467 (New edition)
Collections[]
Title | Date | Publisher | ISBN |
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The Best of Dark Horse Presents – Volume 1 | November, 1989 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569712085 |
The Terminator: Tempest | September, 1991 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1878574213 |
Predator: Big Game | August, 1992 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711668 |
Aliens: Genocide | December, 1992 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711231 |
The Best of Dark Horse Presents – Volume 2 | January, 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569710029 |
The Mask | May, 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1878574503 |
The Thing from Another World and Climate of Fear | September, 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1878574855 |
Robocop: Prime Suspect | October, 1993 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1878574879 |
The Mask Returns | August, 1994 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569710210 |
Barb Wire | January, 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711392 |
The Mask Strikes Back | June, 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711682 |
Aliens: Stronghold | July, 1996 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569711545 |
Decade | April, 1997 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 9781569711798 |
Gen 13: I Love New York | September, 1999 | DC Comics | ISBN 978-1563895432 |
Scatterbrain | December, 2001 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569714263 |
Batman: Black & White – Volume 2 | October, 2003 | DC Comics | ISBN 978-1563899171 |
Thunderbolts: How to Lose | November, 2003 | Marvel Comics | ISBN 9780785112488 |
Hellboy: Weird Tales – Volume 1 | December, 2003 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1569716229 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 4: The Dead |
September, 2005 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593073800 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 5: The Black Flame |
July, 2006 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593075507 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 6: The Universal Machine |
January, 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593077105 |
Dwight T. Albatross's The Goon: Noir |
July, 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1401227470 |
Aliens Omnibus – Volume 2 | December, 2007 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593078287 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 7: Garden of Souls |
January, 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593078829 |
The Terminator Omnibus – Volume 1 | February, 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079161 |
Predator Omnibus – Volume 2 | February, 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593077334 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 8: Killing Ground |
May, 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079567 |
The Mask Omnibus – Volume 1 | August, 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079277 |
Barb Wire Omnibus | August, 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079932 |
MySpace Dark Horse Presents – Volume 1 | September, 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079987 |
Aliens Omnibus – Volume 5 | October, 2008 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079918 |
MySpace Dark Horse Presents – Volume 2 | January, 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595822482 |
The Mask Omnibus – Volume 2 | March, 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1593079376 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 10: The Warning |
April, 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595823045 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 11: The Black Flame |
October, 2009 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595824110 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 12: War on Frogs |
April, 2010 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595824806 |
Wednesday Comics | June, 2010 | DC Comics | ISBN 978-1593077853 |
B.P.R.D. – Volume 14: King of Fear |
November, 2010 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595825643 |
B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 2 (omnibus) | August, 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595826725 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 1: New World |
August, 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595827074 |
B.P.R.D.: Being Human | November, 2011 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595827562 |
Witchfinder – Volume 2: Lost and Gone Forever |
January, 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595827944 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 2: Gods and Monster |
January, 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595828224 |
B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 3 (omnibus) | March, 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595828606 |
Abe Sapien – Volume 2: The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories |
April, 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595829252 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 3: Russia |
August, 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595829467 |
B.P.R.D. Plague of Frogs 4 (omnibus) | November, 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595829740 |
Lobster Johnson – Volume 2: The Burning Hand |
November, 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616550318 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 4: The Devil's Engine & The Long Death |
December, 2012 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1595829818 |
The Creep | April, 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616550615 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 6: The Return of the Master |
August, 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616551933 |
B.P.R.D.: 1948 | September, 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616551834 |
Abe Sapien – Volume 3: Dark and Terrible and The New Race of Man |
December, 2013 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616552848 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 7: A Cold Day in Hell |
January, 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616551995 |
Lobster Johnson – Volume 3: Satan Smells a Rat |
February, 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616552039 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 8: Lake of Fire |
April, 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616554026 |
Sledgehammer 44 – Volume 1 | May, 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616553951 |
Batman: Black & White – Volume 4 | July, 2014 | DC Comics | ISBN 978-1401246433 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 9: The Reign of the Black Flame |
September, 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616554712 |
Hellboy: Weird Tales (omnibus) | November, 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616555108 |
Lobster Johnson – Volume 4: Get the Lobster! |
December, 2014 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616555054 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 10: The Devil's Wings |
March, 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616556174 |
B.P.R.D.: 1946–1948 (omnibus) | June, 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616556464 |
Rumble – Volume 1: What Color of Darkness? |
June, 2015 | Image Comics | ISBN 978-1632153838 |
Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1952 | August, 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616556600 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 11: Flesh and Stone |
September, 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616557621 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 12: Metamorphosis |
December, 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616557942 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 13: Metamorphosis |
December, 2015 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616557942 |
Rumble – Volume 2: A Woe That Is Madness |
February, 2016 | Image Comics | ISBN 978-1632156044 |
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth – Volume 13: End of Days |
May, 2016 | Dark Horse Comics | ISBN 978-1616559106 |
Magazines[]
- Cracked (1987)
- Monsters Attack! (1989)
- The Comics Journal (Winter 2003 Special Edition)
Notes[]
- ^ Profile
- ^ Colton, David (June 15, 2009). "Superman to leap off these pages". USA Today. Retrieved June 17, 2009.
- ^ Renaud, Jeffrey (September 16, 2009). "WEDNESDAY COMICS: Arcudi & Bermejo". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
- ^ Geddes, John (June 2, 2010). "'A God Somewhere' is a boldly human graphic novel". USA Today. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ^ Renaud, Jeffrey (June 2, 2010). "Arcudi and Snejbjerg Find "a god somewhere"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved June 8, 2010.
- ^ John Arcudi at the Internet Movie Database
References[]
- John Arcudi at the Grand Comics Database
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Arcudi. |
- John Arcudi at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Arcudi and Lis Talk Thunderbolts. Newsarama. December 11, 2002[dead link]
- John Arcudi: Telling Aquaman's story. Newsarama. October 8, 2004[dead link]
- John Arcudi interview, Wizard Universe. 2007
- Living people
- American comics writers
- Columbia College (New York) alumni
- Writers from Buffalo, New York