P. Craig Russell

Quick Facts

Full Name	P. Craig Russell
Occupation	Comics Artist
Date Of Birth	Oct 30, 1951(1951-10-30)
Age	73
Birthplace	Wellsville
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Libra

P. Craig Russell Biography

P. Craig Russell is one of the most popular and richest Comics Artist who was born on October 30, 1951 in Wellsville, Ohio, United States. Philip Craig Russell was born on October 30, 1951, from Wellsville, Ohio. He joined the comics industry when he was an associate of Dan Adkins. Russell was first recognized through the 11 issues of his Amazing Adventures run and subsequent graphic novel that featured Killraven the hero from the future version from H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds working alongside writer Don McGregor. A comics expert Peter Sanderson wrote that, “McGregor’s finest artistic collaborator on the series was P. Craig Russell, whose sensitive, elaborate artwork, evocative of Art Nouveau illustration, gave the landscape of Killraven’s America a nostalgic, pastoral feel, and the Martian architecture the look of futuristic castles.” In DC Comics, Russell inked Batman stories for Batman Family in Batman Family and Detective Comics over the pencils of Michael Golden and Jim Starlin and Jim Starlin, respectively.

Russell worked with Mike Mignola’s pencils for The Phantom Stranger limited series in 1987. Russell illustrated issue 50 of Neil Gaiman’s comic book collection The Sandman. The story was called “Ramadan” and was later included in the collection The Sandman: Fables and Reflections. Russell created the first story for Gaiman’s second Sandman graphic novel Endless Nights, and transformed Gaiman’s short story “Murder Mysteries” and his children’s book Coraline into comics. He’s also adapted a different Gaiman Sandman work, Sandman: The Dream Hunters, and also a Robert E. Howard Conan the Barbarian storycalled “The Jewels of Gwahlur”. Russell became involved in an artistic collaboration with the online artist group Kaleidospace in 1994.

In December 2007, Desperado published The Art of P. Craig Russell, a 256-page retrospective of Russell’s career. It was nominated for the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book. A documentary feature about the artist, Night Music: The Art of P. Craig Russell, premiered at the 2008 Mid-Ohio Con in Columbus, Ohio.

In November 2015, Wayne Alan Harold Productions published the P. Craig Russell Sketchbook Archives, a 250-page hardcover art book featuring the best of Russell’s personal sketchbooks. The same publisher is currently creating an Artist’s Edition-type line of 12″ x 17″ hardcovers that reproduce Russell’s original art at full-size,.”

Since 1984, Russell started Night Music the ongoing anthology series published by Eclipse Comics featuring some of his most acclaimed operatic and literary adaptations. Russell has used the same title to create the black and white edition of his earliest books, which were published through Eclipse Comics. The collection included “The King’s Ankus”, inspired by the Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book. Russell had drawn previously numerous Jungle Book adaptations drawn by Gil Kane, published in Marvel Fanfare #8-11 (May-Nov. 1983). The series also included “Pelleas & Melisande”, which was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck’s play with the same name, that was later transformed into an operetta by Claude Debussy, and “Salome” inspired by Oscar Wilde’s play of same name , which formed the basis of Richard Strauss’s musical. Opera would continue to be a prominent theme in the works of Russell, such as the four- part version to The Magic Flute, taken from Wolfgang Mozart’s opera.

P. Craig Russell Net Worth

P. Craig Russell is one of the richest Comics Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, P. Craig Russell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Philip Craig Russell (born October 30 1951) is an American comics artist as well as a writer and illustrator. His work has earned him numerous Harvey and Eisner Awards. Russell became the first major comic creator to be open as gay.

The first Russell Elric story that he wrote, the Roy Thomas scripted “The Dreaming City” came out in 1982 by Marvel Comics in 1982 as Marvel Graphic Novel #2 following the initial publication of the first portion of the novel graphically within Epic Illustrated. In the subsequent installment, “Elric of Melnibone” that was created by Roy Thomas, Russell shared the art alongside Michael T. Gilbert. The tale was released in the form of Pacific Comics as Elric issues #1-6 in 1983-84. Russell was not back in Elric until 1997, when Russell worked closely along with Michael Moorcock on Elric: Stormbringer and was co-published through Dark Horse Comics and Topps Comics.

Beginning in 2000, Dark Horse Comics published Russell’s adaptation of Richard Wagner’s operatic cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung as 14 comic books; in 2001, the series won two Eisner Awards: for Best Finite Series/Limited Series, and for Best Artist/Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team. The series since been published as a single-volume hardcover book. He has adapted the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde into comic-book albums from NBM Publishing.

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P. Ranked on the list of most popular Comics Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. P. Craig Russell celebrates birthday on October 30 of every year.