Ronn Sutton (born December 17, 1952) is a

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illustrator and

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artist that has drawn several hundred comic books over the past four decades. This includes a nine-year stint illustrating nearly 50 issues of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark for

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from 1998 to 2006. Ronn's comics career began in 1973 with his artwork appearing in issues of the Canadian newsstand comic ORB Magazine, as well as anonymously penciling and inking many pages of

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for

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(although he hid his initials drawn into a sword handle in issue #3, page 23). Over the decades he has drawn for a variety of publishers that have included

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, Northstar, Brainstorm, Draculina,

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and more. Ronn has drawn issues of

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, Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Vampira, Draculina, Fear Agent,

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and many others. In 2015, Motorbooks published the 96 page graphic novel Lucifers Sword M.C.: Life and Death in an Outlaw Motorcycle Club, scripted by

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Phil Cross and illustrated by Sutton. As well, that same year saw publication of the true military comic Victims of War, written by Colonel Pat Stogran and illustrated by Sutton, about

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and other difficulties suffered by veterans who had served in

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. Sutton has done extensive magazine illustration for

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, Owl (magazine),

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, etc., as well as providing freelance courtroom sketches for seven years for TV and newspapers. Ronn has worked periodically in animation (

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), provided over 90 on-screen drawings for true crime television series Natural Born Outlaws, and was nominated thirteen times between 1997 and 2009 for the

Prix Aurora Award The Aurora Awards (french: Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year."Literary glow of Auroras lur ...

, the Canadian science fiction award for Artistic Achievement]. Ronn Sutton has often collaborated with writer Janet Hetherington on a variety of published comics since the early 1990s. Beginning March 10, 2018, Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc launched an online weekly comic strip adaptation of the Burroughs novella "The Man-Eater", written by Martin Powell, drawn by Ronn Sutton and coloured by Becka Kinzie as a regular ongoing feature.

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