Ryan Kelly (born January 29, 1976) is an American comic book artist, known for his work on books such as '' Lucifer'' and '' Local''.

Career

In 1998, Kelly graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where he studied under comic book artist Peter Gross. He worked with Gross on the

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series '' Lucifer'' and '' The Books of Magic'', both under the Vertigo imprint. He is now on the MCAD staff, teaching the occasional inking class, as well as classes for younger students. He has also moved on to work on other books, including guest inking responsibilities on American Virgin and penciling duties fo
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with Stuart Moore. In addition to his comics art work he has had various Minneapolis area exhibitions of his painted work. He has produced illustrations for Time Magazine and Rolling Stone, among others. He illustrated the entire twelve issue run of the Oni Press comics series '' Local'', written by Brian Wood and a story arc ("The Cross + the Hammer") for Wood's ''

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'', Currently he is illustrating the DC/Vertigo ongoing series

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by Paul Cornell (March 2010)

Bibliography

Comics work includes: *''

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'' #57, 62, 68, 70 (pencils (57, 62, 68) and inks (70), with

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, 1999–2000) *'' Lucifer'' #5-75 (inks, with Mike Carey, DC Vertigo, 2000–2006) *'' Local'' (with Brian Wood, Oni Press, 2005–2008) *'' American Virgin'' #18-19, 22 (pencils, with

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, DC Vertigo, 2006 & 2008) *''The New York Four'' (with Brian Wood,

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, 2007) *''The New York Five'' #1-5 (DC Vertigo, 2011) *''

'' #11-16 "The Cross + The Hammer" (with Brian Wood, DC Vertigo, 2008–2009) *''

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'' #42-44 "No Future" (with Brian Wood, DC Vertigo, 2009) *''Side B: The Music Lover's Comic Anthology'' #108-114 "Torso" (with his wife Kat Vapid (writer),

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, 2009) *''

Star Wars ''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop-culture Cultural impact of S ...

'' #7-9 (with Brian Wood,

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, 2013) *''

Survivors' Club ''Survivors' Club'' is a comic book series created by writers Lauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen, and artist Ryan Kelly, published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics, beginning in 2015. The series is set in a world where the archetypal characters ...

'' (DC Vertigo, 2015–2016) *''

Stranger Things ''Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as showrunners and are executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. Produced by Monkey Massacre Prod ...

: Into the Fire'' #1-4 (with

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and Le Beau Underwood, Dark Horse, 2020)

References

External links

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Ryan Kelly's Art BlogRyan Kelly's MNArtists.org pageNew York Four synopsis at Mergingminds.org

Interviews

Interview with the ''Onion's AV Club''
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