Wayne Reynolds is a

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artist whose work has appeared in

comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate ...

and

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...

Early life and education

Wayne Reynolds was born in

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

, UK. He attended art college in Dewsbury and Middlesbrough.

Games

Wayne Reynolds has continued to produce interior illustrations for many ''

Dungeons & Dragons ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules ...

'' books and ''

Dragon A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as ...

'' magazine since 1999, as well as cover art for ''

Deep Dwarven Delve ''L3 Deep Dwarven Delve'' is a fantasy adventure module or "module" for ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' (1st edition). Plot summary ''Deep Dwarven Delve'' is a straightforward dungeon crawl that leads the players through an abandoned dwarven mi ...

'' (1999), ''

Reverse Dungeon ''Reverse Dungeon'' is an adventure module for the 2nd edition of the ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Plot summary ''Reverse Dungeon'' is an adventure in which the players control the monsters in a dungeon instead of ...

'' (2000), '' Complete Warrior'' (2003), and several books for the

Eberron Eberron is a campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') role-playing game. The game is set primarily on the continent of Khorvaire following a vast destructive war. Eberron is designed to accommodate traditional ''D&D'' elements a ...

campaign setting. He has also produced artwork for many other games including ''

Pendragon Pendragon or ( wlm, pen dreic, ''pen dragon''; composed of Welsh , 'head, chief, top' and / ''dragon'', 'dragon; warrior'; borrowed from the Latin word , plural , 'dragon , br, Penn Aerouant) literally means 'chief dragon' or 'head dragon', but ...

'' (

Chaosium Chaosium Inc. is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include '' Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft'', RuneQuest Glorantha'', ''Pendragon ...

), ''

Rolemaster ''Rolemaster'' (originally ''Role Master'') is a tabletop role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises since 1980. Editions ''Rolemaster'' has a total of four editions. First edition (RM1): 1980–1982 This edition includes the or ...

'' (

Iron Crown Enterprises Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a publishing company that has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980. Many of ICE's better-known products were related to J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, but the ''R ...

), and the ''GameMastery'' line (

Paizo Publishing Paizo Inc. (originally Paizo Publishing.) is an American role-playing game publishing company based in Redmond, Washington, best known for the tabletop role-playing game ''Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder''. The company's name is derived ...

), and illustrated cards for the ''

Magic: The Gathering ''Magic: The Gathering'' (colloquially known as ''Magic'' or ''MTG'') is a Tabletop game, tabletop and Digital collectible card game, digital Collectible card game, collectable card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards ...

collectible card game A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategy game, strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards, introduced with ''Magic: The Gathering'' in ...

and the video game '' Hearthstone''. Reynolds has also produced numerous covers for the ''

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game The ''Pathfinder Roleplaying Game'' is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing. The first edition extends and modifies the System Reference Document (SRD) based on the revised 3rd edition ''Dungeons & ...

''.

Comics

Reynolds has also done work on British comics, in particular at '' 2000 AD'' on stories like '' Sláine'', and ''

Judge Dredd Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'' (1977), which is a British weekly anthology Comic book, comic. He is the ...

''. He also worked with 2000 AD creators on ''

Warhammer Monthly ''Warhammer Monthly'' was a comics anthology published by Games Workshop's publishing arm, Black Library, from March 1998 to December 2004, running to 86 issues in total. The final two issues were published bi-monthly under the name ''Warhammer Co ...

'' on the stories ''

The Redeemer ''The Redeemer'' is a special, 4-issue comic mini-series published by ''Warhammer Monthly'', Games Workshop's monthly comic collection. It was written by veteran British comic writer Pat Mills. Set on the Hive World of Necromunda, The Redeemer c ...

'' and '' Kal Jerico''.

Historical art

Between 2000–2004, Reynolds did artwork for

Osprey Publishing Osprey Publishing is a British, Oxford-based, publishing company specializing in military history. Predominantly an illustrated publisher, many of their books contain full-colour artwork plates, maps and photographs, and the company produces ov ...

's series of historical reference books.

Bibliography

Comics

Comics work includes: *'' Sláine'' (with

Pat Mills Patrick Eamon Mills (born 1949) is an English comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since. He has been called "the godfather o ...

): ** "The Banishing" (in '' 2000 AD'' #1108-1109, 1998) ** "The Triple Death" (in ''2000 AD'' #1111, 1998) *''

'' (with Pat Mills/ Debbie Gallagher,

Black Library The Black Library is a division of Games Workshop (formerly a part of BL Publishing) which is devoted to publishing List of Black Library novels, novels and audiobooks (and has previously produced art books, background books, and graphic novels) ...

, in ''

'' #16 (prelude), 18, 20, 22, June–September 1999, tpb, 96 pages, 2000, , included in tpb, 104 pages, 2003, ) *'' Pulp Sci-Fi'': "Endangered Species" (with Kek-W, in ''2000 AD'' #1171, November 1999) *''

'': ** "The Triple Death" (with Alan Grant, in ''2000 AD'' #1182, March 2000) ** "Dead Ringer" (with

John Wagner John Wagner (born 1949) is an American-born British comics writer. Alongside Pat Mills, he helped revitalise British comics in the 1970s, and continues to be active in the British comics industry, occasionally also working in American comics. ...

, in ''

Judge Dredd Megazine ''Judge Dredd: The Megazine'' is a monthly British comic magazine, launched in September 1990. It is a sister publication to '' 2000 AD''. Its name is a play on words, formed from "magazine" and Judge Dredd's locale Mega-City One. Content Like ...

'' vol. 3 #66, June 2000) ** "Flippers" (with John Wagner, in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' vol. 4 #7-8, February–March 2002) *''

Tharg's Future Shocks ''Tharg's Future Shocks'' is a long-running series of short strips in the British weekly comic '' 2000 AD'' in 1977. The name originates from the fictional editor of 2000 AD and the book titled ''Future Shock'', written by Alvin Toffler, publi ...

'': "Dwellers in the Depths" (with Steve Moore, in ''2000 AD'' #1206, August 2000) *'' Kal Jerico'' (with

Gordon Rennie Gordon Rennie is a Scottish comics writer, responsible for ''White Trash: Moronic Inferno'', as well as several comic strips for '' 2000 AD'' and novels for ''Warhammer Fantasy''. In May 2008, he announced he was leaving comics to concentrate f ...

, in ''Warhammer Monthly'' #28-29, 31, 34, 36-37, 45, 56-59, 63-66, March–April, June, September, November–December 2000, August 2001, June–September 2002, December 2002 - March 2003, early stories collected in ''Kal Jerico II: Contracts and Agendas'', 54 pages, 2001, , those and more included in ''Kal Jerico: Underhive Bounty Hunter'', Necromunda series,

, 176 pages, 2005, ) *'' Mean Machine'': "Support Yore Local Bastich" (with Gordon Rennie, in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' vol. 3 #75, March 2001) *'' Missionary Man'': "Silence" (with Gordon Rennie, in ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' vol. 3 #77, May 2001) *''Crimson Tide'' (with Gordon Rennie, in ''Warhammer Monthly'' #86, December 2004)

Artbooks

* ''Dungeons & Dragons: The Art of Wayne Reynolds'' (2010) * ''Visions of War: The Art of Wayne Reynolds'' (2013)

Notes

References

Wayne Reynolds
at Barney * * *

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reynolds, Wayne Artists from Leeds Living people Role-playing game artists Year of birth missing (living people)