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Paul Maybury is an award winning illustrator and comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

artist

Artist

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living in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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Biography

Maybury worked for the city of Boston

Boston

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under Mayor Menino as a muralist for several years before pursuing a career in comics.

Paul collaborated with writer Mark Andrew Smith

Mark Andrew Smith

Mark Andrew Smith is an award-winning American comic book author and graphic novelist.-Biography:In 2004 Smith caught the attention of Image Comics Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Dan Hipp's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy...

on their graphic novel Aqua Leung published by Image Comics

Image Comics

Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

April 9th 2008. Paul currently works on his new graphic novel titled Grace, along with his webcomic Party Bear for webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE

Act-i-vate

ACT-I-VATE is an American webcomics collective based on an original idea by Dean Haspiel and founded by Haspiel and seven other cartoonists. It started out on the blogging platform Livejournal, but has now moved to its own dedicated website....

. His webcomics have also appeared on the DC Comics site Zuda.

Party Bear was originally created in 2000, but was resurrected by Paul Maybury in 2006 when he was invtited to join ACT-I-VATE's third wave at the 2006 Mocca convention in NY.

Chris Arrant covered the third generation's debut on Sept. 10th on Newsarama

ACT-I-VATE 2006..

Comics

Elks Run #2: "All the wrong choices" (with writers Chris Fabulous and Jason Rodriquez,for Hoarse and Buggy, 2005)
24seven: "Things Run Amuck" (with writer Mark Andrew Smith
Mark Andrew Smith
Mark Andrew Smith is an award-winning American comic book author and graphic novelist.-Biography:In 2004 Smith caught the attention of Image Comics Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Dan Hipp's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy...

, Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2006)
The Wicked West
The Wicked West
The Wicked West is a graphic novel series written by Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell and Illustrated by Neil Vokes. It is published by Image Comics...

2: "A Man With A Stake In His Hand" (artist,writer Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2006)
Put the book back on the shelf: "Ninja No!" (with writer Mark Andrew Smith
Mark Andrew Smith
Mark Andrew Smith is an award-winning American comic book author and graphic novelist.-Biography:In 2004 Smith caught the attention of Image Comics Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Dan Hipp's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy...

, Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2006)
24seven volume 2: "Give Me Some Colour" (artist,writer Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2007)
Popgun
Popgun (comics)
Popgun is an award-winning comics anthology series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. Popgun was published by Image Comics starting in 2007. The driving concept behind Popgun is a mixtape of graphic short stories that cross the borders of all genres...

: "Aqua Leung, Ambush" (with writer Mark Andrew Smith
Mark Andrew Smith
Mark Andrew Smith is an award-winning American comic book author and graphic novelist.-Biography:In 2004 Smith caught the attention of Image Comics Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Dan Hipp's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy...

, Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2007)
Aqua Leung (with writer Mark Andrew Smith
Mark Andrew Smith
Mark Andrew Smith is an award-winning American comic book author and graphic novelist.-Biography:In 2004 Smith caught the attention of Image Comics Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Dan Hipp's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy...

, graphic novel
Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

, for Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2008)
Popgun 2: "Prey On You" (writer/colorist with artist Nikki Cook, Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2008)
Popgun 2: "Little Known Fact" (with writer Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno
Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville. It was first serialized in Putnam's Monthly in 1855 and later included in slightly revised version in his collection The Piazza Tales .-Plot summary:...

, Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2008)
Comic Book Tattoo: "Crucify" (artist,writer Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, 2008)

Web comics

Party Bear (artist/writer, ACT-I-VATE
Act-i-vate
ACT-I-VATE is an American webcomics collective based on an original idea by Dean Haspiel and founded by Haspiel and seven other cartoonists. It started out on the blogging platform Livejournal, but has now moved to its own dedicated website....

, 2006-2007)
Adventures of Maxy J. Millionaire (artist/writer, Zuda
Zuda Comics
Zuda Comics was DC Comics' webcomics imprint from 2007 until 2010. It featured comics for Flash player instead of in a web page. Announced in a press release on July 9, 2007 and the first ongoing series and competing comic entries went live October 30, 2007...

, 2007)

Illustrations

Paul Maybury has contributed illustrations to the following projects

Winter Survival Guide, Columbus day special cover and 2006 Election special and various others for The Weekly Dig
various illustrations for Yikes Toys
Premenanda Closter Still album cover for Soul Spark Records

Awards

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
The Association of Alternative Newsmedia is a diverse group of covering every major metropolitan area and other less-populated regions of North America. AAN members have a combined weekly circulation of over 6.5 million as well as a print readership of nearly 17 million active, educated and...

Award: Best Editorial Layout, Weekly Dig ("Slumber Party") (2007)

External links

Interviews

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