Richard Horie
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Richard Horie is an artist
who has worked on many comics, mostly as a penciller and colorist, but also as writer and inker.
.
In October 1992, he wrote and pencilled part of Brigade #2, alongside writers Hank Kanalz and Eric Stephenson, writer/artist Rob Liefeld
and penciller Marat Mychaels. He would pencil and ink for Stephenson several times over the next year, on titles including Supreme
, various Youngblood
titles, Brigade, Bloodstrike
and Deathmate. He provided inks for an issue of Jim Valentino
's ShadowHawk
, and was one of several writers and artists to contribute to the "Extreme" preview created for Hero Illustrated
magazine, touting Liefeld's Image imprint Extreme Studios. Richard's work for Extreme continued along similar lines to his earlier image work, pencilling issues of Bloodstrike, Brigade, Chapel, Prophet and Operation Knightstrike amongst others.
When Rob Liefeld split from Image Comics, many of his "Extreme" creators moved with him to work under the Maximum Press banner, and Richard Horie was one such individual. Providing pencils for Robert Napton's "Battlestar Galactica" in Maximum Press's Asylum #2 and #3, Horie was also one of many pencillers to work on Alan Moore
's reinvention of Liefeld's universe, providing pencils for Supreme
#44 (Maximum Press), and color (with wife Tanya) for a back-up to Supreme #54 (Awesome
). The two also added color to Jeph Loeb
's take on the Fighting American in the Awesome Holiday Special (1997), and inked and colored the Liefeld/Loeb Re:Gex #1.
Now focusing solely on coloring, the two colored Mike Deodato Jr.'s pencils and inks for a couple of issues of Chaos! Comics
' Lady Death
, as well as Coven and Jada Pinkett Smith
's Menace for Awesome, before coming to work almost-exclusively for DC Comics
in December, 1998.
, for whom they have coloured four-five monthly comics fairly consistently for the past 8 years. The two particularly colored long runs on DC's flagship Superman
title (from #152), continuing with it when it was retitled back to Adventures of Superman
(for its 'Issue #600' anniversary).
The two also provide color for a multitude of covers, mostly monthly, but also including collected editions - most notably several volumes of DC's "Showcase Presents..." series of black & white reprints, where they have provided color over the artwork of Jim Aparo
, Ross Andru
and others.
Recently, their work can be seen throughout many titles associated with DC's 2005/2006 events Infinite Crisis
and 52
, and lately on the build-up to Final Crisis
title Countdown to Adventure and the Vertigo series Un-men
.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
who has worked on many comics, mostly as a penciller and colorist, but also as writer and inker.
Biography
Richard Horie has worked in almost every field as a comics creator, from writer and penciller to inker and colorist, the latter of which he (with wife Tanya) is perhaps now best known. Richard, according to The Best author Heidi MacDonald once worked for Disney in some capacity, but his first known comics credits appear in the mid-1990s for Image ComicsImage 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...
.
In October 1992, he wrote and pencilled part of Brigade #2, alongside writers Hank Kanalz and Eric Stephenson, writer/artist Rob Liefeld
Rob Liefeld
Rob Liefeld is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher. A prominent artist in the 1990s, he has since become a controversial figure in the medium....
and penciller Marat Mychaels. He would pencil and ink for Stephenson several times over the next year, on titles including Supreme
Supreme (comics)
Supreme is a fictional superhero created by Rob Liefeld and first published by Image Comics, then Maximum Press, and later by Awesome Entertainment...
, various Youngblood
Youngblood (comics)
Youngblood is a superhero team that starred in their self-titled comic book, created by writer/artist Rob Liefeld. The team made its debut as a backup feature in the 1987 one-shot Megaton: Explosion before later appearing in its own ongoing series in 1992 as the flagship publication for Image Comics...
titles, Brigade, Bloodstrike
Bloodstrike
Bloodstrike is a mutate supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe.-Fictional character biography:Eric Conroy's father Lt. Mark Conroy served in the Vietnam war. Conroy's unit, calling themselves the Half-Fulls discovers an ancient temple deep in the jungles of Cambodia...
and Deathmate. He provided inks for an issue of Jim Valentino
Jim Valentino
Jim Valentino is an American writer, penciler, editor and publisher of comic books.-1970s - 1992:Valentino began his career in the late 1970s creating small press and mostly autobiographical comics. The early-mid 1980s saw normalman which first appeared as a back-up story in Aardvark-Vanaheim's...
's ShadowHawk
Shadowhawk
ShadowHawk is a fictional comic book vigilante anti-hero created by Jim Valentino.He was first introduced in the Malibu Sun free promotional magazine in May of 1992...
, and was one of several writers and artists to contribute to the "Extreme" preview created for Hero Illustrated
Hero Illustrated
Hero Illustrated was a comic book-themed magazine published in the early to mid 1990s in the United States. Columnists included Andy Mangels, and Frank Kurtz was at one time a managing editor. The journal won the 1995 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Publication.- History :Hero...
magazine, touting Liefeld's Image imprint Extreme Studios. Richard's work for Extreme continued along similar lines to his earlier image work, pencilling issues of Bloodstrike, Brigade, Chapel, Prophet and Operation Knightstrike amongst others.
When Rob Liefeld split from Image Comics, many of his "Extreme" creators moved with him to work under the Maximum Press banner, and Richard Horie was one such individual. Providing pencils for Robert Napton's "Battlestar Galactica" in Maximum Press's Asylum #2 and #3, Horie was also one of many pencillers to work on Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
's reinvention of Liefeld's universe, providing pencils for Supreme
Supreme (comics)
Supreme is a fictional superhero created by Rob Liefeld and first published by Image Comics, then Maximum Press, and later by Awesome Entertainment...
#44 (Maximum Press), and color (with wife Tanya) for a back-up to Supreme #54 (Awesome
Awesome Comics
Awesome Comics or Awesome Entertainment was an American comic book studio formed in 1997 by Image Comics co-founder Rob Liefeld...
). The two also added color to Jeph Loeb
Jeph Loeb
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an American film and television writer, producer and award-winning comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series Smallville and Lost, writer for the films Commando and Teen Wolf and was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the NBC TV show Heroes from its...
's take on the Fighting American in the Awesome Holiday Special (1997), and inked and colored the Liefeld/Loeb Re:Gex #1.
Now focusing solely on coloring, the two colored Mike Deodato Jr.'s pencils and inks for a couple of issues of Chaos! Comics
Chaos! Comics
Chaos! Comics was a comic book publisher that operated from 1994 until 2002.-Overview:Their titles included Lady Death, Purgatori, Evil Ernie, Chastity, Jade, Omen, Bad Kitty, Cremator, Lady Demon, and Smiley The Psychotic Button.They also published licensed comics for the World Wrestling...
' Lady Death
Lady Death
Lady Death is a fictional character, a comic book goddess created by Brian Pulido and Steven Hughes. Lady Death first appeared in Evil Ernie #1 by Eternity Comics in December 1991. Lady Death then reappeared in the Evil Ernie: The Resurrection mini-series published by Pulido under his now defunct...
, as well as Coven and Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, producer, director, author, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman. She began her career in 1990, when she made a guest appearance in the short-lived sitcom True Colors. She starred in A Different World, produced by Bill Cosby, and she featured...
's Menace for Awesome, before coming to work almost-exclusively for DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
in December, 1998.
Coloring
In recent years, (from approximately November/December 1997), he and his wife Tanya have focused primarily on coloring comics together. Initially, the two worked on a handful of comics published by Rob Liefeld's Awesome Entertainment (where Richard had previously penciled/inked issues of various titles) until Christmas 1998, whereupon they moved almost-completely to coloring comics in the DC Universe. They settled mainly at DCDC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
, for whom they have coloured four-five monthly comics fairly consistently for the past 8 years. The two particularly colored long runs on DC's flagship Superman
Superman
Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
title (from #152), continuing with it when it was retitled back to Adventures of Superman
Superman (comic book)
Superman is an ongoing comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name. The character Superman began as one of several anthology features in the National Periodical Publications comic book Action Comics #1 in June 1938...
(for its 'Issue #600' anniversary).
The two also provide color for a multitude of covers, mostly monthly, but also including collected editions - most notably several volumes of DC's "Showcase Presents..." series of black & white reprints, where they have provided color over the artwork of Jim Aparo
Jim Aparo
James N. "Jim" Aparo was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960s and 1970s DC Comics work, including on the characters Batman, Aquaman and the Spectre....
, Ross Andru
Ross Andru
Ross Andru was an American comic book artist and editor. He is best known for his work on Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Flash and Metal Men....
and others.
Recently, their work can be seen throughout many titles associated with DC's 2005/2006 events Infinite Crisis
Infinite Crisis
Infinite Crisis is a 2005 - 2006 comic book storyline published by DC Comics, consisting of an eponymous, seven-issue comic book limited series written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George Pérez, Ivan Reis, and Jerry Ordway, and a number of tie-in books...
and 52
52 (comics)
52 was a weekly American comic book limited series published by DC Comics that debuted on May 10, 2006, one week after the conclusion of the seven-issue Infinite Crisis. The series was written by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid with layouts by Keith Giffen...
, and lately on the build-up to Final Crisis
Final Crisis
Final Crisis is a crossover storyline that appeared in comic books published by DC Comics in 2008, primarily the seven-issue miniseries of the same name written by Grant Morrison. Originally DC announced the project as being illustrated solely by J. G. Jones; artists Carlos Pacheco, Marco Rudy and...
title Countdown to Adventure and the Vertigo series Un-men
Un-Men
The Un-Men are a group of fictional characters in the DC/Vertigo Comics universe. Created by the writer/artist team of Len Wein and Berni Wrightson, the Un-Men made their first appearance in 1972, in the first and second issues of the original Swamp Thing comic book series...
.
Penciller
- Asylum #2-3 (1995)
- Battlestar Galactica: Journey's End #3 (1996)
- BloodstrikeBloodstrikeBloodstrike is a mutate supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe.-Fictional character biography:Eric Conroy's father Lt. Mark Conroy served in the Vietnam war. Conroy's unit, calling themselves the Half-Fulls discovers an ancient temple deep in the jungles of Cambodia...
#7-10, 17 (1993) - Brigade #2, 4, 13 (1992)
- Brigade Sourcebook (1994)
- Chapel Vol. 2 #3-5, 7 (1995)
- Deathmate Red(1993)
- Extreme Hero (1994)
- Glory and Friends Lingerie Special #1 (1995)
- Operation Knightstrike #1-3 (1995)
- Prophet #8 (1995)
- Supreme: The New Adventures #44 (1996)
- Team Youngblood #12 (1993)
- X-Force/Youngblood #1 (1996)
- Youngblood #14 (1995)
- Youngblood Battlezone #1 (1993)
- Youngblood Strikefile #7, 9, 11 (1993)
Inker
- Chapel Vol. 2 #3 (1995)
- Phantom Force #2 (1993)
- Re:Gex #1 (1998) - with Tanya Horie
- ShadowHawk (1992)
- Supreme #4 (1992)
- Youngblood Strikefile #8 (1993)
Colorists (Richard & Tanya Horie)
- 52 #17 (2006)
- Action Comics #811, 852
- All Flash #1 (2007)
- The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #3-9, 11-13 (2006)
- The Flash #233-237
- Aquaman #50 - 60
- Ascension #15, 21(1997)
- Awesome Holiday Special #1 (1997)
- Batman #566
- Batman: Harley Quinn #1 (1999)
- Black Canary Wedding Planner #1 (2007)
- Cable #71 (1993)
- Checkmate #1-3 (2006)
- Countdown To Adventure #1, 3-7 (2007)
- The Coven #6 (1997)
- The Coven: Fantom Special #1 (1998)
- The Darkness 317-18, 25, 27, (1996)
- Fantastic Four: Fireworks #1-3 (1999)
- Green Lantern 80-Page Giant #2 (1998)
- Guide to the DC Universe Secret Files 2002
- Hellhole #2 (1999)
- HumanKind #1-5 (2004)
- Infinite Crisis #7 (2005)
- Ion #8-12 (2006)
- JSA #86-87
- Lady Death #6-8
- Legends of the DC Universe 3-D Gallery (1998)
- Legion of Super-Heroes #12 (2005)
- Menace #1 (1998)
- Meridian #31, 37-38 (2000)
- Mystic #40 (2000)
- Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere #1-9 (2005)
- Nightwing #128-130 (1996)
- Outsiders #20 (2003)
- Rann-Thanagar War #6 (2005)
- Re:Gex #0-1 (1998)
- Ruse #20 (2001)
- Secret Origins 80-Page Giant #1 (1998)
- Superboy's Legion #1-2 (2001)
- Superman #152-168, 170-175, 177-201
- The Adventures of Superman #600, 612-638, 640-646, 648-649
- Superman & Savage Dragon: Metropolis (1998)
- Superman 10-Cent Adventure (2003)
- Superman Returns Prequel #3 (2006)
- Superman Secret Files and Origins 2005 (2006)
- Superman vs. Darkseid: Apokolips Now! (2003)
- Superman: Emperor Joker #1 (2000)
- Superman: Lex 2000 (2001)
- Superman: The Man of Steel #120, 123-133
- Supreme #54 (1997)
- Teen Titans #31, 33-44, 46-49 (2003)
- Teen Titans and Outsiders Secret Files and Origins 2005 (2005)
- The Un-Men #1-8 (2007)
- Wonder Woman #197-219, 221-226
External links
- Tanya Horie at ComicVine
- Richard and Tanya Horie at ComicVine
- DC Database: Richard Horie - thus far sparse
- DC Database: Tanya Horie - thus far sparse