Paris Cullins

Paris Cullins

Paris Cullins is an American comic book artist .

Life

Cullins, who comes from an African American family, began working as a full-time comic book artist in the 1980s.

His first published work - a six-page story called "Mystic Murder" - appeared in the November 1981 comic book Secrets of Haunted House # 42. The author of this story was the writer Steve Skeates. As a result, Cullins received mostly drawing orders for mystery comic series, which brought stories that revolved around "supernatural" topics, so for House of Mystery , Ghosts , The Unexpected and Weird War Tales .

From 1982 onwards, Cullins began increasingly to create superhero and science fiction comics: his debut in this area marked a story in the series "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps", which appeared as a backup feature in the series Green Lantern . Cullin's story appeared in issue # 154 in July 1982. He then illustrated numerous covers for series such as Green Lantern , Batman , Wonder Woman , Superman and Action Comics , as well as booklets for series such as Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld and Fury of Firestorm .

Together with the authors Gary Cohn and Dan Mishkin, Cullins created the figure of the Blue Devil in 1983 , which was put into the focus of a separate series from 1984, which reached thirty-one editions, and appeared until 1986. Cullins took care of a considerable part of the drawing work for Blue Devil (issues 1 to 6 complete, for the remaining issues the covers). The series was most notable for its rare mix of superhero themes with comedy elements.

At the same time there were various works as guest artist, for example for the magazines Gerechtigkeitsliga # 212 (1983), The Darin New Adventures of Supergirl # 7. At the same time, Cullins designed several editions of the cheerful comic series Richie Rich and Hot Stuff , which appeared in the program of Archie Verlag.

In the late 80s he drew a mini-series written by JM DeMatteis about the Forever People , as well as the - also humorous - superhero and adventure series Blue Beetle . For Blue Beetle , Cullins visualized issues # 1-9, 11-14 and 17-18 (June 1986 to November 1987). His partner on this project was author Len Wein . In the early 1990s he finally supported the author Mark Evanier in an attempt to revive the series developed by Jack Kirby to revive the New Gods : He drew issues # 1-9, 11-12 and 15-18 of the newly launched series of the same name.

In the 1990s, in addition to his work at DC, Cullins occasionally took on engagements for DC's competitor Marvel Comics , as well as for smaller publishers such as Acclaim Comics, Massive Comics Group, Penthouse Comics, and Crusade Comics. The best-known work of this phase are nine editions of the Hyperkind series published by Marvel's Imprint Razorline. Other work for Marvel included the Silver Surfer Annual # 1 (1988) and X-Factor Annual # 3 (1988). As a draftsman of "adult comics", Cullins mainly delivered comic strips and illustrations for magazines with "erotic content".

Outside of comics, Cullins has worked as a graphic designer and draftsman of covers for books and promotional materials, designer of toy products for Mattel, coloring books for brands like "Barbie", and storyboarding artist for video games and television commercials. In the recent past he has also appeared as a publisher.

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