Ron Frenz

Ronald Wade Frenz (* 1960 in Pittsburgh ) is an American comic artist .

Life and work

Frenz began working as a full-time comic book artist in the early 1980s. He was able to achieve his first major successes with his work on the traditional series The Amazing Spider-Man (1984-1987) and The Mighty Thor (1989-1993) published by Marvel Comics . Artistic partners during this time included the authors Roger Stern and Tom DeFalco and, in particular, the ink draftsman Joe Rubinstein . Probably the most famous figure, whose appearance Frenz originally shaped, was the Spider-Man villain "Venom", who received an extremely positive response from the readers and is still one of the most popular villains in the series, which is among other things in his Used as the main villain in the 2007 movie "Spider-Man 3".

For the publisher Dark Horse Frenz drew comics from the series Ka-Zar the Savage, The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones and Star Wars.

Between 1995 and 1999, Frenz was the main draftsman of the long-standing science fiction series Superman, published by DC-Comics . He succeeded Dan Jurgens , who from 1991 to 1995 had the double function of the author and illustrator of Superman, but from 1995 limited himself to writing the series "only" while he passed the visualization of his scripts on to Frenz. The inking of Frenz's drawings was mostly done by Joe Rubinstein, as with Marvel.

He worked with DeFalco on the short-lived series A-Next as well as the Dark Devil and The Buzz series .

This was followed by other drawing jobs for Marvel, such as the mini-series Spider-Man: Hobgoblin Lives from 1996 , written by Roger Stern, and a longer run on the series about the heroine Spider-Girl , which he and DeFalco had created themselves in the late 1990s.

Frenz is currently illustrating the “This Happened to Me” column in Outdoor Life magazine .