Stuart Immonen

Stuart Immonen is a Canadian comic book artist and writer.

Life and work

Stuart Immonen

After studying at the University of Toronto, Immonen began working as a full-time comic book artist. His first published work was the self-published comic series Playground in 1988 , which Immonen brought in several commissions from smaller publishers.

From 1993, orders from the leading American comic publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics followed . The focus of Immonen's work in the second half of the 1990s was on the traditional character of the comic hero Superman, on which he worked for more than five years between 1994 and 1999. The beginning of his work on Superman marked a three-year activity as a draftsman of stories published in the series Adventures of Superman , most of which were written by Karl Kesel . In 1997, Immonen took over the job of writing the Action Comics , another series of stories about the adventures of the Superman character, which he wrote for almost two years until 1999, as the successor to David Michelinie . In personal union, he mostly got the drawings for his stories himself. The end of his work on Superman was the comic novel Superman: End of Century , published at the turn of 1999/2000 .

Other work for DC in the 1990s included drawing jobs for the science fiction series Legion of Super Heroes and the four-part "Event" miniseries Final Night from 1996, which explores the consequences of the extinction of the sun on humanity would have.

After moving to Marvel Comics, Immonen drew for series such as X-Men , Ultimate X-Men , Ultimate Fantastic Four , Hulk and Ultimate Spider-Man . Immonen's most frequent artistic partner at Marvel was the writer Warren Ellis . In the first decade of the 21st century, Immonen excelled with web comics he and his wife Kathryn Immonen wrote for the publishers Top Cow and Image Comics.