Ed Brubaker

Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central, Sleeper, Uncanny X-Men and X-Men: Deadly Genesis, and The Authority, and for helping to revive the crime comics genre. As of 2007, he lives in Seattle, Washington. Brubaker’s first work in comics was as a cartoonist, writing and drawing "Pajama Chronicles" for Blackthorne Comics, "Purgatory USA" for Slave Labor Graphics, and the semi-autobiographical series Lowlife for Slave Labor Graphics and later Caliber Comics. At Caliber, he briefly edited the anthology series Monkey Wrench. In 1991, he began to contribute to the Dark Horse Comics anthology series Dark Horse Presents, a comic he would continue to contribute to intermittently throughout the decade. Among those contributions... full article at wikipedia