Jim Valentino

Jim Valentino aka Valentino, (born October 28, 1952 in The Bronx, New York), is an American writer, penciler, editor and publisher of comic books. He 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 Cerebus. Aardvark-Vanaheim's Dave and Deni (Dave's wife at the time) began publishing normalman as a 13 issue l... more

Jim Valentino aka Valentino, (born October 28, 1952 in The Bronx, New York), is an American writer, penciler, editor and publisher of comic books. He 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 Cerebus. Aardvark-Vanaheim's Dave and Deni (Dave's wife at the time) began publishing normalman as a 13 issue limited series but only did so until #8, when Deni began her own publishing company, Renegade Press which finished the series. Renegade also published three issues of his self-titled series, Valentino in the mid-late 80s. In the late 80s he began working for Marvel Comics on their super-hero titles. His most notable work for the company was as writer and artist on the future-set super-hero series Guardians of the Galaxy and selected issues of What If...? plus fill-ins on most of Marvel's major titles. He left Marvel in 1992 to co-found Image... less