Richard Bruning

Richard Bruning is an American graphic designer and comics creator who is currently blogging as Apple devotee iSensei and working as a freelance designer/writer.

Biography

Richard Bruning was born on February 7, 1953. In 1979 he opened a design firm in Madison, Wisconsin called Abraxas Studios. In the early 1980s, he was a key part of Capital Comics' staff, acting as Editor-In-Chief and Art Director over such publications as Nexus, The Badger and Whisper until they ceased operation in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

After a year of freelancing in San Francisco, he moved to New York City in 1985 to become DC Comics’ Design Director. For the next five years he supervised and/or contributed to the design of titles including the landmark series' Watchmen (by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (by Frank Miller), as well as editing the DC-produced official sequel to the ITC TV series The Prisoner, Shattered Visage (by Dean Motter and Mark Askwith).^[1]He also oversaw "the development and packaging of the upscale graphic novel and prestige format as well as the development of DC's first collected editions".^[1]

In 1990, he left DC to form Brainstorm Unlimited, Inc. a freelance graphic design and corporate communications firm in New York.^{[citation needed]} The company’s client list included HBO, Fine Line Films, Xerox, Children’s Television Workshop and others. He also wrote the Flash Gordon Sunday newspaper strip for King Features. Of particular note was his branding of and logo design for the new Vertigo Comics mature readers comics line for DC Comics. He also oversaw "the development and packaging of the upscale graphic novel and prestige format as well as the development of DC's first collected editions".^[1]

He returned to DC full-time in 1996 as VP-Creative Director responsible for overseeing the creative efforts of the entire company. He was promoted to Senior Vice-President in 2002/2003.^[1] He was instrumental in the creation of DC Comics’ new company logo (The DC Spin) in 2005.^[2] In 2010, Bruning left DC to return to freelancing and to create a Apple support site iSensei speaks….

Bruning is married to SVP-Executive Editor/Vertigo Karen Berger.^[3]

Writing

Bruning has also written comics. In 1990 he scripted the Prestige format miniseries Adam Strange: The Man of Two Worlds, which revived the titular classic DC Sci-Fi character. The three volumes were illustrated by the brothers Kubert, Andy (pencils/inks) and Adam (colors) and collected into book form in 2003. The first issue of the 1999 Vertigo horror anthology Flinch features his story "Rocketman" with art by Jim Lee. He also wrote the Eisner-nominated Best Short Story "Electric China Death" for Gangland #4 with pencilling and coloring by Mark Chiarello (collected in book form in 2000).

Bibliography

As writer

• "A Sense of Obligation" (with Kevin Nowlan) in Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual 3, DC Comics, 1987)
• Adam Strange: The Man of Two Worlds #1-3 (with Andy and Adam Kubert, DC Comics, March–May 1990)
• "Reflections Of A Deep Fantasy" (with Steve Bove, in Secret Origins #50, DC Comics, August 1990)
• "Electric China Death" (with Mark Chiarello) in Gangland #4, Vertigo, September 1998)
• "Rocket-Man" (with Jim Lee, in Flinch #1, Vertigo, June 1999)

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References

External links

• Richard Bruning on Twitter