Tyler Crook

Tyler Crook is an American comics artist. He broke into comics in 2011 with Petrograd, written by Philip Gelatt and published by Oni Press, and in 2012 he won the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award. He is best known for his work on Mike Mignola and John Arcudi's B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth and for Harrow County, which he co-created with Cullen Bunn.

Tyler Crook
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Artist, Letterer
Notable works
Petrograd
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth
Harrow County
The Stone King
Manor Black
AwardsRuss Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award (2012)
http://www.mrcrook.com/

Career

Video games

Crook worked for twelve years on sports video games including the NFL GameDay video game series (2003, 2004, and 2005) and MLB 2004.[1] When talking about the reason he left video games for comics, Crook said, "… comics are much better at telling stories than video games are, and a good story is a lot more compelling for me than a great game."[2]

Comics

In 2008, showed his portfolio to James Lucas Jones at Oni Press, which led to Crook working on Petrograd with Phil Gelatt.[1] This also led to his introduction to Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, who liked his work so much they invited him to do guest issues of The Sixth Gun. In 2010, Crook met Mike Mignola at a Long Beach comic book convention. Mignola liked his work immediately and when artist Guy Davis stepped down from B.P.R.D., he suggested Crook as the new artist to B.P.R.D. co-writer John Arcudi.[2] Though B.P.R.D. was his third major comics work, due to the accelerated timeline, it was the first to be published, debuting in July 2011 with Petrograd and The Sixth Gun #14 coming out the following month.

Crook continued to work on B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth until 2014 when he left the title to work on his own creator-owned series, Harrow County, with Cullen Bunn. In the July 2014 announcement, Bunn spoke about how he'd been wanting to work on a big project with Crook for a long time, but he'd always been too busy.[3] Harrow County was exceptionally well-received by critics[4] and has appeared on many lists of best horror comics.[5][6][7][8][9]

Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2012 Russ Manning Award Most Promising Newcomer Petrograd
The Sixth Gun #14
B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth		 Won
[10]
2014 Bram Stoker Awards Graphic Novel Bad Blood Won
[11]
2015 Bram Stoker Awards Graphic Novel Harrow County – Volume 1: Countless Haints Nominated
[12]
2016 Eisner Awards Best New Series Harrow County Nominated
[13]
Ghastly Awards Best Ongoing Title Harrow County Won
[14]
Best Artist Harrow County Won
2019 British Fantasy Awards Comic / Graphic Novel B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth – Volume 1 Nominated
[15]
Eisner Awards Best Digital Comic The Stone King Nominated
[16]

Bibliography

Oni Press
  • Petrograd (OGN, written by Philip Gelatt, August 2011, ISBN 9781934964446)
  • The Sixth Gun (created by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt)
    • The Sixth Gun #14 (written by Cullen Bunn, August 2011)
    • The Sixth Gun #23 (written by Cullen Bunn, June 2012)
    • The Sixth Gun #41 (written by Cullen Bunn, June 2014)
    • The Sixth Gun: Dust to Dust (3-issue miniseries, written by Cullen Bunn, March–May 2015)

Dark Horse Comics
  • B.P.R.D. (created by Mike Mignola):
    • B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth—Monsters (2-issue arc, written by John Arcudi and Mike Mignola, July–August 2011)
    • B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth—Russia (5-issue arc, written by John Arcudi and Mike Mignola, September 2011 – January 2012)
    • B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth—The Devil's Engine (3-issue arc, written by John Arcudi and Mike Mignola, May–July 2012)
    • B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth—The Return of the Master (5-issue arc, written by John Arcudi and Mike Mignola, August–December 2012)
    • B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth—Lake of Fire (5-issue arc, written by John Arcudi and Mike Mignola, August–December 2013)
    • B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth—Grind (single-issue arc, written by John Arcudi and Mike Mignola, October 2014)
  • "Deer X-ing" (short story in Creepy #13, written by Cullen Bunn, August 2014)
  • Bad Blood (5-issue miniseries, written by Jonathan Maberry, December 2013 – May 2014)
  • Witchfinder (created by Mike Mignola):
    • Witchfinder: The Mysteries of Unland (5-issue miniseries, written by Kim Newman and Maura McHugh, June–October 2014)
  • Harrow County (created by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook):
    • Harrow County #1–8, #10–11, #13–16, #19–32 (written by Cullen Bunn, May 2015 – June 2018)
    • Tales of Harrow County:
      • "The Bat House" (short story, September 2015)
      • "The Hunter" (short story, October 2015)
      • "Daughters" (short story, art by Cat Farris, November 2015)
      • "Mold" (short story, art by Simon Roy, December 2015)
      • "Friends" (short story, art by Jessica Mahon, February 2016)
      • "The Butcher" (short story, art by David Rubín, March 2016)
      • "Haint Train" (short story, art by Kate Leth, April 2016)
      • "The Holler" (short story, art by Kel McDonald, May 2016)
      • "The Butler" (short story, art by Brian Hurtt and Matt Kindt, June–September 2016)
      • "Priscilla" (short story, art by Aud Koch, November 2016 – March 2017)
      • "Henry" (short story, March 2018)
      • "Lovelorn" (short story, written by Cullen Bunn, May 2018)
    • Tales from Harrow County:
      • Death's Choir (4-issue miniseries, written by Cullen Bunn, art by Naomi Franquiz, December 2019 – March 2020)
  • Abe Sapien (created by Mike Mignola):
    • Abe Sapien #25 (flashback sequence only, written by Mike Mignola and Scott Allie, art by Sebastián Fiumara, August 2015)
  • Black Hammer (created by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston)
    • The World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia (one of several illustrators, written by Tate Brombal and Jeff Lemire, July 2019)
    • Colonel Weird: Cosmagog (4-issue miniseries, written by Jeff Lemire, October 2020 – January 2021)
  • Manor Black (created by Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, and Tyler Crook):
    • Manor Black (4-issue miniseries, written by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, July–October 2019)

Other publishers
  • The Stone King (4-issue miniseries, written by Kel McDonald, published by ComiXology November 2018 – March 2019)

References
  1. Schmidt, Palle. "Interviewed: TYLER G. CROOK". Palle Schmidt.
  2. Manning, Shaun. "ECCC: Introducing New "B.P.R.D." Artist Tyler Crook". Comic Book Resources.
  3. Sunu, Steve. "SDCC EXCLUSIVE: Bunn Takes a Backwoods Horror Journey to "Harrow County"". Comic Book Resources.
  4. "Harrow County". Comicbook Round Up.
  5. Fox, Steve; Edgar, Sean. "100 of the Best Horror Comics of All Time".
  6. "Comics Alliance Best of 2015: Best Horror Comic of 2015". Comics Alliance.
  7. Knopp, Phil. "15 Best Horror Comics to Give You the Creeps". Geek for the Win.
  8. Edsall, Joey. "10 Best Horror Comics and Graphic Novels To Read This Halloween".
  9. Docherty, Kieran. "15 Insane Horror Comics That Will Haunt You For Life".
  10. "Russ Manning Award". Comic-Con International: San Diego. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  11. "2014 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  12. "2015 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". The Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  13. "2016 Eisner Award Winners (Full List)". Newsarama. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
  14. "2016 Ghastly Award Winners". Ghastly Awards. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
  15. "British Fantasy Awards 2019". Science Fiction Awards Database. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  16. "Here Are Your 2019 Eisner Awards Winners". Gizmodo. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.