12 Facts About Cully Hamner

Cully Hamner was born on March 7,1969 and is an American comic book artist, known for his work on such books as Green Lantern: Mosaic, Blue Beetle, Black Lightning: Year One, and Detective Comics.

Cully Hamner is the co-creator and illustrator of the 2003 graphic novel Red, which was adapted into a 2010 feature film of the same name starring Bruce Willis, as well as a 2013 sequel.

Cully Hamner is the co-creator of Jaime Reyes, the DC Comics character at the center of the 2023 feature film Blue Beetle.

Cully Hamner was born March 7,1969 in Huntsville, Alabama.

Cully Hamner graduated from Albert P Brewer High School in Somerville, Alabama.

Cully Hamner is one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios.

Cully Hamner helped start and acted as Creative Consultant to 12 Gauge Comics, publisher of such titles as The Ride, Gun Candy, Body Bags, and OC.

Cully Hamner was the regular artist for that character's monthly series in 2006 and 2007, leaving that title with its tenth issue, though he continued throughout the following year as the regular cover artist for that book.

Black Lightning: Year One, written by Jen Van Meter and illustrated by Cully Hamner, was released in 2009 as a miniseries and as a trade paperback collection in 2010, and was nominated for two Glyph Awards.

In March 2009, it was announced that Cully Hamner had signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics, and in June 2009, he began his run on the monthly Detective Comics, featuring The Question.

In 2010, Summit Entertainment released Red, a feature film adaptation of the 2003 comic book of the same name that Cully Hamner illustrated with writer Warren Ellis, starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich and Richard Dreyfuss.

On June 9,2011, it was revealed by DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee that Cully Hamner had been enlisted in a substantial role to help guide the initiative to redesign DC's stable of characters as part of the "New 52" line-wide relaunch.