24 Facts About Ed Brubaker

Ed Brubaker is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and screenwriter who works primarily in the crime fiction genre.

Ed Brubaker began his career with the semi-autobiographical series Lowlife and a number of serials in the Dark Horse Presents anthology, before achieving industry-wide acclaim with the Vertigo series Scene of the Crime and moving to the superhero comics such as Batman, Catwoman, The Authority, Captain America, Daredevil and Uncanny X-Men.

Ed Brubaker has won numerous awards for his comics work, including seven Eisner Awards, two Harvey Awards, an Ignatz Award, and a GLAAD Media Award.

Ed Brubaker began his career in comics as a cartoonist, writing and drawing Pajama Chronicles for Blackthorne Publishing, Purgatory USA for Slave Labor Graphics and several short stories for various small-press anthologies.

For Caliber, Ed Brubaker co-edited an anthology publication titled Monkey Wrench.

In 1991, Ed Brubaker wrote one of his earliest crime stories for the Dark Horse anthology series Dark Horse Presents, which he would continue to contribute to intermittently throughout the decade.

In 1995, Ed Brubaker was contacted by DC Comics to write a story about Prez for its "mature readers" imprint Vertigo, after being recommended to the editors by his "An Accidental Death" collaborator Eric Shanower.

Ed Brubaker continued to pitch various ideas to Vertigo but kept getting rejected until Shelly Roeberg asked him to pitch "something [he] didn't think Vertigo would publish", which ended up being Scene of the Crime.

In late 2000, Ed Brubaker signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics.

Also in 2000, Ed Brubaker launched his second creator-owned property at Vertigo, the science fiction series Deadenders with artist Warren Pleece, which lasted 16 issues before its cancellation in 2001.

In 2001, Ed Brubaker teamed up with artist Darwyn Cooke to revamp Catwoman, redesigning and redeveloping the character's costume, supporting cast and modus operandi.

In 2002, Ed Brubaker did his first work for Wildstorm, another DC imprint, penning the five-issue Wildcats spin-off Point Blank.

In December 2003, in a unique publicity stunt conceived to help promote the first trade paperback collection of Sleeper, Ed Brubaker organized an arm wrestling competition at San Francisco's Isotope Comics.

Ed Brubaker wrote Captain America for eight full years, from November 2004 to October 2012, alongside several spin-off titles and associated series based around the character, including the 2009 mini-series Captain America: Reborn, which featured the return of Rogers, the eight-issue The Marvels Project limited series, as well as Secret Avengers, an ongoing series that followed the adventures of the eponymous team formed in the aftermath of the company-wide crossover storyline "Siege".

Ed Brubaker wrote two limited series, Books of Doom with artist Pablo Raimondi, retelling and expanding on the origin of Doctor Doom, and X-Men: Deadly Genesis with artist Trevor Hairsine, retconning the origins of the All-New, All-Different X-Men team that debuted in 1975.

Once again teaming up with his Scene of the Crime and Gotham Central collaborator Michael Lark, Ed Brubaker explored the ramifications of the character's imprisonment which occurred at the close of Bendis' run.

Under the terms of the deal, Image would publish any comic Ed Brubaker brought to them without having to pitch it.

Ed Brubaker stated this arrangement was something he has always wanted.

In March 2009, Ed Brubaker premiered his web series Angel of Death on Crackle.

Ed Brubaker made a cameo appearance in the 2014 film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, playing the Winter Soldier's handler.

In 2016, Ed Brubaker joined the writing staff for HBO's Westworld.

Ed Brubaker co-wrote the episode "Dissonance Theory" with Jonathan Nolan.

In 2019, Ed Brubaker partnered with Nicolas Winding Refn to produce Too Old to Die Young, a 10-part neo-noir miniseries for Amazon.

In 2022, it was announced that Ed Brubaker would serve as head writer and executive producer on the animated series Batman: Caped Crusader.