Comic Book Special: inside Toronto’s best-connected comics workshop
Comic Book Special: inside Toronto’s best-connected comics workshop
In 2004, a group of illustrators founded RAID Studio in a tiny workshop above a GoodLife Fitness Club on College Street. Now it’s a veritable hub of the geek world, where artists write, storyboard and illustrate comics for DC and Marvel. Here, a who’s who of the city’s hottest collective.
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Marcus To was the artist on Red Robin, DC Comics’ high-octane series about a renegade Boy Wonder.
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Tonci Zonjic is known for his work on Lobster Johnson, a spinoff of Dark Horse’s Hellboy comics.
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Kalman Andrasofsky has produced 100-plus covers for Marvel, including X-Men and The Avengers.
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Francis Manapul has worked as the lead artist on The Flash and Detective Comics.
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Ramon Perez is illustrating Marvel’s relaunch of Hawkeye (played by Jeremy Renner in The Avengers).
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Cary Nord has sketched for Batman, X-Men, Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian.
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Scott Hepburn is a DC Comics regular, having drawn for Detective Comics and The Flash.
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In 2004, a group of illustrators founded RAID Studio in a tiny workshop above a GoodLife Fitness Club on College Street. Now it’s a veritable hub of the geek world, where artists write, storyboard and illustrate comics for DC and Marvel. Here, a who’s who of the city’s hottest collective.
1Marcus To was the artist on Red Robin, DC Comics’ high-octane series about a renegade Boy Wonder.
2Tonci Zonjic is known for his work on Lobster Johnson, a spinoff of Dark Horse’s Hellboy comics.
3Kalman Andrasofsky has produced 100-plus covers for Marvel, including X-Men and The Avengers.
4Francis Manapul has worked as the lead artist on The Flash and Detective Comics.
5Ramon Perez is illustrating Marvel’s relaunch of Hawkeye (played by Jeremy Renner in The Avengers).
6Cary Nord has sketched for Batman, X-Men, Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian.
7Scott Hepburn is a DC Comics regular, having drawn for Detective Comics and The Flash.
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