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 | | (Artist - Red; Detective Comics; Green Lantern: Mosaic; Blue Beetle) | |  | |  Cully Hamner is an American comic book artist.
Since his 1992 debut on Green Lantern: Mosaic, Hamner has worked for nearly every major American comic book publisher, and is chiefly known for such titles as the aforementioned Green Lantern: Mosaic, Blue Beetle, and Red. He is also one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios. Hamner also helped start and acted as Creative Consultant to 12 Gauge Comics, publisher of such titles as The Ride, Gun Candy, Body Bags, and O.C.T.: The Occult Crimes Taskforce.
His work can be seen in Top Cow's 2005 Warren Ellis series Down and as the original artist and designer of DC Comics' current Blue Beetle character. He 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 Hamner, was released in 2009 as a miniseries and as a trade paperback collection in 2010, and was subsequently nominated for two Glyph Awards.
On June 12, 2008, it was announced on the front page of The Hollywood Reporter that Summit Entertainment had optioned Red, his 2003 thriller with writer Warren Ellis, as a feature film. Whiteout screenwriters Erich and Jon Hoeber wrote the adaptation, to be directed by Robert Schwentke of The Time Traveler's Wife, and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian of Transformers. The movie stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren.
In March 2009, it was announced that he had signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics, and in June, 2009, he began his recent run on the monthly Detective Comics, featuring The Question. In March, 2010, Detective Comics was named Outstanding Comic Book at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards. | | | | | | | | |
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