Ed Brisson

Brisson has been making comics for over twenty years. He began writing, drawing, coloring, and lettering his own work and selling them through records shops^[4] before focusing on writing and self-publishing Murder Book, a series of crime comics, in 2010, with the first two stories illustrated by Simon Roy.^[5] From there, he wrote the one-shot Black River and then Comeback and Sheltered at Image Comics.^[4] He collaborated with Roy again for The Field in 2014^[6] and go on to write The Mantle^[7] and The Violent^[8] in 2015.

Brisson started working with Marvel Comics in 2013, writing two issues of Secret Avengers in 2013 before being tapped to write a five-issue Bullseye mini-series in 2016^[9] and a new Iron Fist series in 2017.^[10] He then took over the ongoing Old Man Logan series at issue 25^[11] writing until issue 50 and then concluding with a 12-issue mini-series Dead Man Logan.^[12] In 2018, he wrote Extermination, a mini-series dealing with the time-displaced original five X-Men.^[13][14] He also became the writer, alongside Matthew Rosenberg and Kelly Thompson, of the new volume of Uncanny X-Men,^[15] co-writing the book until issue 10, and then writing a new volume of X-Force^[16] and Age of X-Man: Nextgen.^[17]

In 2019, he wrote the limited series Contagion^[18] and the ongoing series Ghost Rider^[19] which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[20] He also collaborated with Jonathan Hickman in writing New Mutants for the Dawn of X.^[21] In 2021, he wrote Beyond the Breach for AfterShock Comics, a science fiction story about the aftermath of a cataclysm.^[22] In 2022, his Predator comic with artist Kev Walker was released, a project initially planned for 2020 but delayed.^[23] After six issues, the book was relaunched in 2023^[24] and a third book, Predator: The Last Hunt, was published in 2024.^[25] He also wrote the five issue Alpha Flight mini-series for the Fall of X.^[26]

At DC Comics, Brisson took over as writer for Deathstroke Inc. at issue 10^[27] and became the writer for the 2022 relaunch of Batman Incorporated.^[28] In 2023, he wrote the crime/horror comic Sins of the Salton Sea for AWA Studios^[29] and in 2024, he published The Displaced through Boom! Studios.^[30] In November 2024, he was announced as the writing for the upcoming SilverHawks comic from Dynamite.^[31]

He grew up in Oshawa, Ontario.^[30] He currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife and daughter.^[32] He operated the comics publishing company New Reliable Press until 2010.