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Paris Cullins
Paris Cullins (born 1960)[citation needed] is an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics' Blue Devil and Blue Beetle, and Hyperkind from the Marvel Comics imprint Razorline.
Paris Cullins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in its North Philadelphia section. He credits his mother, who "had a great appreciation for art and for comic books," for exposing him to comics as a child. His father was a touring jazz musician and also an artist who specialized in landscapes. At 11 years old, he said, he got his first paying job as an artist drawing for a coloring book company. As he grew older, Cullins did art for a variety of outlets, including Larami Toys, the afterschool-TV show Wee Willie Webber Colorful Cartoon Club on Philadelphia's WPHL-TV, and a holiday card manufacturer.
Cullins had sent DC Comics samples of his comic art since 1976, finally meeting with Dick Giordano in the last week of 1979. Cullins recalled in 2007 that,
I brought new pages and he loved it. The pages were Batman vs. Manhunter. I did it on a lark. He then told me, ..."Come in the first day after New Year's and I'll have a script for you, and talk to you about the [DC intern] program." I came in on January 2nd and he gave me a script that day. ... When I started with them they had me doing some horror stories ... I also did one feature in particular, called "I, Vampire."
Cullins' first known credited comics work was as penciler-inker of the six-page story "Mystic Murder", by writer Steve Skeates, in the DC Comics supernatural anthology Secrets of Haunted House #42 (Nov. 1981). He drew four "I ... Vampire" stories in the House of Mystery series and pencilled stories in such similar DC titles as Ghosts, The Unexpected, and Weird War Tales through the early 1980s, and made his superhero debut penciling an eight-page "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" backup feature in Green Lantern #154 (July 1982). As well, artist Ernie Colón, whom Cullins met at DC and who drew Richie Rich and other children's titles for Harvey Comics, "offered me a job doing some extra work for Harvey Comics. For several months I drew Richie Rich and Hot Stuff.
After co-penciling Justice League of America #212 (March 1983) with Rich Buckler, and making his cover debut with The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #7, Cullins penciled his first full-length comic, Blue Devil #1 (June 1984), starring a superhero he had co-created with writers Gary Cohn and Dan Mishkin earlier that month for a backup feature in The Fury of Firestorm #24 (June 1984).
The character Blue Devil came about, Cullins said, through "a little story in House of Mystery that was supposed to be, and here's the truth for that, it was originally designed a short story for Steve Ditko and it was supposed to be like a superhero story, but a monster superhero story, but a short one. He said, 'No.' He didn't want to do it and then they asked me."
Blue Devil ran 31 issues, through cover–date December 1986, with Cullins penciling the first six and Blue Devil Annual #1 (1985), and covers through the end of the run. Cullins additionally drew dozens of DC covers and occasional stories through the decade, and numerous character pages for Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe. Cullins and writer Len Wein produced a Ted Kord Blue Beetle series for DC, which had acquired the character from the defunct Charlton Comics. Cullins penciled issues #1–9, 11–14, and 17–18 (collectively, June 1986–Nov. 1987). He was one of the artists on Batman #400 (Oct. 1986).
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Paris Cullins
Paris Cullins (born 1960)[citation needed] is an American comics artist best known for his work on DC Comics' Blue Devil and Blue Beetle, and Hyperkind from the Marvel Comics imprint Razorline.
Paris Cullins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in its North Philadelphia section. He credits his mother, who "had a great appreciation for art and for comic books," for exposing him to comics as a child. His father was a touring jazz musician and also an artist who specialized in landscapes. At 11 years old, he said, he got his first paying job as an artist drawing for a coloring book company. As he grew older, Cullins did art for a variety of outlets, including Larami Toys, the afterschool-TV show Wee Willie Webber Colorful Cartoon Club on Philadelphia's WPHL-TV, and a holiday card manufacturer.
Cullins had sent DC Comics samples of his comic art since 1976, finally meeting with Dick Giordano in the last week of 1979. Cullins recalled in 2007 that,
I brought new pages and he loved it. The pages were Batman vs. Manhunter. I did it on a lark. He then told me, ..."Come in the first day after New Year's and I'll have a script for you, and talk to you about the [DC intern] program." I came in on January 2nd and he gave me a script that day. ... When I started with them they had me doing some horror stories ... I also did one feature in particular, called "I, Vampire."
Cullins' first known credited comics work was as penciler-inker of the six-page story "Mystic Murder", by writer Steve Skeates, in the DC Comics supernatural anthology Secrets of Haunted House #42 (Nov. 1981). He drew four "I ... Vampire" stories in the House of Mystery series and pencilled stories in such similar DC titles as Ghosts, The Unexpected, and Weird War Tales through the early 1980s, and made his superhero debut penciling an eight-page "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" backup feature in Green Lantern #154 (July 1982). As well, artist Ernie Colón, whom Cullins met at DC and who drew Richie Rich and other children's titles for Harvey Comics, "offered me a job doing some extra work for Harvey Comics. For several months I drew Richie Rich and Hot Stuff.
After co-penciling Justice League of America #212 (March 1983) with Rich Buckler, and making his cover debut with The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #7, Cullins penciled his first full-length comic, Blue Devil #1 (June 1984), starring a superhero he had co-created with writers Gary Cohn and Dan Mishkin earlier that month for a backup feature in The Fury of Firestorm #24 (June 1984).
The character Blue Devil came about, Cullins said, through "a little story in House of Mystery that was supposed to be, and here's the truth for that, it was originally designed a short story for Steve Ditko and it was supposed to be like a superhero story, but a monster superhero story, but a short one. He said, 'No.' He didn't want to do it and then they asked me."
Blue Devil ran 31 issues, through cover–date December 1986, with Cullins penciling the first six and Blue Devil Annual #1 (1985), and covers through the end of the run. Cullins additionally drew dozens of DC covers and occasional stories through the decade, and numerous character pages for Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe. Cullins and writer Len Wein produced a Ted Kord Blue Beetle series for DC, which had acquired the character from the defunct Charlton Comics. Cullins penciled issues #1–9, 11–14, and 17–18 (collectively, June 1986–Nov. 1987). He was one of the artists on Batman #400 (Oct. 1986).