Bernie Mireault
| Bernie Mireault | |
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| Born | Bernard Edward Mireault 1961 Marville, France |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker |
| http://bem.spiltink.org | |
Bernard Edward Mireault (born 1961) is a Canadian comic book artist and writer.
Biography
Mireault was born in
scene, participating in the comix jams since their early inception and contributing to local zines and underground publications. At the same time he has worked in the mainstream comics industry as an artist and colourist, as well as an animator and illustrator.Among his comics works are Dr. Robot, Mackenzie Queen, Bug-eyed Monster,
Mireault served as the artist on the story arc The Devil Within for
Another long-standing collaborative relationship has been with Mike Allred, with whom he's produced Madman Jam: The Fall of the House of Escher, Creatures of the Id, and The Everyman. Mireault's character Dr. Robot first appeared as a back-up in the back of Mike Allred's Madman.
Mireault has a part-time
Reception
Comics critic Timothy Callahan has argued that Mireault is one of the unheralded creators who helped bring in the Modern Age of Comic Books:
Yet there's one creator who doesn't get mentioned nearly as often. A writer/artist who was combining the high Romanticism of the fantastic with the mundane life on the street as well as any of the others. A comic book creator whose visual style has rarely been duplicated, but whose sensibilities seem to predict the coming of cartoonists as diverse as Mike Mignola and Dash Shaw. I'm talking, of course, about Bernie Mireault.[1]
Bibliography
- Mackenzie Queen
- The Jam
- Dr. Robot
Awards
Mireault was inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame as part of the
Notes
- ^ Callahan, Timothy (April 15, 2009). "Bernie Mireault: The Forgotten Herald of The Modern". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved April 15, 2009.
- ^ "2020 Joe Shuster Awards Finalists (for work done in 2019)".
References
- Bernie Mireault at the Grand Comics Database
- Bernie Mireault at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Bernie Mireault at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
External links
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120628012449/http://bem.spiltink.org/
- Article announcing Mireault signing with Kitchen, Lind & Associates (in French)
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