Norm Rapmund

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Norm Rapmund
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NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Inker
AwardsInkwell Awards Favorite Inker (2014)[1]
Inkwell Awards Most Adaptable Inker (2021)[2][3]
Inkwell Awards Most Adaptable Inker (2022)[4][5]
http://www.normrapmund.com/

Norm Rapmund is an American comic book inker.

Career

Image Comics and Marvel

Rapmund's career began with

crossover titles, Spider-Man/Badrock and Silver Surfer/Weapon Zero, led to more jobs with Marvel on Avengers, Iron Man, and Fantastic Four
.

DC Comics

Rapmund began working primarily on DC Comics titles, starting in April 1998 with Teen Titans (vol. 2) #19; at the time the series was being written and pencilled by Dan Jurgens, who had written Spider-Man/Badrock. After the Titans series was canceled in September 1998 (issue #24), Rapmund inked various DC titles, including Superman, Superboy, Young Justice, and Action Comics. He worked on Aquaman vol. 5 from issue #50-75 (Dec. 1998 - Jan. 2001)

Starting in September 2000, Rapmund also inked issues of Marvel's

Rogue from 2004 to 2005 and various other Marvel and DC titles, culminating with DC's Supergirl and Infinite Crisis from 2005 to 2006. Among his next titles were the DC limited series 52 and Countdown to Final Crisis in 2007, with Rapmund then on contract with DC Comics.[citation needed
]

DC began a new Booster Gold series in October 2007, with art by Jurgens (who had created the character in 1986), Rapmund and (initial) co-writers Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz.[6][7] He and Jurgens briefly left the title to work on Time Masters: Vanishing Point. At the conclusion of that series, it was announced that he would return to Booster Gold, along with Dan Jurgens, in May 2011 with Issue #44. Rapmund also worked on various other DC titles concurrently and has worked on several Flash comic books.

Awards

Rapmund won the Inkwell Awards Favorite Inker Award in 2014.[1] In 2016, Rapmund was nominated for the Inkwell Awards Most Adaptable award.[8] In 2021, he won the Inkwell Awards Most Adaptable Inker.[2][3] In 2022, he was awarded the Inkwell Awards Most Adaptable Inker again.[4][5]


References

  1. ^ a b "2014 Winners".
  2. ^ a b First Comic News - 2021 INKWELL AWARDS VOTING RESULTS
  3. ^ a b 2021 Winners - Inkwell Awards Official Site
  4. ^ a b Comic Art News: Inkwell Awards Announces 2022 Honorees
  5. ^ a b Comics for Sinners: 2022 Inkwell Awards Celebrates Gunslinger Spawn’s Corona, 4th time winner Rapmund and more… #ink-magic
  6. ^ Ching, Albert (March 16, 2007). "DC Nation Panel from WW:LA". Newsarama. Archived from the original on March 20, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
  7. ^ "Geoff Johns Shares Booster Gold Thoughts". Newsarama. March 16, 2007. Archived from the original on March 20, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
  8. ^ Inkwell Awards 2016 Winners

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