Rick Remender

Rick Remender (born February 6, 1973) is an American writer, showrunner, and producer who resides in Los Angeles, California. In comics he is best known for his work on Image Comics such as Deadly Class, LOW as well as Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Force, Captain America, and Uncanny Avengers. In video games he wrote on EA's Dead Space and Epic's Bulletstorm. In film and television he was a showrunner/lead writer on Sony television's adaption of his book Deadly Class, writer/EP on Netflix's adaption of his book The Last Days of American Crime.

While in the early stages of his career, Remender worked in animation on such films as The Iron Giant, Anastasia, Titan A.E. and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

In 1998 he teamed up with Harper Jaten and Rory Hensly to create the absurdist humor comic Captain Dingleberry. After four issues self-publishing the series was picked up by SLG Publishing.His next series, Black Heart Billy, was also at SLG with collaborator Kieron Dwyer.In 1999, while producing Black Heart Billy, Remender produced the horror comic Doll and Creature with John Heebink and Mike Manley.

From 2000–2003 Remender went on to co-create and direct an animated series Swing Town for Wild Brain Animation. He also produced comics and album covers for Fat Wreck Chords, a Bay Area punk label. During this time he taught comics, animation, and storyboards at the Academy of Art University, inked The Avengers, and penciled numerous issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

From 2004 to 2006 Remender launched Fear Agent, Sea of Red and Strange Girl with Image Comics, Night Mary at IDW, and he illustrated the comic book adaptation of the movie Man With the Screaming Brain, by Dark Horse Comics. A year later he drew the series The Last Christmas.

From 2007 to 2009 Remender was working on the Dark Horse Comics series The End League, as well as launching a giant robot series Gigantic,. He also relaunchedFear Agent and started, for Image Comics, new horror miniseries XXXombies and Sorrow. He became co-author of Punisher War Journal with Matt Fraction from issue #19 to 25 and then was the main writer on the new and eighth Punisher series. In April 2009, Remender signed an exclusive writing contract with Marvel Comics but was still able to release the series The Last Days of American Crime through Radical Comics. In late 2010 he launched the new title Uncanny X-Force. which served as inspiration for Deadpool 2.

He served as a writer on Electronic Art's game Dead Space and was the lead writer for Epic Games' Bulletstorm, which was released on February 22, 2011.

While at Marvel he created the Uncanny Avengers with John Cassaday and the new Captain America with Stuart Immonen which served as inspiration for the ending of Avengers End Game.

From 2013-2019 Rick produced numerous creator owned series such as Tokyo Ghost with Sean Murphy, Death or Glory with Bengal, Black Science with Matteo Scalera, Deadly Class with Wes Craig, LOW with Greg Tocchini, and Seven to Eternity with Jerome Opeña.

In 2017 he served as a showrunner on the Russo brothers and Sony television production of his series Deadly Class. That same year he launched his own imprint Giant Generator at Image Comics and production company of the same name.

In 2019 The Last Days of American Crime was turned into a feature film for Netflix.