Aaron Kuder

Aaron Kuder (born 1978 (age 33))[1] is an American comic book artist and writer, who has worked on books such as The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3, Legion Lost, Green Lantern: New Guardians, Avenging Spider-Man, Death of X, All-New Guardians of the Galaxy and Infinity Countdown.

Career

Kuder began his career around 2000 on the Ten Ton Studios Forum,[2][3] where he met Nick Pitarra, Reilly Brown, Chris Chua, Khoi Pham, and many other artists, including Chris Burnham, who later would offer him to finish The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3, which Burnham had to leave because of his Batman Incorporated job.

After filling on various books published as part of DC Comics 2011 - 2015 The New 52 initiative, Kuder was announced as the new artist for Action Comics with writer Greg Pak, their run began in November 2013.[4]

Kuder was also the artist for the Fantastic Four in association with writer Dan Slott, replacing Sara Pichelli.[5]

Kuder was the artist for writer Ed Brisson on a new Ghost Rider series released in October 2019.[6]

In May 2023, it was announced that Kuder would serve as the artist for volume 8 of Daredevil for writer Saladin Ahmed, which is set to release in September 2023.[7]

Influences

Kuder is heavily influenced by the work of Arthur Adams and Grzegorz Rosiński, and other artists who embody elements of European-style comics, such as Frank Quitely and Geoff Darrow.[2][3]

Bibliography

Interior comic work includes:

  • Ten Ton Studios' Jam Comic #2: "page seven" (script and art, webcomic, Ten Ton Studios, 2010)
  • The Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 #8-12 (with Peter David and Claudio Sanchez, Boom! Studios, 2011)
  • Key of Z #1-4 (with Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert, Boom! Studios, 2011–2012)
  • Legion Lost vol. 2 #8: "Ravaged!" (with Tom DeFalco, DC Comics, 2012)
  • Avenging Spider-Man #12-13 (with Kevin Shinick, Marvel, 2012)
  • Green Lantern: New Guardians #0, 15-17 (with Tony Bedard and Andrei Bressan (#0), DC Comics, 2012–2013)
  • Superman vol. 3 (DC Comics):
  • "Metropolitan Nightmare" (with Scott Lobdell, Tyler Kirkham and Robson Rocha, in #18, 2013)
  • "Wham!" (with Scott Lobdell, in #20, 2013)
  • "Parasite" (script and art, in #23.4, 2013)
  • Action Comics vol. 2 (artist + co-writer with Greg Pak, DC Comics):
  • "Zero Year: Stormbreaker" (in #25, 2014)
  • "What Lies Beneath" (in #26-29, with Mike Hawthorne and R.B. Silva (#27), Jed Dougherty (#29), 2014)
  • "Superdoom" (in #30-35, with Jed Dougherty and Karl Kerschl (#30), Rafa Sandoval (#31), Scott Kolins (#32 and 34–35), 2014)
  • "Under the Skin" (in #36-40, with Jae Lee (#38), Scott Kolins (#39), 2015)
  • "Divergence" (in Convergence: Superboy #2, co-feature, 2015)
  • "Hard Truth" (in #41-44, with Howard Porter (#44), 2015)
  • "Blind Justice" (in #45-47, art by Scott Kolins (#45-46) and Georges Jeanty (#47), 2015–2016)
  • "Savage Dawn" (in #48-50, with Rafa Sandoval (#48), Ardian Syaf (#49) and various artists (#50), 2016)
  • Superboy vol. 5 #30-34 (script, art by Jorge Jiménez, DC Comics, 2014)
  • Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion #4: "Captive" (with Tom Taylor and Ardian Syaf, DC Comics, 2016)
  • Death of X #1-4 (with Jeff Lemire, Charles Soule and Javier Garrón (#3-4), Marvel, 2016–2017)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy (with Gerry Duggan, Marvel):
  • "Smash and Grab" (in FCBD 2017 one-shot, 2017)
  • All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #1-2, 4, 6, 10 (2017)
  • Guardians of the Galaxy #150 (with Marcus To, 2018)
  • Infinity Countdown #1-5 (with Gerry Duggan, Mike Deodato Jr. and Mike Hawthorne, Marvel, 2018)
  • Edge of Spider-Geddon #4 (script and art, with Will Robson, Marvel, 2018)
  • Fantastic Four vol. 6 #5-9 (with Dan Slott and various artists (#7-9), Marvel, 2019)
  • Ghost Rider vol. 7 #1-2, 4, 7 (with Ed Brisson, Marvel, 2019–2020)

Covers only

• Legion Lost vol. 2 #11-12 (DC Comics, 2012)

• Batman Incorporated vol. 2 #0 (DC Comics, 2012)

• Batman vol. 2 #13 (DC Comics, 2012)

• Marvel Universe vs. The Avengers #1-4 (Marvel, 2012)

• Green Lantern: New Guardians #14, 18-20 (DC Comics, 2013)

• Deathstroke vol. 2 #17-18 (DC Comics, 2013)

• Superman Unchained #3 (DC Comics, 2013)

• Superman vol. 3 #23.1, 44 (DC Comics, 2013–2015)

• Action Comics vol. 2 #23.1, 23.3, 23.4 (DC Comics, 2013)

• Justice League #23.2, 24-26 (DC Comics, 2013–2014)

• Superman/Wonder Woman #1, 21 (DC Comics, 2013–2015)

• Batman/Superman #24, Futures End #1 (DC Comics, 2014–2015)

• Lobo vol. 3 #1-3 (DC Comics, 2014–2015)

• The Multiversity: Mastermen #1 (DC Comics, 2015)

• Convergence #3 (DC Comics, 2015)

• X-Men '92 #6 (Marvel, 2016)

• The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 4 #19 (Marvel, 2016)

• Captain America: Steve Rogers #3-4 (Marvel, 2016)

• Civil War II: Kingpin #1-4 (Marvel, 2016)

• Civil War II: The Amazing Spider-Man #3 (Marvel, 2016)

• All-New Guardians of the Galaxy #3, 5, 7-9 (Marvel, 2017)

• Guardians of the Galaxy #146-149 (Marvel, 2017–2018)

• Infinity Countdown: Adam Warlock #1 (Marvel, 2018)

• The Amazing Spider-Man #799 (Marvel, 2018)

• The Avengers vol. 7 #1 (Marvel, 2018)

• Venom vol. 4 #1 (Marvel, 2018)

• Infinity Wars #1 (Marvel, 2018)

• Death of the Inhumans #3 (Marvel, 2018)

• Gunhawks #1 (Marvel, 2019)

• War of the Realms #4 (Marvel, 2019)

• The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 5 #22 (Marvel, 2019)

• Giant-Size X-Statix #1 (Marvel, 2019)

• Absolute Carnage #1 (Marvel, 2019)

• Deadpool vol. 5 Annual #1 (Marvel, 2019)

• Absolute Carnage: Symbiote of Vengeance #1 (Marvel, 2019)

• Marauders #1 (Marvel, 2019)

References

  1. Artist August: Aaron Kuder (Interview) Multiversity Comics, 2011-08-21, retrieved 2023-03-29^
  2. Tim Callahan. The Aaron Kuder Interview, Part 1: Awesomeness is Contagious Comic Book Resources, May 14, 2012^
  3. Tim Callahan. The Aaron Kuder Interview, Part 2: Finding the Balance Comic Book Resources, May 21, 2012^
  4. Esposito, Joey (June 24, 2013). "Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder Take Over Action Comics". IGN.^
  5. Fantastic Four (2018) Reviews^
  6. Ghost Rider #1 Kuder Design Var (Aug190983)^
  7. The New Era of Daredevil Starts in Saladin Ahmed and Aaron Kuder's 'Daredevil' #1 Marvel Entertainment, retrieved 2023-05-18^