Juan José Ryp
Juan José Ryp (born "Juan José Rodríguez y Prieto"), is a Spanish comic book artist. After an early start in Spanish underground comics he has gone on to provide art for all the major American comic publishers, doing extensive work for Avatar Press, DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Image Comics. He has received critical acclaim for his intricately detailed pencil work and his meticulous draftsmanship, with a focus on action and the realism of environments and anatomy. His most notable works are his dark superhero collaborations with writer Warren Ellis, "Black Summer" and "No Hero", his adaptation  of Frank Miller's original script for "RoboCop 2" with writer Steven Grant and the "Britannia" mini-series, a horror mystery set at the age of Nero, created with writer Peter Milligan. Biography. A self-taught artist, Ryp started his professional career with a small Spanish publisher, MMM (Megamultimedia), first illustrating a fantasy comic for children and later being commissioned a few series for anthology magazine "Wet Comix". His main works from this period are the erotic "Lesbiación" (Girls' Games), "Monique y Denisse" and "Ignominia" series and the pulpy "Nancy in Hell" and "Bribones". When MMM shut down, Ryp stopped  drawing regularly, only sporadically providing illustrations for books and magazines. He resumed his career in 2001, when the American publishing house Avatar Press asked him to illustrate comic adaptations of the prose works of Alan Moore. He went on to provide art for the comic adaptation of Frank Miller's unused "RoboCop 2" script, with writer Steven Grant, and had his first breakthrough drawing Warren Ellis' "Black Summer" and the second part of his Avatar superhero trilogy, "No Hero". At Avatar, Ryp also illustrated several film tie-ins for classic horror franchises "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "The Texas Chainsaw  Massacre" and "Friday the 13th". After a long run of working at Avatar, in 2010 Ryp started collaborating with Marvel Comics on "Vengeance of the Moon Knight" and a "Punisher MAX" one-shot. Shortly after he was announced as the artist of the 12-issue series "" along with writer Charlie Huston. He went on to guest on several Bat Family titles at DC Comics, before being tapped to illustrate the 20-issue series "Clone" with writers David Schulner, Aaron Ginsburg and Wade McIntyre for Skybound Entertainment at Image Comics. In 2015 Ryp was asked by ex-Marvel CEO Warren Simons  to draw several titles for the relaunched Valiant Entertainment. After doing some guest work on a few Valiant series, he reunited with former "Punisher" collaborator and legendary writer Peter Milligan for the historical horror mystery "Britannia", an experience he described as "very exciting" because it allowed him to work with new characters and put a horror spin on an unusual historical setting. The series was followed by a sequel, titled "Britannia: We Who Are About to Die", with Milligan back on writing duties. Ryp continued working for Valiant until 2020, providing art for some of the best-selling series of  the publisher. In 2020 he joined the roster of newly-launched ex-Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso's publishing house AWA Studios, illustrating the second volume of the zombie action comic "Year Zero" with writer Benjamin Percy. The following year he rejoined ex-Valiant Editor-in-Chief Warren Simons drawing Robert Venditti's dinosaur action mini-series "Tankers" for ex-Valiant CEO Dinesh Shamdasani's Bad Idea. External links. Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:Spanish comics artists Category:Spanish erotic artists Category:People from Algeciras Category:20th-century Spanish artists