Welcome to Darick Robertson Studios!
Darick Robertson is the co-creator of Transmetropolitan and The BOYS. After 20 years he can easily be considered a seasoned veteran of comics, having worked for Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse and a few now defunct companies, such as Acclaim, Eclipse and Innovation and Malibu Comics (where he co-created and designed the Nightman as well as other characters for the Ultraverse line, for which he and wrote and created 'Ripfire').
Robertson's career started just out of Aragon high school in San Mateo, California when he was 17. He created, wrote drew and painted covers for "Space Beaver" which became the only title published by Tibor Sardy's Ten Buck Comics. Space Beaver, (as laughable as it was from the title alone), enabled Darick to learn the ropes of the comic book business and at 21 he broke into the mainstream with his work on Justice League for DC Comics. From there he went on to work for Marvel on Wolverine, Spider-man and most notably the New Warriors; A two year run with Fabian Nicieza, who in his own way was partially responsible for bringing Darick and Warren together on the project for Acclaim comics "The Man Of The Atom", which lead Warren to choose Darick as his co-creator for Transmetropolitan. Transmetropolitan came about as a meeting of the minds for Darick and Warren. Warren wanted somebody with his own sick sensibilities and desire to shake up the current medium of comics, and tapped Darick Robertson as the artist to fit that bill, and welcomed him as Co-Creator.
Transmetropolitan was originally a title for the now dead "Helix" line, DC's and Stuart Moore's hope for a line of science fiction comics. Though the line died, Transmet survived and was adopted by Vertigo comics, where it survived it's highly successful, critically acclaimed 60 issue run and concluded in 2002, and was hailed by WIRED magazine as "The Graphic Novel of the Decade".
Notable fans of Transmetropolitan include legendary actor Patrick Stewart, Oscar nominated performer Robin Williams and critically acclaimed writer and director Darren Aronofsky.
In 2002 his projects included the launch of the Marvel Max line with the title "Fury" written by Garth Ennis, which Rolling Stone magazine picked as the "Cool Comic of the Year". Also published in 2002 was Spider-man: Sweet Charity written by TV veteran Ron Zimmerman.
In May of 2002 Robertson went exclusive with Marvel comics and was picked to relaunch one of their flagship characters WOLVERINE, with writer Greg Rucka. Wolverine debuted at #1 in national sales. In 2006 Darick resigned from Marvel and was immediately signed to DC Comics to create "The BOYS" with frequent co-collaborator Garth Ennis, of Preacher and Punisher fame.
Playboy Magazine noted Transmetropolitan a one of the milestone comics of the last 20 years (April 2006) and Comic Book Resources (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=146275) rated Darick Robertson among the top 40 of the "Greatest Comics Artists Of All Time".
Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Darick currently lives in Napa, California with his wife Meredith and sons Owen and Andrew. When he's not drawing comics, which is almost all the time, he writes songs, sings and plays guitar (but has no intention of quitting his day job).
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