| June Brigman | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1960-10-25)October 25, 1960 (age 64) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist,Penciller |
Notable works | Power Pack Brenda Starr, Reporter |
| Awards | Inkpot Award (2014)[1] |
| https://www.artwanted.com/juneart | |
June Brigman (born October 25, 1960)[2] is anAmericancomic book artist andillustrator. She is best known for creating the preteensuperhero charactersPower Pack with writerLouise Simonson in 1984. Brigman was the artist of thesyndicated newspaper stripBrenda Starr, Reporter from 1995 to 2011 and in 2016 became the artist for the newspaper stripMary Worth.[3]
June Brigman grew up in Atlanta. Her artistic influences includedStan Drake,Gil Kane, andWalt Simonson.[4] She attendedGeorgia State University and theUniversity of Georgia.[4]
Brigman broke into comics withAC Comics in 1983.[4] A sampleAstron story (eventually published by AC in 1986) earned her a job withDC Comics in 1984. Later, she worked instead forMarvel Comics,[5] where she worked onPower Pack, a series she penciled on and off until issue #17. For the next seven years, Brigman worked exclusively for Marvel, mostly on short runs; she also contributed illustrations to various editions ofTheOfficial Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
Brigman pencilled DC'sSupergirl mini-series in 1994, following that with 1995'sDark Horse Comics'Star Wars mini-seriesRiver of Chaos (which was written by her formerPower Pack collaboratorLouise Simonson).
In 1995, Brigman took over as artist for the syndicated newspaper comic stripBrenda Starr, Reporter and stayed on until the strip ended in 2011. In addition, she has illustrated (and colored) theWhere in the World is Carmen Sandiego? comic strip forNational Geographic World magazine. Brigman also illustrated a series ofStar Wars novels andChoose Your Own Adventure books forBantam Doubleday Dell. In 2005,Puffin Books published Brigman'sBlack Beauty adaptationgraphic novel.
She returned to Marvel in 2010 with a newPower Pack story inGirl Comics #3, teaming up with Simonson again. Subsequently she pencilled two issues ofHerc in 2011. For DC, she pencilledConvergenceSuperman: Man of Steel #1–2 (written by Louise Simonson) andConvergenceInfinity Inc. #2 in 2015. From 2016 to 2017 she created several variant covers for different Marvel series. Also in 2016, Brigman became the artist of theMary Worth newspaper comic strip. Her husband, Roy Richardson, had already inked, colored and lettered her syndicated stripBrenda Starr, Reporter and did the same onMary Worth.[6]
As a teacher, Brigman has worked at times as an instructor at TheJoe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey, since 2005. She also worked part-time as a professor of sequential art at the Atlanta branch ofSavannah College of Art and Design for several years until summer of 2018.[7] As of 2021 she works as a professor of comic storytelling art atKennesaw State University's School of Art and Design.[8]
In 2018, she joined new comics publisherAhoy Comics as penciller and cover artist ofCaptain Ginger, written byStuart Moore. The next year, she reunited with Simonson for aPower Pack oneshot for Marvel.[9]
In April 2022, Brigman was reported among the more than three dozen comics creators who contributed toOperation USA's benefit anthology book,Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds, a project spearheaded byIDW Publishing Special Projects EditorScott Dunbier, whose profits would be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees resulting from the February2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[10][11] Brigman teamed up with writerLouise Simonson to produce an original story with new characters created specifically for the anthology.[12]
In 2024, Marvel Comics published the five-issue retro seriesPower Pack: Into the Storm with art by June Brigman and written by Louise Simonson, with a story, that takes place during their originalPower Pack run.[13]
