Eric Powell (comics)


Eric Powell is an American comic book writer/artist, best known as the creator of The Goon.

Career

Powell has written and provided artwork for Dark Horse, DC Comics and Marvel Comics, but is most regarded for his original series The Goon, which debuted from the small publisher Avatar Press. Powell quickly switched to self-publishing under the moniker Albatross Exploding Funny Books, before being picked up by Dark Horse Comics after only a handful of issues. The Goon's quality was recognized with an Eisner Award in 2004 for Best Single Issue as well as an International Horror Guild award. The following year, Powell won Eisner's Best Humor Publication and Best Continuing Series awards.
He is a featured interviewee in the movie Independents.
Powell co-wrote the first two volumes of IDW's Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters with Tracy Marsh.
In 2022, Powell's self-publishing venture, Albatross Funny Books, was moved to Dark Horse Comics as an imprint, bringing along such titles as The Goon, Hillbilly, Big Man Plans, Galaktikon, and Pug Davis.

Awards

  • 2004:
  • * International Horror Guild Award for Best Illustrated Narrative
  • * Eisner Award for Best Single Issue
  • 2005:
  • * Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication
  • * Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series
  • 2008:
  • * Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist-Humor
  • * Eisner Award for Best Painter/Multimedia Artist

    Books illustrated

  • ''Billy Hooten: Owlboy''

    Cover work

  • Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1-6
  • Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities #1-4
  • Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities trade collection
  • Dethklok vs. The Goon
  • Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash
  • Fused: Think Like a Machine #1-2 )
  • Fused: Think Like a Machine trade collection
  • Marvel Monsters #1-4
  • Marvel Monsters trade collection
  • Marvel Westerns: Western #1
  • Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt and the Arizona #2
  • Marvel Westerns: The Two Gun #3
  • Metalocalypse #1-3
  • Super-Villain Team-Up/MODOK'S 11 #1
  • Swamp Thing #21-29
  • Tales of the Vampires #3
  • Universal Monsters: Cavalcade of Horror trade collection