Richard Howell (comics)
Richard Howell is an American comics artist best known as the co-founder and editor of Claypool Comics.
Career
Richard Howell entered the comics industry in 1977 with his self-published series Portia Prinz of the Glamazons.
Beginning in 1980, he and his partner Carol Kalish co-edited the New Media/Irjax line of magazines. They also ran the New Media/Irjax-owned Boston-area distributor Solar Spice and Liquors, named after a fictional corporation created by science fiction writer Poul Anderson. Howell replaced Peter B. Gillis as editorial director of New Media/Irjax in June 1981.
Howell began working for Marvel Comics in 1982 and DC Comics in 1983. Writer Tony Isabella and Howell produced The Shadow War of Hawkman limited series in 1985 and an ongoing Hawkman series the following year. Howell and writer Steve Englehart crafted a twelve-issue The Vision and the Scarlet Witch limited series in 1985-1986, wherein the Scarlet Witch became pregnant.
With co-editor Jesse Reyes, he relaunched the Vampirella character at Harris Comics and co-founded Claypool Comics with Ed Via in 1993. Howell served as editor of Claypool's line throughout its existence.
Claypool announced in July 2006 that the print end of its published line would cease, as Diamond Comic Distributors, the industry's major distribution arm, would no longer carry it. Deadbeats continues as a webcomic at the Claypool Comics website.
Personal life
Howell and Carol Kalish were longtime residents of Leonia, New Jersey.
Claypool Comics
Deadbeats #1–82 Elvira, Mistress of the Dark #1–166 Phantom of Fear City #1–12 Soulsearchers and Company #1–82
Comico
Jonny Quest Special #1–2
DC Comics
Action Comics Weekly #615–620 All-Star Squadron #27–28, 30, 36–37, 40, 57, Annual #3 Blackhawk #268, 273 DC Comics Presents #95 Firestorm the Nuclear Man #68 Green Lantern vol. 2 #162 Hawkman vol. 2 #1–16, Special #1 The Shadow War of Hawkman #1–4 Superman #661 Who's Who in the Legion of Super-Heroes #3–5 Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #5, 10, 14, 23 Who's Who: Update '87 #2–3, 5
Desperado-Eastern Press
Portia Prinz of the Glamazons #1–5
Dynamite Entertainment
Vampirella Masters Series #5
Eclipse Comics
Alien Encounters #7 The DNAgents #15, 17–19, 22 The Liberty Project #6 Merchants of Death #3–4 New DNAgents #11 Portia Prinz of the Glamazons #1–6 Surge #2 Three Dimensional DNAgents #1
Harris Comics
Creepy 1993 Fearbook Vampirella's Summer Nights Vampirella: Morning in America #3
Marvel Comics
Avengers 2000 Avengers Annual #19 Conan the Barbarian #145 The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #3 Hero: Warrior of the Mystic Realms #5–6 Inhumans Special #1 Iron Man Annual #11 Marvel Comics Presents #18, 52, 60–63 Marvel Fanfare #54-55, 59 Marvel Super Special #24 Moon Knight #34 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #5 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #6 Open Space #4 Power Man and Iron Fist #102, 105 The Vision and the Scarlet Witch vol. 2 #1–12 Web of Spider-Man #46 What If...? vol. 2 #17 What The--?! #3, 6–7, 17 Wolverine: Global Jeopardy #1
Welsh Publishing
The Adventures of Jell-O Man and Wobbly #1