Everything about Humberto Ramos totally explained
Humberto Ramos (born
27 November 1970) is a
Mexican comic book penciller, best known for his work on
American comic books such as
Impulse,
The Spectacular Spider-Man and his creator-owned series
Crimson.
Biography
In the early 1990s Ramos learned comic book art from Mexican comic book artist
Oscar González Guerrero and his son,
Oscar González Loyo. The pair later invited him to comic book conventions in the
United States.
Ramos was discovered in 1993 at the
San Diego Comic-Con, the comic book industry's largest annual convention, where comic legend
Walt Simonson brought him to the attention of the founders of
Milestone Media, where he did his first work in American comics in 1994, before being hired by
DC Comics as the regular penciller for their new
Flash spin-off
Impulse, which launched in March 1995. Written by
Mark Waid, the superhero/teen comedy series focused on young speedster
Bart Allen, the grandson of the second Flash,
Barry Allen, and his struggles with growing up in an alienated Alabama suburb.
In 1998, Ramos co-founded the imprint
Cliffhanger with comic book artists
Joe Madureira and
J. Scott Campbell. They created the imprint, housed by
Jim Lee's
Image Comics division
Wildstorm, to publish their creator-owned comic books outside the mainstream superhero genre. Both Campbell and Madureira had already built large fanbases with their previous work on
Gen¹³ and
Uncanny X-Men respectively, and were two of the most popular comic book artists at the time. Ramos, on the other hand, wasn't as popular and his inclusion on the imprint was perceived as second choice, after fan-favorite
Michael Turner declined because he was still under contract at
Top Cow. However, while Campbell's
Danger Girl and Madureira's
Battle Chasers soon ran into problems with both creators frequently missing deadlines and long delays between single issues, Ramos'
Crimson—although not selling as many copies as the other two—stayed on schedule, missed hardly any shipping dates, and became the longest-running title of the imprint, even as more artists joined the imprint in the early 2000s.
Crimson wrapped, after 24 issues and two one-shots, in February 2001, and was followed by Ramos' second Cliffhanger title, the
fantasy/
mystery series
Out There, a mere three months later.
Along with the start of
Out There, Ramos also began illustrating the covers of with issue #30 and—beginning with May 2002's
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #44—additionally did the interior artwork on the four-issue story arc "A Death in the Family" (later collected as
Spider-Man: Return of the Goblin; ISBN 0-7851-1019-4), written by
Paul Jenkins.
After his Cliffhanger contract ran out and
Out There was concluded after 18 issues in early 2003, he left the imprint (apparently not on the best terms) and launched a new Spider-Man title,
The Spectacular Spider-Man. The book reunited Ramos with
Peter Parker: Spider-Man writer Paul Jenkins and earned him a 2005
Harvey Award nomination as Best Cover Artist. While Ramos worked on
Spectacular Spider-Man, another book created by him (although illustrated by
Francisco Herrera), the six-issue miniseries
Kamikaze, which had originally been planned for 2001, was published by WildStorm under the Cliffhanger imprint.
In 2005, Ramos' creator-owned six-issue miniseries
Revelations began publication at
Dark Horse Comics. The series, once again written by Jenkins, was originally supposed to be published by Cliffhanger in 2001,
The same month also saw the release of the first volume of the
space opera K, a series of three 46-page
comic albums Ramos is illustrating for French comic publisher
Soleil Productions, written by the popular French comic book creator
Crisse.
After working on various X-Men titles, Ramos is scheduled to join writer
Terry Moore on
Runaways in 2008.
Selected bibliography
This is a chronological list of comic book series Ramos illustrated for multiple issues.
- Impulse #1–25 (1995–1997, DC Comics)
- #1–6 collected in Impulse: Reckless Youth (ISBN 1-56389-276-6)
- DV8 #1, 2, 4–7 (1996–1997, Wildstorm)
- all but #7 collected in DV8: Neighborhood Threat (ISBN 1-56389-927-2)
- Crimson #1–24 (1998–2001, Cliffhanger)
- #1–6 collected in Crimson: Loyalty and Loss (ISBN 1-56389-532-3)
- #7–12 collected in Crimson: Heaven & Earth (ISBN 1-56389-647-8)
- #13–18 collected in Crimson: Earth Angel (ISBN 1-56389-768-7)
- #19–24 collected in Crimson: Redemption (ISBN 1-56389-790-3)
- Out There #1–18 (2001–2003, Cliffhanger)
- #1–6 collected in Out There: The Evil Within (ISBN 1-56389-893-4)
- (Vol. 2) #44–47 (2002, Marvel Comics)
- collected in Spider-Man: Return of the Goblin (ISBN 0-7851-1019-4)
- The Spectacular Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #1–10, 17, 18 (2003–2004, Marvel Comics)
- #1–5 collected in Spectacular Spider-Man Volume 1: The Hunger (ISBN 0-7851-1169-7)
- #6–10 collected in Spectacular Spider-Man Volume 2: Countdown (ISBN 0-7851-1313-4)
- #17, 18 collected in Spectacular Spider-Man Volume 4: Disassembled (ISBN 0-7851-1626-5)
- Revelations #1–6 (2005–2006, Dark Horse Comics)
- collected in Revelations (ISBN 1-59307-239-2)
- Wolverine #42–48 (2006, Marvel Comics)
- collected in Civil War: Wolverine (ISBN 0-7851-1980-9)
- X-Men #194–196, 200-203 (2006–2007, Marvel Comics)
- #194–196 collected in X-Men: Supernovas (ISBN 978-0785123194)
- #200–203 collected in X-Men: Marauders (ISBN 978-0785125440)
- New X-Men #44-46 (2007–2008, Marvel Comics)
- collected in (hardcover: ISBN 978-0785128991)
Notes and references
Further Information
Get more info on 'Humberto Ramos'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://humberto_ramos.totallyexplained.com">Humberto Ramos Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
