Aaron Renier is an American

comics artist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

born in

Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea l ...

. Between 2000 and 2009, he lived in

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populou ...

and

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behi ...

before settling in

West Town, Chicago West Town, northwest of the Loop on Chicago's West Side, Chicago, West Side, is one of the city's officially designated Community areas of Chicago, community areas. Much of this area was historically part of Polish Downtown (Chicago), Polish Do ...

, where he lives with his wife and fellow artist, Jessica Campbell. His

graphic novel A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...

''Spiral-Bound'' was published by

Top Shelf Productions Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, originally owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. Now an imprint of IDW Publishing, Top Shelf is based in Marietta, Georgia. Top Shelf pu ...

in September 2005 and won him the 2006

Eisner award The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. They are named in ...

for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition". In 2008, he began providing illustrations for the book series ''The Knights' Tales'' written by

Gerald Morris Gerald Morris (October 29, 1963
Excerpt from '' Something About the Author'' at highbeam.com– ) is an American ...

. He also Alice Shertle's 2009 picture book ''An Anaconda Ate My Homework''. He has also created ''The Unsinkable Walker Bean'' and illustrated Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''The Yellow Wallpaper''. He sometimes collaborates with

colorist In comics, a colorist is responsible for adding color to black-and-white line art. For most of the 20th century this was done using brushes and dyes which were then used as guides to produce the printing plates. Since the late 20th century it i ...

Alec Longstreth.

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