Edward "Ed" Brisson is a Canadian

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, and

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. He has been nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Best Canadian Writer several times.

Career

Brisson has been making comics for over twenty years. He began writing, drawing, coloring, and lettering his own work and selling them through records shops before focusing on writing and self-publishing ''Murder Book'', a series of crime comics, in 2010, with the first two stories illustrated by Simon Roy. From there, he wrote the one-shot ''Black River'' and then ''Comeback'' and ''Sheltered'' at

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. He would collaborate with Roy again for ''The Field'' in 2014 and go on to write ''The Mantle'' and ''The Violent'' in 2015. Brisson would start working with Marvel Comics in 2013, writing two issues of ''

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'' in 2013 before being tapped to write a five-issue ''

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'' mini-series in 2016 and a new '' Iron Fist'' series in 2017. He then took over the ongoing ''

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'' series at issue 25 writing until issue 50 and then concluding with a 12-issue mini-series ''Dead Man Logan''. In 2018, he wrote ''Extermination'', a mini-series dealing with the time-displaced original five X-Men. He also became the writer, alongside Matthew Rosenberg and Kelly Thompson, of the new volume of ''

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'', co-writing the book until issue 10, and then writing a new volume of ''

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'' and ''

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: Nextgen.'' In 2019, he wrote the limited series ''Contagion'' and the ongoing series ''

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'' which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He also collaborated with

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in writing ''

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'' for the

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. In 2021, he wrote ''Beyond the Breach'' for AfterShock Comics, a science fiction story about the aftermath of a cataclysm. In 2022, his ''

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'' comic with artist

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was released, a project initially planned for 2020 but delayed. After six issues, the book was relaunched in 2023 and a third book, '' Predator: The Last Hunt'', was published in 2024. He also wrote the five issue ''

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'' mini-series for the

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. At DC Comics, Brisson took over as writer for ''

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Inc.'' at issue 10 and became the writer for the 2022 relaunch of ''

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''. In 2023, he wrote the crime/horror comic ''Sins of the Salton Sea'' for AWA Studios and in 2024, he published ''The Displaced'' through Boom! Studios. In November 2024, he was announced as the writing for the upcoming '' SilverHawks'' comic from

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Personal life

He grew up in Oshawa, Ontario. He currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife and daughter. He operated the comics publishing company New Reliable Press until 2010.

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

* ''

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of the Wastelands'' #1-5 (2020) * ''

'' #1-5 (2017) * ''Contagion'' #1-5 (2019) * ''

Deadpool Deadpool is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in ''New Mutants'' #98 (December 1990). In his comic book appearances, Deadpool is ...

: Black, White & Blood'' #1, short story "Hotline to Heaven" (2021) *

: ** ''Ghost Rider'' vol. 9 #1-7 (2019–2020) ** '' Ghost Rider 2099'' vol. 2 #1 (2019) ** ''Spirits of Ghost Rider: Mother of Demons'' #1 (2020) ** ''

King in Black "King in Black" is a comic book event written by Donny Cates with art by Ryan Stegman, and was published from 2020 to 2021 by Marvel Comics. It is a continuation to 2019's "Absolute Carnage", also containing fallout from 2020's " Empyre". In th ...

: Ghost Rider'' #1 (2021) * ''Incoming'' #1 (2019) * '' Iron Fist'' vol. 5 #1-7, vol. 1 #73-80 (2017–2018) * ''Marvel Comics'' #1000, short story "The Big Bounce" (2019) * ''

Marvel Comics Presents ''Marvel Comics Presents'' is an American comic book anthology title that was published in three series by Marvel Comics: from 1988 to 1995; 2007 to 2008; and in 2019. Volume 1 The first volume was released on a bi-weekly basis and lasted for ...

'' vol. 3 #6, short story "Fadeaway" (2019) * ''

'': ** ''Predator'' #1-6 ('' Day of the Hunter''; 2022–2023) ** ''Predator'' vol. 2 #1-5 ('' The Preserve''; 2023) ** '' Predator: The Last Hunt'' #1-4 (2024) * ''

'' #10-11 (2013) * ''

Secret Wars ''Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars'', commonly known as ''Secret Wars'', is a 12-issue American comic book Fictional crossover, crossover limited series published from May 1984 to April 1985 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Jim Shooter ...

: Battleworld'' #1, short story "M.O.D.O.K. Madness" (2015) *

Spider-Man Spider-Man is a superhero in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, he first appearance, first appeared in the anthology comic book ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (August 1962) in ...

: ** ''

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: Symbiote of Vengeance'' #1 (2019) ** ''

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'' vol. 5 #68-69 (2021) ** ''Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man: Chameleon Conspiracy'' #1 (2021) ** '' Carnage: Black, White & Blood'' #4, short story "The End of Humanity" (2021) ** '' Sinister War'' #2-4 (2021) *

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: ** ''

'' vol. 2 #25-50, Annual (2017–2018) ** ''Dead Man Logan'' #1-12 (2018–2019) ** ''

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'' vol. 1 #150-154 (2017–2018) ** '' X-Men: Gold'' vol. 2 #27, '' X-Men: Blue'' #27, '' X-Men: Red'' #5, ''

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'' vol. 4 #13, ''

'' #159, backup "Countdown to Extermination" (2018)" ** ''

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'' #1-5 (2018) ** ''

'' vol. 5 #1-10, Annual (2018-2019) ** ''Merry X-Mas Holiday Special'' #1, short story "Deck the Halls" (2018) ** ''

'' vol. 5 #1-10 (2018–2019) ** ''

: Nextgen'' #1-5 (2019) ** ''

: True North'' #1, short story "Illegal Guardians" (2019) ** ''

'' vol. 4 #1, 3–4, 6, 8-13 (2019–2020) ** ''

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: X-Men'' #3 (2020) ** ''

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: Black, White, & Blood'' #4, short story "Reave What You Sow" (2021) ** '' Heroes Reborn: Weapon X & Final Flight'' #1 (2021) ** ''

'' vol. 5 #1-5 (2023)

DC Comics

* ''Are You Afraid of

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?'' #1, short story "The Ogopogo" (2021) *

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: ** '' Batman & Robin Eternal'' #11-12, 17-18 (2015–2016) ** ''Batman 2022 Annual'' vol. 3 #1 (2022) ** ''

'' vol. 3 #1-12 (2022–2023) ** ''Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter'' #1 (2021) ** ''Batman Sceret Files: Peacekeeper-01'' #1 (2021) ** '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' #1-6, "Stormwatch" six-part story (2023) ** '' Shadow War Zone'' #1, short story "Panic Room" (2022) * ''

Inc.'' #10-15 (2022) * '' Knight Terrors: Ravager'' #1-2 (2023) * ''

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30th Anniversary Special'' #1, short story "Building a Better Bomb" (2022)

Other Comics

AfterShock Comics

* ''Beyond the Breach'' #1-5 (2021)

AWA Studios

* ''Sins of the Salton Sea'' #1-5 (2023)

Boom! Studios

* ''Cluster'' #1-8 (2015) * ''The Displaced'' #1-5 (2024) * ''The Last Contract'' #1-4 (2016)

Dark Horse

* ''Dark Horse Presents'' #5-8, "Murder Book" short stories (2014–2015) * ''Murder Book'' (2010), originally self-published

Dynamite Entertainment

* ''ThunderCats: Apex'' #1 (2024)

IDW Comics

* ''24: Underground'' #1-5 (2014)

Image Comics

* ''Comeback'' #1-5 (2012–2013) * ''Creepshow'' #5 (2025) * ''Dia de los Muetros'' #2, short story "The Skinny One" (2013) * ''The Field'' #1-4 (2014) * ''The Mantle'' #1-5 (2015) * ''Sheltered'' #1-15 (2013–2015) * ''The Silver Coin'' #3 (2021) * ''The Violent'' #1-5 (2015–2016)

References

External links

Official website
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