Neil Kleid (born 1975) is an American

cartoonist 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 comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera ...

who received a 2003 Xeric Award grant for his

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la ''Ninety Candles'' (2004). Raised in

Oak Park, Michigan Oak Park is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. An inner-ring suburb of Detroit, Oak Park borders Detroit to the north, roughly northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 29,560. Hi ...

, he lives in

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Kleid wrote '' Brownsville'', a graphic novel about Murder, Inc., with Jake Allen; '' The Big Kahn'', a graphic novel about family, faith, and con men, with Nicolas Cinquegrani, for NBM Publishing; and ''Ursa Minors!'', an action/comedy mini-series for Slave Labor Graphics. He has written for Puffin Graphics,

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is a New York City–based comic book publishing, publisher, a property of the Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023. Marvel was founded in 1939 by Martin G ...

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, and

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, and has created minicomics and cartoons for anthologies and magazines. Kleid adapted ''

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: Kraven's Last Hunt'' to prose in 2014, the popular

storyline by J. M. DeMatteis and

Mike Zeck Michael J. Zeck (born September 6, 1949) is an Americans, American comics artist. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on such series as ''Captain America (comic book), Captain America'', ''Secret Wars, Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars'' ...

, which was published by Marvel Press and Titan Books. In 2016, he co-plotted and wrote '' Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim'', an original novel based on the popular

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and Michael Avon Oeming for MacMillan Books. In 2020,

published ''Savor'', Kleid's culinary adventure

with artists John Broglia and Frank Reynoso. Outside of comic books, Kleid penned columns for now defunct online writer resource ''Scryptic Studios'', and various online websites including ''PopCultureShock.com'', ''PopImage.com'', ''

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.com'', and ''SequentialTart.com''. He was a founder and active member of the webcomic collective The Chemistry Set. While writing/drawing various projects, Kleid spends his days as a UX/UI product designer, having helped co-found a series of mobile collecting apps for the

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Company in New York, including Topps Pennant, Topps BUNT, Topps HUDDLE, and their popular

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Card Trader app. Kleid has worked on marketing campaigns for

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and

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, has been employed as a designer by McCann, Girl Scouts and his work has appeared in '' Variety'' and ''

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''. A Modern Orthodox Jew, Klein has been a resident of

Teaneck, New Jersey Teaneck () is a Township (New Jersey), township in Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a bedroom community in the New York metropolitan area. The town is know for their pancake throwing contest held ...

.Samuel, Adam
"Teaneck Comic Author Brings ‘The Panic’ to Readers"
''Jewish Link'', April 28, 2022. Accessed April 28, 2022. "Neil Kleid boasts quite the impressive comic book resume. Working in the industry since the early 2000s, he’s written X-Men, Superman and countless other stories—he even adapted Spider-Man: Kraven’s Last Hunt into a novel. He’s also a Modern Orthodox Jew from Teaneck, and his newest story, a digital comic book series from Comixology Originals that will then be adapted into print by Dark Horse Comics, promises to be a thrilling addition to his catalog."

Bibliography

Prose

* ''Kid Omega Faces The Music'' an

X-Men The X-Men are a superhero team in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer/editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, the team first appeared in Uncanny X-Men, ''The X-Men'' #1 (September 1963). Although initial ...

prose short story appearing in ''School of X''. Published by Aconyte Books (2021). Nominated for a 2022 Scribe Award. * ''

: Kraven's Last Hunt'' prose adaptation of the original

storyline by J. M. DeMatteis and

. Published by

(2014) * '' Powers: The Secret History of Deena Pilgrim'' based on the

and Michael Avon Oeming. Published by MacMillan Books (2016)

Comics and graphic novels

* ''Stable Rods'' mixed media minicomic, Self-Published * ''Pilgrimage'' mixed media minicomic, Self-Published * ''Rant Comics'' #1-3 serialized minicomics, Self-Published * ''Late Night Block'' #1-3 serialized minicomics with Jamesmith, Max Riffner, Vanessa Satone, and cover artists Lea Hernandez, Carla Speed McNeil, and Michael Avon Oeming. Stories originally appeared at www.opi8.com * ''"Letters From a Broken Apple"'' 10 page story in ''9-11: Emergency Relief'' with Insight Studios. Published by

Alternative Comics Alternative comics or independent comics cover a range of American comic book, American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alterna ...

(2002) * ''Ninety Candles'', Self-Published with the help of the Xeric Foundation (2004) * ''

The Intimidators ''The Intimidators'' was the fifteenth novel in the Matt Helm secret agent novel series by Donald Hamilton. It was first published in 1974. Plot summary Despite the internal politics of '' The Intriguers'', Matt Helm (code name Eric) still fin ...

'' #1-4, created by

Jim Valentino Jim Valentino (born October 28, 1952) is an American writer, penciler, editor and publisher of comic books, best known for his 1990–1992 work on '' Guardians of the Galaxy'' for Marvel Comics, and for co-founding Image Comics, a company publ ...

with artists Miguel Montenegro and CAFU. Published by

/ Shadowline (2006) * '' Brownsville'' OGN with artist Jake Allen. Published by NBM Publishing (2006) * '' Call of the Wild'' written by

Jack London John Griffith London (; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t ...

, co-adapted with artist Alex Nino. Published by Puffin Graphics (2006) * ''Ursa Minors'' #1-4 with co-writer Paul Cote and artist Fernando Pinto. Published by Slave Labor Graphics (2006) * ''The Big Kahn'' OGN with artist Nicolas Cinquegrani. Published by NBM Publishing (2009) * ''Savor'' OGN with artists John Broglia and Frank Reynoso. Published by

(2021) * ''The Panic'' OGN with Andrea Mutti. Published by Comixology Originals and

(2022)

Short comics

* ''9-11: Emergency Relief'', "Letters From a Broken Apple" with artists from Insight Studios (2001) * ''House of Twelve'' #2.0, "I Was a Teenage Sci-Fi Writer" (2002) * ''True Porn'' Vol. 1, "Shomer Negiah" (2003) * '' Hero Happy Hour Super Special'', "Secret Origin" with artist Neil Vokes (2004) * ''X-Men Unlimited'' #14, "How To Be An Artist" with artist Michael Avon Oeming. Published by

(2006) * ''Postcards'', "Intersection" with artist Jake Allen. Published by

Random House Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

/ Villard (2007) * ''Comic Book Tattoo'', "The Beekeeper" with artist Chris Mitten. Published by

(2008) * ''Tales From the Crypt'' #2, "The Tenant" with artist Steve Mannion. Published by Papercutz (2008) * ''Tales From the Crypt'' #4, "Extra Life" with artist Chris Noeth. Published by Papercutz (2008) * ''Creepy Comics'' #1, "All The Help You Need" with artist Brian Churilla. Published by

(2009) * ''Fractured Fables'', "The House That Jack Built" with artist Fernando Pinto. Published by

/ Shadowline (2010) * ''Fraggle Rock'' Vol #1, #2, "The Convincing of Convincing John" with artist Fernando Pinto. Published by Archaia Studios (2010) * ''Superman 2011 80 Page Giant'', "Old Men Talking in Bars" with artist Dean Haspiel. Published by

(2011) * ''Ghosts'', "A Bowl of Red" with artist John McCrea. Published by DC Comics/Vertigo (2012) * ''Mars Attacks Classic Obliterated'', "This Island, Earth" with artist Carlos Valenzuela. Published by

IDW Publishing IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books, and comic strip collections. It was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC (IDW) and is recognized as the fifth-largest comic ...

(2013)

Webcomics

* ''Todt Hill'' serialized webcomic with artist Kevin Colden, formerly hosted at The Chemistry Set * ''Action, Ohio'' serialized webcomic with artist Paul Salvi, formerly hosted at Shadowline * ''Kings and Canvas'' serialized digital comics with artists Jake Allen and Frank Reynoso, available at

Comixology Iconology Inc., d/b/a ComiXology (styled comiXology), was a cloud-based digital distribution platform for comics owned by Amazon, with over 200 million comic downloads . At its height it offered a selection of more than 100,000 comic books, g ...

Awards

* Xeric Award grant for ''Ninety Candles'', September 2003

References

External links

*
Preview of ''Brownsville''

Preview of ''Migdal David''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kleid, Neil American comics artists American comics writers American webcomic creators Jewish American comics artists American graphic novelists 1975 births Living people Artists from Teaneck, New Jersey 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews