Richard Case
{{short description|American comics artist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| notable works = Doctor Strange
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Richard Case (born 1964){{cite web |url= http://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/case_richard.htm|title= Richard Case|date= August 29, 2008|publisher= Lambiek Comiclopedia|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120308091524/http://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/case_richard.htm|archivedate= March 8, 2012|url-status= live|df=mdy-all}} is an American comics artist best known for his work for DC Comics especially the Vertigo imprint.
He is not to be confused with the similarly-named Richard Case, another comics artist who worked for the Iger Studio and Fiction House in the 1940s.{{cite web|url= http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CASE%2c+RICHARD+1|title= Case, Richard 1|first= Jerry|last= Bails|date= n.d.|work= Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070511082818/http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CASE%2c+RICHARD+1|archivedate= May 11, 2007|url-status= live|df= mdy-all}}
Career
After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design, Richard Case worked as an assistant to comics artist Walt Simonson in 1985.{{cite web|url= http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CASE%2c+RICHARD+2|title= Case, Richard 2|first= Jerry|last= Bails|authorlink= Jerry Bails|date= n.d.|work= Who's Who of American Comic Books 1928-1999|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070511101006/http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=CASE%2c+RICHARD+2|archivedate= May 11, 2007|url-status= live|df= mdy-all}} Case's first credited published comic book story appeared in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales vol. 2 #10 (Jan. 1988).{{cite web|url= https://www.comics.org/search/advanced/process/?target=sequence&method=icontains&logic=True&keywords=&order1=date&order2=series&order3=&start_date=1987-12-31&end_date=&title=&feature=&job_number=&pages=&pages_uncertain=&script=Richard+Case&pencils=Richard+Case&inks=Richard+Case&colors=&letters=&story_editing=&genre=&characters=&synopsis=&reprint_notes=&story_reprinted=¬es=&pub_name=&pub_notes=&brand_group=&brand_emblem=&brand_notes=&indicia_publisher=&is_surrogate=&ind_pub_notes=&series=&series_year_began=&series_notes=&tracking_notes=&issue_count=&is_comics=&color=&dimensions=&paper_stock=&binding=&publishing_format=&issues=&volume=&issue_title=&variant_name=&is_variant=&issue_date=&indicia_frequency=&price=&issue_pages=&issue_pages_uncertain=&issue_editing=&isbn=&barcode=&rating=&issue_notes=&issue_reprinted=&is_indexed=|title= Richard Case|date= n.d.|publisher= Grand Comics Database|df= mdy-all}} He moved to DC Comics and pencilled the majority of issues of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol{{cite book|last1=Manning|first1= Matthew K.|last2=Dolan|first2=Hannah, ed.|chapter= 1980s|title = DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|year=2010|location= London, United Kingdom|isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9|page= 239|quote = Writer Grant Morrison decided to lend his unique talents to the Doom Patrol, and the team would never be the same again...Morrison was joined by penciller Richard Case.}} beginning with issue #19 (Feb. 1989).{{cite web |url= http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/10/comics-you-should-own-doom-patrol-19-63/|title= Comics you should own – Doom Patrol #19-63|first= Greg|last= Burgas|date= September 10, 2006|publisher= Comic Book Resources|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131015035027/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/09/10/comics-you-should-own-doom-patrol-19-63/|archivedate= October 15, 2013|url-status= live|df=mdy-all|quote= Morrison needed someone who was equally at ease with the fantastic and the mundane, and Case fits beautifully.}} In 1992, he drew several issues of Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins for Marvel. Back at DC, Case inked Marc Hempel's pencils on the Sandman story "The Kindly Ones" and penciled a few pages in Hempel's style.{{cite book|last = Bender|first = Hy|title = The Sandman Companion|publisher = DC Comics|year = 1999|page = 269|isbn = 978-1563894657}}{{cite web |url= http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/01/07/comics-you-should-own-sandman/|title= Comics You Should Own – Sandman|first= Greg|last= Burgas|date= January 7, 2013|publisher= Comic Book Resources|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140410022316/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/01/07/comics-you-should-own-sandman/|archivedate= April 10, 2014|url-status= live|df=mdy-all}} He illustrated Jamie Delano's Ghostdancing limited series, the final story arc of Peter Milligan's Shade, the Changing Man, and Hunter: The Age of Magic with Dylan Horrocks. Since leaving the comics industry, he has worked extensively in computer game illustration especially for Ubisoft.{{cite web |url= http://redstorm.com/team/|title= Meet The Team|year= 2013|publisher= Ubisoft|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150723054028/http://redstorm.com/team/|archivedate=July 23, 2015 |url-status= live|df=mdy-all}}
Bibliography
=DC Comics=
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- The Books of Magic vol. 2 #48, inks (1998)
- DC One Million 80–Page Giant #1, inks (1999)
- Deadenders #1–8, inks (2000)
- Doom Force Special #1, inks (1992)
- Doom Patrol vol. 2 #19–24, 26–35, 37–41, 44, 46–52, 54–57, 59–66 (1989–1993)
- Flinch #15, inks (2000)
- Gemini Blood #3–4, inks (1996)
- Ghostdancing #1–6 (1995)
- Hunter: The Age of Magic #1–6, 8–25 (2001–2003)
- Legends of the DC Universe #15–17 (The Flash) (1999)
- The Names of Magic #1–5 (2001)
- Preacher Special: The Story of You-Know-Who #1 (1996)
- Sandman #65–68, inks (1994–1995)
- Sandman Mystery Theatre #46–48, 57–60, inks (1997–1998)
- Shade, the Changing Man vol. 2 #61–63, 65–70 (1995–1996)
- Starman: The Mist #1 (1998)
- Totems #1, inks (2000)
- Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3, inks (2000)
- Who's Who in the DC Universe #1, 3, 6–7, 9–11, 15 (1990–1992)
- Wonder Woman Gallery #1 (one page) (1996)
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=Image Comics=
- Gen 13 Bikini Pin-Up Special #1 (one page) (1997)
=Marvel Comics=
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- Cable #73, 75, 77, 79, inks (1999–2000)
- Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins #1–2, 5–6 (1992–1993)
- Deathlok vol. 3 #6 (2000)
- Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #1–4 (1988–1989)
- Fantastic Four vol. 2 #13, inks (1997)
- Marvel Super Hero Island Adventures #1, inks (1999)
- Nighthawk #1–3 (1998)
- The Sensational Spider-Man #8–11, 13–17, -1, 19–20, 22–23, 27–28, 31 (1996–1998)
- Spider-Man: Death and Destiny #1–3, inks (2000)
- Strange Tales vol. 2 #10–11, 13–19 (Doctor Strange) (1988)
- Wolverine '96 #1, inks (1996)
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References
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External links
- {{Blogspot|rhomblog|Official page}}
- {{comicbookdb|type=creator|id=936|title=Richard Case}}
- [http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/creator.php?creatorid=1485 Richard Case] at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
- [http://www.maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/namc9.htm#N462 Richard Case] at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
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