Bryan_Edward_Hill

Bryan Edward Hill

Bryan Edward Hill

American author, screenwriter, musician, comic book writer, and graphic designer


Bryan Edward Hill is an American author, screenwriter, musician, comic book writer, and graphic designer.

Early life and education

Hill was born in Chicago and moved to St. Louis, Missouri as a child, where he attended the prep academy John Burroughs School.[citation needed]

Career

Hill was hired by Top Cow Productions to expand the Witchblade universe by writing the trade paperback Broken Trinity:Pandora's Box with former Top Cow Productions editor Rob Levin.[1][2] Hill later wrote the book 7 Days from Hell for Top Cow Productions,[3][4] and was later hired to adapt it into a screenplay. He also co-wrote Netherworld, a comic book, for Heroes and Villains.[5][6] He co-wrote the comic book Postal with Matt Hawkins, which began publication in 2015.[7] He began writing it by himself at issue #12.[8]

In 2013, Hill began work on several feature screenplays, including the action-thriller Gone, sold to Universal Studios.[9][10] He wrote the screen adaptation of the video game series Just Cause 2 (Square Enix).[11][12] He has since worked on series such as Ash vs Evil Dead and Titans.

Hill has acted as a consultant on popular culture, narrative communication, and media consumption to PepsiCo, JP Morgan Chase, M&M Mars, Unilever, and Chiat/Day. Hill has written articles for the Thinktopia: NewIdeas Blog.[citation needed]

On June 27, 2018, Hill took over as writer for Detective Comics, for the DC character Batman,[13] for a five issue arc titled On the Outside. This arc set up for a new volume of Batman and the Outsiders written by Hill, released in December 2018, starring Batman, Katana, Black Lightning, Cassandra Cain, and Duke Thomas.[14]

In 2019 he began working with Marvel on a Killmonger miniseries.[15]

In 2024 he began to write Ultimate Black Panther with art by Stefano Caselli.[16]


References

  1. "PoP! Interviews Rob Levin and Bryan Edward Hill". Lee Rodriguez | Feb 25, 2010 | Panels on Pages.
  2. "Pilot Season: 7 Days from Hell" Archived 2015-03-21 at the Wayback Machine. Comicbook Roundup.
  3. Cunalata, Marco (April 15, 2016), "Matt Hawkins Interview," Comicsverse. Retrieved September 30, 2016
  4. "'Just Cause: Scorpion Rising' Video Game Adaptation Taps Writer (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. 13 December 2011. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  5. " Comic Writer Bryan Edward Hill Tapped to Adapt Just Cause". Spinoff December 14th, 2011 by TJ Dietsch
  6. "BryanEdwardHill on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  7. Sands, Rich (2018-08-22). "DC Comics launching new Batman and the Outsiders series featuring Black Lightning, Katana and more". SYFY WIRE. Archived from the original on 2018-08-23. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  8. JESSE SCHEDEEN (October 16, 2023). "Marvel Comics Reveals the New Ultimate Universe - New York Comic-Con 2023". IGN. Retrieved October 19, 2023.

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