Richard Piers Rayner

• Nationality — English • Art — y • Pencil — y • Notable Works — Road to Perdition Hellblazer • Awards — Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award (1989)

Richard Piers Rayner began his professional comic career in 1988, illustrating for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. His works include Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, L.E.G.I.O.N., Doctor Fate, and Doctor Who. His most notable work is Road to Perdition, written by Max Allan Collins, which was adapted into a film in 2002, starring Tom Hanks, and directed by Sam Mendes. He is also a frequent contributor to the DC publications, Paradox Press, and is artist in residence at Middlesbrough FC. In November 2008 he wrote and illustrated Middlesbrough FC - The Unseen History.