Please welcome, to Granitecon 2016, comic book artist and writer; LARRY HAMA!
Larry Hama is a writer/cartoonist/illustrator/actor/musician who has worked in comics, tv and film. He is best known as the writer of Marvel’s “GI Joe” comics in the ‘eighties, and as the writer of Marvel’s “Wolverine” in the ‘nineties.More recently he has scripted “Spooks,” and “Barack the Barbarian” for Devil’s Due Comics, “GI Origins” and “GI Joe A Real American Hero” for IDW as well as various animation and video game projects. He was Artist in Residence at Asian/Pacific/American Arts Institute at NYU in 2012. Most recently, he is the author of “The Death of Captain America” a prose novel for Marvel (hardcover) that features characters (Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Nick Fury) who are prominent in the new Captain America movie.
In comics, he has written, edited or drawn for Avengers, Blaze, Nth Man, The Nam, Conan, Batman, Wonder Woman, Bizarre Adventures, X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil, and dozens more. His illustrations and cartoons have appeared in National Lampoon, Esquire, New York and Rolling Stone. He has appeared on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures” and on TV in MASH, SNL and “Another World.”
