Rian Hughes

About The Author

Rian Hughes is a graphic designer, illustrator, writer, typographer and sometime comic book writer and artist who has worked extensively for the British and American publishing, music, advertising and comic book industries. He has written and drawn comics for 2000AD and Batman: Black and White, and designed logos for James Bond, X-Men, Superman, Hed Kandi and The Avengers, collected in the Eisner-nominated book Logo a Gogo (Korero Press, 2018). He has published two novels, XX (Picador, Overlook Press, 2020) and The Black Locomotive (Picador, 2021). Recent books include Custom Lettering of the 20s and 30s, the latest in the Custom Lettering trilogy, the all-ages wordless graphic novel I Am A Number (Top Shelf), Soho Dives, Soho Divas (Image) which collects his burlesque drawings, and Cult-Ure: Ideas Can Be Dangerous (Fiell) in which he sets out his memetics manifesto. He has a collection of Thunderbirds memorabilia, a fridge full of vodka, and a stack of easy listening albums which he plays very quietly.

Series by the Author

Books by Rian Hughes

EC Cruel Universe Vol. 2
By Cecil Castellucci, Chris Condon, Melissa Flores, Sarah Gailey, Ryan Haddock, J. Holtham, Rian Hughes, Ann Nocenti, Greg Pak and Dave Wielgosz
Illustrated by Charlie Adlard
Book #2
At the star-lined edges of infinity, EC Comics’ Eisner Award–nominated science-fiction smash returns to draw more worlds into the maw of its gravitational vortex!
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EC Cruel Universe 2 #3
By Cecil Castellucci, Sarah Gailey and Rian Hughes
Illustrated by Kano
Corporate greed, human desperation, technological despair! Such postulations all are but tiny specks swallowed by the unforgiving void of CRUEL UNIVERSE! EC’s Eisner Award–nominated sci-fi horror anthology continues its deep dive into futuristic depravity and darkness with three new tales from wr...
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