Robert Venditti


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    Biography

    Robert Venditti is an American comic book writer, known for his work on the Top Shelf Productions title The Surrogates, which was adapted to a major motion picture starring Bruce Willis directed by Jonathan Mostow for Disney. and for the Valiant Comics title X-O Manowar. He is also known for his work on DC Comics titles such as The Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League, and Hawkman. He has also adapted the Percy Jackson & The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus book series by Rick Riordan into graphic novels. Robert Venditti was born in Memorial Hospital and raised in Hollywood, and Pembroke Pines, Florida. Though he says he always wanted to be a prose writer, he rarely read comics as a child, but would peruse the comics at the barber shop. He later moved to Gainesville to attend the University of Florida where he received a B.A. in Political Science and English. After college he worked as a clerk at a law firm in southern Florida with aspirations to practice law, but found that work not to his liking. After subsequently worked pumping gas on a fuel truck, he moved to the Port St. John/Titusville area in Brevard County to which his parents had moved, where he attended the University of Central Florida, working at a Borders Books store in Winter Park, while earning his M.A. in Creative Writing. In about 2000, while working at Borders, a coworker recommended comics books as reading material to him. Though the skeptical Venditti initially thought of comics as solely for children, his reading of Kurt Busiek's Astro City impressed him enough to decide to change his career aspirations from prose to comics. In 2002 Venditti attended a convention and met Chris Staros from Top Shelf Productions, and was added to Staros' email list. That April, Staros subsequently sent out a mass email announcing that Top Shelf's distributor was going bankrupt, and asking recipients of the email to place orders to aid the distributor. Venditti contacted Staros to offer help, and ending up doing warehouse work for him. Venditti began working on The Surrogates in July 2002, and after finishing the script that December, he gave it to Staros, who decided to publish it through Top Shelf, despite the fact that it was not typical of the material they usually published. The first issue of the five-issue miniseries was published in July 2005, and the fifth in March 2006. The prequel Surrogates: Flesh & Bone, was released in September 2009, the same month as the release of the feature film adaptation of the first miniseries, starring Bruce Willis. In May 2012 Venditti began writing the X-O Manowar series for Valiant Entertainment. Venditti began his first work for DC Comics when he took over from Paul Cornell on Demon Knights beginning with issue #16, and took over Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps in June 2013.

    Artistic production

    Comic Title Role Publisher Year Language
    Book of death Author Valiant Entertainment 2015 English
    Long live the king 2 Author Valiant 2016 English
    Twilight of the guardians Author Dc Comics 2018 English
    Test of wills Author Dc Comics 2014 English
    Zoom 3 Author Dc Comics 2016 English
    Wrath of the eternal warrior 2 Author Valiant Entertainment 2018 English
    X-O Manowar. Book 1 (Deluxe Edition) Author Valiant Entertainment 2013 English
    X-O Manowar. Book 5 (Deluxe edition) Author Valiant Entertainment 2017 English
    Gods and monsters 3 Author Dc Comics 2013 English
    X-O Manowar. Book 4 (Deluxe edition) Author Valiant Entertainment 2017 English
    4001 A.D 2 (Deluxe edition) Author Valiant Entertainment 2017 English
    Deal with a devil Author Valiant Entertainment 2017 English
    X-O Manowar. By the sword Author Valiant Entertainment 2012 English
    Beyond New Japan Author Valiant Entertainment 2016 English
    Sinestro's law Author Dc Comics 2017 English
    Renegade 2 Author Dc Comics 2016 English
    Reflections 4 Author Dc Comics 2017 English
    The fall of the Valiant Universe Author Valiant Entertainment 2016 English
    The homeland directive Author Top Shelf Productions 2011 English
    Enter,, Armorines Author Valiant Entertainment 2015 English
    Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern. Volume 4 Author Dc Comics 2018 English
    X-O Manowar. Book 2 (Deluxe edition) Author Valiant Entertainment 2015 English
    Green Lantern/New Gods : Godhead Author Dc Comics 2015 English
    Succession and other tales Author Valiant Entertainment 2017 English
    Armor hunters 4 (Deluxe edition) Author Valiant Entertainment 2015 English
    Green Lantern Corps. Volume 4. Rebuild Author Dc Comics 2014 English
    Reflections 3 Author Dc Comics 2016 English
    X-O Manowar. Enter: Ninjak Author Valiant Entertainment 2013 English
    Supergirl. Volume 5. Red Daughter of Krypton Author Dc Comics 2015 English
    Green Lantern Corps. Volume 5. Uprising Author Dc Comics 2015 English
    Prelude to armor hunters Author Valiant Entertainment 2014 English
    Armor hunters 2 Author Valiant Entertainment 2014 English
    Armor hunters 3 Author Valiant 2014 English
    Percy Jackson and the Titan's curse : the graphic novel 2 Author Puffin 2014 English
    The surrogates Author Top Shelf 2006 English
    Savage world Author Dc Comics 2016 English
    Percy Jackson and the lightning thief : the graphic novel 2 Author Puffin 2010 English
    Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters : the graphic novel 2 Author Puffin 2013 English
    Atrocities Author Dc Comics 2014 English
    Out of time 4 Author Dc Comics 2016 English
    The Flash. Volume 7 Author Dc Comics 2015 English
    Quest for hope Author Dc Comics 2017 English
    X-O Manowar. Book 3 (Deluxe edition) Author Valiant 2016 English
    Lights out 2 Author Dc Comics 2014 English
    Green Lantern. volume 6. The life equation Author Dc Comics 2016 English
    Full stop 2 Author Dc Comics 2017 English
    X-O Manowar. Planet death Author Valiant Entertainment 2013 English
    Risen Author Valiant Entertainment 2016 English
    Homecoming 3 Author Valiant Entertainment 2013 English
    The heroes of Olympus. 2. Son of Neptune Author Puffin 2017 English
    Flesh and bone Author Top Shelf 2009 English
    The lost hero : the graphic novel Author Puffin 2014 English
    The surrogates 2 Author Top Shelf Productions 2009 English
    At war with unity Author Valiant Entertainment 2014 English
    Green lantern. Volume 6. Life equation Author Dc Comics 2015 English
    The Flash. Volume 6. Out of time Author Dc Comics 2015 English
    The kill list Author Valiant Entertainment 2016 English
    A time to be brave Author Diamond 2007 English
    Zoom 2 Author Dc Comics 2016 English
    Percy Jackson and the Titan's curse : the graphic novel Author Puffin 2014 English
    Green Lantern. Volume 4. Dark Days Author Dc Comics 2014 English
    Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters : the graphic novel Author Puffin 2013 English
    Dead hand Author Valiant Entertainment 2015 English
    Exodus Author Valiant Entertainment 2015 English
    Labyrinth Author Valiant Entertainment 2016 English
    Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern corps. Volume 2. Bottled light Author Dc Comics 2017 English
    Green Lantern. Volume 7. Renegade Author Dc Comics 2016 English
    Book of death 2 (Deluxe edition) Author Valiant Entertainment 2016 English
    Book of Death - Il libro della morte Writer Edizioni Star Comics 2017 Italian
    La Ley de Siniestro: Vuelo Final #4 Writer Editorial Televisa 2018 Spanish
    Sinestro's Law: Chapter One #1 Writer DC 2016 Unspecified
    Sinestro's Law Chapter Two: Recon #2 Writer DC 2016 Unspecified
    Sinestro's Law Chapter Three: Innocents Lost #3 Writer DC 2016 Unspecified
    Darkstars Rising: 42-50 Writer Dc Comics 0 English
    Quest For Hope Part 2 Each Lantern Alone #15 Writer Dc Comics 2017 English
    The Gathering Storm: 13-23 Writer Dc Comics 2013 English
    Demon Knights. Vol. 3 Author DC Comics 2014 English
    Armor Hunters Part II: Trap #3 Writer Valiant 2014 English
    Armor Hunters Part II: The Hunt #2 Writer Valiant 2014 English
    Armor Hunters: Aftermath #1 Writer Valiant 2014 English
    To The Hilt #0 Writer Valiant 2014 English
    X-O Manowar #25 Writer Valiant 2014 English
    A Call To Arms #27 Writer Valiant 2014 English
    Slow Burn #29 Writer Valiant 2014 English
    Soft Targets #18 Writer Valiant 2013 English
    Tall Tales #26 Writer Valiant 2014 English
    Broken History #16 Writer Valiant 2013 English
    The Flash. 9 Author DC Comics 2017 English
    Relic In Fall Of The Lightsmiths [lenticular cover]: 23.1 Writer Dc Comics 2013 English
    The Life Equation: 35-40 Writer Dc Comics 0 English
    Die Batmen aus der Hölle Writer Panini Comics 2018 German
    Zurück durch die Zukunft Writer Panini Comics 2015 German
    Angriff aus der Zukunft Writer Panini Comics 2015 German
    Die wilde Welt Writer Panini Comics 2015 German
    Das Geheimnis von Professor Zoom Writer Panini Comics 2016 German
    Meister der Zeit Writer Panini Comics 2016 German
    Treibjagd auf den roten Blitz Writer Panini Comics 2017 German
    Der Bruch Writer Panini Comics 2018 German
    Der Fall der Götter Writer Panini Comics 2018 German
    Zods Wille Writer Panini Comics 2018 German
    Finale Gerechtigkeit Writer Panini Comics 2019 German
    Sinestros Gesetz Writer Panini Comics 2017 German
    Folter Writer Panini Comics 2017 German
    Verbündete Writer Panini Comics 2017 German
    Suche nach Hoffnung Writer Panini Comics 2017 German
    Unendliche Leben Writer Panini Comics 2019 German
    Percy Jackson and the lightning thief : the graphic novel Author Puffin 2010 English