Kevin Colden is an Eisner Award

Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

-nominated, Xeric Grant winning American comic book writer and artist. Primarily known as a webcomics artist, his work has been published in print by Zuda Comics

Zuda Comics

Zuda Comics was DC Comics' webcomics imprint from 2007 until 2010. It featured comics for Flash player instead of in a web page. Announced in a press release on July 9, 2007 and the first ongoing series and competing comic entries went live October 30, 2007...

, IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...

, Image Comics

Image Comics

Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

, Alternative Comics

Alternative Comics

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, and Top Shelf Productions

Top Shelf Productions

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Early life

Colden graduated in 2001 from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art

Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art

The Kubert School, formerly the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art or Joe Kubert School, located in Dover, New Jersey, is a three-year technical school that teaches the principles of sequential art and the particular craft of the comics industry as well as commercial illustration...

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Career

Colden's career began in 2003, writing and illustrating short horror/humor stories for House of Twelve

House of Twelve

House of Twelve is an independent anthology comic book publisher based out of the New York metro area and run by artist Cheese Hasselberger. Also known as Ho12, it sponsors a monthly comic art collective held the first Wednesday of every month at Jack Demsey's Pub on 33rd Street in New York City,...

, Asylum Press and Media-Blasters. In 2006, he co-founded The Chemistry Set webcomics collective, where he created the horror comic Todt Hill with writer Neil Kleid

Neil Kleid

Neil Kleid is a U.S. cartoonist raised in Oak Park, Michigan, now living in Bronx, New York. He has received a 2003 Xeric Award grant for his graphic novella Ninety Candles ....

. Colden's graphic novel Fishtown was awarded a Xeric Grant in 2007, but he declined the money in order to serialize the book with the ACT-I-VATE

Act-i-vate

ACT-I-VATE is an American webcomics collective based on an original idea by Dean Haspiel and founded by Haspiel and seven other cartoonists. It started out on the blogging platform Livejournal, but has now moved to its own dedicated website....

 webcomics collective. It was published in print by IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing

IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...

 in Fall 2008 and was nominated for a 2009 Eisner Award

Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

 in the category of Best Reality-Based Work. In December 2008, his webcomic I Rule the Night began on Zuda Comics

Zuda Comics

Zuda Comics was DC Comics' webcomics imprint from 2007 until 2010. It featured comics for Flash player instead of in a web page. Announced in a press release on July 9, 2007 and the first ongoing series and competing comic entries went live October 30, 2007...

. It was moved to the DC Comics digital app in 2010.

Awards

• 2007: Xeric Grant, Fishtown
• 2009: Eisner Award
  Eisner Award
  The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...
  
  Nomination, Fishtown, Best Reality-Based Work

External links

• http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/05/18/now-it-can-be-told-kevin-colden-and-the-xeric/
• http://www.zudacomics.com/i_rule_the_night
• http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2008/01/28/interview-kevin-colden-pt-1-of-2/#more-922