Philip Craig Russell
, b. 1951
Philip Craig Russell (b. 30th October 1951 in Ohio) is an American illustrator of comics and graphic novels who has worked on Marvel and DC Comics, as well as comic book adaptations of popular novels, operas and fairy tales.
Russell graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting. In 1972, he began work on horror comics as the assistant of Dan Adkins. He built his reputation in the comic world working for Marvel on Killraven and Dr. Strange.
He has created many comic book adaptations of operas, including Wagner's Parsifal, Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Pelias, Mellisande and Salome. He considers his greatest achievement to be his adaptation of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. He has also done work for Neil Gaiman, including adapting Coraline to comic form and creating comics on Norse Mythology. He has created comic book adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales and Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book.
Sources:
The Art of P. Craig Russell at artofpcraigrussell (accessed: April 26, 2021).
Philip Craig Russell at Lambiek Comicyclopedia (accessed: August 2, 2022).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, robin.diver@hotmail.com
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