Career
In 1988, he self-published a series called Playground; it was his first published work. He worked at several smaller comic book companies before being hired by DC Comics and Marvel Comics in 1993. Since then, Immonen has drawn such high-profile characters as Superman, Hulk, the Legion of Super Heroes, and the X-Men. His recent work includes stints on the titles Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men with writers Warren Ellis and Brian K. Vaughan, as well as a 12-issue run pencilling Nextwave, which again paired him with Warren Ellis.
Stuart Immonen has also done work for Top Cow and Image Comics.
In 2005, Immonen published 50 Reasons to Stop Sketching at Conventions, a series of fifty comics that detail why he no longer does sketches for fans. Besides self-publishing, Immonen also maintains a webcomic called Never as Bad as You Think which is co-authored by his wife, Kathryn.
Immonen illustrated Marvel Comics' Ultimate Spider-Man from issue #111. to issue #133. He subsequently worked on New Avengers, from issue #55 to issue #64. He continued to be the series artist when New Avengers relaunched during the "Heroic Age" storyline, and was the regular artist for the first seven issues, and later drew issue #11 as well.
2010 sees the release of Moving Pictures - a webcomic co-authored by Kathryn Immonen - as a graphic novel published by Top Shelf Productions.
In 2011 Immonen illustrated Marvel's Fear Itself miniseries, which formed the core of a company-wide crossover storyline of the same name.
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