Aaron Renier
American comics artist
Aaron Renier is an American comics artist and author.
Biography
Renier was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Between 2000 and 2009, he lived in Portland, Oregon and Brooklyn, New York before settling in West Town, Chicago.
In 2010, Renier received the inaugural Sendak Fellowship.
His graphic novel Spiral-Bound was published by Top Shelf Productions in September 2005 and won him the 2006 Eisner award for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition." In 2008, he began providing illustrations for the book series The Knights' Tales written by Gerald Morris. He also Alice Shertle's 2009 picture book An Anaconda Ate My Homework. He has also created The Unsinkable Walker Bean and illustrated Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. He sometimes collaborates with colorist Alec Longstreth.
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