Eric Powell (comics)

Eric Powell (born March 3, 1975) is an American comic book writer/artist, best known as the creator of The Goon.

Career
Powell has written and provided artwork for Dark Horse, DC Comics and Marvel Comics, but is most regarded for his original series The Goon, which debuted from the small publisher Avatar Press. Powell quickly switched to self-publishing under the moniker Albatross Exploding Funny Books, before being picked up by Dark Horse after only a handful of issues. The Goon ' s quality was recognized with an Eisner Award in 2004 for Best Single Issue (Dark Horse The Goon #1) as well as an International Horror Guild award. The following year, Powell won Eisner's Best Humor Publication and Best Continuing Series awards.

He is a featured interviewee in the movie Independents.

Powell co-wrote the first two volumes of IDW's Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters with Tracy Marsh.

In 2022, Powell's self-publishing venture, Albatross Funny Books, was moved to Dark Horse Comics as an imprint, bringing along such titles as The Goon, Hillbilly, Big Man Plans, Galaktikon (Brendon Small), and Pug Davis (Rebecca Sugar).

Awards

 * 2004:
 * International Horror Guild Award for Best Illustrated Narrative (The Goon #1-4)
 * Eisner Award for Best Single Issue (The Goon #1)
 * 2005:
 * Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication (The Goon)
 * Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series (The Goon)
 * 2008:
 * Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist-Humor (The Goon)
 * Eisner Award for Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (The Goon: Chinatown)

Books illustrated

 * Billy Hooten: Owlboy (with author Thomas E. Sniegoski, published by Yearling Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-440-42180-1)

Cover work

 * Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1-6 (DC Comics)
 * Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities #1-4 (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities trade collection (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Dethklok vs. The Goon (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash (DC Comics/Dynamite Entertainment)
 * Fused: Think Like a Machine #1-2 (Dark Horse Comics))
 * Fused: Think Like a Machine trade collection (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Marvel Monsters #1-4 (Marvel Comics)
 * Marvel Monsters trade collection (Marvel Comics)


 * Marvel Westerns: Western #1 (Marvel Comics)
 * Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt and the Arizona #2 (Marvel Comics)
 * Marvel Westerns: The Two Gun #3 (Marvel Comics)
 * Metalocalypse #1-3 (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Super-Villain Team-Up/MODOK'S 11 #1 (Marvel Comics)
 * Swamp Thing #21-29 (DC Comics)
 * Tales of the Vampires #3 (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Universal Monsters: Cavalcade of Horror trade collection (Dark Horse Comics)