About Chris Giarrusso

Chris Giarrusso is the Harvey award-nominated artist and writer best known for creating, writing, and drawing G-Man, a series of books loved by all ages. G-Man features a young superhero who gains fantastic powers when he wears a magic cape. The G-Man Super Journal: Awesome Origins, G-Man Learning to Fly, G-Man Cape Crisis, and G-Man Coming Home are available at bookstores and comic shops worldwide, and at online retailers like amazon.com. Chris’s work has been published by Andrews McMeel, Scholastic, Marvel, Image, IDW, Lion Forge, Valiant, Ahoy Comics, and several independent publishers.

Chris is currently illustrating Hashtag: Danger, written by Tom Peyer, covers by Richard Williams, published by Ahoy Comics. Hashtag: Danger follows three socially awkward science adventurers through their space travels! Ahoy published the collected volume of the first five issues, Hashtag: Danger Volume One: Panic on Dinosaur Mountain!, in December 2019.

In 2018, Chris illustrated the comic series Encounter, written by Art Baltazar and Franco. Published by Lion Forge, Encounter follows the adventures of an alien who finds himself on planet earth and chooses to be a hero!

2015 saw the release of The G-Man Super Journal: Awesome Origins. In tandem with the book’s publication, Chris began work on G-Man Webcomics, a series of comics written and drawn by G-Man himself. Brand new G-Man Webcomics are available right here every Tuesday.

In 2012, Chris illustrated 12 Image variant covers, including The Walking Dead, Chew, and Invincible, in celebration of Image’s 25th anniversary. Chris illustrated the cover and wrote and illustrated the story, G-Man: Reign of the Robo Teachers, in the 2011 anthology book Reading with Pictures. 2010 featured Chris illustrating the covers and comic inserts for all four volumes of the Scholastic book series The Amazing Adventures of Nate Banks, and contributing a Guardians of the Globe cover and 4-page story, Image Untied, to the Image Comics Image United series. He was the illustrator for the first two years of the successful Emerald City Comicon webcomic, Tales from the Con, written by Brad Guigar.

In 1999, Chris Giarrusso created the world-famous Mini Marvels for Marvel Comics, writing and drawing dozens of comic strips and short stories which have been published in countless Marvel comics and collected editions. Chris even contributed two brand new characters to the Marvel Universe, fantastic fan-favorites “Elephant Steve” and “Archeology Jackson.”

Chris is still hard at work writing and drawing. Check out more of his books, art, and animation at his official website, chrisgiarrusso.com.

Awards

2016 Diamond award, Best Window Display, Challengers Comics
2014 Kids’ Comics Revolution award, G-Man Coming Home
2014 Harvey Award nominee, G-Man Coming Home

Past Presentations and Panels

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Q: How can I buy The G-MAN Super Journal: Awesome Origins book?
A: You can purchase The G-MAN Super Journal everywhere books and eBooks are sold, including Andrews McMeel Publishing, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Indie Bound.
Q: How can I buy your G-MAN graphic novels?
A: The G-MAN graphic novels are available at most bookstores and comic book shops. Please ask the bookstore managers for help finding or ordering them for you. G-MAN graphic novels can also be ordered on the internet through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other online retailers.
Q: Will there be more G-MAN books?
A: Definitely. I’m currently working on the next G-MAN Super Journal book.
Q: Are you the writer or the artist on G-MAN?
A: Both. I created, wrote, penciled, inked, lettered, and colored all the G-MAN stories.
Q: Why does Amazon sometimes show different covers for your books?
A: They have a lot of books to keep track of and sometimes errors occur. Please let Amazon know that they’re showing the incorrect covers for my books and if enough people bring it to their attention maybe they’ll eventually fix the errors. You can always find the correct covers for all of my books on my official website.
Q: How did you first start working in books / comics?
A: I got my start as an intern at Marvel Comics while I was in college. Following the internship, I accepted a staff job in Marvel’s production department where I helped to format comics to make them ready for printing. After much pestering, Marvel finally agreed to start publishing some of my comic strips.
Q: How did you learn to draw? Did you go to an art school?
A: I didn’t go to an art school, but I took some art classes while I was in college. I mainly learned to draw comics by practicing on my own.
Q: How do you draw your books / comics?
A: I draw on bristol paper with a 2H pencil and I ink with a brush using black India ink. I letter by hand with different Speedball pens using black India ink. I scan the black and white artwork in to my computer and then color on my computer with Photoshop.
Q: Do you draw commissions / can I buy a sketch from you?
A: I’m very busy, but I sometimes take on commissions if time allows. In the meantime though, you can find original artwork like sketches, and original art from published comic covers and pages for sale here.
Q: What was the first comic book you read?
A: It was an old Fantastic Four comic where Ben was playing some sport on another planet or something.
Q: Do you have any advice for young comic creators?
A: Draw for fun and draw a lot. Don’t let anybody tell you that you’re doing it wrong.
Q: Can I send you a book in a self-addressed, stamped envelope for you to sign?
A: Sorry, but no. There are far too many variables outside of my control involved in trying to fulfill these kinds of requests. Review the list of events and appearances and I can sign books in person if I’m in your area.