Age of Bronze began publication from Image Comics in 1998. The first of these adaptations, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, spent twenty-three weeks on the New York Times Graphic Books best seller list and won the 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for 'Best Publication for Kids' and 'Best Limited Series or Story Arc.' The second volume, The Marvelous Land of Oz, spent three weeks on the New York Times Graphic Books best seller list and won the 2011 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards for 'Best Adaptation from Another Work' and 'Best Penciller/Inker.' The third volume, Ozma of Oz, spent a week on the New York Times Graphic Books best seller list.Ĭomics retelling of the Trojan War legend. Frank Baum's Oz books, with art by Skottie Young (2008 - 2014). He wrote the scripts for Marvel Comics's adaptations of L. After the Oz graphic novel series, Eric's many other Oz projects have included writing and illustrating a children's novel The Giant Garden of Oz (Books of Wonder, 1993) and a collection of short stories The Salt Sorcerer of Oz and Other Stories (Hungry Tiger Press, 2003). Although Eric sometimes is determined to get out of Oz altogether, this hasn't happened so far. A collection of all five Oz graphic novels, Adventures in Oz, was issued by IDW Publishing in 2006, and subsequently as two volumes titled Little Adventures in Oz. Four more volumes in the series followed, the final one published by Dark Horse Comics in 1992. Frank Baum, The Enchanted Apples of Oz, was published by First Comics. In 1986 the first volume in Shanower's series of graphic novelsĬontinuing the Oz books by L. Professional comics assignment, lettering an issue of the comic book Warp, published by First Comics. On the day after graduation, he received his first After graduation from Novato (California) High School, heĪttended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, He began with amateur efforts, producing several illustrated manuscripts during the next decade. Frank Baum (and others) and decided to continue the Oz series with his own books.

The Shanower family subsequently lived in Monterey, California Laurel, Maryland Norfolk, Virginia Port Angeles, Washington Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Novato, California.Įarly in life Eric showed interest in drawing and in creating stories.Īt six years of age he discovered the series of Oz books by L. The family soon moved to Hawaii, where they lived on the islands of Kauai-where Eric's sister, Elizabeth Edna Shanower, was born-and Oahu. ERIC JAMES SHANOWER was born in Key West, Florida, on October 23, to James Lowell Shanower and Karen Elizabeth Shanower (nee Hietanen).

Oz by Eric Shanower