Garth Ennis
Garth Ennis is a Northern Irishborn American comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nineyear run on Marvel Comics Punisher franchise. He has collaborated with artists such as Dillon and Glenn Fabry on Preacher, John McCrea on Hitman, and Carlos Ezquerra on both Preacher and Hitman.
After the end of Hitman, Ennis was hired at Marvel Comics with the promise from EditorinChief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. The initial 12issue maxiseries was illustrated by Steve Dillon, who also did a 37issue series which only ended when Ennis decided to change direction. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, relaunched under Marvels MAX imprint. This run has inspired several limited series and oneshots . The creators of Punisher War Zone have attributed Enniss PunisherMAX run as one of the major influences on the film. While at Marvel, Ennis also wrote stories for SpiderMan, Ghost Rider, Hulk, and Thor.
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