Bob Wiacek
Biography
Bob Wiacek has enjoyed a long and diverse career!
Inked Mike Grell on The Legion of Super Heroes #220 and Al Milgrom on Marvel Presents #7-The Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel. From that time on I’ve inked every major title for Marvel which include The X-Men, Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, She Hulk, Man-Thing, Star Wars, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four just to name a few. At DC I worked on Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Brave and the Bold, The Ray, Batman Family, Justice Society, Shazam and Challengers of the Unknown which is a small sampling as well. As far as independent publishers I did work for Dark Horse, Image, Relium Media, Archie and Valiant where I worked on Archer and Armstrong, Bloodshot and Solar.
Worked with many great talents such as Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Gene Colan, John and Sal Buscema, Walter Simonson, Frank Miller, Barry Windsor-Smith, George Perez, Jerry Ordway, Paul Smith, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, Don Heck, Ron Garney, June Brigman, Colleen Doran plus many others.
The books I am most noted for are as follows:
Uncanny X-Men #s 154-164 inking Dave Cockrum and #s 165-175 inking Paul Smith (Issues #172 and 173 were what The Wolverine movie was partially based on-Japanese adventure) Also issue #171 where Rogue joins the X-Men inking Walter Simonson. Also inked issues 176, 178, 180, 214 inking Barry Windsor-Smith and 287.
X-Factor #10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17-22, 24-31, 33-37 inking Walter Simonson with Marc Silvestri & Sal Buscema. Issues 19 through 26 are partially based on the movie X-men-Apocolypse.
Star Wars #s 16 inking Walter Simonson, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 29, 31and 96. Inked a number of covers as well.
Iron Man #s 108, 129, 136, 258-270 and 181 This run includes the Armor Wars 2 story line which the movie Iron Man 2 was partially based on.
Batman #s 286, 287, 288, 495 (Knight Fall issue) and 505 (Knight Quest)
Bloodshot #1
The Iron-Man 2020 project where I co-plotted with Walter Simonson, penciled and inked the book with an able assist from Will Rosado.
As of late I’ve helped out in inking All New Wolverine #10 over Ig Guara and a JLA General Mills comic inking Rick Leonardi which was available in different cereal boxes. I have also inked Badger #1 over Val Mayerik for First Comics and now inking Stars End #2 from Insane comics penciled by Larry Spike Jarrell.
I starred in a commercial with Rap group G-Unit in 2003. Plus I have a small part in the independent film Manos-The Rise of Torgo which I did the poster for.