Rick Leonardi is coming to Garden State Comic fest June 24-25th!

Rick Leonardi is coming to Garden State Comic fest June 24-25th!

Rick is credited, along with fellow illustrator Mike Zeck, of designing the black-and-white costume to which Spider-Man switched during the 1984 Secret Wars miniseries, and later wore for a time. According to writer Peter David, the costume began as a design by Zeck that Leonardi embellished.The plot that developed as a result of Spider-Man's acquisition of the costume led to the creation of the Spider-Man villain known as Venom. He and writer Tom DeFalco created the Rose in The Amazing Spider-Man #253.
In 1992 Leonardi co-created Spider-Man 2099 with writer Peter David. Fans are looking forward to seeing Spider-Man 2099 (Miguel O'Hara) this summer in Across the Spider Verse. Leonardi later launched the Fantastic Four 2099 series with Karl Kesel.
Rick’s first published comics artwork appeared in Thor #303. He collaborated with writer Bill Mantlo on two limited series: The Vision and the Scarlet Witch and Cloak and Dagger. Leonardi's works in the 1980s include various fill-in issues of The Uncanny X-Men and The New Mutants.
Chris Claremont and Leonardi introduced the fictional country of Genosha in Uncanny X-Men #235.
Other works include Batman, Batgirl, Green Lantern vs. Aliens, Nightwing, Sentry, Star Wars: General Grievous, Superman Returns, Superman, JLA: Classified, Witchblade, and the Vigilante series that debuted from DC in December 2008.
Leonardi and inker Ande Parks are the illustrators on the 2019 Batman Beyond arc written by Dan Jurgens which debuted with issue #31 in April 2019. Although Leonardi had worked on Batman before, this assignment is his first time working on the future-based Batman Beyond, whose concept is similar to Spider-Man 2099