Bryan Lee O'Malley

Bryan Lee O'Malley
O'Malley in 2019
Born (1979-02-21) February 21, 1979 (age 47)
London, Ontario, Canada
AreaCartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works
Scott Pilgrim, Seconds
AwardsEisner Award
Doug Wright Award
Joe Shuster Award
Spouse
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(m. 2004; div. 2014)​
www.radiomaru.com

Bryan Lee O'Malley (born February 21, 1979) is a Canadian cartoonist, best known for the Scott Pilgrim series. He also performs as a musician under the alias Kupek.

Career

Bryan Lee O'Malley attended St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School in London, Ontario, Canada. He went on to start in Film Studies at the University of Western Ontario, but dropped out before completing.

Prior to having his own material published, O'Malley illustrated the Oni Press miniseries Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero, written by Jen Van Meter. He also lettered many Oni comics, including the majority of Chynna Clugston's output between 2002 and 2005.

His first original graphic novel was Lost at Sea, released by Oni Press in 2003. Lost at Sea is a coming-of-age story about a shy 18-year-old girl named Raleigh, who believes her soul was stolen by a cat, and the road trip she takes across the United States with several teens from her school that she barely knows.

From 2004 to 2010, O'Malley worked on the six-volume Scott Pilgrim series, published by Oni Press in digest size black and white books. The series was a critical and commercial success, spawning a full-color re-release, a 2010 film adaptation, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, a video game adaptation, a number of official soundtracks and an anime adaptation in 2023.

O'Malley created the cover art work for the 2012 video game Fez. In July 2014, his graphic novel Seconds was released by Ballantine Books. In mid 2016, O'Malley revealed the title of his next major graphic novel Worst World, which currently has no release date. He is also the co-creator of the ongoing comic book Snotgirl with Leslie Hung. He is officially billed as its writer.

Personal life

O'Malley is of Korean descent from his mother's side and of Irish and French-Canadian from his father's side. In 2004, O'Malley married fellow cartoonist Hope Larson. They lived together in Toronto in 2004, Halifax in 2005, North Carolina from 2008 to 2010, and Los Angeles. They divorced in 2014.

Awards

Bibliography

Graphic novels

  • Lost at Sea (2003, ISBN 1-929998-71-6)
  • Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (2004, ISBN 1-932664-08-4)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2005, ISBN 1-932664-12-2)
  • Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness (2006, ISBN 1-932664-22-X)
  • Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (2007, ISBN 9781932664492)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe (2009, ISBN 1-934964-10-7)
  • Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (2010, ISBN 978-1-934964-38-5)
  • Seconds (2014, ISBN 978-0-345529-37-4)
  • Worst World (TBA)

Comic books

Short stories

  • "Lost at Sea", a two-page full-color comic in the Oni Press Color Special 2002
  • "Monica Beetle" in Project: Superior (ISBN 0-9721794-8-8)
  • "Smiling Is Something That Other People Do", in The SPX 2003 Anthology (ISBN 0-9721794-3-7)

Music

O'Malley is also a songwriter and musician (as Kupek) and was formerly in several short-lived Toronto bands such as Imperial Otter and Honey Dear.

Notes

  1. ↑ Later included in Lost at Sea: Tenth Anniversary Edition (2014, ISBN 978-1620101131)

References

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  39. ↑ "Oni Press • We're excited to finally reveal the Issue #1..." Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  40. ↑ "BOOM! Studios debuts exclusive variant cover for new Valentine's Day comic". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  41. ↑ Perpetua, Matthew (2010-08-12). "Interview With Scott Pilgrim Creator Bryan Lee O'Malley!". Retrieved 2014-10-24.