Michael Anthony "Tony" Moore is an American comic book artist, whose work consists mainly of genre pieces, most notably in horror and science fiction, with titles such as Fear Agent, The Exterminators, and the first six issues of The Walking Dead.
Career
Moore studied drawing, painting, and printmaking at the University of Louisville while working on Battle Pope, though he left his studies before obtaining his degree to pursue his career as a comic book illustrator, when he and writer Robert Kirkman were asked to produce work for the Mattel-licensed Masters of the Universe property. Shortly afterward, they launched Brit and The Walking Dead at Image Comics. Although Moore ceased regular interior artist duties on The Walking Dead with #6, he continued to contribute to the title as cover artist through issue #24, and illustrated the covers for the series' first four collected volumes. Moore was nominated for two Eisner Awards for his work on The Walking Dead, (2004: "Best New Series", and 2005: Best Cover Artist.) Because of the popularity of the series, which increased considerably when it was adapted into a television series of the same name, Moore's original artwork for the series' early issues has gone up in value. On the March 28, 2013 episode of the VH1 reality television series For What It's Worth, Moore's original artwork for Page 7 of issue #1 was professionally appraised to be worth $20,000.
Moore has since moved on to his own co-created properties, The Exterminators with Simon Oliver at DC/Vertigo, and Fear Agent with Rick Remender at Dark Horse Comics, and has contributed covers to numerous titles, including Claudio Sanchez's The Amory Wars and Rob Zombie's Spookshow International. He has also contributed to Marvel Comics' titles Ghost Rider (with Jason Aaron), and Punisher (with Rick Remender). He also was the artist for the Venom series from 2010-2012, also written by Remender.
On February 9, 2012, Moore filed a lawsuit alleging that in 2005, writer Robert Kirkman deceitfully engineered him into surrendering his rights to The Walking Dead comic book and eventual TV series in exchange for payments that never materialized. Kirkman said in a statement the following day that he and Moore "each had legal representation seven years ago and now he is violating the same contract he initiated and approved and he wants to misrepresent the fees he was paid and continues to be paid for the work he was hired to do." Kirkman in turn sued Moore. On September 24, 2012, the two released a joint statement saying they had reached a settlement "to everyone's mutual satisfaction."
Bibliography
Interior work
- Battle Pope #1-5, 8, 10-13 (with Robert Kirkman, Funk-O-Tron, 2000â€"2002)
- Kieron Dwyer's LCD #3 (script and art, FogelComix, 2002)
- 9-11 Volume 1: "Untitled" (with Robert Kirkman, Dark Horse, 2002)
- Masters of the Universe: Icons of Evil â€" Beastman (with Robert Kirkman, Ian Richter and Val Staples, one-shot, MVCreations, 2003)
- Brit (with Robert Kirkman, Image):
- Brit (one-shot, 2003)
- Brit: Cold Death (one-shot, 2003)
- The Walking Dead #1-6 (with Robert Kirkman, Image, 2003â€"2004)
- Western Tales of Terror #5: "Know When to Hold 'Em" (with Matty Field, Hoarse and Buggy, 2005)
- Fear Agent (with Rick Remender, Image/Dark Horse):
- "Re-Ignition" (with Jerome Opeña, in #1-4, 2005â€"2006)
- Fear Agent: The Last Goodbye #1-4 (2007)
- "I Against I" (in #22-27, 2008â€"2009)
- "Out of Step" (with Mike Hawthorne, in #28-32, 2010â€"2011)
- 24Seven Volume 1: "Fear and Loathing in NYC" (with Jonathan L. Davis, anthology graphic novel, Image, 2006)
- The Exterminators #1-7, 9-10, 13-14, 24-25, 28-30 (with Simon Oliver, Vertigo, 2006â€"2008)
- The Goon: Noir #3: "The Honey Pot" (with Brian Posehn, Dark Horse, 2007)
- XXXombies #1-4 (script, with Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer, Image, 2007â€"2008)
- Ghost Rider #33-35: "Trials & Tribulations" (with Jason Aaron, Marvel, 2009)
- Punisher #11-14, 16, 19-20 (with Rick Remender, Mike Hawthorne and Daniel Brereton, Marvel, 2010)
- Venom #1-2, 4-5, 13-14 (with Rick Remender and Tom Fowler, Marvel, 2011â€"2012)
- Deadpool #1-6 (with Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan, Marvel, 2012â€"2013)
Covers only
- Rob Zombie's Spookshow International #7 (MVCreations, 2004)
- The Walking Dead #7-24 (Image, 2004â€"2005)
- Tales from the Bully Pulpit (Image, 2004)
- Western Tales of Terror #1 (Hoarse and Buggy, 2004)
- Sea of Red #1-3, 8-10 (Image, 2005â€"2006)
- Battle Hymn #5 (Image, 2005)
- Fear Agent #5-11 (Image, 2006â€"2007)
- Army of Darkness #8 (Dynamite, 2006)
- The Last Christmas #5 (Image, 2006)
- The Amory Wars v1 #1-5 (Image, 2007â€"2008)
- Pilot Season: Ripclaw (Top Cow, 2007)
- Tales of the Fear Agent: Twelve Steps in One #1 (Dark Horse, 2007)
- Ghost Rider #18 (Marvel, 2008)
- Fear Agent #21 (Dark Horse, 2008)
- The Amory Wars v2 #1-5 (Image, 2008)
- Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth #2 (Marvel, 2009)
- Victorian Undead #1 (Wildstorm, 2010)
- Key of Z #1 (Boom! Studios, 2011)
- Venom #6-8, 10-12, 15, 18-19, 21-22 (Marvel, 2011â€"2012)
- American Vampire: The Long Road to Hell #1 (Vertigo, 2013)
- Batman v2 #32 (DC Comics, 2014)
- Detective Comics v2 #33 (DC Comics, 2014)
References
External links
- Official website
- Tony Moore at the Grand Comics Database
- Tony Moore at the Comic Book DB
- A Brief Amory Wars Chat With Tony Moore, August 2, 2007, Newsarama
