Cullen Bunn
Cullen Bunn is an American comics writer, novelist, and short story writer, best known for his work on comic books such as a number of series published by Marvel Comics, and his creator-owned series The Damned and The Sixth Gun for Oni Press and Harrow County for Dark Horse Comics, as well as his middle grade horror novel Crooked Hills, and his short story collection Creeping Stones & Other Stories.
Cullen Bunn grew up in rural North Carolina. He lived there until he was 19, when his parents moved to Thayer, Missouri to run a cattle farm. After a couple years, his parents moved back to North Carolina, but Bunn remained in Missouri. He attended Missouri State University.
Bunn's noir/horror comic, and first collaboration with Brian Hurtt, The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. The sequel, The Damned: Prodigal Sons, was released in 2008. In 2010 Oni Press premiered Bunn's series, The Sixth Gun, which ran from May 2010 to June 2016.[citation needed] In 2011, Oni Press published Bunn's original hardcover graphic novel, The Tooth. That same year, Earwig Press/Evileye Books published Bunn's middle-reader horror prose series Crooked Hills. He also was one of the writers in Marvel Comics' crossover storyline that year, "Fear Itself". He wrote the tie-in book Fear Itself: The Black Widow, which received mostly positive reviews, and later wrote two issues of The Fearless, a spinoff published after the conclusion of "Fear Itself" that also received positive reviews. In November of that year, Lion Forge Comics published Bunn's digital comic, Night Trap. In 2013 Bunn wrote Deadpool Kills Deadpool for Marvel, which received positive reviews.
While in college Bunn had lived in the Springfield, Missouri area. As of July 2015, he was living in Valley Park, Missouri. By December 2018 he was described in an interview with 417 Magazine as having returned to live in Springfield. He and his wife Cindy have a son.
