American author

Brian Azzarello

Brian Azzarello is an American comic book writer and screenwriter who first came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. Azzarello is best known for his numerous collaborations with artists Eduardo Risso and Lee Bermejo, his contributions to the Watchmen prequel project Before Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns sequel series DK III: The Master Race, as well as for his stints on the long-running Vertigo series Hellblazer and The New 52 relaunch of the Wonder Woman title.

Born

1962

August 11

Died

Living

Era

1960s

Country

—

About

Brian, in brief

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Life timeline

Key dates

1962 Born

Also on August 11

What else happened on this day, through history

-3114 The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
-2492 Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.
106 The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
117 Hadrian is proclaimed Roman emperor, two days after Trajan's death.

See all of August 11 →

The world in 1962

When Brian arrived

april 21 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
april 26 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
april 26 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
august 11 Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.

Read the year 1962 →

Same-day contemporaries

Also born on August 11

David Brooks 1961– American journalist and author David Rice Atchison 1807–1886 American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1886) Frederick Haldimand 1718–1791 Swiss-English general and politician, 22nd Governor of Quebec (died 1791) Friedrich Ludwig Jahn 1778– Prussian gymnast, educator, and politician (died 1852) Georgios Karatzaferis 1947– Greek journalist and politician Hugh MacDiarmid 1892–1978 Scottish poet and linguist (died 1978) Hulk Hogan 1953–2025 American professional wrestler (died 2025) Iván Córdoba 1976– Colombian footballer and manager Lloyd Nolan 1902–1985 American actor (died 1985)

See everything on August 11 →

Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1962

Art Alexakis 1962– American singer-songwriter and musician Billy Beane 1962– American baseball player and manager Chris Sanders 1962– American illustrator and voice actor Clint Black 1962– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Arnold 1962– English composer Dee Bradley Baker 1962– American voice actor Denis O'Hare 1962– American actor and singer Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Flea 1962– Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor

Read about the year 1962 →

Keep going

More to explore

Brian's birthday August 11 Brian's zodiac Leo When Brian arrived 1962