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Tom writes: Catwoman is one of the most enduring pop culture icons, thanks to a number of iterations by a number of actresses in film and television. The latest played by the wonderful Anne Hathaway (who steals the show in The Dark Knight Rises) There have also been a number of versions of the character throughout her publication history. But in my mind there is one true depiction of Gotham City's master thief and it is in these very pages.Individually, Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke have a stellar body of work and in their own right have elevated comics from the pulpy and the kitsch to something of genuine artistic merit. Together they are a perfect storm of creativity. They reinvent Catwoman from the inside out, starting with a new and very personal mission that refines her place in Gotham as neither a hero nor a villain, but a little bit of both. She is prepared to break the law in the interest of protecting the people she cares for in the forgotten burrow of Gotham City known as the East End.Spend just a few minutes with me talking about comics and I will not shut up about Darwyn Cooke. His art is timeless, emotive, dramatic and most of all, damn good to look at. As both a writer and artist himself, Cooke understands better than most the conventions of sequential storytelling in comics. This understanding informs his story telling choices as they're economic in storytelling without sacrificing the beauty of illustrations. Not to be outdone, Ed Brubaker bring his sensibilities as a crime writer showing us the seedy underbelly of Gotham City and why Catwoman is the undisputed queen of the criminal underworld.

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Darwyn Cooke was an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and animator. After spending several years as a magazine art director and graphic designer, Cooke switched careers and began working in animation, where he contributed to such shows as Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, and Men in Black: The Series. DC Comics then approached Cooke to write and illustrate Batman: Ego, which Cooke had pitched unsuccessfully several years earlier. The critical success of the title led to the relaunch of the Catwoman series with writer Ed Brubaker. Cooke then spent several years writing and drawing the ambitious epic The New Frontier. He was also the writer/artist of Before Watchmen: Minutemen and co-writer of Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre. A one-time cartoonist, Ed Brubaker has been working as a writer since the early 1990s, and in that time his work has won several awards, including both the Harvey and Eisner Awards for Best Writer in 2007, and has been translated around the world. His comics credits include Batman, Catwoman, Gotham Central, and Sleeper for DC Comics and Daredevil, Captain America, and Criminal for Marvel. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Melanie, and many pets.

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