Bob Hall

Bob Hall was born in Lincoln Nebraska and attended Elliott Grade School, Whittier Junior High School, Lincoln High School, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln and The University of Iowa. Before leaving Nebraska, he was Artistic Director of The Omaha Junior Theatre and directed in the first four seasons of The Nebraska Repertory Theatre. In 1971, he... moved to New York City, where he served as resident director at CSC Repertory, The T. Schreiber Studio and The George Street Playhouse. In 1976 he co-authored The Passion of Dracula, which ran two years Off Broadway, played in Londons West End, was published by Samuel French and played on Showtime. He has directed regionally, Off Broadway and at various universities including Cornell University, Grand Valley State University, The University of Virginia and The Juilliard School. In 1986 he co-founded an off-off Broadway Shakespearean troop called The New Rude Mechanicals, which produced Shakespeare, Moliere and other classic playwrights in a New York loft. During periods of theatrical unemployment in NYC, he sustained himself as a cartoonist, writer and editor for Marvel, Valiant and DC Comics. He drew most of Marvels major titles at one time or another, including Captain America, Spiderman, Thor and The Mighty Avengers. For DC Comics he created a series of Batman graphic novels and for Valiant Comics in the 1990s he wrote and drew a series called Shadowman, also creating for that company a noir crime series called Armed and Dangerous and writing a sci fi comic, TimeWalker. He continues to do comic book work as well as theatre posters, set designs and studio paintings. His comics work has been exhibited at the Roper gallery, Lux Gallery and Hastings College. A retrospective of his comic book career was on display in the summer of 2012 at The Nebraska History Museum and he has just finished an educational comic on the measles virus calledThe Carnival of Contagion for Morrill Halls science program. It will be distributed nationally in the fall of 2017 through Nebraska ...Read More