title: Cliff Rathburn
text: # Cliff Rathburn
  
  Cliff Rathburn is an American comic book artist. He pencils, inks, colors and greyscales.
  
  ## Career
  
  Rathburn did some early work at DC Comics. He later known for providing the greyscale coloring for Robert Kirkman's long-running series The Walking Dead at Image Comics. Also at Image he did the artwork on Kirkman's Reaper and Brit one-shots before going on to provide the complete art for the first six issues of Brit, his first ongoing series. In between he also worked at Marvel Comics.
  
  Rathburn inked the pencils of Simon Coleby and Tony Harris on The Authority and War Heroes, respectively.
  
  ## Awards
  
  In 2011 Rathburn was awarded the Inkwell Awards' S.P.A.M.I. (Favorite Small Press and Mainstream-Independent) Award.
  
  In 2016, Rathburn was nominated for another S.P.A.M.I.
  
  