Ed Brubaker  Ed Brubaker (; born November 17, 1966) is an American comic book writer and cartoonist. Brubaker's first early comics work was primarily in the crime fiction genre with works such as "Lowlife", "The Fall", "Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives" and "Scene of the Crime". He later became known for writing superhero comics such as "Batman", "Daredevil", "Captain America", "Catwoman", "Uncanny X-Men", and "The Authority". He has won an Eisner Award on seven separate occasions. Brubaker's first work in comics was as a cartoonist, writing and drawing "Pajama Chronicles" and penciling a "Gumby 3D" issue for Blackthorne Comics, "Purgatory U.S.A." for Slave Labor Graphics, and the semi-autobiographical series "Lowlife" for Caliber Comics and later Aeon Press. At Caliber, he briefly edited the anthology series "Monkey Wrench". In 1991, he started to contribute crime stories to the Dark Horse Comics anthology series "Dark Horse Presents", a comic he would continue to contribute to intermittently throughout the decade. Among those contributions was the three part serial "An Accidental Death" ("Dark Horse Presents" #65–67), a collaboration with artist Eric Shanower, which garnered the two a 1993 Eisner Award nomination. In 1997, he began to publish his cartoonist work through the small press publisher Alternative Comics. In the one-off "At the Seams", a romantic triangle is explored through three stories which each depict a different participant's point-of-view. The comic was a 1997 Ignatz Award nominee for Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection. His other work for Alternative Comics, the humorous and experimental "Detour" No. 1, was to be the first issue of a series, though only one issue was published. "Detour" was nominated for the "Best New Series" Harvey Award in 1998. "The Fall", a graphic novel that was written by Brubaker and illustrated by "Berlin" creator Jason Lutes was published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2001. This work had previously been anthologized in five parts in "Dark Horse Presents" in 1998. The story involved a convenience store clerk who gets involved in a ten-year-old murder mystery after he uses a stolen credit card. In 2004 IDW Publishing announced that Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips would collaborate on a creator owned pirate series titled "Black Sails" for them.