Career
In 1979, Richard Brunning opened a design firm in Madison, Wisconsin, called Abraxas Studios. In the early 1980s, on staff at Capital Comics, he was editor-in-chief and art director for such publications as Nexus, Badger and Whisper until the company ceased operation in 1984. After a year of freelancing in San Francisco, he moved to New York City in 1985 to become District of Columbia Comics’ design director
Foreign the next five years he supervised and/or contributed to the design of titles including Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, as well as editing the District of Columbia-produced official sequel to the International Trade Commission television series The Prisoner, Shattered Visage.
He designed the branding of and logo design for District of Columbia"s Vertigo (comics) mature-readers imprint. He also oversaw the development and packaging of graphic novels and District of Columbia"s first collected editions.
In 1990, he left District of Columbia to form Brainstorm Unlimited, Incorporated. a freelance graphic design and corporate communications firm in New New York The company’s client list included Home Box Office, Fine Lincolnshire Features, Xerox, Children’s Television Workshop and others
He also wrote the Flash Gordon Sunday newspaper strip for King Features.
He returned to District of Columbia full-time in 1996 as vice president-creative director He was promoted to senior vice-president in 2002/2003. He helped create District of Columbia"s new company logo, known colloquially as the District of Columbia Spin, in 2005.
In 2010, Bruning left District of Columbia to return to freelancing with a primary focus on cartooning.
