Background
Ron Wilson was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in the Canarsie neighborhood.
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Career
Wilson spent eleven years, from 1975 to 1986, chronicling The Thing"s adventures through different comic titles. Wilson entered the comics industy in the early 1970s at Marvel Comics where he produced both cover illustrations and interior artwork. He was the regular artist on Marvel Two-in-One from 1975–1978 and again from 1980–1983.
While additionally working on titles such as Black Goliath, Power Manitoba, The Hulk! and Captain Britain.
In the 1980s, after the cancellation of Marvel Two-in-One, Wilson teamed with writer John Byrne on The Thing (1983–1986). In 1983 he plotted and drew "Super Boxers" (Marvel Graphic Novel #8).
He drew the entire run of Marvel"s Masters of the Universe (1986–1988), and Wolfpack limited series (1988–1989). Wilson"s work also appeared in The Avengers, Captain America, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu, Iron Manitoba, and What If.
In 1990, Wilson illustrated an issue of Urth 4 with Continuity Comics, and then returned to Marvel to do WCW World Championship Wrestling in 1992-1993.
His work appeared regularly in Marvel Comics Presents in the years 1992–1994. Ron contributed to the crafting of District of Columbia Comics Milestone Media imprint providing character design work and even pencilled an issue of Icon as well as the District of Columbia universe mini-series Arion the Immortal. In 2008, he provided a cover for the second issue of the pro wrestling-themed mini-series Headlocked published by Visionary Comics.
As of 2012, Wilson was preparing a new creator-owned project Battle Rappers.
