Prentis Rollins is a graphic novelist and author. His book ‘How to Draw Sci-fi Heroes and Villains’ was published by Phaidon in April of 2023. His other books include: ‘How to Draw Sci-fi Utopias and Dystopias’ (Phaidon, 2016), ‘The Furnace (A Graphic Novel)’ (Tor Books, 2018), ‘The Making of a Graphic Novel (The Resonator)’ (Random House, 2006), ‘Survival Machine (Stories)’ (Monkeysuit Press, 2002), and ‘Forgetting to Remember (A Graphic Novel)’ (forthcoming). He was featured artist on ‘Jekyll Island Chronicles, Volume 3: A Last Call’ (IDWTop Shelf, 2021).
Prentis was co-founder and editor of Monkeysuit Press, which published 5 acclaimed comics anthologies and any number of one-offs between 1999 and 2006. Among Monkeysuit’s contributors were Enrico Casarosa (director of Pixar’s ‘Luca’) and co-founder Christopher McCulloch (aka Jackson Publick, creator of ‘Venture Brothers’).
Prentis was penciller and/or inker on many DC Comics titles. He had a long collaboration with penciller Val Semeiks on such titles as ‘DC: One Million’, ‘DC: 2000’, ‘JLA: Foreign Bodies’, and ‘JLA: Incarnations’. He inked ‘Green Lantern: Rebirth’, ‘Flash: Iron Heights’, many issues of ‘Impulse’, and several issues of ‘New X-Men’ (for Marvel) with penciller Ethan Van Sciver. He inked many issues of ‘Green Lantern Corps’ with penciller Patrick Gleason, and ‘The Power Company’ with penciller Tom Grummett. He inked ‘Batman: The Ultimate Evil’ and many issue of ‘Hardware’ (DC/Milestone Media) with penciller Denys Cowan, and he pencilled ‘Hardware’ for part of its initial incarnation.
Prentis was a storyboard artist/background designer for Walt Disney Productions for several years, working on such Disney Channel productions as ‘101 Dalmations (The Series)’, ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’, ‘PB&J Otter’, and ‘Doug’s First Movie’, and he drew the animated interstitials for the original Broadway production of ‘Avenue Q’. He has taught pen-and-ink drawing at The School of Visual Arts in New York City, online comics classes for Outclass Education (Beijing), and philosophy at Rutgers University. He lives with his family in London.
