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__TOC__ BIOGRAPHY Ramos was discovered in 1993 at the San Diego Comic-Con , the comic book industry's largest annual convention, where comic legend Walt Simonson brought him to the attention of the founders of Milestone Media , where he did his first work in American comics in 1994, before being hired by DC Comics as the regular penciller for their new Flash spin-off '' Impulse '', which launched in March 1995. Written by Mark Waid , the superhero/teen comedy series focused on young speedster Bart Allen , the grandson of the second Flash, Barry Allen , and his struggles with growing up in an alienated Alabama suburb. In 1998, Ramos founded the imprint Cliffhanger with comic book artists Joe Madureira and J. Scott Campbell . They created the imprint, housed by Jim Lee 's Image Comics division Wildstorm , to publish their creator-owned comic books outside the mainstream superhero genre. Both Campbell and Madureira had already built large fanbases with their previous work on '' Gen 13 '' and '' Uncanny X-Men '' respectively, and were two of the most popular comic book artists at the time. Ramos, on the other hand, was not as popular and his inclusion on the imprint was perceived as second choice, after fan-favorite Michael Turner declined because he was still under contract at Top Cow .1 However, while Campbell's '' Danger Girl '' and Madureira's '' Battle Chasers '' soon ran into problems with both creators frequently missing deadlines and long delays between single issues, Ramos' '' Crimson ''—although not selling as many copies as the other two—stayed on schedule, missed hardly any shipping dates, and became the longest-running title of the imprint, even as more artists joined the imprint in the early 2000s. ''Crimson'' wrapped, after 24 issues and two one-shots, in February 2001, and was followed by Ramos' second Cliffhanger title, the Fantasy / Mystery series ''Out There'', a mere three months later. Along with the start of ''Out There'', Ramos also began illustrating the covers of ''. After his Cliffhanger contract ran out and ''Out There'' was concluded after 18 issues in early 2003, he left the imprint (apparently not on the best terms2) and launched a new Spider-Man title, '' nomination as Best Cover Artist. While Ramos worked on ''Spectacular Spider-Man'', another book created by him (although illustrated by Francisco Herrera ), the six-issue miniseries '' Kamikaze '', which had originally been planned for 2001,3 was published by WildStorm under the Cliffhanger imprint. In 2005, Ramos' creator-owned six-issue miniseries '' Revelations '' began publication at Dark Horse Comics . The series, once again written by Jenkins, was originally supposed to be published by Cliffhanger in 2001, but delayed for unknown reasons. Following ''Revelations'', Ramos returned to Marvel Comics, joining writer Marc Guggenheim as the new creative team on '' Wolverine '', beginning with issue #42 in March 2006.4 The same month also saw the release of the first volume of the Space Opera '' K '', a series of three 46-page Comic Album s Ramos is illustrating for French comic publisher Soleil Productions , written by the popular French comic book creator Crisse .5 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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