Richard Pini is one-half of a husband and wife team with Wendy Pini that created, most notably, the Elfquest series. He was raised in Orange, Connecticut with his three siblings. Richard began writing science fiction stories early in his childhood. In 1972, Richard and Wendy were married after a courtship of four years. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 with a degree in Astrophysics. He worked at the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston until 1975 and Taunton High School until 1979 when he began his career at IBM. In 1977, Richard and Wendy established a publishing company called Warp Graphics to publish their first Elfquest comic. Richard is credited as co-writer and editor on Elfquest, as well as handling all of the publishing and business aspects of Warp Graphics. Elfquest was self-published for 25 years and in 2003, licensed to DC Comics. The comic series has won several awards, including the Ed Aprill Award for Best Independent Comic, two Alley Awards, the Fantasy Festival Comic Book Awards for Best Alternative Comic, and the Golden Pen Award. Richard has also contributed writing for Worldpool, Futurequest, Rogue's Curse, and two Windkin stories. He has received the Small Press Writers and Artists Organization Award for Best Editor, the San Diego Comic Convention Inkpot Award, and the New York State Jaycees Distinguished Service Award. Richard and his wife currently reside in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Series
Books
Elfquest - New Blood
1993
Elfquest
The Discovery
2006
Elfquest
Journey to Sorrows End
1982
The Complete ElfQuest, Volume Five
2018
Elfquest Archives, Vol. 1
2003
The Complete Elfquest
Book 3: Captives of Blue Mountain
1983
Elfquest
The Final Quest #21
2017
Elfquest The Hidden Years
1992
Dreiging onder water
1992
Phoenix
2002
De wolfrijders
1978
Elfquest Archives, Vol. 2
2005
ElfQuest Integral, Tomo Uno
2014
Quest's End
1984
Høvdingeblod
1999
Wolfrider!
1999
Rivalerne
1981
Elfquest
The Final Quest #2
1985
Elfquest
The Final Quest #9
2015
Elfquest
The Final Quest Volume 1
2015
ElfQuest
The Final Quest #20
2017
Dreamtime
1998
Elfquest
The Searcher And the Sword
2004
Rogue's Curse
2000
Elfquest
The Final Quest #23
2017
Elfquest
The Final Quest #7
2015
ElfQuest
The Grand Quest Volume 1
2004
Elf Quest
The Final Quest
2015
Elfquest
The Final Quest #22
1987
The Cry from Beyond
1991
ElfQuest #21 - Dear Scrapbook...
1985
ElfQuest
The Grand Quest Volume 2
2004
Chief's Howl
2001
Xanth
Morning Becalms Electra
2025
Legacy
1998
Elfquest
The Final Quest #1
2015
Skyward Shadow
1999
The Complete ElfQuest, Volume Six
2019
The Complete ElfQuest, Volume Four
2017
ElfQuest Bedtime Stories
1994
Elfquest
Stargazer's Hunt #1
2019
De schreeuw van verre
1994
ElfQuest
The Final Quest Volume 3
2017
ElfQuest New Blood #1
1992
De intocht van Grohmul Djun
1998
Elfquest
The Final Quest #3
2015
Fire and Flight
1981
Skår
1997
Mindcoil
1999
De hereniging
2002
Het net van de wraak
1992
The Forbidden Grove
1982
ElfQuest
The Final Quest Volume 4
2018
Shards
1998
Elfquest
The Quest Begins
1996
Sten
1999
Elfquest Book #09
Rogue's Challenge
1994
De terugkomst van Timmain
1995
