Bob Hall has been painting for over twenty years.  During most of that time he made his living either as a cartoonist or theatre director.  In 1997 he settled in LIncoln Nebraska to concentrate on a career in fine art.

After earning a masters degree in theatre from the University of Nebraska, Hall spent twenty-five years in New York City pursuing dual careers in cartooning and theatre arts.  He was artistic director of three resident professional theatre companies, including off-off Broadway’s New Rude Mechanicals, a Shakespearean troop which he co-founded.  He co-authored a  stage adaptation, The Passion of Dracula, which ran two years at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village.  It also played London’s West End and was filmed for Show Time.  A follow-up adaptation of Frankenstein  has been performed in several regional  professional theatres.  From 1988 to 1993 Hall was the artistic director of the Nebraska Repertory in Lincoln, NE.  He continues to direct on a regular basis, primarily as a guest artist at Shakespeare festivals and schools such as Cornell University and Julliard.

In 1974-75 Hall was privileged to learn illustration from John Buscema at his School of Comic Art.  Later he studied life drawing and painting under Don Stacy at New York’s New School.  His first professional job was in 1974 at Charlton where he penciled and inked several horror stories.

In ‘76 he began a long association with  Marvel Comics where at one time or another he drew most of the major characters  These include The Champions, Spiderman, Dr. Doom., Conan, Thor, The Fantastic Four, The Submariner, Captain America, PSI Force, The Avengers  and The New Mutants.  He also drew  movie adaptations of Willow, Dark Man  and the notorious Captain America --arguably the worst movie of all time.  In 1986 he penciled and inked the graphic novel, Emperor Doom .  Hall was an assistant editor at Marvel under Jim Shooter. in 1979.

In 1991, Shooter asked him to become a writer for the newly formed Valiant comics (later known as Acclaim).  During his first three years at Valiant/Acclaim, Hall wrote and penciled the monthly series Shadowman..  During this time Shadowman. was consistently on the “hundred best selling comics” list.  Before Acclaim ceased publishing, Hall wrote Timewalker  and then created Armed and Dangerous, a black and white “comic-noir” series which has become a cult favorite. While under contract with Acclaim, Hall lived in England and Ireland, mining the rich legends of those countries for several comics related projects.

Since Acclaim’s demise, Hall has worked for both DC and Marvel.  In addition to producing the Batman graphic novel projects previously mentioned, Hall has drawn monthly issues of Batman  and Chase .  He wrote and drew a short story for Vertigo’s Flinch  series and illustrated a Silver Surfer for Marvel.  He has  illustrated two Spiderman novels.

Hall has created posters and cartoons for theatre companies.  He has accepted commissions as a portrait artist and his paintings and drawings have shown at a number of galleries, including recent shows at the museum of the University of Nebraska at Kearny and the Institute of Great Plains Studies in Lincoln.

Hall is a member of the National Cartoonists Society as well as Actors Equity Association and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.