Murewa Ayodele

Murewa Ayodele (born 15 June 1994) Their comic New Men was nominated for the Nommo Award for Best Graphic Novel.

Career Ayodele has worked professionally in comics for over ten years. He and artist Dotun Akande met at Redeemer's University, where they began making comics together. Their studio, Collectible Comics NG, created a number of comics including Anarchy, GodKiller, Cliff: Lust and Gravity, Utopia and more.

In 2019, he and Akande released New Men, a "soft biopunk thriller" set in Africa in the year 2030. In 2020, it was released in America by Action Lab Comics.

In 2021, he and Akande launched the Webtoon My Grandfather Was a God. This gained them attention from Marvel Comics, who hired them to do the 2023 five-issue mini-series I Am Iron Man for Iron Man's 60th anniversary. In 2024, it was announced that they would release their next comic, Akogun: Brutalizer of Gods, through Oni Press.

In May 2024, Ayodele was announced as the writer for the upcoming Storm series set during the X-Men: From the Ashes relaunch with artist Lucas Werneck, relaunched after twelve issues as Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant; In March 2026, he introduced the character Galacta as "Gail Arakawa" after Gail Simone and Hiromu Arakawa.

Personal life Ayodele is Yoruba and grew up in Osun State. He went to Redeemer's University, where he got a degree in computer science.