American comic book artist and writer (born 1950)
Howard Victor Chaykin
[1]
(
; born October 7, 1950)
[2]
is an
American
comic book artist
and writer. Chaykin's influences include his one-time employer and mentor,
Gil Kane
, and the mid-20th century illustrators
Robert Fawcett
and
Al Parker
.
Early life
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Howard Chaykin was born in
Newark, New Jersey
, to Rosalind Pave and Norman Drucker, who soon separated.
[3]
Chaykin was initially raised by his grandparents in
Staten Island
, New York City, until his mother married Leon Chaykin in 1953 and the family moved to
East Flatbush
and later to 370 Saratoga Avenue,
Brownsville, Brooklyn
. At 14,
[1]
Chaykin moved with his now divorced mother to the
Kew Gardens
section of
Queens
.
[3]
He said in 2000 he was raised on
welfare
after his parents separated and that his absent biological father eventually was declared dead, although Chaykin, as an adult, located him alive. Chaykin's "nutty and cruel" adoptive father, whom Chaykin until the 1990s believed was his natural father,
[3]
encouraged Chaykin's interest in drawing and bought him sketchbooks.
[1]
He was introduced to comics by his cousin, who gave him a refrigerator box filled with them.
[4]
He graduated from
Jamaica High School
at 16, in 1967, and in mid-1968 worked at Zenith Press. He attended
Columbia College
in Chicago that fall, but left school and returned to New York the following year.
[3]
Chaykin said that after high school, "I hitchhiked around the country" before becoming, at 19, a "gofer" for the New York City?based comic book artist
Gil Kane
,
[5]
whom he would name as his greatest influence.
[4]
Career
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Chaykin's earliest work with comic books was under the tutelage of Gil Kane, whom he would later call his mentor.
[7]
I'd heard on the grapevine that Gil's assistant had dropped dead of a heart attack at 23. I gave Gil a call, and he said, 'Yeah, I can use you.' So I went to work for him. ... He was doing [the early
graphic novel
]
Blackmark
, and I did a really bad job pasting up the dialog and putting in [
Zip-a-Tone
].... It was a great apprenticeship. I learned a lot from watching Gil work.
[5]
In 1970, he began publishing his art in comics and science-fiction
fanzines
, sometimes under the
pseudonym
Eric Pave
.
[3]
Leaving Kane, he began working as an assistant to comics artist
Wally Wood
[8]
in the studio he shared with
Syd Shores
and
Jack Abel
in
Valley Stream
,
Long Island
. He worked there for a "couple of months",
[5]
and in 1971 published his first professional comics work, for the adult-theme
Western
feature
Shattuck
in the military newspaper the
Overseas Weekly
,
[3]
one of Wood's clients. He also "
ghosted
some stuff" for
Gray Morrow
: "I
penciled
a
Man-Thing
story he did [for
Marvel Comics
'
Fear
#10 (
cover-dated
Oct. 1972)], and I penciled a thing for [the magazine]
National Lampoon
called "
Michael Rockefeller
and the Jungles of New Guinea."
[5]
[9]
He then apprenticed under
Neal Adams
, working with the artist at Adams' home in
The Bronx
.
[5]
This led to his first work at
DC Comics
, one of the two largest comics companies:
Neal showed me to [editors]
Murray Boltinoff
and
Julius Schwartz
. Murray gave me a one-page filler. I also got some work from
Dorothy Woolfolk
, who edited the
love comics
. It was all just dreadful stuff, but you stumble along, and you learn. A problem for me was that by the time I became a professional, I lost any interest whatsoever in
superhero
comics. I'm not a
horror [comics]
guy, and I didn't know what the hell to do! (laughter) What I wanted to draw is guys with guns, guys with swords, and women with big tits, and that was the extent of my interest in comics at the time.
[10]
The "one-page filler", titled "Strange Neighbor", was inventoried and eventually published in the Boltinoff-edited
Secrets of Sinister House
#17 (May 1974).
[3]
[11]
His other earliest known DC work was penciling and
inking
the three-page story "Not Old Enough!" in
Young Romance
#185 (Aug. 1972), and penciling the eight-page supernatural story "Eye of the Beholder" in
Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion
#7 (Oct. 1972) and the one-page "Enter the Portals of Weird War" in
Weird War Tales
#9 (Dec. 1972).
[11]
At one point Chaykin lived in the same Queens apartment building as artists
Allen Milgrom
,
Walter Simonson
, and
Bernie Wrightson
. Simonson recalls, "We'd get together at 3 a.m. They'd come up and we'd have popcorn and sit around and talk about whatever a 26, 27, and 20-year-old guys talk about. Our art, TV, you name it. I pretty much knew at the time, 'These are the good ole days.'"
[12]
1970s
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Chaykin's first major work was for
DC Comics
drawing the 23-page "The Price of Pain Ease"?writer
Denny O'Neil
's adaptation of author
Fritz Leiber
's characters
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
?in
Sword of Sorcery
#1 (March 1973).
[11]
[13]
Although the title was well received, it lasted only five issues before cancellation. Chaykin drew the character
Ironwolf
in the science fiction anthology title
Weird Worlds
[14]
for DC, and did the pencils and ink for a 12-page Batman story written by
Archie Goodwin
and published in
Detective Comics
#441 in 1974. In 2018 he looked back on this Batman story as one of the worst things he had ever drawn, adding, "Anything of value in that story was Archie's."
[15]
Moving to
Marvel Comics
, he began work as co-artist with Neal Adams on the first
Killraven
story, seen in
Amazing Adventures
#18 in 1973.
[16]
After this, Chaykin was given various adventure strips to draw for Marvel, including his own creation,
Dominic Fortune
(inspired by his
Scorpion
character, originally drawn for
Atlas Comics
), now in the pages of
Marvel Preview
.
[17]
In 1978, he wrote and drew his
Cody Starbuck
creation for the anthology title
Star Reach
, one of the first independent titles of the 1970s. These strips saw him explore more adult themes as best he could within the restrictions often imposed on him by editors and the
Comics Code Authority
. The same year, he produced for Schanes & Schanes a six-plate portfolio showcasing his character.
In 1976, Chaykin landed the job of drawing the
Marvel Comics
adaptation
of the
first
Star Wars
film
, written by
Roy Thomas
.
[11]
[18]
[19]
Chaykin left after 10 issues to work in more adult and experimental comics, and to do paperback book covers.
In late 1978,
[20]
Chaykin,
Walt Simonson
,
Val Mayerik
, and
Jim Starlin
formed
Upstart Associates
, a shared studio space on West 29th Street in New York City. The membership of the studio changed over time.
[21]
Chaykin penciled DC Comics' first miniseries,
World of Krypton
(July?September 1979).
[22]
[23]
In the next few years he produced material for
Heavy Metal
, drew a
graphic novel
adaptation of
Alfred Bester
's
The Stars My Destination
, and produced illustrations for works by
Roger Zelazny
. Chaykin collaborated on two original graphic novels?
The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell
with writer
Michael Moorcock
, and
Empire
with
Samuel R. Delany
?and found time to move into film design with work on the movie version of
Heavy Metal
.
1980s
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In 1980 he designed the album cover of
The Legend of Jesse James
, a concept album about legendary outlaw
Jesse James
.
[24]
Chaykin had a six-issue run on Marvel's
Micronauts
series, drawing issues from #13 (January 1980) to #18 (June 1980).
[25]
He went back to Cody Starbuck with a story in
Heavy Metal
between May and September 1981, in the same painted art style he'd used for the Moorcock graphic novel.
In June 1980, a story that he collaborated on with Samuel R. Delany, called "Seven Moons' Light Casts Complex Shadows" was published in Marvel's
Epic Illustrated
#2.
[26]
In 1983, Chaykin launched
American Flagg!
for
First Comics
. With Chaykin as both writer and artist, the series was successful for First and proved highly influential, mixing all of Chaykin's previous ideas and interests?jazz,
pulp adventure
, science fiction and sex. Chaykin made wide use of
Craftint
Duoshade illustration boards, which in the period before computers allowed him to add a shaded texture to the finished art.
[27]
American Flagg!
made a huge splash at the 1984
Eagle Awards
, the United Kingdom's pre-eminent comics awards. Chaykin and
American Flagg!
were nominated for ten awards,
[28]
eventually winning seven.
[29]
After the first 26 issues of
American Flagg!
, Chaykin started work on new projects. Chaykin's involvement in his original run of the series was that of writer for 29 issues, interior artist for issues #1?12 and 14?26, and cover artist for issues #1?33. He returned to full art and writing for the
American Flagg! Special
one-shot in 1986. In 1987, a four-issue run was released, then the title was cancelled and relaunched as
Howard Chaykin's American Flagg!
, which ran 12 issues.
The first new project was a revamp of
The Shadow
in a four-issue miniseries for
DC Comics
in 1986.
[30]
Rather than setting the series in its traditional 1930s milieu, Chaykin updated it to a contemporary setting and included his own style of extreme violence. In a 2012 interview, Chaykin stated, "The reason I pulled him out of the period was because I thought it would be commercial suicide to do a period character at that point."
[31]
The
American Flagg! Special
one-shot introduced Chaykin's
Time²
, a two-volume graphic-novel series with a heavy dose of jazz,
film noir
and a fantasy version of New York City:
Time²: The Epiphany
(
ISBN
0-915419-07-6
) and
Time²: The Satisfaction of Black Mariah
(
ISBN
0-915419-23-8
)). In 1987, Chaykin described plans for a third volume, saying, "It's probably going to be grossly different from the first two, because I'm taking things in another direction ... I want to do a story that is both very funny ... and at the same time very, very ugly. Really nasty and unpleasant. Because frankly, it's the place to do that sort of thing."
[32]
Although Chaykin hoped it would be available in 1988,
[32]
the third volume will be included in the Time² Omnibus, released in February, 2024 through
Image Comics
.
Chaykin has described
Time²
as the single work about which he is most proud.
[4]
"To tell you the truth, my first interest would be to do another
Time²
because that was a very personal product for me," he said in 2008. "It's a fantasia of my family's story."
[33]
Before returning to
American Flagg!
, Chaykin revamped another DC Comics character with
Blackhawk
, a three-issue miniseries about a team of heroic aviators, set in the 1930s.
In 1987, DC proposed a system of labeling comics for violent or sexual content, Chaykin with
Alan Moore
and
Frank Miller
boycotted DC and refused to work for the company.
[34]
In 1988, Chaykin created perhaps his most controversial
[35]
title:
Black Kiss
, a 12-issue series published by
Vortex Comics
that contained his most explicit depictions of sex and violence, with a story of sex-obsessed
vampires
in
Hollywood
. Though
Black Kiss
shipped sealed in an "adults only" clear plastic bag, its content drew much criticism.
[36]
This did not stop it from selling well enough for Chaykin to describe it as "probably, on a per-page basis, the most profitable book I've ever done."
[37]
1990s
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Chaykin returned to DC to write the three-issue
miniseries
Twilight
, drawn by
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
and revamping some of DC's science-fiction heroes of the 1950s and 1960s, such as
Tommy Tomorrow
and
Space Cabby
. Later, Chaykin collaborated twice with artist
Mike Mignola
: In 1990?1991, they produced the
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
miniseries for
Epic Comics
with co-writer
John Francis Moore
and inker
Al Williamson
. This was followed with the
Ironwolf: Fires of the Revolution
graphic novel in 1992.
Chaykin then wrote and illustrated
Midnight Men
for Marvel's Epic imprint in 1993. He co-created/designed
Firearm
for
Malibu Comics
that same year, and then with several colleagues formed the creator-owned
Bravura
imprint for Malibu Comics. Chaykin created the four-issue miniseries
Power and Glory
in 1994, a superhero-themed
public relations
satire.
In 1996, DC's
Helix
imprint published
Cyberella
, a
cyberpunk
dystopia
written by Chaykin and drawn by Don Cameron.
Chaykin began to drift out of comics by the mid-1990s. With the exception of several
Elseworlds
stories he wrote for DC Comics, including
Batman: Dark Allegiances
which he wrote and drew in 1996, his comic output became minimal as he became more involved in film and television work. He was executive script consultant for the 1990?1991
The Flash
television series on
CBS
,
[39]
and later worked on action-adventure programs such as
Viper
,
Earth: Final Conflict
and
Mutant X
.
Near the end of the decade, Chaykin returned to comics and co-wrote with
David Tischman
the three-issue miniseries
Pulp Fantastic
for the
Vertigo
imprint of DC, with art by
Rick Burchett
.
2000s
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Chaykin began co-writing
American Century
with David Tischmann for Vertigo.
[40]
This story, set in post-war America, would be a pulp-adventure strip inspired by the likes of
Terry and the Pirates
as well as the
EC Comics
war stories created by
Harvey Kurtzman
. That year, Chaykin became part of the creative team on
Mutant X
, a television series inspired by the
Marvel Comics
series of mutant titles.
His next work was
Mighty Love
, a 96-page original graphic novel published in 2004 and described as "
You've Got Mail
with super-powers".
[41]
This was acclaimed as a return to the type of work he did on
American Flagg!
and contained his first art in a title since the early 1990s.
That year, Chaykin and Tischmann revamped
Challengers of the Unknown
in a six-issue mini-series for DC, as well as writing a mini-series about
gangster
vampires called
Bite Club
for Vertigo.
[42]
The pair wrote
Barnum!: In Secret Service to the USA
, a graphic novel in which real-life showman
P. T. Barnum
comes to the aid of the U.S. government.
In 2005, Chaykin produced the six-part
City of Tomorrow
, a DC/
Wildstorm
production involving a futuristic city populated by gangster
robots
. Chaykin described the mini-series as "
The Untouchables
meets
West World
at
Epcot
."
[43]
That same year, he wrote the four-issue mini-series
Legend
updating the character
Hugo Danner
for Wildstorm.
He illustrated
24 College Ave.
, a story serialized online in 54 chapters for
ESPN.com
's Page 2 section. ESPN.com columnist Jim Caple wrote the text, each episode of which was accompanied by a single-panel Chaykin drawing.
[44]
In 2006, he began working on his first superhero title for DC Comics, pencilling
Hawkgirl
, with
Walter Simonson
writing, starting with issue #50.
[45]
With issue 56, he stopped drawing the series, mainly to get time to work on Marvel's
Blade
with Marc Guggenheim, although he continued to draw
Hawkgirl
covers for eight more issues.
Also in 2006, DC Comics published a two-page Black Canary
origin story
drawn by Chaykin for the series
52
. Later that year, DC released
Guy Gardner
: Collateral Damage
. The two-issue series, written and drawn by Chaykin, revolves around the
Green Lantern Corps
' role in an interstellar war.
After
Blade
was cancelled with issue 12, he pencilled issue 50 of
Punisher
,
Wolverine (vol. 3)
#56?61,
Punisher War Journal (vol. 2)
(#16?24) and an issue of
Immortal Iron Fist
. Chaykin illustrated the 2008
Marvel MAX
comic
War Is Hell
: The First Flight of the
Phantom Eagle
, scripted by
Garth Ennis
. He wrote
Supreme Power
vol. 3 #1?12 (Sep. 2008 ? July 2009) for Marvel. In 2009, he wrote and penciled
Dominic Fortune
.
2010s
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In 2010 he wrote
Die Hard: Year One
, a comic about
John McClane
from the
Die Hard
series
for
Boom! Studios
.
[46]
Marvel in June 2010 published a
Rawhide Kid
miniseries drawn by Chaykin and written by
Ron Zimmerman
.
[11]
Chaykin wrote and drew the
Avengers 1959
five-issue miniseries, a spinoff of a
storyline
introduced in
The New Avengers
. The first issue was released in October 2011.
[47]
Chaykin helmed a reboot of the science-fiction character
Buck Rogers
beginning in August 2013, again in the capacity of both artist and writer.
[48]
In 2018, Chaykin began
Hey Kids! Comics!
, a cynical parody of the history of the rise of the comics industry and the many creators exploited in the process (particularly those exploited by
Marvel Comics
). As of November 15, 2018,
Image Comics
has released four issues of this series.
[49]
2020s
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In April 2022, Chaykin was reported among the more than three dozen comics creators who contributed to
Operation USA
's benefit anthology book,
Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds
, a project spearheaded by
IDW Publishing
Special Projects Editor
Scott Dunbier
, whose profits would be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees resulting from the February
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
.
[50]
[51]
Chaykin's contribution was a story featuring
American Flagg!
.
[52]
Personal life
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In 1972, Chaykin married Daina Graziunas.
[3]
The marriage ended in 1977, and the following year he married Leslie Zahler.
That marriage ended in 1986, and in 1989, in Los Angeles, Chaykin married Jeni Munn, a union that lasted through 1992.
In November 2002, in Ventura, Chaykin married Laurel Beth Rice.
As of 2013, Chaykin serves on the Disbursement Committee of the comic-book industry charity
The Hero Initiative
.
[55]
Awards
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- 1977
Inkpot Award
[56]
- 1978
Eagle Award
nomination for Favourite Continued Story for
Star Wars
#1?6?"Film Adaptation"
[57]
- 1984 Eagle Award for Favourite Penciler
- 1984 Eagle Award for Favourite Inker
- 1984 Eagle Award for Favourite Writer
- 1984 Eagle Award for Favourite Comic (
American Flagg!
)
- 1984 Eagle Award for Favourite Single or Continued Story (
American Flagg
! #1?2, "Hard Times")
- 1984 Eagle Award for Favourite New Comic Title (
American Flagg!
- 1984 Eagle Award nomination for Favourite Character (
Reuben Flagg
)
- 1984 Eagle Award nomination for Favourite Supporting Character (
Raul the cat
)
- 1984 Eagle Award nomination for Favourite Comic Cover (
American Flagg!
#2, "Back in the U.S.A.")
- 1984 Eagle Award nomination for Favourite Comic Cover (
American Flagg!
#3, "Killed in the Ratings")
- 2006 Eagle Award for Favourite Comics Writer/Artist
[58]
Bibliography
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His work as an artist (interior pencil art, except where noted) includes:
DC Comics
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- Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion
#7 (1972)
- Sword of Sorcery
(
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
) #1?4 (1973)
- Tarzan
(backup story) #216 (1973)
- Weird Worlds
(Ironwolf) #8?10 (1973?74)
- Detective Comics
(Batman &
Robin
) #441 (1974); (
Human Target
) #483 (1979)
- Adventure Comics
(
Shining Knight
) #438 (1975)
- Weird War Tales
#40, 61?62, 67, 69, 76, 82 (1976?79)
- Batman Family
#14 (1977)
- Weird Western Tales
(
Cinnamon
) #49 (1978)
- Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes
#240 (1978)
- Men of War
(
Enemy Ace
) #9?10, 12?14, 19?20 (1978?79)
- World of Krypton
(1979)
- Time Warp
#2 (1979)
- House of Mystery
#277 (1980)
- Blackhawk
#260 (1983)
- The Shadow
, miniseries, #1?4 (1985)
- Suicide Squad
#1 (1987)
- Blackhawk
, miniseries, #1?3 (writer/artist, 1988)
- Twilight
(writer, 1990)
- Ironwolf
, script, with
John Francis Moore
(1992)
- Batman
Houdini
, The Devil's Workshop
(1993)
- Son of Superman
OGN (co-writer, 1996)
- Batman
: Dark Allegiances
(writer/artist, 1996)
- Batman Black and White
, miniseries, #1 (writer/artist, 1996)
- Cyberella
(writer, 1996)
- Batgirl & Robin: Thrillkiller
(writer, 1997)
- Orion
#7 (co-writer/artist, 2000)
- American Century
(co-writer, 2001?2003)
- Barnum!
, Original Graphic Novel (co-writer, 2003)
- JSA
: All-Stars
, miniseries, #5 (2003)
- Challengers of the Unknown
, miniseries, #1?6 (writer/artist, 2004)
- Bite Club
, miniseries #1?6 (co-writer, 2004)
- Mighty Love
graphic novel (writer/artist, 2004)
- City of Tomorrow
, miniseries, #1?6 (writer/artist, 2005)
- Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit
, miniseries, #1?6 (co-writer, 2006)
- Hawkgirl
#50?56 (2006)
- Guy Gardner
: Collateral Damage
, miniseries, #1?2 (2007)
- Batman
/
Catwoman
: Follow the Money
(2010)
- DC Holiday Special '09
(
Enemy Ace
) #1 (2010)
- Justice Society of America 80-Page Giant
#1 (among other artists) (2011)
Marvel Comics
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- Adventure Into Fear
#10 (1972)
- Chamber of Chills
#4 (1973)
- Sub-Mariner
(Tales of Atlantis) #62-64 (writer/artist)(1973)
- Amazing Adventures
, vol. 2, (
Killraven
) #18 (with
Neal Adams
), 19 (1973)
- Kull and the Barbarians
(
Red Sonja
) #2?3 (1975)
- Marvel Spotlight
(
Nick Fury
) #31 (1976)
- Marvel Presents
(Guardians of the Galaxy) #5 (1976)
- Conan the Barbarian
#79?83 (1977?78)
- Star Wars
#1?10 (1977?1978)
- Marvel Team-Up
(
Spider-Man
) #76?77 (1978)
- Marvel Premiere
#32 (
Monark Starstalker
) writer/artist (1976) #56 (
Dominic Fortune
) plot/layouts (1980)
- Marvel Comics Super Special
#9, 19 (1978?81)
- Hulk!
(
Dominic Fortune
) #21?25 (1980?81)
- Marvel Preview
(Dominic Fortune) #2, #20 (1980)
- James Bond for Your Eyes Only
#2 (1981)
- Wolverine/Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection
(1989)
- Fritz Leiber
's
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
#1?4 (adaptation and script), Epic, (1990?91)
- Captain America and Nick Fury: Blood Truce
(1995)
- Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D.
(1995)
- Blade
#1?12 (2006?07)
- The Immortal Iron Fist
Annual
#1 (among other artists) (2007)
- New Avengers
#21 (2007)
- War is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle
, (pencils/inks) #1?5 (2008)
- Punisher War Journal
, vol. 2, #16?25 (2008?09)
- Captain America Theater of War: America First!
(2009)
- Captain America
#600, 616 (among other artists) (2009?11)
- Dominic Fortune
, #1?4 (2009)
- X-Men
vs. Vampires
, miniseries, #2 (2010)
- Magneto
#1 (2010)
- Iron Man
, vol. 5, (
Tony Stark
) #503 (2011)
- Avengers 1959
, miniseries, #1?5 (writer/artist) (2011)
- New Avengers
, vol. 2, #9?on (with
Mike Deodato
, doing "Avengers 1959" flashbacks) (2011)
Other publishers
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- Creepy
#64 (
Warren Publishing
, 1974)
- Star*Reach
#1, 4?5 (1974?76) (
Star*Reach
)
- The Scorpion
#1?2 (writer/artist) (
Atlas/Seaboard
, 1975)
- Eerie
#72 (with
Bernie Wrightson
) (Warren Publishing, 1976)
- Cody Starbuck
, (writer/artist), (Star Reach, 1978)
- American Flagg!
#1?12, 14?26, Special #1 (writer/artist); #13, 27?29 (writer) (
First
, 1983?86)
- Time²
(writer/artist) (
First
, 1986?87)
- Black Kiss
(writer/artist) (
Vortex
, 1988?89)
- Power & Glory
, miniseries, #1?4 of 4 (writer/artist) (
Malibu
/Bravura, 1994)
- Black Kiss II
#1?6 (writer/artist) (2012?13,
Image Comics
)
- Marked Man
(2012,
Dark Horse Comicsm
originally serialized in
Dark Horse Presents
#1?8)
- Buck Rogers
#1?4 (2013, Hermes Press)
- Dark Horse Presents
Volume 2
#22
George Armstrong Custer
(writer/artist) (2013)
- Eerie
#4 (2013, Dark Horse Comics)
- Satellite Sam
(2013?15, Image Comics)
- Black Kiss Christmas Special
(writer/artist) (2014, Image Comics)
- The Shadow
: Midnight in Moscow
#1?6 (2014, Dynamite Entertainment)
- Midnight of the Soul
#1?5 (2016, Image Comics)
- The Divided States of Hysteria
#1?5 (2017, Image Comics)
- Hey Kids! Comics!
#1?5 (2018, Image Comics)
Television
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- The Flash
(1990)
- Episode 3: "Watching the Detectives" (co-written with
John Francis Moore
)
- Episode 4: "Honor Among Thieves" (plotted with Moore, teleplay by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo)
- Episode 7:"Child's Play" (teleplay co-written with Moore, plot by Stephen Hattman and Gail Morgan Hickman)
- Episode 8: "Shroud of Death" (plotted with Moore, teleplay by
Michael Reaves
)
- Episode 9: "Ghost in the Machine" (co-written with Moore)
- Episode 12: "The Trickster" (co-written with Moore)
- Episode 16: "Deadly Nightshade" (co-written with Moore)
- Episode 19: "Done with Mirrors" (co-written with Moore)
- Episode 22. "The Trail of the Trickster" (co-written with Moore)
- Mutant X
(2001) (Seasons 1 and 2)
- Season 1:
- Episodes 1 and 2: "The Shock of the New"
- Episode 8: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"
- Episode 18: "Ex Marks the Spot" (co-written with Mark Amato and David Newman)
- Episode 22: "A Breed Apart"
- Season 2:
- Episode 1: "Past as Prologue"
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