Rick Spears Explained

Nationality:American
Write:y
Notable Works:Teenagers from Mars
The Pirates of Coney Island
AXIS

Carnage

Website:http://thehotandthecool.blogspot.com/
Sortkey:Spears, Rick
Subcat:American

Rick Spears is an American comic book writer, best known for Teenagers from Mars and The Pirates of Coney Island.

Early life

Both Spears and his main collaborator Rob G. grew up in Richmond, Virginia, although they first met only after moving to New York City:

Career

In 2001, Spears and Rob G. began self-publishing their debut series Teenagers from Mars.[1] In 2003, the pair produced a short Batman story for DC Comics. Upon completing Teenagers from Mars, they formed Gigantic Graphic Novels to collect the issues and release their first graphic novel, Dead West, following up with the 5-issue mini-seies Repo, published by Image Comics.[2] [3] Other work from Spears includes the Black Metal trilogy of graphic novels with artist Chuck BB, a variety of short stories for Marvel and the graphic novel adaptation of the film Jennifer's Body.[4]

Bibliography

Early work

Image Comics

"The State I Am In" (with Rob G., anthology graphic novel, 144 pages, 2006,)

Oni Press

Marvel Comics

"Super Boys!" (with James Callahan, free digital mini-comic, 2009)

"His Girl Friday" (with Iban Coello, co-feature in one-shot, 2009) collected in Iron Man: Tales of the Golden Avenger (tpb, 128 pages, 2010,)

"Secrets and Lies" (with Mick Bertilorenzi, anthology one-shot, 2010)

Carnage #1–3 (with German Peralta, 2014–2015) collected in AXIS: Carnage and Hobgoblin (tpb, 136 pages, 2015,)

Other publishers

"Operation Torch" (with Rob G., anthology graphic novel, 160 pages, Villard Books, 2007,)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jonah . Weiland . Kickin' it with some 'Teenagers from Mars' . . August 28, 2002 . April 10, 2010 .
  2. Web site: Arune . Singh . You (Re)Possess My (Cloned) Heart: Rick Spears on "Repo" . . March 26, 2007 . March 10, 2010 .
  3. News: Benjamin Ong Pang . Kean . The Current File: Spears & G on Repo . . May 4, 2007 . March 10, 2010 .
  4. News: Brent . Jones . 'Jennifer's Body' creeps into theaters ... and comics . . September 2, 2009 . September 27, 2009 .
  5. Web site: Vasilis . Lolos . PIRATES COVERS . . October 18, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160927185247/http://steamrobo.blogspot.com/2012/10/pirates-covers.html . September 27, 2016 . live .
  6. Web site: Chris . Arrant . Conversing on Comics with Vasilis Lolos . . September 7, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210126114717/https://www.cbr.com/conversing-on-comics-with-vasilis-lolos/ . January 26, 2021 . live .