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Rick Spears

Rick Spears

American comic book writer

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

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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:

[We] have lived sort of parallel lives. We're from the same place, went to the same college and have a bunch of the same friends but we never met until we both moved to Brooklyn.[1]

Career

In 2001, Spears and Rob G. began self-publishing their debut series Teenagers from Mars.[2][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.[3][4] 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.[5]

Bibliography

Early work

  • Teenagers from Mars #1–8 (with Rob G., self-published, 2001–2003) collected as Teenagers from Mars (tpb, 272 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-9763038-0-9)
    • In order to release the collected edition of Teenagers from Mars, Spears founded his own publishing house called Gigantic Graphic Novels.
    • Gigantic only managed to put out three more releases (with the first of the three being written by Spears) before ceasing operation:
  • Detective Comics #785–788: "The Dogcatcher" (with Rob G., co-feature, DC Comics, 2003–2004)
  • Métal Hurlant vol. 2 #12: "A Call to Arms" (with Rob G., anthology, Humanoids Publishing, 2004)
  • Filler (with Rob G., graphic novel, 96 pages, AiT/Planet Lar, 2005, ISBN 1-932051-32-5)

Image Comics

Oni Press

Marvel Comics

Other publishers

References

  1. [1]
    Lucado, Candice (October 2003). "Rick Spears and Rob G. - Teenagers from Mars". Sequential Tart. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Weiland, Jonah (August 28, 2002). "Kickin' it with some 'Teenagers from Mars'". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
  3. [3]
    Singh, Arune (March 26, 2007). "You (Re)Possess My (Cloned) Heart: Rick Spears on "Repo"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  4. [4]
    Kean, Benjamin Ong Pang (May 4, 2007). "The Current File: Spears & G on Repo". Newsarama. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  5. [5]
    Jones, Brent (September 2, 2009). "'Jennifer's Body' creeps into theaters ... and comics". USA Today. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
  6. [6]
    Lolos, Vasilis (October 18, 2012). "PIRATES COVERS". COMICBOOK OUTLAW. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016.
  7. [7]
    Arrant, Chris (September 7, 2012). "Conversing on Comics with Vasilis Lolos". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021.
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