Rick Spears
Rick Spears is an American comic book writer, best known for Teenagers from Mars and The Pirates of Coney Island.
| Rick Spears | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer |
Notable works | Teenagers from Mars The Pirates of Coney Island AXIS: Carnage |
| http://thehotandthecool.blogspot.com/ | |
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:
- Dead West (with Rob G., graphic novel, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-9763038-1-7)
- Rotting in Dirtville (written and drawn by James Callahan, graphic novel, 120 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-9763038-2-5)
- Hellcity Volume 1 (written by Macon Blair, drawn by Joe Flood, graphic novel, 104 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-9763038-3-3)
- 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
- Put the Book Back on the Shelf: "The State I Am In" (with Rob G., anthology graphic novel, 144 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-5824-0600-6)
- 24Seven Volume 1: "The Chelsea" (with Vasilis Lolos) and "Transformer" (with Rami Efal, anthology graphic novel, 224 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-636-7)
- The Pirates of Coney Island #1–6 (of 8) (with Vasilis Lolos, 2006–2007)
- The series went on hiatus before the last two issues were finished;[6] in a 2012 interview, Lolos mentioned he was no longer involoved with the project.[7]
- A collected edition was solicited for a 2012 release but subsequently cancelled: The Pirates of Coney Island (tpb, 132 pages, ISBN 1-582-40772-X)
- Repo #1–5 (with Rob G., 2007) collected as Repo (tpb, 152 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-58240-874-2)
Oni Press
- Black Metal (with Chuck BB, series of graphic novels):
- The Darkest Hour (with various artists, free promotional art book given away at New York Comic Con, 2011)
- The Auteur (with James Callahan):
- My Riot (with Emmett Helen, graphic novel, 184 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-5824-0600-6)
Marvel Comics
- Astonishing Tales: Boom Boom and Elsa: "Super Boys!" (with James Callahan, free digital mini-comic, 2009)
- Immortal Weapons #3: "Urban Legend" (with Timothy Green II, 2009) collected in Immortal Iron Fist: The Complete Collection Volume 2 (tpb, 496 pages, 2014, ISBN 0-7851-8890-8)
- Iron Man: Iron Protocols: "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, ISBN 0-78514-279-7)
- Daredevil: Black and White: "Secrets and Lies" (with Mick Bertilorenzi, anthology one-shot, 2010)
- Deadpool Team-Up #885: "Guest Starring: Hell Cow" (with Philip Bond, 2011) collected in Deadpool Team-Up: BFFs (hc, 168 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-78515-139-7; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-785-15140-0)
- Wolverine #1000: "Last Ride of the Devil's Brigade" (with Timothy Green II, co-feature, 2011) collected in Wolverine: Prehistory (tpb, 504 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-3029-0386-1)
- AXIS: Carnage #1–3 (with German Peralta, 2014–2015) collected in AXIS: Carnage and Hobgoblin (tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-785193-11-1)
Other publishers
- Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened: "Operation Torch" (with Rob G., anthology graphic novel, 160 pages, Villard Books, 2007, ISBN 0-345-49850-X)
- Fear Agent #23: "Heath20" (with James Callahan, co-feature, Dark Horse, 2008)
- Jennifer's Body (with Tim Seeley, Jim Mahfood, Nikki Cook and Ming Doyle, graphic novel, 112 pages, Boom! Studios, 2009, ISBN 1-60886-501-0)
References
- Lucado, Candice (October 2003). "Rick Spears and Rob G. - Teenagers from Mars". Sequential Tart. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
- Weiland, Jonah (August 28, 2002). "Kickin' it with some 'Teenagers from Mars'". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
- Singh, Arune (March 26, 2007). "You (Re)Possess My (Cloned) Heart: Rick Spears on "Repo"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
- Kean, Benjamin Ong Pang (May 4, 2007). "The Current File: Spears & G on Repo". Newsarama. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
- Jones, Brent (September 2, 2009). "'Jennifer's Body' creeps into theaters ... and comics". USA Today. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
- Lolos, Vasilis (October 18, 2012). "PIRATES COVERS". COMICBOOK OUTLAW. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016.
- Arrant, Chris (September 7, 2012). "Conversing on Comics with Vasilis Lolos". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021.
External links
- Official page on Blogger
- Gigantic Graphic Novels website
- Rick Spears at the Grand Comics Database
- Rick Spears at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
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