Rick Spears

Rick Spears
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	Teenagers from Mars The Pirates of Coney Island AXIS: Carnage
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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:

[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-series 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)
  • Collected in Métal Hurlant Volume 1 (hc, 192 pages, 2011, ISBN   1-59465-026-8)
  • Collected in Métal Hurlant: Selected Works (tpb, 240 pages, 2020, ISBN   1-64337-519-9)
• 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   1-58240-600-6)
• 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   1-58240-772-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):
  • Black Metal (160 pages, 2007, ISBN   1-932664-72-6)
  • Black Metal: The False Brother (136 pages, 2011, ISBN   1-932664-99-8)
  • Black Metal: Darkness Enthroned (160 pages, 2014, ISBN   1-934964-82-4)
  • Black Metal Omnibvs (collection of all three volumes — tpb, 472 pages, 2014, ISBN   1-62010-143-2)
• The Darkest Hour (with various artists, free promotional art book given away at New York Comic Con, 2011)
• The Auteur (with James Callahan):
  • The Auteur #1–5 (2014) collected as The Auteur: Presidents Day (tpb, 144 pages, 2014, ISBN   1-62010-135-1)
  • The Auteur: Sister Bambi #1–5 (2015) collected as The Auteur: Sister Bambi (tpb, 128 pages, 2016, ISBN   1-62010-260-9)
• My Riot (with Emmett Helen, graphic novel, 184 pages, 2020, ISBN   1-58240-600-6)

Marvel Comics

• Astonishing Tales: Boom Boom and Elsa : "Super Boys!" (with James Callahan, free digital mini-comic, 2009)
  • First published in print as a co-feature in Marvel Heartbreakers (anthology one-shot, 2010)
  • Collected in Bloodstone and the Legion of Monsters (tpb, 312 pages, 2017, ISBN   1-302-90802-2)
• 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   0-7851-4279-7)
• 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   0-7851-5139-7; tpb, 2011, ISBN   0-7851-5140-0)
• 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   1-302-90386-1)
• AXIS: Carnage #1–3 (with German Peralta, 2014–2015) collected in AXIS: Carnage and Hobgoblin (tpb, 136 pages, 2015, ISBN   0-7851-9311-1)

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)
  • Collected in Fear Agent Library Edition Volume 2 (hc, 520 pages, 2014, ISBN   1-61655-103-8)
  • Collected in Fear Agent: The Final Edition Volume 4 (tpb, 248 pages, Image, 2018, ISBN   1-5343-0875-X)
• 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

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