Shane McCarthy

For the Australian rules footballer, see Shane McCarthy (footballer).

Shane McCarthy
Born	(1975-07-24) 24 July 1975 (age 50)
Nationality	Australian
Area(s)	Writer
http://www.mccarthyshane.com

Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.

Career

A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story Low for DC Comics in 2004, beginning in Detective Comics #797. McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), pitting Batman against Zsasz. ^[1]

Other published works include Zombies: Feast for IDW Publishing and contributions to Event Horizon for Mam Tor Publishing, and Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse.

McCarthy completed a twelve-part Transformers series entitled All Hail Megatron for IDW Publishing. ^[2] He is the creator of the character Drift.

His work appears in Marvel's Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1.

McCarthy formerly ran a swing dancing school in Perth, Western Australia. ^[3]

Bibliography

Transformers for IDW Publishing

• All Hail Megatron (12 issues, 2008–2009)
• Spotlight: Blurr (one-shot, 2008)
• Spotlight: Drift (one-shot, 2009)
• Spotlight: Cliffjumper (one-shot, 2009)
• The Transformers: Drift (4 issues, 2010)
• Mars Attacks: The Transformers (one-shot, 2013)
• The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone (4 issues, 2014–2015)

Batman for DC Comics

• Low "Detective Comics" #797 - #799 (2004) ^[4]
• Riddle Me That "Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight" #185 - #189 (2005)
• Victims "Detective Comics" #815 - #816 (2006)

Others:

• "Black Eight" in Star Wars Tales #21 (2004)
• Event Horizon #1 (2005)
• Event Horizon #2 (2005)
• Zombies! Feast (2006) ^[5]
• Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (2009)

References

1. Silver Bullet Comic Books Line of Fire Reviews 6 February 2006 Archived 23 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
2. Shane McCarthy personal website
3. Swing It!: About Us / Teachers
4. "Comic Books Database: Detective Comics" #797 ^{[ usurped ]}
5. IDW Publishing: IDW Titles Archived 18 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Official website
• Interview with Pulse News 11 January 2006
• Interview about All Hail Megatron with Newsarama April 2008 ^{[ dead link ]}