Rick Spears

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Rick Spears
NationalityAmerican
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 .

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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

Image Comics

Oni Press

Marvel Comics

Other publishers

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References

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