Devin Grayson

Devin Kalile Grayson (* New Haven , Connecticut ) is an American comic book writer .

Life

Grayson was born in New Haven, the daughter of a Yale University marine biologist. She grew up in Northern California after her parents separated , alternately with her mother in Berkeley and her father in Oakland .

After dropping out of her acting training in San Francisco , Grayson began working as a full-time comic book writer in the mid-1990s. She received her first engagement from Dennis O'Neil , the editor-in-chief of the department responsible for editing Batman comics at the US publisher DC Comics . O'Neil gave her the authorship of a ten-page story in the comic book Batman: Chronicles which appeared in 1997. Satisfied with the story presented by Grayson ( Like Riding a Bike ), O'Neil found Grayson more work as a writer at DC. In the same year she got the writing job for the One-Shot Batman Plus Arsenal and the miniseries Arsenal , which tells of the adventures of the single father and secret agent Roy Harper. After she had sufficiently demonstrated her ability to write compelling comic stories with the work mentioned, O'Neil entrusted Grayson in 1997 as the successor to Doug Moench with the job of regular author for the monthly series Catwoman , which is about the experiences of the seductive thief Selina Kyle acts. Her artistic partner while working on Catwoman was the illustrator Jim Balent .

In 1999, O'Neil finally commissioned Grayson to write several stories for the No Man's Land storyline, which runs through all Batman series . The positive response that Grayson's stories received from both the readership and the critics ultimately led her to become the regular author of the new Batman series Batman: Gotham Knights , which began in 2000 and which she oversaw for almost three years. As a draftsman, Roger Robinson was placed at her side, who converted Grayson's scripts into naturalistic images.

In 1999, Grayson began working as a regular author on the traditional series Titans, which also appears on DC . To allow her a creative new beginning, the old, of was first Dan Jurgens wrote Titans series discarded so that Grayson had the opportunity to first create a new miniseries submit ( JLA / Titans: The Technis Empire ), which eventually in a neugestartete Titans Series ended. Mark Buckingham was appointed as a draftsman for the Titans series .

In 2002 Grayson got the writing job for the Batman-related series Nightwing , which deals with the experiences of Batman's grown-up adoptive son and assistant Robin , and which she supervised for almost five years.

Grayson has also worked for other publishers since the early 2000s. Together with the illustrator Brian Stelfreeze , she created the author-owned series Matador for Wildstorm .

Other works by Grayson include the series Relative Heroes , published by Wildstorm , as well as the series Black Widow , X-Men and a miniseries about the demonic superhero Ghost Rider .

Grayson, who suffers from type I diabetes and is openly bisexual , lives in an artist shared flat in California.

Web links

• Devin Grayson's website
• Business card at about.me