Greg Rucka

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Greg Rucka (born November 29, 1969 in San Francisco ) is an American author of crime novels and comics . He is married to comic book writer Jen Van Meter .

Career

He began his writing career with the Atticus Kodiak novels, the title character of which works as a professional bodyguard. The series consists of seven volumes that have not yet been published in German. Other novels written by Rucka are Fistful of Rain , A Gentleman's Game (German: Jihad ), Private Wars and The Last Run . The content of the last three ties in with his comic series Queen & Country .

From 1998 Rucka began writing for the comics with his mini-series Whiteout , published by Oni Press . The story of a murder in an Antarctic base received several nominations for the Eisner Award and in 2009 with Kate Beckinsale starring filmed . In 2000 the sequel Whiteout: Melt was released .

In these, as in many of his subsequent books, the focus is on strong, independent female characters. This also applies to the series Queen & Country , which was again published by Oni Press between 2001 and 2007 , which tells of the actions of a department of the British secret service, the Secret Intelligence Service .

The success of his publications meant that Rucka now also increasingly worked for the two largest US comic publishers, DC and Marvel . In addition to scripts for the series Superman and Wonder Woman , he focused on thematically related to the crime genre, especially with stories for various Batman series , but also for Marvel comic heroes such as Punisher , Wolverine , Daredevil and Elektra . In particular, the series Gotham Central , which is based around the Batman character but is designed as a realistic police comic , written in collaboration with his author colleague Ed Brubaker , earned him a lot of recognition and prizes such as the Eisner Award and the Harvey Award .

In the alternately written by Rucka and Geoff Johns , Grant Morrison and Mark Waid from May 2006 to May 2007 published by DC and published weekly series 52 , a new version of the superhero Batwoman was introduced. This Rucka then devoted himself in numbers 854-865 of the series Detective Comics , among others with JH Williams III as a draftsman. After his collaboration with DC ended, Oni Press published two miniseries about the female private investigator Dex Parios under the title Stumptown in Portland - where Rucka also lives - in 2009 and 2012 .

In July 2011, Rucka started the webcomic Lady Saber and the Pirates of the Ineffable Ether together with the illustrator Rick Burchett , a series belonging to the steampunk genre , which will also appear in book form after a successful Kickstarter campaign . In 2013, Rucka brought out the dystopian science fiction series Lazarus for the Image Comics publisher , with Michael Lark as the illustrator . In 2015 and 2017 he published a Star Wars novel .

In 2020 the film The Old Guard was released , which is based on Rucka's graphic novel of the same name and for which he himself was responsible for the script.

Bibliography (selection)

comics

Marvel

DC Comics

image

Novels

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1999 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees Winners
  2. ↑ 2004 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
  3. ↑ 2004 Harvey Award Nominees and Winners
  4. ↑ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/comics/news/a479594/greg-rucka-rick-burchett-kickstarter-funded-in-eight-hours.html

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personal data
SURNAME Rucka, Greg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author of novels and comics
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco