Steve Niles

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Steve Niles at the 2007 Scream Awards

Steve Niles (born June 21, 1965 in Jackson , New Jersey ) is an American comic book author and novelist.

He is one of the authors who made horror comics socially acceptable again. He achieved this particularly through works such as 30 Days of Night , the sequel Dark Days ( IDW Publishing ), and Criminal Macabre ( Dark Horse Comics ) in collaboration with the illustrator Ben Templesmith .

biography

Steve Niles grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. He worked in comic shops and made recordings for the bands " Gray Matter " and " Three " in the 1980s and 1990s . He often cited the late night horror showmaster, Count Gore De Vol, as an early inspiration. In 2004, Count Gore wrote the foreword to the comic novel "Aleister Arcane", which is about a horror show master.

Niles' career in the comic industry began by starting his own publishing house, Arcane Comix , where he published his own comics. In the early 1990s he wrote several titles for Fantaco / Tundra . Niles published and edited several comics and collections for Eclipse Comics . He also worked for Disney and Todd McFarlane . After Brian Michael Bendis left , Steve Niles worked on Hellspawn with Ashley Wood .

After Hollywood's rights for 30 Days of Night had bought, he founded together with rock legend Rob Zombie a joint production company creep International . Two projects have emerged from this collaboration to date: The Nail (with Nat Jones) was published by Dark Horse, and Bigfoot (together with Richard Corben ) was published by IDW Publishing. Together with actor Thomas Jane , Niles founded a similar company ( Raw Entertainment ) to bring his Criminal Macabre character Cal MacDonald to the big screen.

Niles worked on various projects for Marvel and DC Comics . In 2006 he worked with illustrator Scott Hampton on a Batman mini-series Gotham County Line . Niles also wrote another mini-series that same year reinventing Steve Ditko's old-fashioned character creeper . He is currently developing the new DC character with Scott Hampton: Simon Dark .

For the DC Infinite Halloween Special , Steve wrote a story called "Strange Cargo". Told from the perspective of Poison Ivy , it is the story of Superman , Lois Lane , and Jimmy Olsen , who discover zombies in a freight container owned by Lex Luthor . Superman kills most of the zombies and brings the rest to the moon.

Kelley Jones drew the images for the twelve-part Batman series Batman: Gotham After Midnight , written by Niles . Niles is currently working with Menton3 on Nosferatu Wars for Dark Horse Comics. In March 2012, he founded the comic book publisher Form Black Mask Studios with guitarist Brett Gurewitz and comic artist Matt Pizzolo .

Film adaptations

30 Days of Night turned into a hit filmproducedby Sam Raimi . Other comics written by Niles are also to be filmed. These include titles like Criminal Macabre , In the Blood and Wake the Dead . According to Variety magazine, Wake the Dead will be the next film to go into production. Jay Russell is supposed to direct. Freaks of the Heartland will also be filmed.

Publications

  • Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (with Elman Brown, Eclipse Comics / IDW Publishing , 1991)
  • 30 Days of Night (with Ben Templesmith, IDW Publishing, 2002, published in German by Infinity and Cross Cult )
  • Criminal Macabre (with Ben Templesmith, Dark Horse Comics and IDW Publishing, 2003)
  • Dark Days (with Ben Templesmith, IDW Publishing, 2003, published in German by Infinity)
  • Hellspawn # 's 11-16 (with Ben Templesmith, Image Comics, 2003)
  • Remains (with Kieron Dwyer , IDW Publishing, 2004)
  • Freaks of the Heartland (with Greg Ruth, Dark Horse, 2004, published in German by Cross Cult Verlag)
  • Wake the Dead (with Chee, IDW Publishing, 2004)
  • Bigfoot (IDW Publishing, 2005, to be published in German by Cross Cult Verlag in 2009)
  • Giant Monster (miniseries, Boom! Studios, 2005)
  • Bad Planet (with Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet, Image Comics , 2005–2008)
  • 28 Days Later: The Aftermath (Fox Atomic Comics, 2007, published in German by Cross Cult)
  • Simon Dark (DC Comics, 2007-2008)
  • Cthulhu Tales (with Chee, Shane Oakley, Boom! Studios, 2008)
  • Dead, She Said (with Bernie Wrightson , IDW Publishing, 2008-ongoing)
  • The Lost Ones (with drawings by Gary Panter , Dr. Revolt, Kime Buzzelli and Morning Breath, Zune, 2008)
  • Epilogue (with Kyle Hotz, IDW Publishing, 2008-ongoing)
  • City of Dust (with Zid, Radical Comics, 2008-ongoing)
  • 30 Days of Night : The Legend of the Undead (novel with Jeff Mariotte , Panini Verlag , 2008)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presenting… Simon Dark! Steve Niles, July 9, 2007, archived from the original October 14, 2009 ; accessed on December 29, 2013 .
  2. ↑ New Vampiric Tale Nosferatu Wars to Premiere in Dark Horse Presents Later This Year
  3. ↑ Steve Niles and Brett Gurewitz Join Matt Pizzolo to Form Black Mask Studios
  4. ↑ Russell ready to helmet 'Dead' , Variety , June 1, 2008
  5. ↑ David Gordon Green to helm 'Freaks' , The Hollywood Reporter , October 21, 2008

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personal data
SURNAME Niles, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Jackson