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Brett Lewis

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Brett Lewis
BornQueens, New York, U.S.[1]
Area(s)Writer, editor
Notable works
The Winter Men

Brett Lewis is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for his post-superheroic series The Winter Men with artist John Paul Leon, as well as the Eisner-nominated short story "Mars to Stay" with art by Cliff Chiang.[2]

Early life

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Lewis studied art under Walter Simonson at New York's School of Visual Arts, where he first met The Winter Men co-creator John Paul Leon.[3]

Career

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Lewis began his career in comics as an editor, first at Marvel Music, a short-lived imprint of Marvel Comics that focused on branded releases of comics featuring, among others, Alice Cooper and The Rolling Stones, then at Motown Machineworks, a company that released comics through Image with the partial aim of producing movie vehicles for black stars.[3] In the late 1990s, Lewis wrote a part of the Image series Bulletproof Monk, which was later adapted into a Bulletproof Monkfilm of the same name]], as well as some stories for Allstar Arena,[4][5] a publisher of sports comic books aimed for release in stadiums. One of these stories, The Mailman, a sci-fi comic starring Utah Jazz power forward Karl Malone, marked the first published collaboration between Lewis and John Paul Leon.

According to Leon, before publication, The Winter Men has been developing for over a decade. In a 2006 interview, he stated,

Brett Lewis and I first began developing this project about five years ago. It began years before then when Brett had the idea of doing a Russian-based Superman story. This was probably 1993 or so.[6]

The series had a turbulent publishing history, first announced as an 8-issue limited series for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint,[7] then moved under Wildstorm while being cut to six and, eventually, five issues. The series concluded with a 40-page special two years after issue #5.[8]

Bibliography

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Image Comics

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  • Motown Machineworks:
  • Bulletproof Monk #1–2 (of 3) (with Michael Avon Oeming; issue #2 is co-written by Lewis and R. A. Jones, 1998) collected in Bulletproof Monk (tpb, 80 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-5824-0244-2)
  • Fall Out Toy Works #1–5 (with Sami Basri and Hendry Prasetya (#4–5), 2009–2010) collected as Fall Out Toy Works: Tiffany Blues (tpb, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-6070-6359-X)
  • Thief of Thieves #38–43 (with Shawn Martinbrough, Skybound, 2018–2019) collected as Thief of Thieves: Closure (tpb, 128 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-5343-1036-3)

DC Comics

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Other publishers

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References

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  1. ^ Cohen, Matt (January 8, 2011). "B&B Live #85: From Mojo to Moscow". Bagged and Boarded. Archived from the original on October 28, 2011.
  2. ^ "Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees 2014". Comic-Con.org. Archived from the original on April 16, 2014.
  3. ^ a b McCulloch, Joe (March 27, 2012). "THIS WEEK IN COMICS! (3/28/12 – The Secret Life of a Licensed Comic)". The Comics Journal. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012.
  4. ^ Webber's World GN (1997) at mycomicshop.com
  5. ^ Karl Malone the Mailman (1998) at mycomicshop.com
  6. ^ Contino, Jennifer (March 10, 2006). "LEON DRAWING THE WINTER MEN". Comicon.com. Archived from the original on June 20, 2007.
  7. ^ Contino, Jennifer (December 24, 2002). "THE WINTER MEN, VERTIGO'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION". Comicon.com. Archived from the original on December 22, 2003.
  8. ^ McCulloch, Joe (January 11, 2009). "I'm going to tell you some things I've thought about saying to several Americans, and various foreigners too: And I didn't know I'd get the chance". The Savage Critics. Archived from the original on January 19, 2009.
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