Other work for DC Comics includes the long-delayed reboot of Wildstorm's Wetworks and two graphic novels for the Minx imprint aimed at the teenage female audience, one of which was co-written by Carey with his daughter Louise.
Ĭarey at the DC Comics booth at the New York Comic Con, 10 October 2010 In 2009, Carey launched his longest creator-owned series to date, The Unwritten, co-created with the Lucifer collaborator Peter Gross and featuring covers by Yuko Shimizu. Further work for Vertigo includes a 40-issue run on the imprint's flagship title Hellblazer as well as the spin-off graphic novel All His Engines, several creator-owned endeavors, such as the six-part mini-series Faker with art by Jock and the ongoing series Crossing Midnight with artist Jim Fern, and two more The Sandman spin-offs in the form of graphic novels, The Sandman Presents: The Furies and God Save the Queen, both created with artist John Bolton. Lucifer was subsequently extended into an ongoing series, which Carey wrote for its entire 75-issue run. He taught for 15 years before moving on to writing comics.Īfter a series of one-off jobs for independent comics companies, including a biographical Ozzy Osbourne comic and a fantasy tale starring the band Pantera, Carey became a contributor to the British comics anthology 2000 AD, where he co-created the original series Thirteen and Carver Hale, and wrote two series for The Sandman Presents line published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, Lucifer and Petrefax. He studied English at St Peter's College, Oxford and, upon graduation, became a teacher. As a child, he maintained an interest in comics, writing and drawing primitive stories to entertain his younger brother. lived so much inside my own head I only had vestigial limbs". He describes his young self as "one of those ominously quiet kids. Carey, is a British writer of comic books, novels and films, whose credits include the long-running The Sandman spin-off series Lucifer, a three-year stint on Hellblazer, as well as his creator-owned titles Crossing Midnight and The Unwritten for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, a lengthy run on Marvel's X-Men, the 2014 novel The Girl with All the Gifts and its 2016 film adaptation.Ĭarey was born in Liverpool, England, in 1959.
Mike Carey (born 1959), also known by his pen name M.
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