Jeff Parker (comics)

Jeff Parker
Born 1966
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, penciller, inker, letterer, colorist
Notable works
The Interman
Agents of Atlas
Thunderbolts
Aquaman
http://www.parkerspace.com

Jeff Parker (born 1966) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is a member of Helioscope Studio, formerly Periscope Studio.

Biography

Parker's earliest work in comics was Solitaire, published by Malibu Comics. He later illustrated comic books published by DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Image Comics, and worked as a storyboard artist on the television cartoon Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot.

His work as a writer at Marvel includes the limited series Agents of Atlas, X-Men: First Class, and Marvel Adventures The Avengers. Parker is also the writer of Walk-In and the second volume of Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper for Virgin Comics.

Recent work includes "Fall of the Hulks." He will also be returning to Agents of Atlas with a new ongoing series to be called simply "ATLAS."[1] He has also written a mini-series for Wildstorm, called Mysterius: The Unfathomable[2][3] Parker also took over the writing of Thunderbolts with issue #138,[4] introduced the Agents of Atlas in the following two issues[5] and then took the title in "Siege," after which he will oversee an overhaul of the team line-up.[6]

He is originally from Burlington, North Carolina, son of an grocery store owner whose first exposure to comics came from reading comics on the store's spinner racks.[7] He was a member of the illustration studio Artamus Studios, based out of Hillsbourough, along with Mike Wieringo, Scott Hampton, Richard Case, Chuck Wojtkiewicz, and others.

Bibliography

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Other

Comics from other publishers include:

  • Solitaire #7-12 (pencils, with writer Gerard Jones, Malibu Comics, 1994)
  • The Calculus Test (inks, with writer Edward Martin III, pencils by Casey Jones and other inks by Craig Gilmore, in Negative Burn #13, Caliber Comics, 1994)
  • The Interman (Writer, penciller, inker, colorist and letterer, 2003)
  • Walk-In (writer, with art by Ashish Padlekar, Virgin Comics, 2006–2007)
  • Raytoons Comics (writer, illustrator, 2007)
  • Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper (writer, with art by Ron Randall and Ron Chan, Virgin Comics, 2008)
  • Underground (writer, with art by Steve Lieber, 5-issue limited series, Image Comics, 2009–2010, tpb, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-60706-266-6)[9]
  • Bucko (writer, with art by Erika Moen, webcomic serial, 2012-2012, collected by Dark Horse Comics, HC, 136 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-59582-973-3)[10]
  • Willow (Writer, Dark Horse Comics, November 2012 – March 2013)[11]
  • Kings Watch (Writer, Dynamite Entertainment, September 2013-April 2014)[12]
  • Flash Gordon, (Writer, Dynamite Entertainment, April 2014 - Jan 2015).[13]

Notes

  1. Richards, Dave. "CCI Exclusive: Parker and Paniccia on Agents of Atlas", Comic Book Resources, July 24, 2008
  2. Getting 'Mysterius' With Jeff Parker - His New Series, Newsarama, November 4, 2008
  3. "Mysterius The Great.com". Mysterius The Great.com. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
  4. Richards, Dave (August 9, 2009). "CCC09: Parker Hears the sound of Thunder(bolts)". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  5. Richards, Dave (December 14, 2009). "Parker Deploys the Agents of Atlas". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  6. Richards, Dave (January 20, 2010). "Parker's Thunderbolts Gear Up For "Siege"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  7. Barb Lien-Cooper (March 3, 2004). "Declaration of Independents". Sequential Tart. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
  8. Rogers, Vaneta (March 26, 2010). "Jeff Parker Debriefs Us on Declassified HULKED-OUT HEROES". Newsarama. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
  9. Whole book for free; or learning from 4Chan Archived 2010-10-22 at the Wayback Machine., official Underground site, October 19, 2010
  10. "Bucko HC". Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  11. Dark Horse Announces Two New Buffy Spin-Offs: Spike and Willow
  12. Comic Book Resources Review of "Kings Watch", April 9, 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  13. Dynamite delivers remarkable revivals with Captain Victory and Flash Gordon Oliver Sava, The A.V. Club, August 14th, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2015.

References

Interviews

Preceded by
Rick Remender
Thunderbolts writer
2007–2012
Succeeded by
Daniel Way
Preceded by
Geoff Johns
Aquaman writer
2013–2015
Succeeded by
Cullen Bunn
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