Comic Book Writers Who Are Also Novelists

[iSteve]

I went to the library a couple of weeks ago and picked up Greg Rucka's newest book, Patriot Acts (http://www.amazon.com/Patriot-Acts-Greg-Rucka/dp/0553804731/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208042291&sr=8-1). Interesting read. It made me wonder how many other comic book writers also write novels.

[iSteve]

It's a little old but still noteworthy. From the NYT:

Mild-Mannered Literary Guys Transform Into Comics Writers (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403EED71731F934A25750C0A9629C8B 63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print)

By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES

The comic book industry has a new writer, and his name is Michael Chabon.

Dark Horse Comics published ''Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist'' last month. That quarterly anthology features the hero from Mr. Chabon's novel ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,'' which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. In writing the lead story in the first issue, Mr. Chabon has leaped from the comics imagined in his novel to producing the real thing.

Mr. Chabon joins a growing number of novelists, as well as writers from film and television, who are delving into the genre......

[mari0]

The only one that pops me my head is Neil Gaiman. I read several of his novels but never his comic work.

Oh...and there's Brad Meltzer.