Dan Jolley
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| Nationality | American |
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| Area(s) | Writer |
| Notable works | Firestorm Obergeist JSA: The Liberty Files |
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Dan Jolley is an American author. He resides in North Carolina and has also worked in comic books including DC Comics' Firestorm and Graphic Universe's Twisted Journeys, a series of interactive fiction or gamebooks in graphic novel form.
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[edit] Biography
Dan Jolley began his writing career in the early nineties. His limited series Obergeist was voted Best Horror Comic of 2001 by Wizard magazine, and his DC Comics project JSA: The Unholy Three received an Eisner Award nomination for Best Limited Series of 2003[citation needed]. Recent comics work includes Bloodhound, a series about an unpowered investigator into a super-powered serial killer in the DC Universe.[1]
May 2007 saw the debut of his first novel series, an original young-adult science fiction espionage story called Alex Unlimited, published by a joint venture of TokyoPop and HarperCollins.
He is also scripting several manga projects, including The Lost Warrior, which is an extension of the Warriors novel series by Erin Hunter,[2] and wrote the teen novelization of the 2008 motion picture Iron Man.
Dan is on the design team of Icarus Studios' upcoming post-apocalyptic MMORPG, Fallen Earth.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Comics
- Doctor Strange: The Flight of Bones (4-issue mini-series, Marvel Knights, 1999)
- JSA: The Liberty Files (DC Comics, 2000)
- Lazarus 5 (DC Comics, 2000)
- Obergeist (Top Cow Productions, 2001-2002)
- Purgatori: God Killer (Chaos! Comics, 2002)
- Sabretooth: Mary Shelley Overdrive (4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2002)
- Micronauts #6-11 (Image Comics, 2003)
- JSA: The Unholy Three (DC Comics, 2003)
- Micronauts (3-issue mini-series, Devil's Due, 2004)
- Firestorm #1-13 (DC Comics, 2004-2005)
- Bloodhound #1-10 (with Leonard Kirk, DC Comics, 2004-2005)
[edit] Warriors
The Warriors series is about fictional feral cats trying to survive, and is written by Erin Hunter. As part of a deal, TokyoPop and HarperCollins together brought the series into manga format. Jolley scripted a trilogy about one of the warrior cats, Graystripe.[2]
- The Lost Warrior (ISBN 0061240206)
- Warrior's Refuge (ISBN 006125231X)
- Warrior's Return (ISBN 0061252336)
[edit] Buffyverse
Novels relating to the fictional universe established by Buffy and Angel:
- Vengeance (with Scott Ciencin)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Singh, Arune (July 8, 2004). "The New DC (Part 1): Dan Jolley talks "Bloodhound"". Comic Book Resources. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=3736. Retrieved on 2009-07-10.
- ^ a b "TOKYOPOP and HarperCollins Turn "Warriors" by Erin Hunter Into Manga". Comicbookbin.com. http://www.comicbookbin.com/tokyopopnews021.html. Retrieved on 2008-04-18.
[edit] References
- Dan Jolley at the Grand Comic-Book Database
- Dan Jolley at the Comic Book DB
- Dan Jolley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Works by or about Dan Jolley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Dan Jolley at the Open Library
- Bbc.co.uk - Interview with Dan Jolley and Scott Ciencin
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