Simon Oliver is a British-American comic book writer, best known for his creator-owned series The Exterminators and , published under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.
Career
Simon Oliver was born in the
United Kingdom but left the country in the early 90s.
After traveling around the world for several years, he settled in
Los Angeles, working in the film industry, mostly as a
camera assistant on TV shows such as
Once and Again and
Joan of Arcadia. Oliver began writing
The Exterminators as a potential TV series but, after his early scripts were passed to
Karen Berger, the Editor-in-Chief of
DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, Oliver received an offer from the publisher to turn the series into a comic book.
began publishing as an ongoing monthly series in January 2006.
The following year, Oliver became the writer of the
Wildstorm ongoing series
Gen13 and penned
, a spin-off mini-series published as part of the
Hellblazer 20th anniversary.
In 2013, Vertigo began publishing Oliver's second creator-owned series, Collider. The series' title was changed to following legal action from an international comics publisher.
Bibliography
To date, the entirety of Oliver's work has been published by
DC Comics and its various imprints:
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The Exterminators (with Tony Moore, Chris Samnee (#8), Mike Hawthorne (#11–12), John Lucas (#15–16, 27), Ty Templeton (#17–18, 26), Darick Robertson (#19–23), Vertigo, 2006–2008) collected as:
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Bug Brothers (collects #1–5, tpb, 128 pages, 2006, )
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Insurgency (collects #6–10, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, )
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Lies of Our Fathers (collects #11–16, tpb, 144 pages, 2007, )
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Crossfire and Collateral (collects #17–23, tpb, 168 pages, 2008, )
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Bug Brothers Forever (collects #24–30, tpb, 168 pages, 2008, )
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Gen13 vol. 4 #14–20 (with Carlo Barberi, Sunny Lee (#16) and Wes Craig (#20), Wildstorm, 2008) collected as Gen13: 15 Minutes (tpb, 160 pages, 2008, )
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#1–5 (with Goran Sudžuka, Vertigo, 2008–2009) collected as Chas: The Knowledge (tpb, 128 pages, 2009, )
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Vertigo Crime: Noche Roja (with Jason Latour, graphic novel, hc, 184 pages, 2011, ; sc, 2011, )
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(with Robbi Rodriguez (#1–13) and Alberto Ponticelli (#14–24), Vertigo, 2013–2015) collected as:
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The Paradigm Shift (collects #1–7, tpb, 160 pages, 2014, )
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Wish You Were Here (collects #8–13, tpb, 144 pages, 2014, )
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Audeamus (collects #14–19, tpb, 144 pages, 2015, )
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The End Times (collects #20–24, tpb, 128 pages, 2016, )
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Convergence: Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters #1–2 (with John McCrea, 2015) collected in Convergence: Infinite Earths Book Two (tpb, 272 pages, 2015, )
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Last Gang in Town #1–6 (with Rufus Dayglo, Vertigo, 2016) collected as Last Gang in Town (tpb, 160 pages, 2016, )
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Hellblazer (with Moritat, Pia Guerra (#5–6), Philip Tan (#7–8) and Davidé Fabbri, 2016–2017) collected as:
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The Poison Truth (collects the DC Rebirth one-shot and #1–6, tpb, 168 pages, 2017, )
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The Smokeless Fire (collects #7–12, tpb, 144 pages, 2017, )
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