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American novelist
Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous
crime fiction .
[1]
Career
Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the
Edgar Award , and his novel Shotgun Opera was an
Anthony Award finalist.
[2] His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.
[3]
He has also written
American comic books like
The Punisher: Frank Castle ,
[4]
[5]
[6]
Wolverine
[7] and
Deadpool (including Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth
[8]
[9]
[10] and Deadpool Corps
[11] ) for
Marvel Comics . Gischler worked on
X-Men "
Curse of the Mutants " starting in the
Death of Dracula
one-shot
[12]
[13]
[14] and continued in
X-Men #1.
[15]
Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with
Lee Goldberg writing the script and
Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.
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Bibliography
Novels
Suicide Squeeze (368 pages, paperback, Uglytown Productions, December 2001,
ISBN
0-9663473-6-6 , hardback,
Delacorte Press , March 2005,
ISBN
0-385-33725-6 , paperback,
Dell Books , January 2006,
ISBN
0-440-24170-7 )
Gun Monkeys (304 pages, Dell Books, November 2003,
ISBN
0-440-24128-6 )
The Pistol Poets (368 pages, paperback, Dell Books, January 2005,
ISBN
0-440-24169-3 )
Shotgun Opera (320 pages, paperback, Dell Books, April 2006,
ISBN
0-440-24171-5 )
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse (336 pages, paperback,
Touchstone Books , July 2008,
ISBN
1-4165-5225-1 )
Vampire A Go Go (337 pages, paperback, Touchstone Books, September 2009,
ISBN
1-4165-5227-8 )
The Deputy (256 pages, Tyrus Books, April 2010, hardback,
ISBN
1-935562-01-0 , paperback,
ISBN
1-935562-00-2 )
Stay (
Thomas Dunne Books , June 2015,
ISBN
9781250041517 )
Gestapo Mars (a Carter Sloan novel) (297 pages, Titan Books, September 2015,
ISBN
978-1-78329-735-1 )
No Good Deed (288 pages, hardback, Forge Books, September 2018,
ISBN
9781250106698 )
A Fire Beneath the Skin
Ink Mage (400 pages, paperback, 47North, October 2013,
ISBN
9781477849309 )
The Tattooed Duchess (368 pages, paperback, 47North, July 2015,
ISBN
9781503948228 )
A Painted Goddess (400 pages, paperback, 47North, March 2016,
ISBN
9781503954762 )
Comics
Punisher MAX Special: Little Black Book (with Jefte Palo,
one-shot ,
MAX , August 2008)
Wolverine : Revolver (with Das Pastoras, one-shot,
Marvel Comics , August 2009)
The Punisher: Frank Castle MAX #71-74 (with
Goran Parlov , MAX, August–November 2009)
Deadpool : Merc With a Mouth #1-13 (with Bong Dazo, Marvel Comics, September 2009 - September 2010)
"Great Balls of Thunder on the Deep Blue Sea" (with
Sanford Greene , in Deadpool #900, December 2009)
Prelude to Deadpool Corps (with an issue each by
Rob Liefeld ,
Whilce Portacio ,
Philip Bond , Paco Medina and
Kyle Baker , 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, May 2010)
Deadpool Corps #1-12 (with Rob Liefeld, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, June 2010 - May 2011)
Death of Dracula (with
Giuseppe Camuncoli ,
one-shot , Marvel Comics, August 2010)
X-Men #1-29 (with Paco Medina, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, September 2010 – June 2012)
Fear Itself: Hulk vs Dracula (with Ryan Stegman, 3-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, November 2011 - December 2011)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike (with Paul Lee, 5-issue limited series,
Dark Horse Comics , August 2012 - December 2012)
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Conan: The Phantoms of the Black Coast (with Attila Futaki, 5-issue limited series,
Dark Horse Comics , October 2012 - February 2013)
The Shadow #7-12 (with Aaron Campbell, ongoing series,
Dynamite Comics , October 2012 – April 2013)
Kiss Me Satan (with Juan Ferreyra, 5-issue limited series,
Dark Horse Comics , September 2013 – present)
Clown Fatale (with Maurizio Rosenzweig, 4-issue limited series,
Dark Horse Comics , November 2013 – present)
Noir (with Andrea Mutti, 5-issue limited series,
Dynamite Comics , November 2013 – present)
Sally of the Wasteland (with Tazio Bettin, 5-issue limited series,
Titan Comics , August 2014 – present)
Notes
^ Langley, Greg (July 6, 2008).
"A seemingly light story hold seeds for thought" .
The Advocate . Retrieved July 25, 2009 .
^
X-Men Nation interviews writer of Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth , Victor Gischler
^ Berry, Michael (20 July 2008).
" 'Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse,' 'Dogs' " .
San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved July 25, 2009 .
^ Khouri, Andy (April 19, 2008).
"NYCC: Punisher MAXes Out with Three Writers" .
Comic Book Resources . Retrieved May 26, 2010 .
^ Richards, Dave (April 29, 2009).
"Swamp Things: Gischler Talks Punisher MAX" .
Comic Book Resources . Retrieved May 26, 2010 .
^ Rogers, Vaneta (June 9, 2009).
"Welcome to the Bayou, Frank: Victor Gischler on Punisher MAX" .
Newsarama . Retrieved July 25, 2009 .
^ Richards, Dave (March 16, 2010).
"EXCLUSIVE: Gischler on "Wolverine: Revolver" " .
Comic Book Resources . Retrieved May 26, 2010 .
^ Richards, Dave (April 22, 2009).
"Getting Ahead: Gischler on New Deadpool Series" .
Comic Book Resources . Retrieved April 29, 2009 .
^ Ekstrom, Steve (May 12, 2009).
"Deadpool and Head: Gischler on Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth" .
Newsarama . Retrieved May 13, 2009 .
^ Richards, Dave (November 3, 2009).
"Gischler's Crisis of Infinite Deadpools" .
Comic Book Resources . Retrieved May 26, 2010 .
^ Richards, Dave (April 8, 2010).
"Gischler Throws an Intergalactic (Dead)pool Party" .
Comic Book Resources . Retrieved May 26, 2010 .
^ Nomad (May 6, 2010).
"The X-Men Get All Fanged Up in Curse of the Mutants" .
DreadCentral .
^
"Victor Gischler talks DEATH OF DRACULA and X-MEN" . Comic Monsters. May 12, 2010. Retrieved May 26, 2010 .
^ Richards, Dave (May 19, 2010).
"Victor Gischler Plots "The Death of Dracula" " .
Comic Book Resources . Retrieved May 26, 2010 .
^ Richards, Dave (April 19, 2010).
"C2E2: Victor Gischler Talks X-Men" .
Comic Book Resources . Retrieved August 1, 2010 .
^
Lee Goldberg Adapts Gun Monkeys
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Dark Horse Announces Two New Buffy Spin-Offs: Spike and Willow
References
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