Hellboy: Odd Jobs (37 page)

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CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
is the award-winning,
LA. Times
best-selling author of such novels as
Strangewood and
the three-volume
Shadow Saga; Hellboy: The Lost Army,
and the
Body of Evidence
series of teen thrillers (including
Thief of Hearts
and
Soul Survivor),
which is currently being developed for television. He has also written or co-written a great many things-from novels and non-fiction to

comic-book series and mini-series

based on the popular TV series,
Bufjy the Vampire Slayer,
and its spin-off,
Angel
Golden's recent comic-book work includes the
Angel
ongoing series;
Wolverine/Punisher:
Revelation;
and the upcoming
Batman: Real Worlds.
Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He graduated from Tufts University. He is currently at work on his next novel,
Straight on 'Til Morning.
Please visit him at
www.christophergolden.com
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RICK HAUTALA
is the author of seventeen novels (most recently
The Hidden Saint,
from Berkley) and more than fifty short stories (many of which are published in his new collection,
Bedbugs
, from CD

Publications) along with several movie scripts (including
The Jungle Vine, Nerve Center,
and
Star Road)
which are currently under option (or they may be in production or option lapsed by the time you read this ...

you know how Hollywood is). He lives in southern Maine, and when he isn't working on his new novel,
The
White Room,
can usually be found reading.

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BRIAN HODGE
is the author of seven novels, the most recent of which is
Wild Horses,
a 1999 hardcover release from William Morrow & Company. He has also written seventy-five or so short stories and novellas, some of which have been chained like galley slaves into the highly acclaimed collections
The Convulsion
Factory
and
Falling Idols.
Several times he has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and World Fantasy Award, but so far always a bridesmaid, etc. He also pens book and music reviews, and other non-fiction as the spirit moves, and is currently at work on his next novel.

Turn-ons include movies, wanderlust,
Wallace and Gromit,
collecting weapons (with his medieval war hammer being a particularly intimidating favorite), hearty stouts and ales, and Saint Brendan's Irish Cream.

He plays keyboards and the Australian aboriginal didgeridoo, and has begun accumulating recording gear into a cramped but functional collective dubbed Green Man Studio.

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NANCY HOLDER
is a four-time Bram Stoker Award winner for her supernatural short stories and her novel
Dead in the Water.
She has sold thirty-five novels and over two hundred short stories. Her most recent novels include the science-fiction trilogy,
Gambler's Star,
and a great many
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
novels.

Holder has also written computer-game fiction and manga and TV commercials in Japan. She lives in San Diego, California.

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MIKE MIGNOLA
, the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning creator of
Hellboy,
has worked in comics since 1983, on many projects, including
Gotham by Gaslight, Cosmic Odyssey,
and
Ironwolf: Fires of the
Revolution.
He's done illustration work for books and magazines, and design work for television and film, including Francis Ford Coppola's
Dracula
and the upcoming Disney animated film,
Atlantis.

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YONNE NAVARRO
has published four solo novels and three novelizations, plus a whole bunch of short stones. Two of her novels,
Afterage
and
Deadrush,
were finalists for the Bram Stoker Award, and her apocalyptic thriller.
Final Impact,
received two awards. Currently in bookstores is its follow-up,
Red
Shadows
, which (as with
Afterage)
has generated countless requests for a sequel. Her novelizations include
Species, Species II,
and
Aliens: Music of the Spears,
and she also published a non-fiction book called
The
First Name Reverse Dictionary.

Yvonne is currently completing
The Willow Files,
a
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
book, and
That's Not My
Name,
a solo psychological thriller. She wants everyone in the world to visit her website at
www.para-

net.com/~ynavarro
, where they will be bombarded with subliminal messages demanding they have loads of fun. She currently lives in the Chicago area and plans to relocate to the southwest and get a really neat dog.

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Expatriate Englishman
PHILIP NUTMAN
is an award-nominated novelist, screenwriter, editor, and comic-book writer who currently resides in Atlanta. He is the author of the critically acclaimed cult novel
Wet Work,
the forthcoming
Full Throttle,
and has published more than two dozen short stories in anthologies such as
Book of the Dead and Splatterpunks.

In the comics field he has worked extensively for Chaos! penning
Evil Ernie, Chastity, Suspira,
and
The
Owen.
He has also written for Marvel and Archie Comics where he produced several issues of
The Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles
for younger readers. Most recently, he was hired to work on the promotional comic for this year's Madison Scare Garden haunted house. As a screenwriter, he has written a dozen features and numerous treatments. With co-writer Daniel Farrands he recently completed a pitch for the official sequel to
The Amityville Horror
and an adaptation of the Jack Ketchum novel,
The Girl Next Door.

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GREG RUCKA
is the author of four novels about Atticus Kodiak
Keeper, Finder, Smoker,
and
Shooting

at Midnight.
He has been writing since the age of eight, and hopefully improving with age. A long-time comics fan, his first graphic-novel series was the suspense-thriller
Whiteout,
published by Oni Press and nominated for three Eisner Awards in 1999. Since that time he has been a contributing writer for DC Comics and an active participant in the
Batman
titles in particular.

Born and raised in California, he earned his undergraduate degree at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and his MFA at the University of Southern California. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. He is twenty-nine years old, has two tattoos, and rides a motorcycle.

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CHET WILLIAMSON
's latest novels are the three books in
The Searchers
series and
The Crow. Clash by
Night
(HarperPrism). Next year will see his first children's book:
The Pennsylvania Dutch Night Before
Christmas,
from Pelican Press. Nearly a hundred of his short stories have appeared in such magazines as
The
New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Twilight Zone,
and many other magazines and anthologies. He has been a final nominee for the World Fantasy Award and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award, and a six-time final nominee for the Horror Writers Association's Stoker Award. His work has been adapted for television, radio, and recorded books. Other projects have included a four-issue
Aliens
mini-series entitled
Music of the Spears
and a six-part adaptation of Andrew Vachss and Jim Colbert's novel,
Cross
(both for Dark Horse Comics). He has also written the novelization of the film
The Crow: City of Angels,
and
Hell: A
Cyberpunk Thriller,
based on the CD-ROM game.

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GAHAN WILSON
has produced a few graphic books, but is best known for his regular work in
Playboy
and
The New Yorker.
Something from eighteen to twenty collections of his cartoons have appeared along with a number of works for children and adults. Recently, a collection of his short stories along with his

accompanying illustrations

entitled
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales,
was published to kind reviews. He is presently at work on animated and live-action projects which, he has been told, may someday actually appear in public.

In the meantime, he is glad to be alive.

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