Brett Lewis

Brett Lewis is an American comic book creator and editor, best known for his Wildstorm post-superheroic series Winter Men (with John Paul Leon), as well as the Eisner-nominated short story Mars to Stay he did with Cliff Chiang.^[2]

Biography[]

Not much is known about Lewis as he only ever gave one interview.^[1][3] In 1996, he was editorial director of ,^[4] a company which released comics through Image with the partial aim of producing movie vehicles for black stars. In 1998, Lewis worked with a different packager, , on the Image series Bulletproof Monk only to be denied onscreen credit in the resultant eponymous movie.

For a while Lewis was an editor at Marvel Music, an imprint focused on branded releases of comics featuring Alice Cooper, The Rolling Stones and others, though it seems none of the projects he worked on were released, or maybe even completed. In the late 90s he was active in ,^[5][6] a publisher of sports comic books for release in stadiums – before creating The Winter Men he and Leon collaborated on The Mailman, a sci-fi comic starring Utah Jazz power forward Karl Malone.

Winter Men[]

Lewis and John Paul Leon met as students at New York's School of Visual Arts, where Lewis — himself an artist at the time — studied under Walter Simonson and planned to draw an iteration of the comic himself.^[3] In a 2006 interview Leon stated,

Brett Lewis and I first began developing this project about five years ago. Actually it really began years before then, when Brett had the idea of doing a Russian based Superman story. This was probably 1993 or so.^[7]

The book was intended to be published by Vertigo as an eight-issue limited series in collaboration with colorist Dave Stewart and letterer John Workman.^[8][9] A two-page sample of the upcoming miniseries appeared in the April 2003 promotional pamphlet Vertigo X Anniversary Preview; neither Stewart nor Workman were credited in that excerpt, and both the colors and letters would change when the pages later appeared in the series proper. By the time issue #1 appeared in August 2005, the series had become part of the short-lived WildStorm Signature Series line of creator-owned works, although Vertigo senior editor shared an editing credit with WildStorm's Alex Sinclair on issues #1 and #2, suggesting that the switchover came a good ways into production.^[8]

After the six-month delay and a change of editor (to Scott Dunbier), issue #4 (April 2006)'s cover stated that the book was now a six-issue miniseries. Issue #5 (October 2006)'s solicitation announced that there will be eight issues again,^[10] although the actual issue included the message that this was the last regular issue and the story would be completed in The Winter Special, announced for 2007 but actually released two years after #5, on December 31, 2008 as an oversized 40 page special.^[11]

Bibliography[]

Image Comics[]

• (as editor):
  • (written and drawn by , one-shot, 1996)
  • #1–3 (written by Mike Baron, drawn by Walter A. McDaniel, 1996)
• #1–4 (with , Shawn Martinbrough (#3) and ChrisCross (#4); issues #3–4 are co-written by Lewis and David Quinn, 1996)
• Bulletproof Monk #1–2 (of 3) (with Michael Avon Oeming; issue #2 is co-written by Lewis and , 1998) collected in Bulletproof Monk (tpb, 80 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-5824-0244-2)
• Fall Out Toy Works #1–5 (with and (#4–5), 2009–2010) collected as Fall Out Toy Works: Tiffany Blues (tpb, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-6070-6359-X)
• Thief of Thieves #38–43 (with Shawn Martinbrough, Skybound, 2018–2019) collected as Thief of Thieves: Closure (tpb, 128 pages, 2019, ISBN 1-5343-1036-3)

DC Comics[]

• The Big Book of Martyrs: "St. Alban: The Good Pagan" (art, written by John Wagner, anthology graphic novel, 192 pages, Paradox Press, 1997, ISBN 1-5638-9360-6)
• Scooby-Doo vol. 3 (Cartoon Network):
  • "Return of the Star Dog" (with Joe Staton, in #33, 2000)
  • "Good Ghost Haunting" (with Anthony Williams, in #42, 2001)
  • "Bats What I'm Afraid of" (with Joe Staton, in #47, 2001)
  • "The Case of the Greedy Tar" (with , in #49, 2001)
  • "Fight or Flight!" (with , in #53, 2001)
  • "The Case of the Cold Trail" (with , in #72, 2003)
• Dexter's Laboratory #18: "Control Freaks" (with , Cartoon Network, 2001)
• Weird Western Tales vol. 2 #3: "Once Upon a Time in the Future" (with Eduardo Risso, anthology, Vertigo, 2001)
• The Powerpuff Girls (with , Cartoon Network):
  • "The Trouble with Bubbles" (in #18, 2001) collected in The Powerpuff Girls Classics: Picture Perfect (tpb, 140 pages, IDW Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-63140-017-9)
  • "Bless This Mess" (in #27, 2002) collected in The Powerpuff Girls Classics: Bless This Mess (tpb, 140 pages, IDW Publishing, 2015, ISBN 1-6314-0160-2)
• The Winter Men #1–5 + Winter Special (with John Paul Leon, Wildstorm, 2005–2008) collected as The Winter Men (tpb, 176 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2526-8)
• The Witching Hour: "Mars to Stay" (with Cliff Chiang, anthology one-shot, Vertigo, 2013)

Other publishers[]

• :
  • Karl Malone: The Mailman (with John Paul Leon, one-shot, 1997)
  • Webber's World (with Gordon Purcell, and , one-shot, 1998)
• Disney Adventures #97-1: "Battle Man" (with , Disney Publishing Worldwide, 1997)
• (co-written by Lewis and , art by Tommy Lee Edwards, , 1999)
• Marvel:
  • (with Mark D. Bright, one-shot, 2003) collected in The Avengers: No More Bullying (tpb, 96 pages, 2015, ISBN 0-7851-9851-2)
  • The Halo Graphic Novel: "Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa" (with Moebius, anthology, hc, 128 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-2372-5; sc, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-2378-4)

References[]

External links[]

• Brett Lewis' Twitter