Brett Lewis | |
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Born | Queens, New York, U.S.[1] |
Area(s) | Writer, editor |
Notable works | The Winter Men |
Brett Lewis is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for his post-superheroic series The Winter Men with artist John Paul Leon, as well as the Eisner-nominated short story "Mars to Stay" with art by Cliff Chiang.[2]
Lewis studied art under Walter Simonson at New York's School of Visual Arts, where he first met The Winter Men co-creator John Paul Leon.[3]
Lewis began his career in comics as an editor, first at Marvel Music, a short-lived imprint of Marvel Comics that focused on branded releases of comics featuring, among others, Alice Cooper and The Rolling Stones, then at Motown Machineworks, a company that released comics through Image with the partial aim of producing movie vehicles for black stars.[3] In the late 1990s, Lewis wrote a part of the Image series Bulletproof Monk, which was later adapted into a Bulletproof Monkfilm of the same name]], as well as some stories for Allstar Arena,[4][5] a publisher of sports comic books aimed for release in stadiums. One of these stories, The Mailman, a sci-fi comic starring Utah Jazz power forward Karl Malone, marked the first published collaboration between Lewis and John Paul Leon.
According to Leon, prior to publication, The Winter Men has been in development for over a decade. In a 2006 interview, he 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.[6]
The series had a turbulent publishing history, first announced as an 8-issue limited series for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint,[7] then moved under Wildstorm while being cut to six and, eventually, five issues. The series concluded with a 40-page special that came out two years after issue #5.[8]