Simon Oliver was born in the United Kingdom but left the country in the early 90s.[1] 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.[2]The Exterminators began publishing as an ongoing monthly series in January 2006.[3] The following year, Oliver became the writer of the Wildstorm ongoing series Gen¹³ and penned Hellblazer Presents: Chas – The Knowledge, a spin-off mini-series published as part of the Hellblazer 20th anniversary.[4][5]
In 2013, Vertigo began publishing Oliver's second creator-owned series, Collider. The series' title was changed to FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics following legal action from an international comics publisher.[6]
Bibliography
To date, the entirety of Oliver's work has been published by DC Comics and its various imprints:
