Dan Jolley is an American novelist and comic book writer. His comics work includes DC Comics' Firestorm and Graphic Universe's Twisted Journeys, a series of interactive fiction or gamebooks in graphic novel form, and his novel work includes the young-adult science fiction espionage series Alex Unlimited.
Career
Dan Jolley began his writing career in the early nineties. His limited series Obergeist was voted Best Horror Comic of 2001 by Wizard magazine, and his DC Comics project JSA: The Unholy Three received an Eisner Award nomination for Best Limited Series of 2003. His other comics work includes Bloodhound, a series about an unpowered investigator into a super-powered serial killer in the DC Universe.
May 2007 saw the debut of his first novel series, an original young-adult science fiction espionage story called Alex Unlimited, published by a joint venture of TokyoPop and HarperCollins.
He is also scripting several manga projects, including The Lost Warrior, which is an extension of the Warriors novel series by Erin Hunter, and wrote the teen novelization of the 2008 motion picture Iron Man.
Jolley was on the design team of Icarus Studios' post-apocalyptic MMORPG, Fallen Earth. He now writes for video games from Activision and Ubisoft.
Bibliography
Comics
- Doctor Strange: The Flight of Bones (4-issue mini-series, Marvel Knights, 1999)
- JSA: The Liberty Files (DC Comics, 2000)
- Lazarus 5 (DC Comics, 2000)
- Obergeist (Top Cow Productions, 2001â€"2002)
- Purgatori: God Killer (Chaos! Comics, 2002)
- Sabretooth: Mary Shelley Overdrive (4-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, 2002)
- Micronauts #6-11 (Image Comics, 2003)
- JSA: The Unholy Three (DC Comics, 2003)
- Micronauts (3-issue mini-series, Devil's Due, 2004)
- Firestorm #1-13 (DC Comics, 2004â€"2005)
- Bloodhound #1-10 (with Leonard Kirk, DC Comics, 2004â€"2005)
- JLA: Gods and Monsters (with Josh Krach), DC Comics, 2001
Warriors
The Warriors series is about fictional feral cats trying to survive, and is written by Erin Hunter. As part of a deal, TokyoPop and HarperCollins together brought the series into manga format. Jolley scripted a trilogy about one of the warrior cats, Graystripe.
- The Lost Warrior (ISBN 0061240206)
- Warrior's Refuge (ISBN 006125231X)
- Warrior's Return (ISBN 0061252336)
Buffyverse
Novels relating to the fictional universe established by Buffy and Angel:
- Vengeance (with Scott Ciencin)
Notes
References
- Dan Jolley at the Grand Comics Database
- Dan Jolley at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
External links
- Official website
- Dan Jolley at the Comic Book DB
- Works by or about Dan Jolley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Dan Jolley at the Open Library
- Bbc.co.uk - Interview with Dan Jolley and Scott Ciencin
