| Born several years ago in Chicago, Illinois, Brian has been a working comic book professional for twenty-two years. After editing Scott Baederstadt and Paul Fricke's Trollords, a popular black and white independant comic of the 1980s, Brian went on to editorial stints with First Comics and Now Publishing. Recruited to DC, Brian went on to a long career as an editor with the House of Superman. Brian's editorial responsibilities, at various times, included The Flash, Wonder Woman, the Justice League franchise, Plastic Man, JSA, El Diablo, The Phantom, and for DC's Impact/Archie Heroes imprint,The Fly, The Jaguar and The Comet.
Brian also gave early breaks to many of today's favorite creators, including Mark Waid, Mike Weiringo, Humberto Ramos, Gerard Jones, Travest Charest, Howard Porter and the late, great Mike Parobeck.
Brian began writing for comics during his editorial tenure and produced the enormously successful Gotham by Gaslight, the very first DC Elseworlds in 1989—as well as the popular sequel, Batman: Master of the Future. While still rising through the editorial ranks, he also wrote several series for DC at that time; Blackmask, Black Condor, and Firebrand.
Brian left his editorial duties in 1996 to concentrate on freelance writing and his growing daughters. Since that time, he's written many comics for DC, a few for Marvel, some for Wildstorm, Dark Horse, Dreamwave, Event, Speakeasy and even Chaos. Highlights of these years include a run for DC of The Flash and the hit maxi-series, JLA: Year One, both cowritten with Mark Waid; Crimson and Out There at Wildstorm with friend and artistic genius, Humberto Ramos; Painkiller Jane for Event; Hell and Go-Boy 7 for Dark Horse/Rocket Comics—as well as one Princess leia story for DH's Star Wars Tales,;Beowulf for Speakeasy; and the MegaMan series for Dreamwave.
Brian has also written non-fiction and prose, game scenarios for Sony Playstation and film treatments and graphic novels for Platinum Studios.
Most recently, Brian spent a bit more than a year with The American Bible Society developing graphic novels based on biblical or religious themes.
Brian, Nadine, his wife of 23 years, and their two daughters reside in Southwestern Connecticut |
