David Hopkins (writer)

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David Hopkins

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David Hopkins (born May 1, 1977) is an American comic book writer and essayist. He is the co-host and co-producer of Fanboy Radio's Indie Show, that showcases independent and small press comics. David lives in Arlington, Texas with his daughter Kennedy. His works include the self-published mini-comic "Some Other Day" and Viper Comics' Karma Incorporated and Emily Edison, an original graphic novel. Most recently, Hopkins' comic book "Antigone" was published by Silent Devil Productions, working with frequent collaborator artist Tom Kurzanski. David also writes a weekly column for Pop Syndicate and is a regular contributor to the Smart Pop Series from BenBella Books.

1 Career
2 Trivia
3 Interviews
4 Awards
5 External links

[edit] Career

David Hopkins first professional writing was after college in 2002. Aja Jones asked him to write a stage play for her theatre troupe to be performed at the University of Texas at Arlington. The first and only performance of "Space to Occupy" was on September 14, 2002. Immediately afterwards, Hopkins began writing comics.

The first year, Hopkins wrote a five issue series The Insight. Set in Dallas, Hopkins used extensive photo references from actual locations in the city. (He would later do this for Karma Incorporated, which also takes place in Dallas.) Over the course of two years, there were two different artists attached to the project, which never came together and remains unpublished.

In June 2003, Hopkins wrote a 144 page graphic novel Astronaut Dad -- a fictional story about three astronaut families living in Houston, set in 1963. Hopkins cites this work as his "most personally satisfying". It is set to be published by Silent Devil Productions.

Later that year, encouraged by the Isotope Awards, Hopkins self-published a mini-comic "Some Other Day"[1] with artist Brian Kelly.

In 2004, Hopkins' first published work was a short story in Viper Comics Dead@17: Rough Cut[2]. Creator Josh Howard invited him to contribute to this anthology. Afterwards, he also wrote short stories for Western Tales of Terror[3], Silent Forest Television Parody Special[4], and Dead@17: Rough Cut Volume 2.

At Comic Con International in 2005, Viper Comics released Hopkins first series Karma Incorporated, illustrated by Tom Kurzanski and colored by Marlena Hall. In addition to the standard blue cover of issue one, a red exclusive variant cover was printed as part of the Diamond Distributors exclusives for that year. Reports are that a second series is currently being negotiated.

Hopkins wrote Emily Edison, which was published by Viper Comics in 2006, and illustrated by Brock Rizy. It was released as a trade paperback. That summer, Rizy and Hopkins went on a month long book tour to promote the release through California, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

David Hopkins is also an English II and Creative Writing teacher at Martin High School in Arlington, Texas.

[edit] Trivia

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The biography on his website claims he: "wrestled with a mountain lion, played bass in a few bands, had a police officer pull a gun on him, survived the subways of St.Petersburg, worked at a bread shop, coached the school's chess club, marched in an anti-war rally, was an editorial cartoonist for his college newspaper, and co-hosted a talk radio show." All of this is technically true. When Hopkins was younger, a family friend owned a full-grown mountain lion as a pet. The cat pounced onto him. In reference to the police incident, Hopkins was mistakenly thought to have broken into a church. Police came and pulled their guns.

His ex-wife Melissa Cassidy skates in the Dallas Derby Devils roller derby league. She's skates under the pseudonym Blue Monday based on the comic book Blue Monday by Chynna Clugston.