Alex Grecian

Alex Grecian
Alex Grecian Working at Desk, 2012
Born	Alexander Douglas Grecian (1969-08-06) August 6, 1969 Kansas, United States
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, comic book writer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Kansas
Genre	Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
Website
alexgrecian.com

Alex Grecian (/ˈɡriːʃən/; born Alexander Douglas Grecian on August 6, 1969) is an American author of short fiction, novels, comic books, and graphic novels. His notable works include the comic book series Proof and the novels in the Scotland Yard's Murder Squad:The Yard, The Black Country, The Devil's Workshop and The Blue Girl. He has been nominated for the The Strand Award for Best Debut Novel for The Yard, the The Dilys Award for The Black Country, and the Barry Award for Best First Novel for The Yard. He was also the recipient of the Kansas Notable Book Award from the State Library of Kansas for The Yard and The Black Country.

Career

Literary influences

As a child and a teenager, Grecian read the works of C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. He later became a fan of crime fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Graham Greene, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, and John D. MacDonald. Other influences include John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon and Stephen King.

Comics and graphic novels

Grecian's first comic book work, released in 2006, was a collaboration with Canadian comic book artist and illustrator Riley Rossmo on Seven Sons,^[1] a graphic novel based on the anonymously written Chinese folktale Ten Brothers known to be written around the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644). In 2007, he started work on Proof, also with Riley Rossmo. NPR named this series one of the best books of 2009. Grecian and Rossmo started on their third project together, Rasputin,^[2] in the fall of 2014. This series is a work of fiction based on the life of Grigori Rasputin. Rasputin was a mystical adviser^[3] in the court of Czar Nicholas II of Russia in the early nineteen hundreds.

In 2013, with fellow creators B. Clay Moore, Jeremy Haun and Seth Peck, Grecian developed the anthology Bad Karma^[4] using a KickStarter campaign. Bad Karma is a hardcover comics, prose and art collection featuring five separate, inter-related creator-owned concepts.

Novels

In May 2012 Grecian's debut novel The Yard was released by G. P. Putnam's Sons. This novel is the first in the Murder Squad Series. The second novel in the series, The Black Country was released in May 2013 and the third, The Devil's Workshop in May 2014. The e-book The Blue Girl is also a story of the Murder Squad and was released in June 2013.

Bibliography

AiT/Planet Lar

• Seven Sons (AiT/Planet Lar, 88 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-932051-46-5)

Image Comics

• Proof Book 1: Goatsucker (collects Proof #1-5, Image Comics, 128 pages, June 2008, ISBN 978-1-58240-944-3)
• Proof Book 2: The Company Of Men (collects Proof #6-9, Image Comics, 128 pages, December 2008, ISBN 1-60706-017-5)
• Proof Book 3: Thunderbirds Are Go! (collects Proof #10-16, Image Comics, 144 pages, July 2009, ISBN 1-60706-134-1)
• Proof Book 4: Julia (collects Proof #18-23, Image Comics, 128 pages, July 2010, ISBN 1-60706-285-2)
• Proof Book 5: Blue Fairies (collects "Proof" #24-28, Image Comics, 128 pages, December 2010, ISBN 1-60706-348-4)
• Proof Book 6: Endangered (collects "Proof Endangered" #1-5, Image Comics, 128 pages, December 28, 2011, ISBN 1-60706-391-9)
• Fractured Fables (Image Comics, 160 pages, July 2010, ISBN 978-1-60706-269-1)
• Dia de Los Muertos (collects #1-3, Image Comics, tpb, 128 pages, November 2013, ISBN 978-1-60706-807-5)
• Rasputin Volume 1 (collects Rasputin #1-5, Image Comics, 184 pages, May 2015, ISBN 1-63215-267-3)

Vertigo (DC Comics)

• The Unexpected (Vertigo (DC Comics), tpb, 160 pages, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4012-4394-4)

G. P. Putnam's Sons

• The Yard (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2012, ISBN 0-42526-127-1)
• The Black Country (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2013, ISBN 0-42526-773-3)
• The Blue Girl (G. P. Putnam's Sons, June 2013, ASIN B00B1FG9DA)
• The Devil's Workshop (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2014, ISBN 0-39916-643-2)
• The Harvest Man (G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 2015, ISBN 0-39916-644-0)

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

• Unknown Caller (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 2014)

Selected Awards and Honors

• 2012 The New York Times Best Seller list for The Yard^[5]
• 2013 Barry Award (for crime novels) nomination for Best First Novel for The Yard^[6]
• 2013 Strand Magazine’s Critic's Award nomination for Best Debut Novel for The Yard^[7]
• 2013 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Yard^[8]
• 2014 Dilys Award nomination for Mystery Title of the Year for The Black Country^[9]
• 2014 The Kansas Notable Book Awards List for The Black Country^[10]

References

External links

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• Official website
• Bad Karma website
• Alexander Grecian at the Comic Book DB
• Alex Grecian at Goodreads

• Grecian, Alex (2014-05-28). "The 7 Most Exclusive Secret Societies in History". www.huffingtonpost.com (The Huffington Post). 
• Fox, Suzanne (2014-05-29). "Mystery author Alex Grecian appears in Vero". Vero News (Indian River County, Vero Beach FL: VeroNews, LLC).