Jonathan Baylis

Jonathan Baylis (born 1973) is an American comic book writer.

Early life and education

Baylis was born in The Bronx, New York. He attended New York University, working during his senior year an Editorial Associate at Marvel Comics. He wrote an obituary for Jack Kirby in the Marvel publication, Marvel Age that featured a photograph borrowed from Kirby’s longtime Golden Age partner, Joe Simon.

Career

After leaving Marvel, Baylis worked at Valiant/Acclaim and became an Associate Editor at Topps Comics, working under Len Brown, co-creator of “Mars Attacks!”, where he helped launch the career of popular comic artist Yanick Paquette on the TV series adaptation of Fox’s “Space: Above and Beyond”.^[1]

Since 2004, Baylis has written a series of autobiographical memoir comics under the umbrella of So Buttons, started in 2004. As of 2014, there are seven issues and a holiday special in print with a collection premiering in 2015 called "So Buttons: Man of, Like, a Dozen Faces^[2][3][4]

Baylis' work has been published in “Free Comics NYC”, “The Comical Magazine”, “Fluke Anthology”, “The Comedians Magazine”, “BAM: Big Ass Mini”, Minneapolis’s “City Pages” newspaper, Random House/Three Rivers Press’s “I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Missed Connections”, “Side B: A Music Lovers Anthology”, Fluke Anthologies, Accent UK’s Predators, and Aftershock: Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan.^[5]

So Buttons 6 Cover by Jay Lynch

His story “So… Only Nixon Could’ve Gone to China” was the first comic ever published in The Florida Review literary anthology (2005). His work has also been published by the “Backwards City Review” (2007) and “Wild River Review” (2007).^[3]

Jonathan appeared in the second episode of AMC network's reality series, Comic Book Men.^[6]

His first fiction story, In the Head, Please! was published in Arcana’s “Dark Horrors #2”, and has since been expanded into a longer self-published edition in So Buttons #3.

References

External links

• sobuttons.com