Shane McCarthy
| Shane McCarthy | |
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| Born | 24 July 1975 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Area(s) | Writer |
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Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.
Career
A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story Low for DC Comics in 2004, beginning in Detective Comics #797. McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), pitting Batman against Zsasz.[1]
Other published works include Zombies: Feast for IDW Publishing and contributions to Event Horizon for Mam Tor Publishing, and Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse.
McCarthy completed a twelve-part Transformers series entitled All Hail Megatron for IDW Publishing[2]
His work appears in Marvel's Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1.
Between writing projects McCarthy runs a swing dancing school in Perth Western Australia.[3]
Bibliography
Transformers for IDW Publishing
- All Hail Megatron (12 issues, 2008–2009)
- Spotlight: Blurr (one-shot, 2008)
- Spotlight: Drift (one-shot, 2009)
- Spotlight: Cliffjumper (one-shot, 2009)
- The Transformers: Drift (4 issues, 2010)
- Mars Attacks: The Transformers (one-shot, 2013)
- The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone (4 issues, 2014-2015)
- Low "Detective Comics" #797 - #799 (2004)[4]
- Riddle Me That "Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight" #185 - #189 (2005)
- Victims "Detective Comics" #816 - #817 (2006)
Others:
- "Black Eight" in Star Wars Tales #21 (2004)
- Event Horizon #1 (2005)
- Event Horizon #2 (2005)
- Zombies! Feast (2006) [5]
- Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (2009)
References
External links
- Official website
- Interview with Pulse News 11 January 2006
- Interview about All Hail Megatron with Newsarama April 2008
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