Joe Casey

Joe Casey

Casey at the 2012 New York Comic Con.
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer
Notable works
 Cable
WildC.A.T.s
Gødland
http://www.manofaction.tv

Joe Casey is an American comic book writer. He has worked on titles such as Wildcats 3.0, Uncanny X-Men, The Intimates, Adventures of Superman, and G.I. Joe: America's Elite among others. As part of the comics creator group Man of Action Studios, Casey is one of the creators of the animated series Ben 10.

Career

Starting his professional writing career at Marvel Comics, Casey wrote for several titles, including Cable, The Incredible Hulk and Uncanny X-Men.

Casey wrote many titles for Wildstorm, like the highly experimental Automatic Kafka with artist Ashley Wood. Casey took over Wildcats and gave the series a new direction, moving it from the superhero genre to incorporate elements of corporate espionage. He wrote a Mister Majestic series with artist Ed McGuiness, after which they subsequently collaborated on Adventures of Superman, which Casey wrote for three years.

Casey wrote 2005's Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes limited series and its sequel for Marvel Comics. Since 2001 Casey has produced creator-owned work through Image Comics, including Gødland, Codeflesh, Nixon's Pals, Charlatan Ball, Doc Bizarre, M.D., Officer Downe. He also wrote a revamp of the original Youngblood miniseries by Rob Liefeld, called Maximum Youngblood. As well as discussing the ending of Gødland, Charlatan Ball and Nixon's Pals,[1] he mentioned that Codeflesh[2] would be returning.[3]

Casey was featured in a 2006 documentary about the 1990s comic boom and bust called Adventures Into Digital Comics.[4]

Casey is a member of the Man of Action collective of creators (with Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau, Steven T. Seagle), who created the series Ben 10, currently airing on Cartoon Network. They also created the show Generator Rex, which also ran for two seasons on Cartoon Network. They are producers/story editors on the shows Ultimate Spider-Man and Marvel's Avengers Assemble airing on Disney XD. Casey also co-created the animated property Disco Destroyer with Scott Mosier and Jim Mahfood.

Dark Reign: Zodiac pits a new iteration of the old Avengers enemies against Norman Osborn's new status quo as Director of National Security,[5][6][7] and Final Crisis: Aftermath: Dance follows the adventures of the Super Young Team.[8][9] His brief return to DC also included a brief run on Superman/Batman.

His next work for Image Comics, with Mike Huddleston on art duties, was Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker. The critically acclaimed series ended with issue #8, which was published on August 15, 2012, ten months after issue #7, a delay that Casey stated was due to Huddleston's having overcommitted himself. Huddleston responded to Casey's public statement by stating that the delay was caused by his need to take over work in order to make sufficient money, as Butcher Baker was not lucrative enough for him to avoid doing so. Huddleston further explained that he apologized to Casey and to fans for the delay.[10][11]

That same year, Casey debuted the six-issue Marvel miniseries Vengeance, which introduced a group of new villains to the Marvel Universe.[12] The hardcover collection was released in December 2012.

His other work includes the creator-owned series Sex and The Bounce for Image Comics, as well as Catalyst Comix for Dark Horse Comics, reviving many of the old Comics Greatest World superheroes from the 1990s.

A film called Officer Downe (film), based on Casey's comic, is in development.[13]

Bibliography

Early work

Marvel Comics

DC Comics

Wildstorm

Image Comics

Dark Horse Comics

Other publishers

Notes

  1. ↑ "SDCC 06: Joe Casey's Two New @ Image". Newsarama. July 22, 2006 Archived November 19, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "Revisiting Codeflesh With Joe Casey & Larry Young". Newsarama. October 24, 2003 Archived July 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Minnick, Remy (June 13, 2008). "The Road To Enlightenment Leads to GØDLAND". Comic Book Resources.
  4. ↑ Adventures Into Digital Comics Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.. Icon 2006. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  5. ↑ Richards, Dave (February 28, 2009). "WC: Casey Talks 'Dark Reign: Zodiac'". Comic Book Resources.
  6. ↑ Brady, Matt (February 28, 2009). "WonderCon '09 - Joe Casey Talks 'Dark Reign: Zodiac'". Newsarama.
  7. ↑ "THE OSBORN SUPREMACY: Zodiac". Comic Book Resources. April 7, 2009
  8. ↑ Brady, Matt (February 11, 2009). "Ian Sattler on the Final Crisis: Aftermath Titles". Newsarama.
  9. ↑ Renaud, Jeffrey (March 5, 2009). "Joe Casey 'Dances' with Super Young Team in 'Final Crisis Aftermath'". Comic Book Resources.
  10. ↑ Melrose, Kevin (August 15, 2012). "Butcher Baker, The Righteous Maker has ended, apparently".
  11. ↑ Callahan, Timothy (August 13, 2012). "When Words Collide: Joe Casey Talks: The Return of 'Butcher Baker'". Comic Book Resources.
  12. ↑ Callahan, Timothy (May 23, 2011). "When Words Collide: Joe Casey's 'Vengeance,' Part 1". Comic Book Resources.
  13. ↑ SAATHOFF, Evan, May 13, 2016, "OFFICER DOWNE Is Coming, And We Have Exclusive Pics To Prove It" (http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/05/13/officer-downe-is-coming-and-we-have-exclusive-pics-to-prove-it). Birth Movies Death. Accessed 15 May 2016.
  14. ↑ Although initially intended as a longer stint, Casey was fired off the book after making the unpleasant comments on DC's decision to brand the first arc as a tie-in to the then-eight-year-old event, Our Worlds at War. Last two issues were finished by another writer/artist team, with Casey listed as "co-writer".
  15. ↑ The book stopped publication at #28, which had last two pages written and drawn by Todd McFarlane (owner of the book). McFarlane was also listed as the writer of all subsequent issues, although none of those have been released so far. The original Casey/Fox solicitations for #29, #30 and #31 can still be found on the Internet.

References

Preceded by
Peter David		 The Incredible Hulk writer
1998–1999 		Succeeded by
John Byrne
Preceded by
Scott Lobdell		 Uncanny X-Men writer
2001–2002 		Succeeded by
Chuck Austen
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