Simon Oliver

Simon Oliver
Born	United Kingdom
Nationality	British and US
Area(s)	writer
Notable works	The Exterminators

Simon Oliver is a British-American comic book writer. He wrote the Wildstorm comic series Gen¹³ and the Vertigo comic book series The Exterminators and Hellblazer Presents: Chas - The Knowledge.

Biography

Growing up in UK Oliver mostly read European comics moving towards some American comics such as Watchmen in the late 80s. Then in the early 90s he lived the Third World for five years, cut off from comics and popular culture in general. Around 2003, while living in Los Angeles and working mostly as an camera assistant, he decided to give writing a try. One of the things he wrote was The Exterminators. Initial planned to be a TV series Oliver quickly realized it was not network material and so he took it to the comic book publisher he respected the most. The Exterminators was first published by DC Vertigo in 2006 as an ongoing monthly series.

Oliver became the writer on Wildstorm's Gen¹³ in November 2007. As part of the Hellblazer 20th anniversary publications he wrote a mini-series based on John Constantine's longest surviving friend called, Hellblazer Presents: Chas - The Knowledge.

In 2013, Oliver teamed with artist Robbi Rodriguez for Vertigo Comics on the science fiction comic, Collider. After legal action over the title from an international comics publisher, Oliver and Vertigo changed the title to FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics.

Bibliography

To date, the entirety of Oliver's work has been published by DC Comics and its imprints:

• The Exterminators (Vertigo):
  • Bug Brothers (tpb, 128 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1064-3) collects:
    • "Bug Brothers" (with Tony Moore, in #1-5, 2006)
  • Insurgency (tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1221-2) collects:
    • "Insurgency" (with Tony Moore, in #6-7 and 9-10, 2006)
    • "An Interlude" (with Chris Samnee, in #8, 2006)
  • Lies of our Fathers (tpb, 144 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1475-4) collects:
    • "Brother #38" (with Mike Hawthorne, in #11-12, 2007)
    • "Lies of our Fathers" (with Tony Moore and John Lucas, in #13-16, 2007)
  • Crossfire and Collateral (tpb, 168 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1685-4) collects:
    • "Showdown at Scatshot" (with Ty Templeton, in #17-18, 2007)
    • "Crossfire and Collateral" (with Darick Robertson, in #19-23, 2007–2008)
  • Bug Brothers Forever (tpb, 168 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1970-5) collects:
    • "All Rednecks Go to Heaven" (with Tony Moore, in #24-25, 2008)
    • "Laura Goes Down" (with Ty Templeton, in #26, 2008)
    • "Raising Che" (with John Lucas, in #27, 2008)
    • "Bug Brothers Forever" (with Tony Moore, in #28-30, 2008)
• Gen¹³ #14-20 (with Carlo Barberi, Sunny Lee (#16) and Wes Craig (#20), Wildstorm, 2008) collected as Gen¹³: 15 Minutes (tpb, 160 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-2002-9)
• Hellblazer Presents: Chas – The Knowledge #1-5 (with Goran Sudžuka, Vertigo, 2008–2009) collected as Chas: The Knowledge (tpb, 128 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2127-0)
• Vertigo Crime: Noche Roja (with Jason Latour, graphic novel, hc, 184 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-1535-1; tpb, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3062-8)
• FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics (with Robbi Rodriguez (#1-13) and Alberto Ponticelli (#14-24), Vertigo, 2013–2015) collected as:
  • The Paradigm Shift (collects #1-7, tpb, 160 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4510-2)
  • Wish You Were Here (collects #8-13, tpb, 144 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-5067-X)
  • Audeamus (collects #14-19, tpb, 144 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5434-9)
  • The End Times (collects #20-24, tpb, 128 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5845-X)
• Convergence: Plastic Man & the Freedom Fighters #1-2 (with John McCrea, 2015)
• Last Gang in Town #1-ongoing (with Rufus Dayglo, 2016–...)

References

• Simon Oliver at the Comic Book DB

External links

• Comic Book Noise Simon Oliver email interview
• Comixfan Forums - Simon Oliver Exterminator for hire
• Comic Book Resource - CBR News: Who You Gonna Call? Simon Oliver and the Exterminators