Ah-hah! I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Kat
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, JIM DOHERTY
<jimdohertyjr@...> wrote:
>
> Kat,
>
> Re your comments below:
>
> "Actually, she contributed a script cycle for
Hellblazer last year, so
> it's more that her writing seemed appropriate- -and
she's a fan of the
> comic--than that she started out writing comics and
transitioned to
> books. I think Greg Rucka and Max Allan Collins did
it the other way:
> coming from comics into text-only."
>
> Actually, not only did Greg Rucka's first Kodiak
novel precede his
comics work (as others have pointed out), but Al Collins's
first novel, BAIT MONEY, was published in 1973, nearly five
years before his first comics work, "Angeltop," his first
script for the DICK TRACY newspaper strip, began on 26
December 1977. By the time he got the TRACY gig, he'd already
had a half-dozen or so novels published, and at least three
more in the pipeline.
>
> JIM DOHERTY
>
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