Another author who's both created occult PIs and also written
for comics is the underrated C.J. Henderson. I've only read
his strict hard-boiled stuff - namely, his Jack Hagee stories
- but he has an occult detective named Teddy London and has
also published stories using characters from Lovecraft and
Lin Carter.
-Gonzalo B.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jonathan Bravard"
<jon.bravard@...> wrote:
>
> While I can't speak for Rucka, I do recall reading
Collins long
before the
> Ms Tree comic
> or his work on Dick Tracy. I think his first Quarry
novel came out
in the
> middle 70's
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 6/10/08, Kat Richardson <kathyr136@...>
wrote:
> >
> > --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com <rara-avis-l%
40yahoogroups.com>, "Joy
> > Matkowski" <jmatkowski1@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Denise Mina wrote comic books? Who
knew!
> >
> > 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 thing Greg Rucka and Max Allan Collins
did it the other
way:
> > coming from comics into text-only.
> >
> > --
> > Kat Richardson
> > http://katrichardson.com/
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> THE LOYAL ORDER OF THE QUIDNUNCS
>
>
> "Fuck Yahoo, Fuck HTML. Fuck Al Gore who created the
internet
>
> Fuck him twice. Now he's killing the polar bears."
Mark and Doug's
subtle
> criticism of email and Al Gore, during the summer of
their
discontent.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
removed]
>
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