Creator Profile: Mike Carey
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www.mikeandpeter.com – Mike Carey and Peter Gross |
| Mike Carey’s Goodreads page | |
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| On Comic Book DB (Database) | |
| @michaelcarey191 | |
(Photo by Luigi Novi) |
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Many will now know Mike – or M.R. – Carey from the recent and massive success of the award-nominated The Girl with all the Gifts, already to become a film adapted by the author himself and starring Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine. But he’s been around a lot longer than this, authoring fantastical prose and comics in the horror / dark fantasy genres for decades… |  |
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He’s scripted Lucifer, Hellblazer, the X-Men and his original series Unwritten on the comics side, and is currently writing Suicide Risk which is being published by Boom! Studios. A naturalised Londoner, his prose debut was The Devil You Know, the first of his London-based Felix Castor urban fantasy / horror series. He’s since written two novels with his wife and daughter (Linda and Louise Carey) for Gollancz and then The Girl with All the Gifts for Orbit as M.R. Carey, and is using the same for a new Orbit title due early 2016. In other news a loose adaptation of Lucifer is coming to Fox TV in 2016…
Read on for more on – and images of – Mike’s work and more besides!
Comics work / Graphic Novels
DC / VERTIGO
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| For many Neil Gaiman’s legendary Sandman sequence begins and ends with the creator’s work, even though spin-offs were endorsed / edited by Gaiman himself. Then Mike Carey was offered The Sandman’s most popular spin-off character, Lucifer, launching the writer’s rise to prominence, and a mythic masterwork spanning 7 years and 75 issues. Other works for Vertigo followed soon after… | |
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Jun 15 – More on our Vertigo New Titles page |
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| Now with a good deal of DC / Vertigo work behind him (and still working on some) Mike got the dream job of writing the X-Men! During his 5+ year tenure the adjective-less X-Men title gained the ‘Legacy’ suffix (later to be taken up by fellow London scribe Si Spurrier) and refocused the drama from team-based to individual character-driven stories. | ||||||
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| Suicide Risk (Boom! Studios) | |||||
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Mike’s latest work with artist Elena Casagrande: a superhero deconstruction in a world where the supervillains vastly outnumber the heroes… |
| You can read more on Volume 3 in our January 2015 Graphic Novel Recommends and Volume 4 in our February 2015 New Graphic Novel Recommends along with other fantastic graphic novels, or both together with more great titles from the publisher on our Boom! Studios Jan-Jun 2015 New Titles page. Volume 5 is due in August… | |||||
Prose Novels
The Felix Castor series (Orbit) |
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#London #Urban-Fantasy #Horror |
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With Linda and Louise Carey (Gollancz) |
As M.R. Carey (Orbit) |
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More on The House of War and Witness on our Gollancz New Titles page or our February New Book Recommends here… |
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More on The Girl with all the Gifts and the other finalists of the Arthur C Clarke Award here… |
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You can scroll on for a reading from and interviews with Mike Carey. For a more detailed list of his work click the Wikipedia and Comic Book DB links at the top; you can also see Mike Carey on Carabas via this search here and DISCOVER more great comic creators and fantastical authors as well as bands, websites, groups and more on our DISCOVER page!
Selected videos (YouTube)
Mike Reading Felix Castor at The Writers Festival 2009
Interview with Fantastic Forum on Comics (2011)
Interview with Mike and Sean Izaakse at the Cape Town Comics Festival (2014)
