Simon Oliver Explained

Simon Oliver is a British-American comic book writer, best known for his creator-owned series The Exterminators and , published under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

Career

Simon Oliver was born in the United Kingdom but left the country in the early 90s.^[1] After traveling around the world for several years, he settled in Los Angeles, working in the film industry, mostly as a camera assistant on TV shows such as Once and Again and Joan of Arcadia. Oliver began writing The Exterminators as a potential TV series but, after his early scripts were passed to Karen Berger, the Editor-in-Chief of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, Oliver received an offer from the publisher to turn the series into a comic book.^[2] The Exterminators began publishing as an ongoing monthly series in January 2006.^[3] The following year, Oliver became the writer of the Wildstorm ongoing series Gen¹³ and penned , a spin-off mini-series published as part of the Hellblazer 20th anniversary.^{[4] [5]}

In 2013, Vertigo began publishing Oliver's second creator-owned series, Collider. The series' title was changed to following legal action from an international comics publisher.^[6]

Bibliography

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

• The Exterminators (with Tony Moore, Chris Samnee (#8), Mike Hawthorne (#11–12), John Lucas (#15–16, 27), Ty Templeton (#17–18, 26), Darick Robertson (#19–23), Vertigo, 2006–2008) collected as:
  • Bug Brothers (collects #1–5, tpb, 128 pages, 2006,)
  • Insurgency (collects #6–10, tpb, 128 pages, 2007,)
  • Lies of Our Fathers (collects #11–16, tpb, 144 pages, 2007,)
  • Crossfire and Collateral (collects #17–23, tpb, 168 pages, 2008,)
  • Bug Brothers Forever (collects #24–30, tpb, 168 pages, 2008,)
• Gen¹³ vol. 4 #14–20 (with Carlo Barberi, Sunny Lee (#16) and Wes Craig (#20), Wildstorm, 2008) collected as Gen¹³: 15 Minutes (tpb, 160 pages, 2008,)
• #1–5 (with Goran Sudžuka, Vertigo, 2008–2009) collected as Chas: The Knowledge (tpb, 128 pages, 2009,)
• Vertigo Crime

Noche Roja (with Jason Latour, graphic novel, hc, 184 pages, 2011, ; sc, 2011,)

• (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,)
  • Wish You Were Here (collects #8–13, tpb, 144 pages, 2014,)
  • Audeamus (collects #14–19, tpb, 144 pages, 2015,)
  • The End Times (collects #20–24, tpb, 128 pages, 2016,)
• Convergence

Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters #1–2 (with John McCrea, 2015) collected in Convergence: Infinite Earths Book Two (tpb, 272 pages, 2015,)

• Last Gang in Town #1–6 (with Rufus Dayglo, Vertigo, 2016) collected as Last Gang in Town (tpb, 160 pages, 2016,)
• The Hellblazer (with Moritat, Pia Guerra (#5–6), Philip Tan (#7–8) and Davidé Fabbri, 2016–2017) collected as:
  • The Poison Truth (collects the Rebirth one-shot and #1–6, tpb, 168 pages, 2017,)
  • The Smokeless Fire (collects #7–12, tpb, 144 pages, 2017,)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Arune . Singh . WHO YOU GONNA CALL? SIMON OLIVER AND "THE EXTERMINATORS" . . February 28, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070304030025/http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9828 . March 4, 2007 . dead .
2. Web site: Derek . Coward . Simon Oliver email interview . Comic Book Noise . August 5, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070105222559/http://www.comicbooknoise.com/?page_id=152 . January 5, 2007 . dead .
3. Web site: Tom . Toner . SIMON OLIVER: EXTERMINATOR FOR HIRE . ComiX-Fan Forums . December 30, 2005 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927192929/http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=37193 . September 27, 2007 . dead .
4. Web site: Matt . Brady . WW CHICAGO: THE VERTIGO PANEL . . August 11, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929130757/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=124899 . September 29, 2007 . dead .
5. Web site: Greg . Bennett . Simon Oliver Branches Out to Gen-13...and Hellblazer! . . August 11, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080322010141/http://www.comicsalliance.com/2007/08/11/simon-oliver-branches-out-to-gen-13-and-hellblazer/ . March 22, 2008 . live .
6. Web site: Alex . Zalben . 'Collider' Gets A Name Change [EXCLUSIVE] ]. . August 12, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130815002356/http://geek-news.mtv.com/2013/08/12/collider-fbp-federal-bureau-of-physics/ . August 15, 2013 . dead .