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Brett Lewis is an American comic book creator and editor, best known for his Wildstorm post-superheroic series Winter Men (with John Paul Leon), as well as the Eisner-nominated short story Mars to Stay he did with Cliff Chiang.^[2]

Biography

Not much is known about Lewis as he only ever gave one interview.^[1][3] In 1996, he was editorial director of Motown Machineworks,^[4] a company which released comics through Image with the partial aim of producing movie vehicles for black stars. In 1998, Lewis worked with a different packager, Flypaper Press, on the Image series Bulletproof Monk only to be denied onscreen credit in the resultant eponymous movie.

For a while Lewis was an editor at Marvel Music, an imprint focused on branded releases of comics featuring Alice Cooper, The Rolling Stones and others, though it seems none of the projects he worked on were released, or maybe even completed. In the late 90s he was active in Allstar Arena,^[5][6] a publisher of sports comic books for release in stadiums – before creating The Winter Men he and Leon collaborated on The Mailman, a sci-fi comic starring Utah Jazz power forward Karl Malone.

Winter Men

Lewis and John Paul Leon met as students at New York's School of Visual Arts, where Lewis — himself an artist at the time — studied under Walter Simonson and planned to draw an iteration of the comic himself.^[3] In a 2006 interview Leon stated,

The book was intended to be published by Vertigo as an eight-issue limited series in collaboration with colorist Dave Stewart and letterer John Workman.^[8][9] A two-page sample of the upcoming miniseries appeared in the April 2003 promotional pamphlet Vertigo X Anniversary Preview; neither Stewart nor Workman were credited in that excerpt, and both the colors and letters would change when the pages later appeared in the series proper. By the time issue #1 appeared in August 2005, the series had become part of the short-lived WildStorm Signature Series line of creator-owned works, although Vertigo senior editor Will Dennis shared an editing credit with WildStorm's Alex Sinclair on issues #1 and #2, suggesting that the switchover came a good ways into production.^[8]

After the six-month delay and a change of editor (to Scott Dunbier), issue #4 (April 2006)'s cover stated that the book was now a six-issue miniseries. Issue #5 (October 2006)'s solicitation announced that there will be eight issues again,^[10] although the actual issue included the message that this was the last regular issue and the story would be completed in The Winter Special, announced for 2007 but actually released two years after #5, on December 31, 2008 as an oversized 40 page special.^[11]

Bibliography

Image Comics

Titles published by Image include:

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  Motown Machineworks (as editor):
  
  
  
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    Casual Heroes (by Kevin McCarthy, one-shot, 1996)
  
  
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    The Crush #1-3 (by Mike Baron and Walter McDaniel, 1996)
  
  
  
  


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  Man Against Time #1-4 (with Gino DiCicco, Shawn Martinbrough (#3), ChrisCross (#4) and David Quinn, 1996)


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  Bulletproof Monk #1-2 (of 3) (with Michael Avon Oeming and R. A. Jones (co-writer on #2), 1998) collected in Bulletproof Monk (tpb, 80 pages, 2002, .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
  ISBN 1-5824-0244-2)


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  Fall Out Toy Works #1-5 (with Sami Basri and Hendry Prasetya (#4-5), 2009–2010) collected as Fall Out Toy Works (tpb, 160 pages, 2011,
  ISBN 1-6070-6359-X)

DC Comics

Titles published by DC Comics and its various imprints include:

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  The Big Book of Martyrs: "St. Alban: The Good Pagan" (art, written by John Wagner, anthology graphic novel, sc, 192 pages, Paradox Press, 1997,
  ISBN 1-5638-9360-6)


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  Scooby-Doo! (Cartoon Network):
  
  
  
  • "Return of the Star Dog" (with Joe Staton, in #33, 2000)
  
  
  • "Good Ghost Haunting" (with Anthony Williams, in #42, 2001)
  
  
  • "Bats What I'm Afraid of" (with Joe Staton, in #47, 2001)
  
  
  • "The Case of the Greedy Tar" (with Vincent DePorter, in #49, 2001)
  
  
  • "Fight or Flight!" (with John Delaney, in #53, 2001)
  
  
  • "The Case of the Cold Trail" (with Karen Matchette, in #72, 2003)
  
  
  
  


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  Dexter's Laboratory #18: "Control Freaks" (with Eduardo Savid, Cartoon Network, 2001)


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  Vertigo:
  
  
  
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    Weird Western Tales #3: "Once Upon a Time in the Future" (with Eduardo Risso, anthology, 2001)
  
  
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    Vertigo X Anniversary: "Wintermen: Winter Man" (with John Paul Leon, 2-page preview, 2003)
  
  
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    The Witching Hour: "Mars to Stay" (with Cliff Chiang, anthology one-shot, 2013)
  
  
  
  


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  The Powerpuff Girls (with Christopher Cook, Cartoon Network):
  
  
  
  • "The Trouble with Bubbles" (in #18, 2001) collected in Classics Volume 4: Picture Perfect (tpb, 140 pages, IDW Publishing, 2014,
    ISBN 978-1-63140-017-9)
  
  
  • "Bless This Mess" (in #27, 2002) collected in Classics Volume 5: Bless This Mess (tpb, 140 pages, IDW Publishing, 2015,
    ISBN 1-6314-0160-2)
  
  
  
  


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  The Winter Men #1-5 + The Winter Special (with John Paul Leon, Wildstorm, 2005–2008) collected as The Winter Men (tpb, 176 pages, 2009,
  ISBN 1-4012-2526-8)

Other publishers

Titles published by various American publishers include:

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  Allstar Arena Comics:
  
  
  
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    Karl Malone: The Mailman (with John Paul Leon, one-shot, 1997)
  
  
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    Webber's World (with Gordon Purcell, Brad Gorby and Mark Heiki, one-shot, 1998)
  
  
  
  


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  Disney Adventures #97-1: "Battle Man" (with Chris Jordon, Disney, 1997)


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  Shortstop Squad (with Tommy Lee Edwards and Paul Fairchild, Ultimate Sports Force, 1999)


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  Marvel:
  
  
  
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    The Amazing Spider-Man on Bullying Prevention: "Fear Pressure!" (with M. D. Bright, one-shot, 2003)
  
  
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    The Halo Graphic Novel: "Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa" (with Moebius, anthology, hc, 128 pages, 2006,
    ISBN 0-7851-2372-5; sc, 2010,
    ISBN 0-7851-2378-4)
  
  
  
  

References

External links

• Brett Lewis' Twitter