Oct 6, 2023
On today's episode, I talk to Eisner Award-winning comics writer
Greg Rucka. Originally from San Francisco, Greg grew up in Salinas,
California, AKA "Steinbeck Country", and worked a number of jobs -
EMT, fight choreographer - until his writing career took off. His
first published novels were his Atticus Kodiak books, which were
published by Bantam starting in the mid-'90s. Soon after, Greg
began writing comics, creating Whiteout, Queen & Country and
Stumptown for Oni, writing things like 52 and Wonder Woman at DC,
Wolverine and Punisher at Marvel, and Lazarus and The Old Guard at
Image, the later of which, he also wrote the screenplay for. And
this is just a small sampling of his work! Most recently, Greg
created The Forged with his co-writer Eric Trautmann at Image, and
like everything else he does, it's great!
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