David Hine
David Hine – Writer, DAYS MISSING
David Hine wrote his first novel in 1964. It was called The Adventurers Go to the Moon. When the real moon landing took place five years later, it seemed remarkably uneventful. David’s version included space dogs, man-eating plants and a robot invasion of Earth. After his first attempt to publish a science-fiction story professionally was met with a polite rejection letter, he decided to try drawing comic books instead. A diverse career in British comics followed, with strips published in Underground comic Knockabout, Record Mirror, 2000AD, Warrior, Deadline and various Marvel UK titles, including the Care Bears. In 1993, he wrote and drew a short series called Strange Embrace. A critical success; a commercial disaster. For the next nine years, David withdrew from comics, turning instead to commercial illustration.
In 2003 a phone call from an old friend in the USA changed everything. Former Marvel UK editor Richard Starkings offered to collect Strange Embrace as a graphic novel. This time ’round, more people took notice. Within a few months, David was offered a series for Marvel comics. In the past five years he has written many series for Marvel, including District X, Daredevil: Redemption, Civil War: X-Men, Silent War and Spider-Man Noir. For DC, he has written The Brave and the Bold, Joker’s Asylum: Two-Face and Battle for the Cowl: Arkham Asylum. He also wrote the monthly Spawn comic for almost three years. For TokyoPop, he created Poison Candy. Coming soon from Radical is a major new series, re-interpreting the vampire and zombie genres, called FVZA. He has also worked on projects for Top Cow, where he met Rob Levin, who later brought him on board for the Days Missing project at Archaia. So far, he has been unable to persuade Rob to publish the graphic novel version of The Adventurers Go to the Moon.