Gerry Conway Archives

Writers, artissts, publishers, editors, and all of them fans of comic book creator Gerry Conway, have been posting on social media about his death earlier this month Gail Simone's recent memories made an entire article of its own but plenty of people were wanting to share their memories of the man Here are a few[...]

Yesterday, in the wake of the news of the death of Gerry Conway, comic book writer Gail Simone gave an essay worthy tribute across a number of posts on social media Normally, I gather and curate a few of these for Bleeding Cool, and was in the process of doing so, but Gail's writing, anecdotes,[...]

Gerry Conway, legendary comic book writer, editor, and television producer, has died at the age of 73 Born on September 10, 1952, in Brooklyn, he broke into the industry as a teenager, selling his first professional story to DC Comics for House of Secrets at 16, and went on to become one of the defining[...]

Now, fans will experience these stories again in archival size and style completing any horror collection. The Best of Marvel's Vampire Tales Volume One contains stories from the first six issues of the magazine, including those by Alfredo Alcala, Rich Buckler, Ernie Chan, Chris Claremont, Gerry Conway, Bill Everett, Gardner Fox, Steve Gerber, Carmine Infantino, Tony[...]

Gerry Conway, is a comic book writer and editor, TV writer and producer, and co-creator of The Punisher, Ben Reilly, Carol Danvers, Firestorm, Power Girl, Jason Todd, Killer Croc and more And now Gerry Conway has been bringing the internet up to date on his current health issues, posting on X/Twitter/whatever-it's-called-now, posting his latest. "By the[...]

A new What If season may be coming to Disney+… and could it be a little darker? A little more grim'n'gritty? Because Marvel is launching What If…? Dark one-shots for Spider-Gwen and Loki in July, and Venom in August. First revisiting the death of Gwen Stacy with the original Death of Gwen Stacy writer Gerry Conway[...]

Directed by Ralph Bakshi it is billed as a collaboration between Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, based on characters co-created by the pair, from a screenplay written by Conan comics writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas. The press release stated of Baksi and Frazetta, "he two developed the concept together and the film's art style was based on Frazetta's work,[...]

Amazing Spider-Man #149 was one of the first Marvel comic books that I picked up off of the newsstand.  At that young age, I preferred solo character comics like Amazing Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, and Magnus, Robot Fighter over team books (Fantastic Four and Justice League of America were popular among some of my friends) because[...]

But there are also a few notable names missing… Suicide Squad screencap John Ostrander (above) – creator of the modern-day Suicide Squad, co-creator of Amanda Waller, John Economos, Flo Crawley, and Briscoe. Luke McDonnell – artist on the original Suicide Squad series, co-creator of John Economos, Flo Crawley, and Briscoe. Ross Andru – co-creator of Rick Flag, co-creator of original[...]

And we have the addition of Gerry Conway and Mike Ploog The creators of The Darkhold grimoire seen earlier in WandaVision under the control of Agnes, as well as in episodes of Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD and Runaways But Allan Heinberg's name is still spelled incorrectly And nothing for James Robinson who introduced the idea[...]

The comic book, by Gerry Conway and Ross Andru published in 1974 is a collector's item in its own right, but the cover artwork by Gil Kane and John Romita Sr has never been made available for public sale. First Punisher Original Artwork Goes to Auction, Estimated $2 Million   TMZ states that Gil Kane sold the piece to[...]

Whether that's Gerry Conway remaking the comics industry or running around chasing Pokémon Go The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. LITG: Gerry Conway and Pokémon GO – the ten most-read stories yesterday… LITG Image[...]

Whether that's Gerry Conway remaking the comics industry or running around chasing Pokémon Go The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. LITG: Gerry Conway, Pokémon GO or John Byrne – the ten most-read stories[...]

Gerry Conway, co-creator of The Punisher, Firestorm, Power Girl, Vixen, and Carol Danvers – Captain Marvel, has something to tell us all after a rather entertaining Word Balloon podcast, taking, to Twitter, about what he would do if he were in charge of the comic book industry But first, a little history… Gerry Conway Twitter PR[...]

The Punisher wasn't having any of it. Now with the Punisher skull has re-emerged with pictures of two Detroit PD officers wearing special operations badges emblazoned with the skull, in the light of anti-racism and police brutality protests, as well as on the lapel of Fox News' Sean Hannity, the character's original creator has a plan[...]

We also detailed other ways that people have used the Punisher logo in recent years as well as linking to Nate Powell's excellent comic book essay about the whole thing, which also quoted The Punisher's co-creator Gerry Conway as saying, Totally by coincidence, CBR ran a story about the same leaflet and podcaster, which led Gerry[...]

The point is, though a career in Big Two comics might offer creators an opportunity to tell stories of the characters they grew up loving, as well as a guaranteed paycheck, there are tradeoffs, and pursuing a path where one owns one's own creations certainly has its appeal as well. Legendary comics creator Gerry Conway took[...]

Legendary comic book writer Gerry Conway took to Twitter on Saturday to call out DC Entertainment for the failure to credit creators including Marv Wolfman, George Perez, Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson, Arnold Drake, and Bob Brown in the credits of the new show Titans, which streams exclusively on the new DC Universe streaming app. Here's what[...]

Cheers, g — Gerry Duggan (@GerryDuggan) October 7, 2017 While Hannah Blumenreich, whose fantastic work on the fan webcomic Spidey Zine led to work on Amazing Spider-Man and Squirrel Girl, said it's only fan comics for her from here on out: https://twitter.com/hannahblmnrch/status/916374647343505408 https://twitter.com/hannahblmnrch/status/916380565133127680 https://twitter.com/hannahblmnrch/status/916382626780389376 Blumenreich hasn't updated her stance since the partnership was canceled. And then there's Eric Palicki, handsome indie comics star[...]

When voters want to know how they should feel about politics, there's only one natural place to turn for advice and inspiration: comic book creators. The Twitter feeds of comic book creators tend to be an unlimited resource of intelligent political discourse, so when a fan asked legendary comic book creator Gerry Conway about Bernie Sanders'[...]

it’s OK that we won’t get another Gwen Stacy moment. Marvel and DC publish more comics now. We have more variety in our superhero fare, and that’s great.

Could an equally emotional, shocking, watershed moment as Gwen Stacy's death ever be executed again in modern comic books?

Now, the co-creator of The Punisher, Gerry Conway (he created the character with John Romita Sr in the pages of Spider-Man #129), has responded to the controversy and the use of the logo. First he addressed whether or not Frank Castle is a villain. He's a complex morally compromised anti-hero, not to be emulated by cops https://t.co/VYFQsGZ4B9 —[...]

She is well-trained in hand-to-hand combat, acrobatics and firearms though she carries none on her. She was created by Gerry Conway and Chuck Patton in Justice League of America Annual #2 This was also the first appearance of Vibe. In the television series, Gypsy is supposed to come in and help Vibe with his powers. Update – It[...]

Even though no one got raped in BVS/ Apart from, you know, the childhood of certain fans who post on-line. Indeed Gerry Conway, writer of the death of Gwen Stacy and co-creator of The Punisher, Firestorm, Steel, Vixen, Jason Todd and Captain Carrot decided to be as direct as possible. Fuck you, Zack Snyder[...]

not what we we previously referred to as "Big October." Which will include a new Firestorm mini-series by his co-creator Gerry Conway, who has been getting a little bit of a revival of interest recently, not least courtesy of a critique of DC Comics' royalty payment structures. He later made an apology, and it looks like everything has been nicely[...]

A new Carnage series by veteran creator Gerry Conway and Mike Perkins. featuring the serial killer-turned supervillain Conway has already given us The Punisher, his journeys with a immoral character as protagonist is a strong one. The tagline? "Descent into madness." Read the rest of our coverage with the #MarvelOctober tag on Bleeding Cool…. UPDATE with visual:     [...]

Recently, veteran comic book creator Gerry Conway made some comments regarding DC's policies over remuneration based on comic book characters being adopted by other media They went far and wide. But now Conway has issued what he calls "A public apology to Geoff Johns, Dan DiDio, Jim Lee, and Larry Ganem." Ganem, while he may not be[...]

Gerry Conway co-created Firestorm for DC Comics. Firestorm hasn't exactly found his milieu in the DC Comics universe of late, both pre and post New 52 relaunch. So it looks as if the company may be considering going back to the original well. After talking about the issues regarding the ex gracia payments to creators for using comic characters[...]

Bleeding Cool remains the only site to publish DC's response to comic creators over veteran comic creator Gerry Conway's concerns and allegations over ex gracia payments made to comic creators for use of their character in toys, games, films and TV shows. Conway has now posted on Tumblr, First, I want to thank Dan DiDio and Geoff Johns[...]