John Reppion
Encyclopedia
John Mark Reppion is a British
writer
. He is married to Leah Moore
, the daughter of Alan Moore
, and he has worked with both on the comic Albion
.
, a 6 part comic for Wildstorm
with art by Shawn McManus
and J.H. Williams III, and in February 2006
they signed an initial twelve issue contract with Dynamite Entertainment
, for whom they produced an intercompany crossover
with artist Stephen Segovia, Witchblade
: "Shades of Gray", co-published with Top Cow, and a zombie comic Raise the Dead, amongst other things.
The duo also contributed to Dark Horse
's The Dark Horse Book of Monsters, the first issue of Th3rd World Studios' Space Doubles., Tori Amos
' Comic Book Tattoo
(with artist Pia Guerra
) and "Deadeye" drawn by Matt Timson
for the first two issues of Popgun
. They will also be working on a one-shot Doctor Who
story with artist Ben Templesmith
. and are writing The Complete Dracula
, an adaptation of Bram Stoker
's novel, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
and The Complete Alice in Wonderland.
John has also written a number of non-fiction articles including an article on The Childe of Hale
for the Fortean Times
and various articles for The End Is Nigh
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
. He is married to Leah Moore
Leah Moore
Leah Moore is an English comic book writer. She is the daughter of Alan Moore and Phyllis Moore, and is married to John Reppion. She has worked with both Alan and John on the comic Albion. She has also written for other comics and publications including Tom Strong and The End Is Nigh...
, the daughter of Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
, and he has worked with both on the comic Albion
Albion (comics)
Albion is a six-issue comic book limited series plotted by Alan Moore, written by his daughter Leah Moore and her husband John Reppion, with covers by Dave Gibbons and art by Shane Oakley and George Freeman. As a result of a deal forged by Vice President Bob Wayne of DC Comics and Publishing...
.
Biography
He and Leah have co-writing credits on Wild GirlWild Girl (comics)
Wild Girl is a six issue comic book limited series published in late 2004 and early 2005 by Wildstorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics. It was written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, with art by Shawn McManus.-Plot:...
, a 6 part comic for Wildstorm
Wildstorm
WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, published American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
with art by Shawn McManus
Shawn McManus
Shawn McManus is an American artist who has worked extensively over three decades for DC Comics and other companies, notably for DC's Vertigo imprint, including the current Fables.-Swamp Thing:...
and J.H. Williams III, and in February 2006
2006 in comics
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they signed an initial twelve issue contract with Dynamite Entertainment
Dynamite Entertainment
Dynamite Entertainment is an American comic book company that primarily publishes licensed franchises of adaptations of other media. These include adaptations of film properties such as Army of Darkness, Terminator and RoboCop, literary properties such as Zorro, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in...
, for whom they produced an intercompany crossover
Intercompany crossover
In comic books, an intercompany crossover is a comic or series of comics where characters published by one company meet those published by another...
with artist Stephen Segovia, Witchblade
Witchblade
Witchblade is an American comic book series published by Top Cow Productions, an imprint of Image Comics, from 1995 until present. The series was created by Top Cow editors Marc Silvestri and David Wohl, writers Brian Haberlin and Christina Z, and artist Michael Turner.The series follows Sara...
: "Shades of Gray", co-published with Top Cow, and a zombie comic Raise the Dead, amongst other things.
The duo also contributed to Dark Horse
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
's The Dark Horse Book of Monsters, the first issue of Th3rd World Studios' Space Doubles., Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
' Comic Book Tattoo
Comic Book Tattoo
Comic Book Tattoo is an Eisner Award and Harvey Award-winning anthology graphic novel made up of fifty-one stories, each based on or inspired by a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, published by Image Comics in 2008. Rantz Hoseley, longtime friend of Amos, served as the book's editor....
(with artist Pia Guerra
Pia Guerra
Pia Guerra is an award-winning Canadian comic book artist best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man.-Career:...
) and "Deadeye" drawn by Matt Timson
Matt Timson
Matt Timson is a British comic book artist who resides in Leicester.-Biography:Timson has done a lot of work for British small press comics including Solar Wind, The End Is Nigh and FutureQuake, as well as working as a freelance illustrator.In recent years he has begun to get professional comics...
for the first two issues of Popgun
Popgun (comics)
Popgun is an award-winning comics anthology series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. Popgun was published by Image Comics starting in 2007. The driving concept behind Popgun is a mixtape of graphic short stories that cross the borders of all genres...
. They will also be working on a one-shot Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
story with artist Ben Templesmith
Ben Templesmith
Ben Templesmith is an Australian comic book artist best known for his work in the American comic book industry, most notably the Image Comics series Fell, with writer Warren Ellis, which is credited with pioneering a new format for commercial comics, and IDW's 30 Days of Night with writer Steve...
. and are writing The Complete Dracula
Dracula
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...
, an adaptation of Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula...
's novel, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
and The Complete Alice in Wonderland.
John has also written a number of non-fiction articles including an article on The Childe of Hale
John Middleton (giant)
John Middleton was an English giant commonly known as the Childe of Hale. Most of what is known about him is based on oral tradition and legends. Legend tells that he slept with his feet out of the window of his small house. Tales also credit him with great strength.-Biography:John Middleton was...
for the Fortean Times
Fortean Times
Fortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort. Previously published by John Brown Publishing and then I Feel Good Publishing , it is now published by Dennis Publishing Ltd. As of December 2010, its circulation was approximately 18,000...
and various articles for The End Is Nigh
The End Is Nigh
The End Is Nigh was an annual British fanzine edited by Michael Molcher. It was launched at the Bristol Comic Expo in 2005 and, since becoming a semi-annual publication, each subsequent issue is also launched there....
.
Comics
- Wild GirlWild Girl (comics)Wild Girl is a six issue comic book limited series published in late 2004 and early 2005 by Wildstorm Productions, an imprint of DC Comics. It was written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, with art by Shawn McManus.-Plot:...
(with co-author Leah MooreLeah MooreLeah Moore is an English comic book writer. She is the daughter of Alan Moore and Phyllis Moore, and is married to John Reppion. She has worked with both Alan and John on the comic Albion. She has also written for other comics and publications including Tom Strong and The End Is Nigh...
, and art by Shawn McManusShawn McManusShawn McManus is an American artist who has worked extensively over three decades for DC Comics and other companies, notably for DC's Vertigo imprint, including the current Fables.-Swamp Thing:...
and J.H. Williams III, WildstormWildstormWildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, published American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
, 2006) - AlbionAlbion (comics)Albion is a six-issue comic book limited series plotted by Alan Moore, written by his daughter Leah Moore and her husband John Reppion, with covers by Dave Gibbons and art by Shane Oakley and George Freeman. As a result of a deal forged by Vice President Bob Wayne of DC Comics and Publishing...
(plotted by Alan MooreAlan MooreAlan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
, with co-author Leah Moore, and art by Shane OakleyShane OakleyShane Oakley is a British illustrator and comic book artist from Stoke-on-Trent, England.-Biography:He began his career contributing to the alternative comics review Deadline Magazine in the 1980s . In 1989 Shane worked as the penciller on issues 1 to 6 of Mister X volume two...
, Wildstorm, 2006, tpbTrade paperback (comics)In comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or more titles...
, Wildstorm, 176 pages, December 2006, ISBN 1401209947, Titan BooksTitan BooksTitan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London, England's Bankside area. The Books Division has two main areas of publishing: film & TV tie-ins/cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics reference/art titles. The...
, 144 pages, January 2007, ISBN 1845763513) - Accent Anthologies (with co-author Leah Moore):
- "Lusca" (with David Hitchcock, in Monsters, 2006)
- "An Molethy a an Ny-marrow (The Curse of the Un-dead)" (with David Hitchcock, in Zombies, 2007)
- "The Cabinet of Doctor Diablo" (with Andy Bloor, in Robots, 2008)
- "Mrs. Henry" (with David Hitchcock, Western, 2009, forthcoming)
- Witchblade: "Shades of Gray" (with co-author Leah Moore, and art by Stephen Segovia, Top Cow/Dynamite EntertainmentDynamite EntertainmentDynamite Entertainment is an American comic book company that primarily publishes licensed franchises of adaptations of other media. These include adaptations of film properties such as Army of Darkness, Terminator and RoboCop, literary properties such as Zorro, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in...
, 2007) - Raise the Dead (with co-author Leah Moore, and pencil by Hugo Petrus and inks by Marc Rueda, 4-issue mini-series, Dynamite Entertainment, 2007, tpb, 120 pages, February 2008, ISBN 1933305568)
- Savage TalesSavage TalesSavage Tales is the title of three American comics series. Two were black-and-white comics-magazine anthologies published by Marvel Comics , and the other a color comic book anthology published by Dynamite Entertainment.-Marvel/Curtis:The first of the two volumes of Savage Tales ran 11 issues, with...
: "Battle for Atlantis" (with co-author Leah Moore, and art by Pablo MarcosPablo MarcosPablo Marcos Ortega, known professionally as Pablo Marcos is a comic book artist and commercial illustrator best known as one of his home country's leading cartoonists and for his work on such popular American comics characters as Batman and Conan the Barbarian, particularly during the 1970s...
, in Savage Tales #1-3, Dynamite Entertainment, 2007) - Gene Simmons House of Horrors: "Into The Woods" (with co-author Leah Moore, and art by Jeff Zornow, IDW PublishingIDW PublishingIDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
, 2007, tpb, 192 pages, April 2008, ISBN 1600102093) - Space Doubles: "Project: Obeah" (with co-author Leah Moore, and art by Jeremy DaleJeremy DaleJeremy Dale is an American comic book artist, best known for his work on G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, and the 2008 Harvey Award-winning Popgun v.1 from Image Comics.-Early life:...
and Jason Roth, Th3rd World Studios, 2007) - Nevermore: "The Black CatThe Black Cat (short story)"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"...
" (with co-author Leah Moore, and art by James FletcherJames FletcherJames Fletcher was a Canadian entomologist, botanist and writer.He was born near Rochester, Kent England in 1852. He began work as a clerk at the Bank of British North America in London and was transferred to the Montreal branch in 1874 and the Ottawa branch in 1875...
, Eye Classics, Self Made HeroSelf Made HeroSelfMadeHero is a British graphic novel and manga publishing company, and imprint of Metro Media Ltd, who specialise in adapting works of literature.They launched with two lines in 2007:...
, October 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552856-8-4) - "Deadeye" (with co-author Leah Moore and art by Matt TimsonMatt TimsonMatt Timson is a British comic book artist who resides in Leicester.-Biography:Timson has done a lot of work for British small press comics including Solar Wind, The End Is Nigh and FutureQuake, as well as working as a freelance illustrator.In recent years he has begun to get professional comics...
, in PopgunPopgun (comics)Popgun is an award-winning comics anthology series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. Popgun was published by Image Comics starting in 2007. The driving concept behind Popgun is a mixtape of graphic short stories that cross the borders of all genres...
#1, Popgun #2, Image ComicsImage ComicsImage Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
, 2007/2008) - Darkness vs. Eva (with co-author Leah Moore and art by Edgar Salazar)
- Doctor Who: "The Whispering Gallery" (with co-author Leah Moore and art by Ben TemplesmithBen TemplesmithBen Templesmith is an Australian comic book artist best known for his work in the American comic book industry, most notably the Image Comics series Fell, with writer Warren Ellis, which is credited with pioneering a new format for commercial comics, and IDW's 30 Days of Night with writer Steve...
, one-shot, IDW PublishingIDW PublishingIDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
) - The Complete DraculaDraculaDracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...
(with co-author Leah Moore and art by Colton Worley, 5-issue limited series, Dynamite Entertainment 2009) - The Trial of Sherlock Holmes (with co-author Leah Moore, Dynamite Entertainment 2009)
- The Thrill Electric with co-author Leah Moore and art by WindFlower Studio, October 2011, forthcoming
- Sherlock HolmesSherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
- The Liverpool Demon (with co-author Leah Moore), Dynamite Entertainment, forthcoming
Articles
- "The Childe of Hale" (Fortean TimesFortean TimesFortean Times is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort. Previously published by John Brown Publishing and then I Feel Good Publishing , it is now published by Dennis Publishing Ltd. As of December 2010, its circulation was approximately 18,000...
#187, September 2004) - "Suspension of Disbelief: The Great Yarmouth Bridge Disaster of 1845" (The AnomalistThe Anomalistright|The Anomalist #1The Anomalist is a magazine of anomalous phenomena, edited by Patrick Huyghe. Its first issue came out in June 1994....
#13, 2007)
Books
- 800 Years of Haunted Liverpool (with illustrations by Mo Ali, Declan ShalveyDeclan ShalveyDeclan Shalvey is an Irish comic book artist. He made his name with his first comic Hero Killers, that won an Eagle Award, before going on to work on a number of Irish comics, as well as getting work on American comic books most notably Thunderbolts....
and others, The History PressThe History PressThe History Press is one of the UK’s largest local and specialist history publishers, publishing approximately 500 books per year.Created in December 2007, The History Press has integrated core elements of the NPI Media Group within it, including all existing published titles, plus all the future...
, 2008)
Interviews
- July 2006 interview about Albion and future projects, by Forbidden PlanetForbidden Planet (bookstore)Forbidden Planet is the trading name of two separate science fiction, fantasy and horror bookshop chains across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States of America, after the feature film of the same name....
- 2006 FractalMatter interview