Devin K. Grayson
Devin Grayson Kalile (* New Haven, Connecticut) is an American comic book writer.
Life and work
Grayson was born as the daughter of a Scientist at Yale University marine biologists in New Haven. She grew up after her parents' separation in Northern California, alternately with her mother in Berkeley and her father in Oakland.
After canceling her acting training in San Francisco Grayson began in the mid -1990s to work as a full-time comic book writer. Her first engagement was given by Dennis O'Neil, the chief editor in charge of the editorial department of Batman comics with the U.S. publisher DC Comics. O'Neil gave her authorship of a ten-page story in the comic book Batman: Chronicles was published in 1997. With the history presented by Grayson (Like Riding a Bike) satisfied, gave O'Neil Grayson further work as a writer at DC. So she got the job for the author of One-Shot Batman Plus Arsenal and the Arsenal miniseries, which tells of the adventures of the lone father and secret agent Roy Harper in the same year. After she proved with the aforementioned work to a sufficient extent their ability to write compelling comic stories, entrusted O'Neil Grayson in 1997 as successor by Doug Moench with the job of the regular contributors for the monthly series Catwoman, by the experiences of the seductive thief Selina Kyle is. My artistic partner at work on Catwoman was the signatory Jim Balent.
1999 commissioned O'Neil Grayson finally so, several stories for the transverse pulling through all the Batman series storyline post No Man's Land. The positive response, which made Grayson's stories both in the audience as well as critics, eventually led to them to the root of the author launched in 2000, the new Batman series Batman: Gotham Knights was appointed that she was responsible for almost three years. As an artist, she was Roger Robinson set aside, the Grayson transposed scripts in naturalistic images.
In addition, Grayson began in 1999 as a regular writer for also appearing at DC, traditional series Titans to work. To allow you a creative new beginning, the old, written by Dan Jurgens Titans series was initially rejected, so that Grayson had the opportunity to initially submit a new mini-series ( JLA / Titans: The Technic Empire ), which eventually into a neugestarte Titans series einmündete. As signatories were for the Titans series was put her Mark Buckingham aside.
2002 Grayson was the author job for the Batman - related Nightwing series, which has the experiences of grown-up Batman's adopted son and assistant Robin to the content and she took care of almost five years.
Since the early 2000s, Grayson works for other publishers: Together with the artist Brian Freeze position they created the present in the author owned Matador series for Wildstorm.
Other works include the Grayson appeared in Wildstorm series Relative Heroes, as well as the series Black Widow, X-Men and a mini-series to the demonic superhero Ghost Rider.
Currently, Grayson, who suffers from Type I diabetes and openly confesses to her bisexuality, in an artist -WG in California lives.