Joe Kelly (writer)

Joseph "Joe" Kelly is an American comic book writer.

Life and work

Kelly began in 1996 while still a student at New York University to work as a professional comic book writer, having successfully participated in the initiated by Marvel Publishing Writing Contest " Stan Manhattan Project". His first published work appeared in the episode in editions 1-8 of the science fiction series 2099: World of Tomorrow.

In 1997, Kelly his first engagement as a solid writer of an ongoing comic book series. Together with artist Ed McGuinness and other artists designed Kelly the superhero titles Deadpool almost three years, until issue # 33 from 1999 At the same time wrote Kelly 1997-1998 / 1999 stories for the Marvel series Daredevil (# 365-375 ) and X -Men ( # 70-85 ), with him Gene Colan or Carlos Pacheco were asked as a signatory to the side.

In 1999, Kelly Marvels competition Publisher DC Comics, for which he took over the traditional series Action Comics, chronicling the adventures of the iconic superhero Superman to content. Kelly wrote for five years, until 2004, for Action Comics, author of issues # 760 to 813 parallel, he took over also the author of jobs for the Superman spin- off series Superboy (# 83-93 ) and for the JLA series (# 61-93, 100), which has the exploits of a team of superheroes to content. While Kelly's work on Superman and Superboy were set largely by Pasqual Ferry into the picture, his stories for JLA by Doug Mahnke were visualized. This was followed from 2004 to 2005, the twelve-part series Maxi Justice League Elite, and from 2006 to 2007 a ​​run on Supergirl (# 7-19 ), another Superman spin-off.

Together with the artists Brent Anderson and Bill Sienkiewicz put Kelly beyond the 2002 graphic novel Green Lantern: Legacy - The Last Will & Testament in front of Hal Jordan. Recent projects were the series Space Ghost and a miniseries about the adventurer Johnny Quest.

As an independent author Kelly has joined the ranks Steampunk ( published in Wild Storm's Cliffhanger imprint ) develops and M. REX ( published by Avalon Studios) as well as the one-shot ballast ( published by Active Images ).

With his friends Joe Casey, Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle Kelly also has the animated series Ben 10 developed which is currently being aired by the American broadcaster Cartoon Network.