Jamie Delano

Jamie Delano
Jamie Delano
Born	1954; Northampton, England
Nationality	English
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	Captain Britain; Hellblazer
	jamiedelano.co.uk

Jamie Delano (/ˈdɛlənoʊ/ DEL-ə-noh; born 1954) is an English comic book writer. He was part of the first post-Alan Moore "British Invasion" of writers which started to feature in American comics in the 1980s. He is best known as the first writer of the comic book series Hellblazer, featuring John Constantine.

Biography

Jamie Delano wrote all but three of the first forty issues of Hellblazer for DC Comics from 1988 to 1991. Most of his other work has also been for DC/Vertigo.^{[citation needed]}

Much of Delano's work can be characterised as science fiction, or horror, but often is a blend thereof.^{[citation needed]}

Subjects in his work include the battle of the sexes (World Without End), imperialism and genocide (Ghostdancing), and environmental and cultural collapse (2020 Visions, Animal Man).

A. William James is Delano's prose-writing alter ego. His novel Book Thirteen is published under his Lepus Books imprint.^[1]

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

Transformers Annual 1986
- Text Story The Mission
Night Raven:
- Various prose (with illustrations by Alan Davis and Ivan Allen in "The Daredevils 11" "Mighty World of Marvel 7-17" "Savage Sword of Conan 85-92" and "Captain Britain 10, 11 and 12" Marvel UK 1983–1984)
- "House of Cards" (with David Lloyd, Marvel UK, one shot, 1993)
Captain Britain (with Alan Davis and Noel Davis), in Captain Britain Monthly #1-3,5-12, Marvel UK, 1984, tpb, 1988, ISBN 1-85400-020-9)
One-Off:
- "Blood Sport" (with David Pugh, in 2000 AD No. 484, 1986)
- "The Ark" (with Dave Wyatt, in 2000 AD No. 504, 1987)
Tharg's Future Shocks:
- "The Ship that Liked to Dance" (with Barry Kitson, in 2000 AD No. 501, 1986)
- "Fair's Fare" (with Massimo Belardinelli, in 2000 AD No. 501, 1987)
Batman: Manbat (with John Bolton, DC), Elseworlds Batman miniseries published in 1995
Doctor Who (with John Ridgway, collected in The World Shapers, Panini Comics, 288 pages, May 2008, ISBN 1-905239-87-4):
- "Time Bomb" (in Doctor Who Magazine #114–116, 1986)
- "The Gift" (with inks by Tim Perkins, in Doctor Who Magazine #123–126, 1987)
D.R. and Quinch: "DR & Quinch's Agony Page" (with co-author and pencils Alan Davis and inks and colours by Mark Farmer, in 2000 AD #525–534, 1987)
Hellblazer:
- Hellblazer #1–24, 28–31, 33–40, 84, 250, Annual 1 (with John Ridgway, Richard Piers Rayner, Mark Buckingham, Bryan Talbot, Steve Pugh, Sean Phillips, & others, Vertigo/DC, 1988–2008) collected as:
  - Original Sins (collects #1–9, Vertigo, October 1998, ISBN 1-56389-052-6, Titan Books, February 2007, ISBN 1-84576-465-X)^[2]
  - The Devil You Know (collects #10–13, The Hellblazer Annual and The Horrorist #1–2, Vertigo, May 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1269-7, Titan Books, July 2007, ISBN 1-84576-490-0)^[3]
  - Rare Cuts (collects No. 11, 25–26 and 35, Vertigo, February 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0240-3, Titan Books, January 2005, ISBN 1-84023-974-3)^[4]
  - Fear Machine (collects #14–22, 208 pages, Vertigo, June 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1810-5, Titan Books, ISBN 1-84576-880-9)^[5]
  - Family Man (collects #23–24 and 28–33, 208 pages, November 2008, Titan Books, ISBN 1-84576-978-3, Vertigo, ISBN 1-4012-1964-0)^[6]
- The Horrorist (with David Lloyd, Vertigo, 2-issue mini-series, 1995)
- Hellblazer Special: Bad Blood (with Philip Bond & Warren Pleece, Vertigo, 4-issue mini-series, 2000)
- Pandemonium (with Jock, graphic novel, 128 pages, hardcover, Titan Books, March 2010, ISBN 1-84576-865-5, Vertigo, February 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2035-5)
Swamp Thing #77 (with Tom Mandrake, Alfredo Alcala, DC, 1988)
World Without End (with John Higgins, DC, 6-issue limited series, 1990)
Animal Man #51–79 (with Steve Pugh, Scott Eaton, Graham Higgins, Russel Braun, Tom Sutton, Rafael Kayanan, Will Simpson, Dan Steffan, Fred Harper, Gene Fama, and Peter Snejbjerg. DC, 1992–1994)^[7]
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #64 (with Chris Bachalo, Mark Pennington)
Ghostdancing (with Richard Case, Vertigo, 6-issue limited series, 1995)
Vertigo Voices: Tainted (with Al Davison, Vertigo, one-shot, 1995)
Batman/Manbat (with John Bolton, DC, 1996)
Twisted Metal 2 (one-shot promo comic)
2020 Visions (with Frank Quitely (#1–3), Warren Pleece (#4–6), James Romberger (#7–9) & Steve Pugh (#10–12), Vertigo, 12-issue limited series, 1997)
Shadowman #5–15 (with co-author Dick Foreman (#14–15) and art by Charlie Adlard, Acclaim Comics, 1997)
Vertigo Vérité: Hell Eternal (with Sean Phillips, Vertigo, one-shot, 1998)
Cruel and Unusual (with co-author Tom Peyer, pencils by John McCrea and inks by Andrew Chiu, Vertigo, 4-issue mini-series, 1999)
The Territory (with David Lloyd, Dark Horse, 4-issue mini-series, 1999, tpb, 96 pages, 2006 ISBN 978-1-59307-010-6)
Legends of the DC Universe #24–25 (with Steve Pugh, DC, 2000)
Outlaw Nation (with Goran Sudžuka, Vertigo, 19-issue series, 2000–2002, tpb, 456 pages, Image Comics, 2006, ISBN 1-58240-707-X)^[8]
Nevermore: "The Pit and the Pendulum" (with Steve Pugh, graphic novel adaptation, Eye Classics, Self Made Hero, October 2007, ISBN 978-0-9552856-8-4)^[9]
The Lovecraft Anthology 2: "Pickman's Model" (with Steve Pugh, graphic novel adaptation, Self Made Hero, 2012, ISBN 978-1-9068384-3-0)
Narcopolis (with Jeremy Rock, 4-issue mini-series, Avatar Press, February 2008)^[10]^[11]
Rawbone (with Max Fiumara, 4-issue mini-series, Avatar Press, 2009)
Crossed: Badlands #4–9 (with Leandro Rizzo, Avatar Press, 2012)

Prose work includes:

Book Thirteen (as A.W. James, Lepus Books, 2012)
Leepus: Dizzy (as J. Delano, Lepus Books, 2014)
Leepus: The River (as J. Delano, Lepus Books, 2017)
Finn of the Islunds (as J. Delano, Lazarus Corporation, 2020)

Notes

^ Dueben, Alex (22 February 2017). "Jamie Delano Talks Politics, Anger and His World Without End". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
^ Original Sins trade details, at DC
^ The Devil You Know trade details, at DC
^ Rare Cuts trade details, at DC
^ Fear Machine trade details, at DC
^ Family Man trade details, at DC
^ Irvine, Alex (2008). "Animal Man". In Dougall, Alastair (ed.). The Vertigo Encyclopedia. New York: Dorling Kindersley. p. 27. ISBN 0-7566-4122-5. OCLC 213309015.
^ Jamie Delano: Earning Outlaw Status Archived 22 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Comics Bulletin, 8 September 2000
^ : Selfmadehero : Archived 22 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ Future Imperfect: Jamie Delano talks Narcopolis Archived 26 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Comic Book Resources, 7 November 2007
^ Entering Narcopolis I: Jamie Delano Archived 15 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Newsarama, 1 March 2008

References

Jamie Delano at the Grand Comics Database
Jamie Delano at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
Jamie Delano Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine at 2000 AD Online
Jamie Delano at Dark Horse Comics

External links

Interviews

Trail Blazers: Interviews with Jamie Delano and Garth Ennis, by David Carroll, Bloodsongs No. 8, 1997
Dark Horse Comics' 1998 interview about The Territory
The Comics Interpreter 1999 interview with Jamie Delano
Tales That Witness Madness: A Brief Talk With Jamie Delano by Helen Braithwaite, Sequential Tart, December 1999
Jamie Delano: Drug Addled Prophet for The Masses, Popimage, December 1999
Lewis, A. David. "Interview with Jamie Delano". Popmatters.
Douresseaux, Leroy (6 December 2007). "Jamie Delano Talks Narcopolis". Comic Book Bin. Retrieved 29 May 2010.
Matheny, Joseph (23 December 2007). "Jamie Delano's Narcopolis". Alterati. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2010.

Preceded by None	Hellblazer writer 1988–1990	Succeeded by Grant Morrison
Preceded by Neil Gaiman	Hellblazer writer 1990	Succeeded by Dick Foreman
Preceded by Dick Foreman	Hellblazer writer 1990–1991	Succeeded by Garth Ennis
Preceded by Garth Ennis	Hellblazer writer 1994	Succeeded by Eddie Campbell