Antony Johnston

Antony Johnston
Johnston at the 2012 New York Comic Con.
Born	25 August 1972 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	Wasteland The Coldest City Dead Space
Awards	"Best Horror" American Independent Publishing Award

Antony Johnston (born 25 August 1972) is a British writer of comics, video games, and novels. He is known for the post apocalyptic comic series Wasteland, the graphic novel The Coldest City (adapted for film as Atomic Blonde), and his work on several Image Comics series.

Despite an early interest in comics and role-playing games, Johnston started his career as a graphic designer. He began his writing career with work for role-playing magazines before the Mark Salisbury-edited Writers on Comic Scriptwriting (Titan Books, 1999) rekindled his interest in comics. Drawing on his design skills, he now designs many of his own comics and graphic novels.

In May 2001, Johnston was one of the three founding editors of NinthArt.com, an attempt at taking a literary and critical approach to the comics medium designed to act as a journal and aimed at "the discerning reader." Between 2001 and 2004, he contributed a mostly-monthly Editorial entitled "Cassandra Complex," and for five years formed one-third of the infrequent "Triple A" discussions, including the last (on 19 June 2006).

His fiction debut, Frightening Curves, was an illustrated horror novel with artwork by Aman Chaudhary, published by now-defunct Cyberosia Publishing in 2001. The book won the Best Horror Award in the 2002 IPPY awards at Book Expo America. Johnston would also produce a graphic novel – Rosemary's Backpack – and a contribution to the first PopImage anthology for Cyberosia in 2002.

Johnston's early comics work consisted primarily of non-serialised graphic novels for Oni Press, and authorised comics adaptations of prose and poetry works by Alan Moore for Avatar Press.