Brett Lewis

Brett Lewis
Born	Queens, New York
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, editor

Brett Lewis is an American comic book creator and editor, best known for his Wildstorm post-superheroic series Winter Men (with John Paul Leon), as well as the Eisner-nominated short story Mars to Stay he did with Cliff Chiang.

Not much is known about Lewis as he only ever gave one interview. In 1996, he was editorial director of Motown Machineworks, a company which released comics through Image with the partial aim of producing movie vehicles for black stars. In 1998, Lewis worked with a different packager, Flypaper Press, on the Image series Bulletproof Monk only to be denied onscreen credit in the resultant eponymous movie.

For a while Lewis was an editor at Marvel Music, an imprint focused on branded releases of comics featuring Alice Cooper, The Rolling Stones and others, though it seems none of the projects he worked on were released, or maybe even completed. In the late 90s he was active in Allstar Arena, a publisher of sports comic books for release in stadiums – before creating The Winter Men he and Leon collaborated on The Mailman, a sci-fi comic starring Utah Jazz power forward Karl Malone.

Lewis and John Paul Leon met as students at New York's School of Visual Arts, where Lewis — himself an artist at the time — studied under Walter Simonson and planned to draw an iteration of the comic himself. In a 2006 interview Leon stated,

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