David de Vries

David de Vries
David de Vries in 2015
Born	1961 (age 55–56) Wellington, New Zealand
Occupation	Filmmaker, screenwriter, director, producer, editor, cartoonist, writer, artist, publisher, designer
Nationality	Australian, New Zealander
Genre	Adventure, Super Heros, Pulp Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Comedy

David de Vries (born 1961) is an Australian film writer, director and producer and a comic book artist and writer.

David de Vries was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1961, growing up in the inner suburb of Ngaio, before emigrating to Melbourne at an early age with his parents, where he lived until he was eighteen. After studying painting at RMIT he started his comic book career in the early 1980s with work for OzComics, Phantastique, MAD Magazine and Penthouse. Together with Gary Chaloner, Glenn Lumsden and Tad Pietrzykowski he established Cyclone Comics in 1985, to ensure that their characters could be published while remaining under their control.

de Vries and Lumsden entered the American market through First Comics, Nicotat and Malibu Graphics with The Southern Squadron, a superhero team that had taken over the Cyclone title. Together they have drawn a new look version of The Phantom for Marvel Comics, have worked on Batman: Legends of the Dark KnightStar Trek comics for DC Comics,The Eternal Warrior Yearbook for Valiant Comics, The Puppet Master for Eternity Comics and Planet of the Apes and Flesh Gordon for Malibu Comics. de Vries also worked on a number of projects as a writer, including The Thing From Another World for First Comics, Black Lightning and a Green Lantern annual for DC, as well as recreating the origin of Captain Boomerang with John Ostrander in an episode of the Suicide Squad.