Derek McCulloch (comics)
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| Born | 1964 (age 52–53) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Area(s) | Writer |
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Stagger Lee |
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Derek McCulloch (born 1964) is an author of graphic novels, comics, and books for children, lyricist, and playwright. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, raised in Grande Prairie, Alberta, and lives in Oakland, California.
Throughout the mid-1980s and early 1990s, he was the publisher of Strawberry Jam Comics, and wrote To Be Announced and night life. He was also co-founder of The Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund in Canada and co-edited the organization's two True North anthologies. His stories have appeared in comics series including Open Season, Shred!, and Cerebus High Society. He works as a technical editor at an engineering company.
He wrote Stagger Lee, a graphic novel based on the story of Stagger Lee and drawn by Shepherd Hendrix, which was published by Image Comics in May 2006. It has been nominated for several awards, including the Eisner Awards 2007 and the Eagle Awards 2006, and won several Glyph Comics Awards in 2007, including Story of the Year and Best Writer.
McCulloch wrote Gone to Amerikay, an original graphic novel drawn by Colleen Doran and released in 2012 to numerous positive notices from The Wall Street Journal, Boing Boing, Irish Echo, The Miami Herald, Irish Central, and The Sunday Times, Dublin edition. An excerpt from the book was included in the anthology The Best American Comics 2013 under the title "The Story of Gráinne Ní Mháille."
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