Heartburst

Rick Veitch
Veitch photographed at the 1992 San Diego Comic Con.
Born	(1951-05-07) May 7, 1951 (age 66)
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist, writer
Notable works	Army@Love Brat Pack Swamp Thing Tomorrow Stories
http://www.rickveitch.com

Richard "Rick" Veitch (born May 7, 1951) is an American comics artist and writer who has worked in mainstream, underground, and alternative comics.

Rick Veitch is from a large Catholic family of six children. He was raised in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

Veitch made his publishing debut in 1972, illustrating the underground comix horror parody Two-Fisted Zombies (published by Last Gasp) written by his brother Tom Veitch, but this one-shot did not receive much notice.

Veitch then studied cartooning at The Kubert School, and was in the first class to graduate from the school in 1978, along with his future long-time collaborators Stephen R. Bissette and John Totleben.

Veitch's next major project was an adaptation of the film 1941 with Bissette.

During the 1980s, Veitch became known as a distinctive fantasy artist and writer for Marvel Comics' Epic Comics line, for which he created three graphic novels, Abraxas and the Earthman serialized in Epic Illustrated; Heartburst published as a standalone graphic novel; and The One originally published as a six-issue comic book limited series. Heartburst was straightforward science fiction, while The One was an ambitious and bizarre fantasy-adventure involving monstrous superheroes, the Cold War, and spiritual evolution. During this period Veitch also contributed numerous self-contained comics short stories to Epic Illustrated.