Mike Carey (British writer)
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Carey at the New York Comic Con in Manhattan, 10 October 2010.
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| Born | Michael James Carey 1959 (age 57–58) Liverpool, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | Writer |
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Lucifer Hellblazer X-Men Crossing Midnight The Unwritten X-Men: Legacy |
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Mike Carey (born 1959) is a British writer of comic books, novels, and films.
Carey was born in Liverpool, England, in 1959 – describing his young self as "one of those ominously quiet kids... [who] lived so much inside my own head I only had vestigial limbs". As a child, he maintained an interest in comics, writing and drawing primitive stories to entertain his younger brother. He studied English at St Peter's College, Oxford, before becoming a teacher. He continued to teach for 15 years before moving on to writing comics.
After a series of one-off jobs for independent comics companies, including a biographical comic of Ozzy Osbourne and a fantasy about the band Pantera, Carey gained regular employment at 2000 AD, where he created the original series Th1rt3en and Carver Hale.
For the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics Carey went on to write the entire run of the Eisner Award-nominated comic book Lucifer, and issues 175 to 215 of Hellblazer, a run on that title only exceeded in length by Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan. He also wrote the original graphic novels The Sandman Presents: The Furies with John Bolton and Hellblazer: All His Engines with Leonardo Manco.
He is the ongoing writer of X-Men: Legacy working with artist Scot Eaton, plus Ultimate Fantastic Four for Marvel Comics.
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