Brett Lewis


Brett Lewis is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for his post-superheroic series The Winter Men with artist John Paul Leon, as well as the Eisner-nominated short story "Mars to Stay" with art by Cliff Chiang.
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Early life

Lewis studied art under Walter Simonson at New York's School of Visual Arts, where he first met The Winter Men co-creator John Paul Leon.

Career

Lewis began his career in comics as an editor, first at Marvel Music, a short-lived imprint of Marvel Comics that focused on branded releases of comics featuring, among others, Alice Cooper and The Rolling Stones, then at Motown Machineworks, a company that released comics through Image with the partial aim of producing movie vehicles for black stars. In the late 1990s, Lewis wrote a part of the Image series Bulletproof Monk, which was later adapted into a film of the same name, as well as some stories for Allstar Arena, a publisher of sports comic books aimed for release in stadiums. One of these stories, The Mailman, a sci-fi comic starring Utah Jazz power forward Karl Malone, marked the first published collaboration between Lewis and John Paul Leon.
According to Leon, before publication, The Winter Men has been developing for over a decade. In a 2006 interview, he stated,
The series had a turbulent publishing history, first announced as an 8-issue limited series for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, then moved under Wildstorm while being cut to six and, eventually, five issues. The series concluded with a 40-page special two years after issue #5.

Personal life

Lewis was assaulted in 2009 and suffered traumatic brain injury, which still causes him severe health problems, including a series of cranial and brain surgeries. His family and friends have setup a GoFundMe to help with the treatment. The last post was from August 2024 but after that there are no news or posts on any social media about the current state of the author.

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