John Layman


John Steele Layman is an American comic book writer and letterer. Layman is most known for his writing published by Image Comics: [Chew (comics)|Chew], its spin-off/midquel series Chu, the stand-alone Outer Darkness, and the crossover series Outer Darkness/Chew, as well as the Marvel Comics series Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness, Gambit, and Cyclops: A Pirate's Life for Me.
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Career

Once an editor for Wildstorm, a branch of DC Comics, Layman turned to writing comics full-time in 2002, mainly for Marvel Comics.
He also worked on several comic books based on licensed properties, such as Xena: [Warrior Princess (comics)|Xena: Warrior Princess] and ThunderCats, as well as crossovers like Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness.
From 2007–2010 he worked as a writer for Cryptic Studios, a video game developer in Los Gatos, California.
Layman has written a number of creator-owned titles at Image Comics, such as the graphic novel Puffed, and Chew, with artist Rob Guillory. Chew has gone on to achieve much success, being nominated for two Harvey Awards, two Eagle Awards, and winning an Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2010.
In April 2022, Layman was reported among the more than three dozen comics creators who contributed to Operation USA's benefit anthology book, Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds, a project spearheaded by IDW Publishing Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier, whose profits would be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees resulting from the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Layman and Rob Guillory teamed up to contribute a new Chew story to the anthology.

AfterShock Comics

Image Comics

PuffedStay Puffed

Wildstorm

Gen13 vol. 2:

Marvel Comics

X-Men Unlimited #47, "Strange Harvest" Marvel Age: Fantastic Four

[Oni Press]

Armageddon & Son Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen
  • * Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen collects:
  • ** "Invasion of the Optiklons!"
  • ** "Return to Space Academy!; Danger Express To Doom"
  • ** "Evil Has 1000 Eyes; Depth & The Maidens"
  • ** "Too Many Jansens; Born To Be Hyperwild"
  • ** "The Army of Doom at the Nebula of Death!"

[Dynamite Entertainment]

Xena Warrior Princess: Contest of Pantheons
  • * Xena Warrior Princess Volume 1: Contest of Pantheons collects:
  • ** "Holy Arcrimony"
  • ** "Pantheon Pandemonium"
  • ** "Stalk Like an Egyptian"
  • ** "Undead Reckoning" Xena Warrior Princess: Dark Xena
  • * Xena Warrior Princess Volume 2: Dark Xena collects:
  • ** "The Way We Were"
  • ** "Born Bad"
  • ** "Partners in Crime"
  • ** "Unwritten History" Army of Darkness/Xena: Warrior Princess
  • * Volume 1: Why not? collects:
  • ** "Battered & Bruced, Part One: The Grimmest Fairy Tale"
  • ** "Battered & Bruced, Part Two: Autolykness Adventures"
  • ** "Battered & Bruced, Part Three: From These Ashes"
  • ** "Battered & Bruced, Part Four: The Best Laid Plans…"

[IDW Publishing]

Scarface: Scarred for Life

[DC Comics]

Detective Comics vol. 2 #13–29
  • * Volume 3: Emperor Penguin collects:
  • ** "IQ Test"
  • ** "Seeds & Dirt"
  • ** "Love in Bloom"
  • ** "Pecking Order"
  • ** "Doctor's Orders"
  • ** "A Cut Above"
  • * Volume 4: The Wrath collects:
  • ** "Birth of a Family"
  • ** "Birdwatching"
  • ** "Through A Blue Lens"
  • ** "Empire of the Son"
  • ** "Territorial"
  • ** "My Better Half"
  • ** "Marital Abyss"
  • ** "State of Shock"
  • ** "Face in the Crowd"
  • ** "Contained Multitudes"
  • ** "Harvey Bullock, This is Your Life"
  • * Volume 5: Gothtopia collects:
  • ** "Whistleblower's Blues"
  • ** "Troubled Waters"
  • ** "Crown of Fear"
  • ** "Gothtopia, Part One: The Perfect Crime"
  • ** "Welcome to... Gothtopia, Part Two: The Maddening Crowd"
  • ** "The Truth And Nothing But" Batman: The Dark Knight vol. 2 #23.3: Clayface, "Not Just Another Pretty Face" Catwoman vol. 4 #25, "Before the Claws Come Out" collected in Race of Thieves Batman Eternal :
  • * Volume 1 collects:
  • ** "Batman Eternal"
  • ** "Injustice For All"
  • ** "Disinfect"
  • ** "The Denied"
  • ** "The Sinking Of An Empire!"
  • ** "Guided by Darkness"
  • ** "The Unburied Past"
  • ** "When Animals Attack"
  • ** "Day of the Dads"
  • ** "The Good Man"
  • ** "Infernal Relations"
  • ** "Natural Order"
  • ** "The Common Limit"
  • ** "The Monster Machine"
  • ** "The Savior"
  • ** "A Night on Earth"
  • ** "Breaking Bat"
  • ** "Wild Animals"
  • ** "Ten Forty-Eight"
  • * Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum #1-5 collected in tpb October 2024,

Dark Horse Comics