Simon Oliver

Simon Oliver is a British-American comic book writer, best known for his creator-owned series The Exterminators and FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics, published under DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

Career

Simon Oliver was born in the United Kingdom but left the country in the early 90s. After traveling around the world for several years, he settled in Los Angeles, working in the film industry, mostly as a camera assistant on TV shows such as Once and Again and Joan of Arcadia. Oliver began writing The Exterminators as a potential TV series but, after his early scripts were passed to Karen Berger, the Editor-in-Chief of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, Oliver received an offer from the publisher to turn the series into a comic book. The Exterminators began publishing as an ongoing monthly series in January 2006. The following year, Oliver became the writer of the Wildstorm ongoing series Gen¹³ and penned Hellblazer Presents: Chas – The Knowledge, a spin-off mini-series published as part of the Hellblazer 20th anniversary.
In 2013, Vertigo began publishing Oliver's second creator-owned series, Collider. The series' title was changed to FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics following legal action from an international comics publisher.