Victor Gischler


Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous crime fiction.

Career

Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.
He has also written American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Gischler worked on X-Men "Curse of the Mutants" starting in the Death of Dracula one-shot and continued in X-Men #1.
Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.

Novels

  • Suicide Squeeze
  • Gun Monkeys
  • The Pistol Poets
  • Shotgun Opera
  • Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse
  • Vampire A Go Go
  • The Deputy
  • Stay
  • Gestapo Mars
  • ''No Good Deed''

A Fire Beneath the Skin

  1. Ink Mage
  2. The Tattooed Duchess
  3. ''A Painted Goddess''

Comics