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Adam Warren

Writer/Artist/Whatever

About Me

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’Scuse me, while I blurb this out!

For those of those not familiar with my powerfully ripped and toned body of work, let me immodestly declare myself to be one of the first writer/ artists in the American comics field to integrate the artistic and storytelling techniques of Japanese comics into my work. Yep, folks, I was definitely a manga-influenced pioneer (back in the wild-frontier days of the late 80s and early 90s), even going so far as to ride around in a covered wagon and fire my six-shooters in the air while bellowing “Yee-Haw,” pioneer-style! Okay, maybe I didn’t go that far.

If you wanna take a wee gander at my artwork, I've dumped a fair number of illustrations and comic pages over in the "My Pics" section. A far wider array of my work is a-lurking over on my deviantArt page , if you're interested.

Chief among my current projects, as my avatar image might hint to you, is the “sexy superhero comedy” comic Empowered , a book which I’m both writing and drawing for Dark Horse Comics. The first (248-page!) volume of this B&W epic of superheroic distress, low self-esteem, quasi-romantic humor and cheescakery aplenty ships on March 14th, incidentally.

I’m also the writer and layout artist for the six-issue Marvel Comics miniseries Iron Man : Hypervelocity , the first two issues of which should be On Comics-Store Shelves NOW! My other current job, BTW, is writing and drawing an “endpage” piece of Playstation-related humor for the videogame magazine PSM every month.

Back in the day, yo, I was prolly best known for one main project: namely, six miniseries worth of an idiosyncratic, future-shockalicious, original English-language comic based on Japanese SF author Haruka Takachiho's characters The Dirty Pair. (Hyperlink and "My Pics" sample images to follow, once I get around to updating this profile again...)

Either that, or I was known for writing and occasionally drawing a good many issues of Wildstorm's teen-superhero-team comic, Gen13. And, hey, let's not forget Scissors, Paper, Stone, my far-future take on DC’s popular Teen Titans! More recently, another Marvel project I wrote and laid out, Livewires, debuted to surprising critical acclaim... and equally (un)surprising low sales figures. Oh, well. (Again, hyperlinks to follow, eventually...)

Other information can be found at:

Adam Warren's Wikipedia Page

GaiaTeam's Adam Warren Shrine

Marvel's Adam Warren Page

Interview with Adam Warren at Newsarama

Interview with Adam Warren at Dark Horse

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My Interests

Writing, drawing (to a lesser degree), manga, both Robotron 2084 AND Madden 07, quality microbrews, the mysteries of ninjutsu

Music:

Nine Inch Nails, Freedy Johnston, Rob Zombie, Iggy Pop, Ben Folds (Five), Ministry, Soul Coughing, Yohko Kanno, Matthew Sweet, Jonatha Brooke, Paul Oakenfeld, Dresden Dolls, Aimee Mann, The Dandy Warhols, ELO, Fatboy Slim

Movies:

(Recently seen:) Casino Royale, Oldboy, Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Tale of Two Sisters, The Dudesons Movie, 10 Things I Hate About You

Television:

The Wire, MythBusters, 24, House, Battlestar Galactica, The Shield, Nip/Tuck, How I Met Your Mother, Survivorman, l'oeuvre Whedonesque, Freaks and Geeks, MST3K

Books:

MANGA: Genshiken, Nana, Love Roma, Death Note, Nodame Cantabile, Dragon Head, Sgt. Frog, Battle Angel Alita: Last Order, Maison Ikkoku, Mama, Welcome to the NHK, Negima!, Naruto;EVERYTHING ELSE (recently read): LOVE IS A MIX TAPE (memoir, by Rob Sheffield), 12 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HER (GN, by Jamie S. Rich & Joelle Jones), THE EMOTION MACHINE (science, by Marvin Minsky), KING DORK (fiction, by Frank Portman), ILLUSTATED WILDLIFE ENCYCLOPEDIA: NATURE'S PREDATORS (reference, by Michael Bright), LIKE A HOLE IN THE HEAD (fiction, by Jen Banbury)

My Blog

EMPOWERED vol. 2 ships Oct. 3; also, EMPOWERED story to run in Dark Horse Presents on MySpace!

The second volume of Empowered, my "sexy superhero comedy" published by Dark Horse comics, is slated to finally hit the shelves on Oct. 3, 2007, after suffering through a bizarre series of printing pr...
Posted by Adam Warren on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:35:00 PST

Sudden, random blithering about whether or not facial symmetry equals beauty!

A word of explanation: A year or two ago, for no apparent reason, I sent around an email to various friends, blithering on about whether or not perceptions of beauty, particularly of the facial sort, ...
Posted by Adam Warren on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:35:00 PST

I have returned; also, EMPOWERED vol. 3, and a boatload of lost Friend Requests

Hello dere!I've been away from this MySpace account since late March, alas; in the meantime, terrifying amounts of mail and Friend Requests have been piling up, which I'm trying to hack through over t...
Posted by Adam Warren on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:36:00 PST

The day of EMPOWER(ED)ment is upon us!

 Woo hoo! The first volume of EMPOWERED, the "sexy superhero comedy" comic that I both write and draw, hit the shelves today! It's a 248-page, $14.95 trade paperback from Dark Horse Comics, rough...
Posted by Adam Warren on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:35:00 PST

EMPOWERED vol. 1: Delayed at the printer, alas.

I just found out a few days ago that EMPOWERED vol. 1 has run into problems at the printer, and thus its ship date will be delayed at least a week, to March 14th... (and possibly even longer, though I...
Posted by Adam Warren on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:54:00 PST

14-page EMPOWERED preview over at DarkHorse.com!

Just thought I'd mention that a 14-page preview of my new comic, EMPOWERED, has been posted over at Dark Horse's website: http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/preview.php?t heid=14-043A further 5-page...
Posted by Adam Warren on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:17:00 PST

IRON MAN: HYPERVELOCITY numero 2, plus my new DeviantArt page!

The second issue of the miniseries I wrote for Marvel Comics, IRON MAN: HYPERVELOCITY, is out this week, or so I'm told. Brian Denham's artwork and Guru eFX's colors looked pretty damn sweet in the a...
Posted by Adam Warren on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:07:00 PST

New artwork posting is underway, at last!

Yes, kids, at long last, I've finally begun tinkering with the artwork files piled up in the "My Pics" section... It's a singularly slow and grinding process, due to the extreme flakiness of my (brace...
Posted by Adam Warren on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:19:00 PST