Frank Dirscherl was born in 1973 and has been working as a librarian since 1992. As well as being a writer, he is also a comic book lecturer, amateur history buff and publisher of Trinity Comics, where he writes the multi-Ledger nominated The Wraith comic book series.
His written works include The Wraith (filmed in 2005), Valley of Evil, Cult of the Damned (due in 2008), Deadly Owl (due in 2008), the Lance Star - Sky Ranger anthology, the non-fiction The Wraith: Eyes of Judgment - The Official Script Book & Movie Guide and the screenplay to The Wraith: Eyes of Judgment short film. He’s also contributed to a variety of pulp anthologies and edited a non-fiction book on independent filmmaking.
He lives on the south coast of NSW, Australia with his wife Jennifer, where he’s currently working on a variety of written projects. For more information on Frank and The Wraith, please visit Frank Dirscherl.com and The Wraith's Lair .
- http://www.the-wraith.com/movie
- http://frankdirscherl.blogspot.com
The Wraith
The Wraith is a mix of classic 1970s/early 1980s comic book storytelling (think the runs on Batman by the likes of Dennis O'Neil, Frank Robbins, Neal Adams, Steve Englehart, Marshall Rogers, Gerry Conway, Don Newton, Irv Novick, Gene Colan et al) and such pulp magazines as The Shadow and, particularly, The Spider. The art, superbly crafted by the likes of Roland Bird, Jeff Welborn, Blake Wilkie and others, is influenced by those eras of comics, and we're proud to be presenting comics that some consider "retro", but what we here at Trinity consider simply quality stories. The writing is, again, a mix of that era of comic book and the exciting melodrama of the pulps. The Spider fought villains that were a mix of the mundane (ie. crime-lords, robbers, murderers etc.) and the fantastic (eg. creatures, invaders, conquerors, mad scientists etc.), and we're following that path with The Wraith, albeit in a modern setting. Combined with a healthy dollop of intrigue, mystery, romance and, at times, current events, we feel The Wraith has something for everyone.
I created The Wraith back in 1998 as my homage to those classic pulp novel characters the Shadow and the Spider. Originally intended to feature in a novel, the character bounced around in my head until 2001 when his original look was fully realised by an artist friend. Then, in 2002, the character's second look was readied, and The Wraith series was born in April 2004 with the publication of The Wraith #0 comic book. The Wraith's final look was revealed on The Wraith's Lair website in 2004, in The Wraith: Eyes of Judgment film in 2005, on book covers and posters, and in The Wraith #1, which premiered in April 2007. Two comic books are currently available in the series, with more to follow. You can purchase both The Wraith #0 and The Wraith #1 in print forms by clicking the relevant aforementioned links. The Wraith #0 can also be downloaded for FREE from WOWIO right now. Please click the below link to do just that:
http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=3391And here are some handy Amazon links to purchase my books (novels, short stories, non-fiction). All my work, including comic books, can also be purchased here :
- The Wraith hardcover novel .
- The Wraith paperback novel .
- Valley of Evil hardcover novel .
- Valley of Evil paperback novel .
- The Wraith: Eyes of Judgment - The Official Script Book & Movie Guide non-fiction paperback .
- Lance Star - Sky Ranger short story paperback anthology .
And you can buy issues in The Wraith comic book series here .