Brett Lewis - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i live in LA, because it's where i work...but my home, heart and center is always New York. ____________________________________________________________ _
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About My Work:
"Brett Lewis...is writingsome of the best dialogue I've everread... rich with personalityand music. "
-Warren Ellis
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" THE WINTER MEN is a book with a singular voice and style the likes of which I havent seen in quite a while. "
"Lewis also does a great job of capturing the unique mindset and sense of humor that exists only in the Russian people..."
-aintitcoolnews / aintitcool.com
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i write comic books & graphic novels, animation & anime... and also have worked on videogames, children's books, short stories, film, television...
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**see some of my work under "pics".
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About My Speed:
'the truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.' -stanley kubrick_____________________________________________________ ________
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." -Samuel Johnson ____________________________________________________________ _
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My Interests

i enjoy mixing martinis, and, metaphors.
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I'd like to meet:

i usually know within about 10 seconds, once i've met them.
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"you cannot borrow another man's soul, and you cannot borrow his style..."
-Ayn Rand
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Music:

the beatles, sinatra.
then whatever else you' got... at least for a while. _________________________

Movies:

Scorsese, Woody Allen, Wong Kar Wai, Coppola, Kubrick, Michael Mann. A lot from the 60s and 70s-- anything Steve McQueen. Star Wars...

Television:

rome, deadwood, sopranos, west wing (the sorkin seasons), 30rock, curb your enthusiam, the (original) Office. boxing. history channel.

Books:

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye.

"the way you wear your hat--frank sinatra and the lost art of livin' "
joseph campbell/'power of myth'
Shakespeare.
Haruki Murakami, 'Meditations of Marcus Aurelius', 'Team of Rivals', dancing wu li masters(or any non-math book about physics), T. Paine, 'watchmen', 'love and rockets'; when i am working, i read mostly non-fiction.
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"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt."
( -Kurt Vonnegut's epitaph)
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'everyone should speak his own language...'
-Anton Chekhov __________________________________________________________

Heroes:

J. Bond, J. Kirk, J. West, J. Phelps. __________________________________________________________

My Blog

still the best bang for your comedy buck

channel 9 LA local "news". why pay someone to proof-read your news, when you can have an intern do it: "...13 deaths in california are being blamed on the bad weather, including 4 in utah." "du...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:09:00 PST

words to live by. no, really.

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait ...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:56:00 PST

Russian review of The Winter Men

thanks to brooklyn-bobby, for sending me this review of my book, The Winter Men from a russian web site. here are two attempts at auto-translating it... myspace won't allow me t...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:13:00 PST

WARREN ELLIS on WINTER MEN

The Winter Men Written by Brett Lewis Illustrated by J.P. Leon Color by Dave Stewart Lettering by John Workman Publisher: DC/Wildstorm Comrades- Recently, Warren Ellis reviewed...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:20:00 PST

ever been in court..?

..> ...or in a deposition? a lawsuit? arrested?? The Legal System: it's almost like all the people of weak strength and medium intelligence got together and created a counter-ev...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:40:00 PST

HALO, reviews + 2nd Printing in stores!

hello friends- here are some reviews and mentions of the "Halo Graphic Novel" and, specifically, of the story i wrote, "Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa". &nb...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:33:00 PST

J.P. Leon WINTER MEN Sketchbook/interview

here's an interview with John Paul Leon and a look at some of the sketches john did when we were developing our book "the Winter Men"... http://www.comicon.com/pulse/ COMICON.c...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:17:00 PST

the end is near, My-Friends...

... it must be...because... i am starting work on my *real* web-site.and i need your help!let's call it a contest.send me your idea(s) for a name to call this web site--and, while you're a...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:31:00 PST

NYC-book signing-OCT 5-

COMRADES-for the release of part five of my russian-themed book "The Winter Men"-- i'll be appearing at Jim Hanley's Universe (comic book and pop culture store) in new york, 5-7 PM this thursday, octo...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:37:00 PST

Winter Men 5 in stores OCT 4th...

COMRADES! the fifth installment of our book The WINTER MEN will be in stores OCT 4th. here's some art by John Paul Leon... (* these particular pages had to be altered a...
Posted by Brett Lewis on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:40:00 PST