Dan Watters
| Dan Watters | |
|---|---|
 Dan Watters at the Thought Bubble comic convention in Harrogate, 2021 | |
| Nationality | British |
| Area(s) | Writer |
Notable works | Sandman Universe Lucifer Batman Homesick Pilots Limbo |
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Dan P G Watters (/wɒtəːˈs/) is a British comic book writer. Watters is known for writing the comic books Limbo.[1][2] and Home Sick Pilots,[3][4] both co-created with artist Caspar Wijngaard and published by Image, as well as numerous projects for DC, such as Lucifer, Sandman and Batman.[5] His other creator-owned books include The Picture Of Everything Else, a re-telling of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Deep Roots[6], and Coffin Bound[7]
Career
Watters started his comic book writing career in 2015 with the book Limbo. His early work for hire works were comic book series set in the popular video game stories of Assassin's Creed, Wolfenstein and Dark Souls.[8]
His most recent creator-owned book with Wijngaard Homesick Pilots is also published by Image. Watters describes Home Sick Pilots as "a book about the singer of a teenage punk band who forms an unbreakable bond with a sentient haunted house, which then follows her across America."[9]
In 2018 Watters was chosen to be part of the new The Sandman Universe creative team, a multi-comic event conceived by Neil Gaiman to celebrate the 30th anniversary of DC Comics' The Sandman and the 25th anniversary of the launch of the DC Vertigo imprint.[10]
Stemming from The Sandman Universe #1(released on August 8, 2018) a one-shot story by Gaiman, which was co-written by Watters, Simon Spurrier, Kat Howard and Nalo Hopkinson, each collaborator then helmed a different series expanding out a story thread set down in that first book. Watters wrote the Lucifer series story thread, a 24 issues long run originally planned to be released monthly between October 2018 – March 2020, but the final six issues #19-24 ending up being published only as a collected edition, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]
In 2021 it was announced that Watters would be writing a four issue miniseries based on the Netflix show Cowboy Bebop, published by Titan Comics. The comic series is an original story set in the year 2171.[12][13][14][15] Watters drew inspiration from the original Anime film of the same name, of which he was already a fan.[16]
In 2022 it was announced that Dan Watters was writing an official graphic novel adaptation of the 1976 movie The Man Who Fell To Earth, that starred David Bowie.[17]
Bibliography
Image Comics
Limbo TP, 1 June 2016
24 Panels TP (Contributor), 21 November 2018
Coffin Bound, Vol. 1: Happy Ashes TP, 25 March 2020
Coffin Bound, Vol. 2: Dear God TP, 2 December 2020
Home Sick Pilots, Vol. 1: Teenage Haunts TP, 19 May 2021
Home Sick Pilots, Vol. 2: I Wanna Be A Walking Weapon TP, 10 November 2021[18]
DC Comics
Arkham City: The Order Of The World #1
BATMAN Secret Files #3
BATMAN: Urban Legends #8 - #10
DETECTIVE COMICS #1040
FUTURE STATE: SUPERMAN/WONDER WOMAN #1 & #2
House Of Whispers #8 - #13, #15, #17 - #22
Justice League Dark 2021 Annual #1
Lucifer #1 - #18
Lucifer VOL. 1: THE INFERNAL COMEDY
Lucifer VOL. 4: THE DEVIL AT HEART
NEW YEAR'S EVIL #1
OCEAN MASTER: Year Of The Villain #1
SUPERMAN: RED & BLUE #1
THE LAST GOD: Songs Of Lost Children #1
THE SANDMAN UNIVERSE #1[19]
Vault Comics
The Picture Of Everything Else
Deep Roots[6]
Dynamite
The Shadow VOL. 3 (with Si Spurrier)[20]
Titan Comics
The Man Who Fell To Earth, 25 Oct 2022
Cowboy Bebop, 26 July 2022[21]
Assassin's Creed: Uprising, 1 February 2017 - 11 October 2017 (with Alex Paknadel)
Wolfenstein #1, 13 September 2017
Wolfenstein #2, 11 October 2017
Wolfenstein The Deep Vol. 1, 26 December 2017
Dark Souls: Legends Of The Flame #1, 14 September 2016
Dark Souls: Legends Of The Flame #2, 12 October 2016[8]
Awards
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Broken Frontier Awards | Best Periodical Series | Coffin Bound | Nominated | [22] |
References
- ↑ Sneddon, Laura. "Get Stuck Into 'Limbo' with Caspar Wijngaard and Dan Watters [Interview]". Comics Alliance. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ↑ https://imagecomics.com/creators/dan-watters
- ↑ Mcmillan, Graeme (17 September 2020). "Punk Horror Comic 'Home Sick Pilots' Coming from Image". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ↑ https://imagecomics.com/creators/dan-watters
- ↑ https://www.dccomics.com/talent/dan-watters
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://www.vaultcomics.com/talent/dan-watters/
- ↑ "Coffin Bound". Image Comics. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://titan-comics.com/?tag__creator=dan-watters
- ↑ Banks, Nick (2022-01-28). "'Cowboy Bebop' Writer Dan Watters: The Conskipper Interview". Conskipper. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ↑ Bishop, Bryan (2018-03-01). "Neil Gaiman is turning The Sandman into an expanded comics universe". The Verge. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ↑ Dominguez, Noah (2020-05-30). "DC Cancels Lucifer, Will Release Final Issues as Collected Edition". CBR. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ↑ Abbate, Jake (2021-08-27). "Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Series Gets New Comic and Book Tie-Ins". SuperHeroHype.com. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- ↑ Brooke, David (August 27, 2021). "Titan Publishing announces 'Cowboy Bebop' comics and companion books". AIPT Comics. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- ↑ "Cowboy Bebop by Dan Watters: 9781787737877 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ Brooke, David (September 15, 2021). "Titan reveals every Cowboy Bebop #1 cover out December 8th". AIPT Comics. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
- ↑ Banks, Nick (2022-01-28). "'Cowboy Bebop' Writer Dan Watters: The Conskipper Interview". Conskipper. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ↑ Johnston, Rich (2022-01-27). "Dan Watters Adapts David Bowie's The Man Who Fell To Earth As A Comic". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
- ↑ "Dan Watters Collected Editions". Image Comics. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ↑ https://www.dccomics.com/talent/dan-watters
- ↑ https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-The_Shadow_Vol_3
- ↑ "Cowboy Bebop". Penguin Random House.
- ↑ Oliver, Andy. "Introducing the Broken Frontier Awards 2020 – In this Strangest of Years We Celebrate an Amazing Twelve Months of Emerging Talent!". Broken Frontier. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
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