Garth EnnisBorn: 16 January 1970
Holywood, Northern Ireland
The mischievous scamp with the sick school-boyish sense of humour Garth Ennis is one of the most known comic writers out there. Juvenile in his subject matter but sophisticated in the ways he pulls it off: he'll call a character "Arseface" and then make you care about what happens to him. Best known for his ultra-violent epic Preacher created with artist Steve Dillon he also had a very successful runs with Hellblazer and The Punisher. Recently he's grown up with the series Battlefields, and gone into hardcore horror with Crossed. Those with deliate sensibilities beware. Things he likes: Tough old school heroes, rugged and sweaty male friendship, Ireland, gratuitous violence, war (espeically WWII and Vietnam) and bad things happening to bad people. Things he doesn't like: superheroes and organised religion.
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Links: Irish Times Interview, Chuckpalahniuk.net Interview, The Hurting Article: I'm Done With You, Comics Alliance Article: I'm David: Garth Ennis, Heroes, & Assumptions.
Selected works: Hellblazer, Hitman, Preacher, Bloody Mary, War Stories, The Punisher MAX, 303, Fury: Peacemaker, Just a Pilgrim, Battlefields, The Boys, Back to Brooklyn, Crossed, The Shadow.
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