:Shane McCarthy
{{short description|Australian writer (born 1975)}}
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Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.
Career
A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story Low for DC Comics in 2004, beginning in Detective Comics #797. McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), pitting Batman against Zsasz.[http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/113926375371519.htm Silver Bullet Comic Books Line of Fire Reviews 6 February 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023030201/http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/113926375371519.htm |date=23 October 2007 }}
Other published works include Zombies: Feast for IDW Publishing and contributions to Event Horizon for Mam Tor Publishing, and Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse.
McCarthy completed a twelve-part Transformers series entitled All Hail Megatron for IDW Publishing.[http://www.shanemccarthy.com Shane McCarthy personal website] He is the creator of the character Drift.
His work appears in Marvel's Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1.
McCarthy formerly ran a swing dancing school in Perth, Western Australia.[http://swingit.com.au/?page_id=6 Swing It!: About Us / Teachers]
Bibliography
Transformers for IDW Publishing
- All Hail Megatron (12 issues, 2008–2009)
- Spotlight: Blurr (one-shot, 2008)
- Spotlight: Drift (one-shot, 2009)
- Spotlight: Cliffjumper (one-shot, 2009)
- The Transformers: Drift (4 issues, 2010)
- Mars Attacks: The Transformers (one-shot, 2013)
- The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone (4 issues, 2014–2015)
- Low "Detective Comics" #797 - #799 (2004)[http://www.comics-db.com/story/1066518-1-Low_Part_1.html "Comic Books Database: Detective Comics" #797] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130120071215/http://www.comics-db.com/story/1066518-1-Low_Part_1.html |date=20 January 2013 }}
- Riddle Me That "Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight" #185 - #189 (2005)
- Victims "Detective Comics" #815 - #816 (2006)
Others:
- "Black Eight" in Star Wars Tales #21 (2004)
- Event Horizon #1 (2005)
- Event Horizon #2 (2005)
- Zombies! Feast (2006)[http://www.idwpublishing.com/titles/zombies/zombies.shtml IDW Publishing: IDW Titles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518050644/http://www.idwpublishing.com/titles/zombies/zombies.shtml |date=18 May 2006 }}
- Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1 (2009)
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.shanemccarthy.com}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120210214312/http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=004630 Interview with Pulse News 11 January 2006]
- [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=153048 Interview about All Hail Megatron with Newsarama April 2008]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Category:Writers from Western Australia