Peter Gross (comics)

American comic book writer and artist

Peter Gross is an American comic book writer and artist known for such works as The Books of Magic, Lucifer and The Unwritten.^[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Gross attended St. John's University and did graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. He intended to make a living as a fine artist, but was drawn into comics, first doing some work for Marvel and then following it up with his originally-self-published series Empire Lanes.^[5]

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• The Books of Magic #4, 6–8, 18–19, 21–30, 39–41, 43–62, 64–75 (art and (from #51) script, with writer John Ney Rieber, ongoing series Vertigo, August 1994 – August 2000)
• Lucifer #5–8, 10–13, 15–19, 21–23, 25–27, 29–32, 34–40, 42–44, 46–49, 51–54, 56–57, 59–61, 63–65, 67–69, 71–72, 74–75 (with writer Mike Carey, ongoing series, Vertigo, October 2000 – August 2006) collected as:
  • Volume 2 Children and Monsters (collects Lucifer #5–13, Vertigo, 2001, ISBN 1-84023-391-5)
  • Volume 3 A Dalliance with the Damned (collects Lucifer #14–20, Vertigo, 2002, ISBN 1-84023-470-9)
  • Volume 4 The Divine Comedy (collects Lucifer #21–28, Vertigo, 2003, ISBN 1-84023-693-0)
  • Volume 5 Inferno (collects Lucifer #29–35, Vertigo, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0210-1)
  • Volume 6 Mansions of the Silence (collects Lucifer #36–41, Vertigo, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0249-7)
  • Volume 7 Exodus (collects Lucifer' #42–44 & #46–49, Vertigo, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0491-0)
  • Volume 8 The Wolf Beneath the Tree (collects Lucifer #45 & #50–54, Vertigo, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0502-X)
  • Volume 9 Crux (collects Lucifer #55–61, Vertigo, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1005-8)
  • Volume 10 Morningstar (collects Lucifer #62–69, Vertigo, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1006-6)
  • Volume 11 Evensong (collects Lucifer #70–75, Vertigo, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1200-X)
• Chosen (with writer Mark Millar, 3-issue mini-series, Dark Horse Comics, 2004, tpb, Image Comics, 72 pages, December 2008, ISBN 1-60706-006-X)
• The Unwritten (with Mike Carey, ongoing series, Vertigo, July 2009 - 2015)

Notes

1. Arrant, Chris (May 18, 2009). "Peter Gross: The Art Side of 'The Unwritten'". Newsarama. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
2. Arrant, Chris (February 27, 2009). "Mike Carey & Peter Gross on Vertigo's 'The Unwritten'". Newsarama. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
3. Renaud, Jeffrey (March 29, 2009). "UNWRITTEN: Mike Carey & Peter Gross". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
4. Renaud, Jeffrey (March 31, 2009). "UNWRITTEN: Mike Carey & Peter Gross II". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2009-08-23.
5. "Artist adopts love of comics", Kentucky New Era, September 6, 1987

References

• Peter Gross at the Grand Comics Database
• Peter Gross at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

• Official website
• Peter Gross Art