John Jackson Miller
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John Jackson Miller is an American comic book writer and commentator, known for his research into comic book circulation history, as presented in the Standard Catalog of Comic Books series.
[edit] Biography
John Jackson Miller was born on January 12, 1968. A collector of comics and publisher of mini-comics since childhood, he began as editor of the trade magazine Comics Retailer in 1993. Following the introduction of Magic: The Gathering, he added games to its coverage, changing the title to Comics & Games Retailer in 2001. He served as the first editor of Scrye: The Guide to Collectible Card Games following its purchase by Krause Publications in 1999. He produced much work for Comics Buyer's Guide magazine, and following the 2002 launch of the Standard Catalog of Comic Books line, worked pricing and other content from those books back into the magazine.
His first professional comics work appeared in 2003 in Crimson Dynamo for Marvel Comics, which led to a run on Iron Man. In 2006, he helped relaunch the Dark Horse Star Wars line with the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic ongoing comic series.
He writes a regular column called Longbox Manifesto for regular comics magazine Comics Buyer's Guide. In 2007, he launched The Comics Chronicles, a website devoted to comic-book circulation history and research.
In February 2007, he was hired as a writer for the video game Sword of the New World. [1] In December 2007, Wizards of the Coast announced he would co-write a Knights of the Old Republic guidebook for its Star Wars Roleplaying Game, to be released in August 2008.[2] In early 2008, he launched a fantasy webcomic with artist Chuck Fiala called Sword & Sarcasm.[3]
In 2008, he wrote the Dark Horse comic-book adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.[4]
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[edit] External links
- John Jackson Miller's MySpace page
- Official site
- Star Wars blog
- The Comics Chronicles
- John Jackson Miller on Wookieepedia, an external wiki
- Standard Catalog of Comic Books
- Comics Buyer's Guide
- Scrye magazine
- Dark Horse Comics
- Marvel Comics
- Sword & Sarcasm
| Preceded by Robin Laws |
Iron Man writer 2003–2004 |
Succeeded by Mark Ricketts |
