The comics were scripted by Howard Chaykin, who had drawn several issues of the earlier DC title, and pencilled by Mike Mignola, whose Hellboy comic book often has a similar feel to Leiber's work.

From 2000, she has continued to edit most of the highest-profile Vertigo titles, including almost all of Mike Carey's Lucifer ( with Mariah Huehner ) and the entirety of Ed Brubaker's Deadenders, Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's American Century, Jonathan Vankin's The Witching, Si Spencer's Books of Magick: Life During Wartime, Steven T. Seagle and Kelley Jones ' The Crusades and Bill Willingham's Fables ( to date ).

Chaykin devised a series set in 2031, a high-tech but spiritually empty, consumerist world in which the American government has relocated to Mars, leaving what remains of the U. S. to be governed by the all-encompassing corporation the Plex.

Chaykin has described Time < sup > 2 </ sup > as the single work about which he is most proud.

The film stars Maury Chaykin as Desmond Howl, a former rock star who has lived in seclusion in a seaside mansion since the death of his brother Danny ( Paul Gross ) in a car accident.

Chaykin has described his thinking behind tackling such controversial topics:

Chaykin also drew the character Ironwolf in the science fiction anthology title Weird Worlds for DC.

Chaykin also collaborated on two original graphic novels — Swords of Heaven, Flowers of Hell with writer Michael Moorcock, and Empire with Samuel R. Delany — and found time to move into film design with work on the movie version of Heavy Metal.

Chaykin also protested DC ’ s proposed system of labelling comics for violent or sexual content ; Chaykin ( with Alan Moore, and Frank Miller ) boycotted DC and refused to work for the company.

The series attracted a vast amount of controversy, mainly over its sexual content, but also because of the pairing of sex and violence that Chaykin used throughout the series, and especially in the later issues.

The book was adapted into a 1995 film of the same name, which starred Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins, and also featured Jennifer Beals, Tom Sizemore, Maury Chaykin, and Don Cheadle as the unhinged " Mouse.

The film's cast also includes Mary Walsh, Maury Chaykin, Henry Czerny, Andy Jones and Louis Del Grande.

Chaykin also had roles on the television series Seeing Things and Emily of New Moon as well as a recurring role as the intergalactic gourmand Nerus ( a nod to Nero Wolfe ) in Stargate SG-1.

* Gene Amole, Rocky Mountain News ( May 11, 2001 ) — Maury Chaykin is perfect as Wolfe, and Timothy Hutton, who also produces and directs the series, is the ideal Archie.

* Tom Keogh, Amazon. com ( 2004 ) — The Complete First Season includes all the pleasures and surprises of the show's first mysteries, above all the tempestuous, symbiotic, and highly entertaining relationship between Wolfe ( Maury Chaykin ), a corpulent recluse who grows orchids and analyzes clues from a distance, and the acerbic knight-errant, Goodwin ( Timothy Hutton, also an executive producer on the series ), Wolfe's underpaid eyes and ears on the world.

Maury Chaykin reflected on the cancellation of Nero Wolfe in a 2008 interview.

The limited series, with artist Howard Chaykin, features the little-used character Phantom Eagle, a WWI pilot who originally appeared in Marvel Comics during the 1960s.

After this, Chaykin was given various adventure strips to draw for Marvel, including his own creation, Dominic Fortune ( inspired by his Scorpion character, originally drawn for Atlas Comics ), now in the pages of Marvel Premiere.

In 1976, Chaykin landed the job of drawing the Marvel Comics adaptation of the first Star Wars film, written by Roy Thomas.

This proved to be a massive success for Marvel, but Chaykin left after ten issues to work in more adult and experimental comics, as well the more lucrative field of paperback book covers.

That year, Chaykin became part of the creative team on Mutant X, a television series inspired by the Marvel Comics series of mutant titles.

Marvel in June 2010 published a Rawhide Kid mini-series drawn by Chaykin and written by Ron Zimmerman.

Marvel Comics in 2011 announced Chaykin would write and draw a five-part miniseries, Avengers 1959, a spinoff of a storyline first introduced in The New Avengers.

Jones is soon to be the star of a new comic book, Noble, written and drawn by Howard Chaykin.

In his introduction for the second volume collection Howard Chaykin wrote " Thanks are overdue to both these guys for producing the most exciting comic book in years ".

is an American comic book series created by writer-artist Howard Chaykin, published by First Comics from 1983 to 1989.

Dark Horse Presents returned as an eighty-page anthology comic on April 20, 2011 with all-new stories including a Concrete story by Paul Chadwick, a Mr. Monster story by Michael T. Gilbert, a Crimson Empire story from the Star Wars universe, a new strip called Marked Man by Howard Chaykin, a strip called Blood by Neal Adams ( his first work for Dark Horse ), and a sneak peek of Frank Miller ’ s prequel to 300, Xerxes.

* The comic Howard Chaykin ’ s American Flagg!

Howard Victor Chaykin ( born October 7, 1950 ) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material.

Despite the involvement of successful SF / fantasy novelists Michael Moorcock, Lucius Shepard and Christopher Hinz, and established comics creators Howard Chaykin, Elaine Lee, Matt Howarth, Warren Ellis, Walt Simonson, and Garth Ennis, sales of the comic books were low, and most of the ongoing titles were cancelled after 12 or fewer issues.

Black Kiss is a hardboiled erotic American comic book limited series written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, which was originally published in 1988 by Vortex Comics.

The novel was adapted into a four issue prestige style comic book by acclaimed writer Howard Chaykin with art by Russ Heath.

Erekosë appears in a graphic novel by Moorcock and Howard Chaykin called The Swords of Heaven, the Flowers of Hell.

Gold later used his First Comics connections to bring Grell, Chaykin, and Truman over to DC to create memorable series like Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters, Blackhawk, and Hawkworld.

Regardless, writer-artist Howard Chaykin, then living in New York City, felt trepidation when First Comics approached him to do a project.

After trying and failing several times to shore up declining interests, First Comics decided to lure Chaykin back into the writer's seat.

( he was personally selected by Howard Chaykin to take over scripting the book after Chaykin's departure ), a fill-in run on Shatter, a short-lived book of his own creation called Psychoblast and a few issues of Classics Illustrated at First.

* Maury Chaykin, Iron Eagle II

The title was written by Denny O ' Neil and featured art by Howard Chaykin, Walt Simonson and Jim Starlin ; the well-received title ran only five issues.

In 1986, another DC incarnation was created by Howard Chaykin.

This first issue was drawn by artists Alex Ross, Jae Lee, Howard Chaykin, and John Cassaday.

* Pulp Fantastic # 1-3 ( Feb-Apr 2000 ) by Howard Chaykin & David Tischman and Rick Burchett

Also highlighted and previewed were two original graphic novels: Lovecraft ( based on a screenplay by Hans Rodionoff and adapted by Keith Giffen with art by Enrique Breccia ) took the conceit that H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos creatures were real, to paint a highly fictionalized biographic portrait of the titular author, while Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's Barnum!

( June / Aug ) by Howard Chaykin, David Tischman and Niko Henrichon

* American Century # 23-27 ( Apr-Oct ) by Howard Chaykin, David Tischman and Lan Medina ; with Luke Ross & John Severin

A third volume of the title Squadron Supreme, written by Howard Chaykin and with art by Greg Land ( and other artists ), is published, with the 12 issue series being set five years after the battle with Redstone.

* Empire, a graphic novel by Samuel R. Delany and Howard Chaykin

In the 1980s a mini-series by Howard Chaykin reimagined the WWII team ( with a notably more adult take on the characters ), with their adventures continuing in post-war stories in Action Comics Weekly ( issues # 601-608, # 615-622, # 628-634, and # 635 ) and then their own short-lived ongoing series in the early 1990s.

* Elon Cody Starbuck, a space pirate created by Howard Chaykin for the comics anthology magazine Star * Reach, first appearing in 1974.

The series was written by Bill Mantlo and featured art by Michael Golden, Howard Chaykin, Pat Broderick, Gil Kane, Butch Guice and others.

The sequel was again written by Zimmerman, with Howard Chaykin taking over as artist.

This conception had been reworked by the first issue, a multiple-creator goulash in which the two originators and co-plotters turned the scripting over to another writer, and in which artist co-creator Adams penciled only the first 11 pages and Howard Chaykin the remaining nine.