Charlie Huston
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| Born | Oakland, California |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2004 – Present |
| Genre | crime fiction, horror, pulp |
| Notable works | Hank Thompson trilogy, Joe Pitt Casebooks |
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Charlie Huston is an American author of crime novels and superhero comic books. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Virginia Louise Smith. According to an interview with Paradigm, he prefers to be classified as a writer of "pulp" as opposed to "noir".[1]
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Career
Caught Stealing, along with Six Bad Things and Huston's fourth novel, A Dangerous Man, follow the lovable anti-hero, baseball-mad Henry Thompson, as he works his way through mistaken identity, his past, and a new life for himself.
With the release of Already Dead (2005), Huston put a new spin on vampires with the beginning of a saga he refers to as the "Joe Pitt Casebooks". A departure from his first two books, Already Dead focuses on "vampyre" clans that control the underworld in and around New York City. The novel, featuring protagonist Joe Pitt, a vampire who does odd jobs for different clans, retains the gritty style Huston is known for. The five-part series features Already Dead, No Dominion (2006), Half the Blood of Brooklyn (2007), Every Last Drop (2008), and My Dead Body (2009).[citation needed]
In 2006, Huston joined the list of print authors who have written American comic books. In April 2006, Marvel Comics launched Huston's reboot of the Marvel character Moon Knight. The work is ongoing; Huston wrote the first 12 monthly issues. His run concluded in December 2007, but he continues to aid in the plotting.[citation needed] He also wrote the second Ultimates annual in August 2006. It was recently[when?] announced that Huston will reboot the character Deathlok in a mini-series with artist Lan Medina.[citation needed]
Huston has also written three stand-alone novels. The first, The Shotgun Rule (August 2007), "is the story of a group of teenage delinquents that break into the wrong house and steal the wrong thing in a California suburb in the ’80s".[citation needed] This book also marks Huston's first book written in third person, instead of his trademark first person, view.[citation needed] Huston's The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (2009) introduces a new character, Webster Fillmore Goodhue, who will be further developed in upcoming books.[citation needed] The book was rumored to be the basis for an upcoming HBO series, but the network passed.[citation needed] Sleepless (2010) takes place in a dystopic alternate present Los Angeles overrun by insomnia, caused by a prion.[citation needed]
Huston has published two short stories featuring the same female protagonists in two anthologies, focusing on different aspects of noir. The first was published in Expletive Deleted (November 20, 2007), the second in A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir (December 3, 2007).[citation needed]
Huston has also written for the recent Wolverine series, Wolverine: The Best There Is, with artist Juan Jose Ryp.[2] Broken Quarantine, a collection of issues 7 through 12 of the series, was published in June 2012.[citation needed]
In January 2013, it was announced that Huston was working on the pilot for FX's adaption of the Brian Bendis/Michael Avon comic book Powers.[3]
Bibliography
Henry Thompson trilogy
- Caught Stealing (2004)
- Six Bad Things (2005)
- A Dangerous Man (2006)
Joe Pitt Casebooks
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- Already Dead (December 27, 2005)
- No Dominion (December 26, 2006)
- Half the Blood of Brooklyn (December 26, 2007)
- Every Last Drop (September 30, 2008)
- My Dead Body (October 13, 2009)
Stand-alone novels
- The Shotgun Rule (2007)
- The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death (2009)
- Sleepless (2010)
- Skinner (2013)
Comic books
- Moon Knight vol. 5 #1-13 (2006-2007 (writer)), #14-19 (2007-July 2008 (plot help))
- Ultimates 2 Annual #2
- The Punisher: Frank Castle Hot Rods of Death One-Shot
- Legion of Monsters: Man-Thing (with Klaus Janson, one-shot, Marvel Comics, May 2007)
- Wolverine: The Best There Is - Contagion (with Juan Jose Ryp and Brian Hitch, Marvel Comics), material collected in Wolverine: The Best There Is #1-6, July 2011
- Wolverine: The Best There Is - Broken Quarantine (with Juan Jose Ryp and Brian Hitch, Marvel Comics), material collected in Wolverine: The Best There Is #7-12, January 2012
See also
Notes
References
- Charlie Huston at the Grand Comics Database
- Charlie Huston at the Comic Book DB
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