ABOUT STEPHEN R. BISSETTE
Stephen R. Bissette worked as a pro artist, author, editor, and self-publisher in the comic book industry for 23 years. He remains best known for his multi-award-winning tenure on DC Comics' Saga of the Swamp Thing (1983-87). He subsequently co-founded, edited, and co-published the controversial Eisner Award-winning horror comics anthology Taboo (1988-95), collaborated on the Image comics series 1963 (1993), and wrote, drew, and self-published four issues of S.R. Bissette's Tyrant (1994-96), a rigorously-researched portrait of the birth and life of a Tyrannosaurus rex.
He retired from comics at the end of 1999 to devote his efforts to writing. As a writer, Bissette's film criticism and articles have appeared in over two dozen periodicals and book anthologies, and his weekly "Video Views" column appears in New England newspapers. His short fiction appeared in Words without Pictures (1990), Hellboy: Odd Jobs (1999), and elsewhere. His original novella Aliens: Tribes won a Bram Stoker Award in 1993, and he co-authored Comic Book Rebels (1993), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book (Pocket Books, August 2000), and more. He is currently working on a history of filmmaking in Vermont.
Bissette continues to work as an artist in the book field, illustrating books by Douglas E. Winter, Joe Lansdale, Neil Gaiman, Rick Hautala, Joe Citro, and others. Some of his most recent illustration work can be found in Nancy Collins' Dead Roses for a Blue Lady (2002), Christopher Golden's Ferryman (2002), and Matt Spencer's The Drifting Soul.
Bissette also works as an educator, tutoring art students and enjoying guest author status at the prestigious Middlebury College Young Writers' Conference. He is a faculty member at the newly formed Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont.