Freelance Writer, Editor and Graphic Artist
Lewiston/Auburn, Maine Area
- Current
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- Editor-In-Chief at Sequential Pulp Comics
- Freelance Writer at Ape Entertainment
- Freelance Writer at CinemaGraphix
- Freelance Writer at Moonstone Books
- Past
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- Freelance Writer at IDW Publishing
- Art Director at American Media, Inc.
- Publisher, Editor, Writer at Shadow House Press
- Editor, Writer at Big Entertainment, Inc.
- Editorial Director at Alpha Productions
- Layout & Design Artist at Brunswick Publishing, Inc.
- Education
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- Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art
- University of Maine
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Christopher Mills’s Summary
Writer of comic books, graphic novels, prose fiction, and non-fiction. Currently have three creator-owned comics projects placed with Ape Entertainment and scheduled for publication in 2008. I have also written fiction, comic book scripts or articles for Alpha Productions, Big Entertainment, Tekno•Comix, Shadow House Press, Image Comics, Rorschach Entertainment, CinemaGraphix, IDW and Moonstone Books. My short fiction has been published by Tanagram Publishing, Thrilling Detective and Moonstone Books.
As a graphic artist, I've designed over 300 magazine/tabloid covers, DVD covers for Retromedia and Pop Cinema, Inc., created various logos and lettered comic books for Moonstone Books and other small publishers.
Christopher Mills’s Experience
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Editor-In-Chief
Sequential Pulp Comics
(Publishing industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Line editor for Sequential Pulp Comics. Supervising editorial and production on all titles, including FREDRIC BROWN'S MARTIANS GO HOME and OTIS ADELBERT KLINE'S SWORDS OF VENUS.
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Freelance Writer
Ape Entertainment
(Publishing industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
Writer/Creator: FEMME NOIR: THE DARK CITY DIARIES (4-Issue Comic Book Miniseries with art by Joe Staton), PERILS ON PLANET X (3-Issue Comic Book Miniseries with art by Gene Gonzales), GRAVEDIGGER (Graphic Novel with art by Rick Burchett and Fred Harper).
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Freelance Writer
CinemaGraphix
(Entertainment industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
Adapted screenplay by John Cork into graphic novel, THE NIGHT DRIVER (published by Moonstone Books). Other projects in the works.
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Freelance Writer
Moonstone Books
(Publishing industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
Writer of KOLCHAK: NIGHT STALKER OF THE LIVING DEAD (3-Issue Comic Book Miniseries) and CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT (Comic Book), as well as contributor to the prose fiction anthologies THE SPIDER CHRONICLES, WEREWOLVES: DEAD MOON RISING and CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT.
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Freelance Writer
IDW Publishing
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year )
Contributed reviews/articles to DOOMED magazine.
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Art Director
American Media, Inc.
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
June 1997 — September 2004 (7 years 4 months)
Art Director of the weekly tabloid newspaper SUN for five years following two years as Design Editor on both the NATIONAL EXAMINER and SUN.
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Publisher, Editor, Writer
Shadow House Press
(Publishing industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Co-founder, publisher and editor (with James Chambers) of Shadow House Press, publisher of SHADOW HOUSE comic book series.
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Editor, Writer
Big Entertainment, Inc.
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
July 1995 — January 1997 (1 year 7 months)
Editor of the ongoing color monthly comic book series MICKEY SPILLANE'S MIKE DANGER and NEIL GAIMAN'S LADY JUSTICE. Writer of eleven issues of LEONARD NIMOY'S PRIMORTALS. Editor of illustrated novel MARGARET WEIS' TESTAMENT OF THE DRAGON.
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Editorial Director
Alpha Productions
(Publishing industry)
1990 — 1995 (5 years )
Edited various comic book titles and handled the majority of production needs for small, independent publisher.
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Layout & Design Artist
Brunswick Publishing, Inc.
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
1987 — 1990 (3 years )
Handled design, layout and paste-up (manual and digital) for Commercial Printing division.
Christopher Mills’s Education
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Joe Kubert School of Cartoon & Graphic Art
1983 — 1985
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University of Maine
Creative Writing 1986
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Christopher Mills’s Interests:
Comics, film, crime fiction, horror fiction, fantasy fiction, science fiction
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