JASPER BARK

I'm a novelist, children's author and script writer specialising in comics and graphic novels.

I've written four novels: A Fistful of Strontium (Black Flame 2005 with Steve Lyons), Sniper Elite: Spear of Destiny (Abaddon 2006), Dawn Over Doomsday (Abaddon 2008) and Way of the Barefoot Zombie (Abaddon 2009).

My all-ages book Inventions, Leonardo Da Vinci has been translated into five different languages and my Battle Cries series of graphic novels are used in schools throughout the UK to improve literacy for 12 to 16 year old readers.  I've written comics for just about every publisher in the British comics industry, from 2000AD to The Beano, and an increasing number of American and international publishers.

Prior to this I worked as a film journalist and cable TV presenter by day and a stand up poet and playwright by night. In 1993 I released an anthology of poetry and a spoken word album both called Bark Bites. In 1999 I was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Festival.