It was followed by a sequel, Whiteout: Melt.

Whiteout focuses on a murder in an Antarctic base. In 1998, Rucka entered the comics industry with Whiteout, published through Oni Press. He has written six non-Atticus books: Fistful of Rain, Alpha, Bravo, A Gentleman's Game, Private Wars, and The Last Run the latter three are tie-ins to his comic book series Queen & Country. The 'Atticus' novels are notable for their realism and attention to detail, which is partly a product of Rucka's fight training and experience as an EMT. These works garnered Rucka much critical acclaim and comparisons to the elite writers of crime/suspense fiction. The series to date consists of Keeper, Finder, Smoker, Shooting at Midnight, Critical Space, Patriot Acts, and Walking Dead. Kodiak is a bodyguard whose jobs are rarely as uncomplicated as they at first appear. Rucka's writing career began with the Atticus Kodiak series. īefore becoming a professional fiction writer he worked in a number of other occupations, including house painting, restaurant work, emergency medical technician, security guard, technical writer, and fight choreographer. He names Douglas Adams as his biggest influence. He then enrolled in the University of Southern California's Master of Professional Writing program, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts. He graduated from Vassar College with a BA in English. He began writing at a young age, and at age 10, he won a county-wide short story contest.

He first discovered comics at the Nob Hill Market in Salinas, California, where at age five, he first saw digest-sized black and white reprints of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's work on The Incredible Hulk, which he convinced his mother to buy. Greg Rucka was born in San Francisco and raised on the Monterey Peninsula of California, in an area known to the locals as 'Steinbeck Country'.

Rucka made his debut as a screenwriter with the screenplay for the 2020 film The Old Guard, based on his comic book series of the same name. He has written a substantial amount of supplemental material for a number of DC Comics' line-wide and inter-title crossovers, including ' No Man's Land', ' Infinite Crisis' and ' New Krypton'. Gregory Rucka (born November 29, 1969) is an American writer known for the series of novels starring his character Atticus Kodiak, the creator-owned comic book series Whiteout, Queen & Country, Stumptown and Lazarus, as well as lengthy runs on such titles as Detective Comics, Wonder Woman and Gotham Central for DC Comics, and Elektra, Wolverine and The Punisher for Marvel. 2004 Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or StoryĢ010 Annual GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book

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