Career

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, and is perhaps one of the most famous and commercially successful horror writers of all time. King's first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974 and went on to become a bestseller, inspiring the first of many movie adaptations of King works. He has since written and published more than fifty books, and hundreds of short stories.

In Comics

It would hardly surprise anyone that Stephen King was influenced by comic books: this can be seen in the 1982 film Creepshow, which paid tribute to the E.C. Line of horror comics, of which King is a self-proclaimed lifelong fan.

In March of 2010 he took his first direct step into comics when he wrote his first comic book, penning the script for the first five issues of the Vertigo series American Vampire. American Vampire would not be his first original work for one of the Big Two Companies. In 1985, he penned script for 3 pages in Marvels Heroes For Hope starring the X-Men.

Many of his works have been adapted to comic book form, including:

• The Lawnmower Man
• Road Rage
• Stephen King's Creepshow
• Stephen King's N.
• The Talisman: The Road of Trials

The Dark Tower:

Flashbacks from The Dark Tower IV:

• The Gunslinger Born
• The Long Road Home
• Sheemie's Tale
• The Sorcerer
• The Fall of Gilead
• Battle of Jericho Hill
• Treachery

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower I):

• The Journey Begins
• The Little Sisters of Eluria
• The Battle of Tull
• The Way Station
• The Man in Black

The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower II):

• The Prisoner
• House of Cards
• Lady of Shadows
• The Sailor
• Bitter Medicine

The Stand:

• Captain Trips
• American Nightmares
• Soul Survivors
• Hardcases
• No Man's Land
• Night Has Come

Personal Life

King lives with fellow author and activist Tabitha King. The couple, who met in college, have been married since 1971.