Who’s Ramblin’?

A true Southern boy, I was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Mississippi. I spent my high school growing up years in Brandon, Miss., where I graduated from Northwest Rankin. I attended Hinds Jr. College and then transferred to the University of Southern Mississippi where I earned my B.S. in English/Creative Writing.

I broke into comics in 1989 as a writer of indy comics, where I wrote such titles as Cat & Mouse, Miss Fury, Rocket Ranger, Demon’s Tails, and others… I started freelance editing in ‘90 when I saw there was a wealth of untapped talent in the South Mississippi region, that, and to help talented friends get work. Shortly after, I was hired as an editor with Malibu Comics located in California.I edited the Genesis line of comics ( Protectors, Dinos for Hire, Ex-Mutants, etc). Then Malibu bought Image and shortly wanted a “high profile” superhero universe to replace Image once they’d gone.

So, Ultraverse was created and the Genesis line was cancelled. For UV, I edited Sludge, Night Man, Strangers, Prototype, Rune and others. When Marvel later bought Malibu, I was made Managing Editor of the Malibu Division.

A year later, Marvel canned the entire Malibu division.

I moved back to the South, earned my M.A. in English from the University of North Alabama and started teaching English at both the University of North Alabama and Northwest Shoals Community College. I taught until 2005, and then an opportunity came up to try something different–selling collegiate furniture. It was a disaster.

After that, I became the editor of a weekly newspaper in Northeast Arkansas. The opportunity came to move to the small town where my family had been for 150+ years and so I took it. Unfortunately, my ideas didn’t mesh with the publisher’s–seems I was too conservative. It was quite an eye-opening experience.

Now, I live with my family in Oxford, Miss., and am writing and editing.