15 Facts About Antony Johnston

Antony Johnston was born on 25 August 1972 and is a British writer of comics, video games, and novels.

Antony Johnston is known for the post-apocalyptic comic series Wasteland, the graphic novel The Coldest City, and his work on several Image Comics series.

In May 2023, Johnston published The Dog Sitter Detective, the first in a series.

Antony Johnston began his writing career with work for role-playing magazines, then used his graphic design skills to design graphic novels.

In May 2001, Antony Johnston was one of the three founding editors of NinthArt.

Antony Johnston's fiction debut, Frightening Curves, was an illustrated horror novel with artwork by Aman Chaudhary, published by Cyberosia Publishing in 2001.

In 2012, Antony Johnston wrote The Coldest City, an original hardback graphic novel in the Cold War espionage genre, intended to be the first in a series of books all set in Berlin during the Cold War.

Antony Johnston began publishing a series of spy thriller novels about elite MI6 hacker Brigitte Sharp in 2017.

In 2006, Antony Johnston adapted Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series for Walker Books, beginning with Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel.

Antony Johnston wrote Wolverine: Prodigal Son, a Marvel Comics-licensed original English-language manga version of Wolverine,.

In 2008 Antony Johnston wrote the script for the video game Dead Space as well as a comic book prequel to the Electronic Arts videogame.

Antony Johnston worked with doom metal band Waves of Mercury on their 2013 EP As Seasons Fleet.

In 2020, Antony Johnston published The Organised Writer, a book describing a productivity system for writers.

Antony Johnston appears regularly on podcasts on The Incomparable network, where he produced Unjustly Maligned for 87 episodes from 2015 to 2017.

Antony Johnston independently produces the heavy-metal podcast Thrash It Out.