19 Facts About Greg Rucka

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".

Greg Rucka 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 began writing at a young age, and at age 10, he won a county-wide short story contest.

Greg Rucka then enrolled in the University of Southern California's Master of Professional Writing program, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts.

The "Atticus" novels are notable for their realism and attention to detail, which is partly a product of Greg Rucka's fight training and experience as an EMT.

In 1998, Greg Rucka entered the comics industry with Whiteout, published through Oni Press.

Greg Rucka wrote Batman on a regular basis in the Detective Comics series following the events of "No Man's Land'".

Greg Rucka co-wrote Countdown to Infinite Crisis, a one-shot and the official start of the Infinite Crisis storyline, with Geoff Johns and Judd Winick.

Greg Rucka was a co-writer on the weekly series 52, which he co-wrote with Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, and Mark Waid.

Greg Rucka wrote the screenplay for the "Crossfire" segment in the direct-to-DVD anime Batman: Gotham Knight, in which Crispus Allen, a character he created, appears.

At Wondercon 2010 Greg Rucka announced he would part ways with DC Comics to focus on his own projects, in part because of DC's failure to keep him on as writer of Wonder Woman: Earth One as promised.

On July 11,2011, Greg Rucka launched the webcomic Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether, a steampunk adventure series illustrated by Rick Burchett.

In May 2013, Greg Rucka launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of a print edition of Lady Sabre, and achieved their initial funding goal of $27,500 within eight hours.

Greg Rucka wrote the creator-owned series, Black Magick, which was drawn by Nicola Scott and published by Image Comics.

In 2017, Greg Rucka wrote the creator-owned series The Old Guard, which was drawn by Leandro Fernandez, colored by Daniela Miwa and published by Image Comics.

In July 2019, Greg Rucka began writing the Lois Lane 12-issue limited series with artist Mike Perkins.

In December 2019, Greg Rucka began writing a second volume of The Old Guard called The Old Guard: Force Multiplied.

Greg Rucka is one of several professional comics whose names were used for characters in an episode of the ninth season of the BBC police drama New Tricks.

Greg Rucka enjoys the music of Dexter Gordon, Lester Bowie, Joe Jackson, Warren Zevon, and Melissa Ferrick.