22 Facts About Jay Faerber

Jay Faerber is an American comic book and television writer.

Jay Faerber later wrote his own creator-owned titles for Image Comics, including Noble Causes, Dynamo 5, Near Death and Copperhead.

Jay Faerber was a writer on the television series Ringer, Star-Crossed, Zoo, and Supergirl.

Jay Faerber grew up in northeastern Pennsylvania, and spent a considerable amount of his childhood in the Seattle area.

Jay Faerber was accepted as an art major at a local community college, but dropped out after one semester, when an instructor told him he needed to learn how to draw in order to draw comics.

Seminal works in the comics medium that Jay Faerber has cited as influences include John Byrne's work on Alpha Flight, Mark Waid's work on Captain America, Fabian Nicieza's runs on The New Warriors and Psi-Force, Mike Grell's work on Jon Sable, Freelance, Bob Harras' work on The Avengers, and Robert Kirkman's work on the comic book Invincible.

Jay Faerber first broke into the comic book industry in 1998, when Marvel Comics purchased a story he wrote for the series What If.

In 2002, Jay Faerber began publishing through Image Comics the series Noble Causes, which follows the lives of the Nobles, a wealthy superhero family, and which emphasized their interpersonal conflicts over battles with supervillain enemies.

In 2007, Jay Faerber debuted the Noble Causes spinoff, Dynamo 5, which starred a group of five illegitimate of the assassinated superhero Captain Dynamo, who were assembled by Dynamo's widow in order to protect Tower City.

In 2008, Jay Faerber published a miniseries called Gemini, which stars Dan Johnson, an ordinary man who is unaware that at night, he comes under the control of an organization called the Constellation, who transform ordinary people like him into crimefighters named after star constellations, without any of these people retaining any knowledge or memory of these events.

In September 2011, Jay Faerber debuted Near Death, a crime series whose lead character, Markham, is an assassin who sets out to atone for his past sins after capturing a glimpse of hell during a near-death experience.

In creating the series, Faerber was inspired by the work of Andrew Vachss, Robert B Parker, Robert Crais and Lee Child, and 80s crime shows such as The Equalizer and Stingray.

Jay Faerber was a writer on the CW TV series Ringer, which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, and ran from September 2011 to May 2012.

Jay Faerber then worked on the staff of the CW TV series Star-Crossed, which lasted one season, from 2013 - 2014.

In 2014 Jay Faerber premiered Copperhead, a science fiction Western series set on a planet of the same name.

The first episode Jay Faerber wrote was the series' fifth episode, "Blame It On Leo" and he remained with the show for its entire three year run.

Jay Faerber takes a half-hour lunch in the early afternoon, and then continues working until 4pm.

Jay Faerber describes himself as a "morning person", saying, "I know I'm pretty useless past 6 or 7pm".

Jay Faerber writes his comic book scripts in Mozilla's Open Office software, and I write his television scripts in Final Draft, though he does not use the latter's automatic formatting or templates, as he prefers to perform those tasks manually, explaining that he is a fast typist.

Jay Faerber uses GoodReader on his iPad, and the Adonit Jot Pro stylus to write notes on scripts written by himself or others.

Jay Faerber prefers to work in silence rather than listen to music, but will wear Bose noise-cancelling headphones to listen to instrumental film or television soundtracks that "fit" with what he is writing if the noise from the school across the street from his home becomes too distracting.

Jay Faerber lived in the Gig Harbor, Washington area, before moving with his wife to Burbank, California shortly before September 2014.