![]() Rick illustrated the first appearance of JOHN CONSTANTINE, a character who went on to film and television fame. He was a regular penciler of SWAMP THING, collaborating with Alan Moore for a year and a half, before taking over as writer. ![]() ![]() Rick was highly active in the 1980’s, drawing issues of NEXUS, SCOUT and MIRACLEMAN. Rick was a regular contributor to Marvel’s EPIC MAGAZINE under editor Archie Goodwin, producing two graphic novels, ABRAXAS AND THE EARTHMAN and HEARTBURST, before creating one of the first revisionist superhero comics, THE ONE, for the EPIC COMICS line in 1984. Out of school, Rick’s work appeared in HEAVY METAL which led to his collaboration with Steve Bissette and Alan Asherman on the graphic novel adaptation of the Steven Spielberg film “1941”. While still at school he began his professional career in mainstream comics, contributing over a dozen short stories to DC’s combat title, OUR ARMY AT WAR. Rick enrolled in the Joe Kubert School in 1976, studying under veteran cartoonists Joe Kubert, Ric Estrada and Dick Giordano and was part of the school’s first graduating class in 1978. They went on to collaborate on the underground comic TWO-FISTED ZOMBIES, published by Last Gasp in San Francisco, in 1973. ![]() While still in high school, he and his brother, Tom Veitch, created the comic strip, CRAZYMOUSE which ran regularly in THE VERMONT CYNIC. Rick Veitch was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont and felt the calling of comics at an early age. ![]()
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