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Jen Van Meter
BornJennifer Van Meter
Fresno, California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
Hopeless Savages
The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage
Spouse(s)Greg Rucka

Jennifer Van Meter is an American comic book writer best known for her Oni Press series Hopeless Savages.

Early life and education

Van Meter was born and raised in Fresno, California. She graduated from Vassar College with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and followed that with a Master of Arts in Folklore Studies and Literature from the University of Oregon.[1][2]

Career

Van Meter diverged from the Ph.D. track and began pursuing a career in comics, her first published work was a story in the 1998 Dark Horse Presents annual that saw the first appearance of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in comic book form.

Van Meter's first major writing gig in comics was the Oni one-shot set in the world and sharing the name of The Blair Witch Project, along with the follow-up series The Blair Witch Chronicles. Her work with Oni led to the creation of Hopeless Savages, featuring members of the Hopeless-Savage family, parents hailing from the 70s era of punk and their offspring, who have carved out their own cultural identities. The first four-issue series was nominated for an Eisner Award for best limited series[3] in 2002, a Friends of Lulu Award in 2003, and was chosen as a 2004 Popular Paperback for Young Adults by the American Library Association.[4] The original mini-series was followed by two more four-issue miniseries, Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero and Too Much Hopeless Savages.

Van Meter's work at Oni led to other series at DC, including the mini-series Cinnamon: El Ciclo and Black Lightning: Year One, and at Marvel, where she recently wrote a mini-series featuring Black Cat.[5] In addition to her Marvel work, Van Meter wrote the ten-part "Liberty Belle & Hourman" back-up series that ran in JSA All-Stars until October 2010.

In 2014 and 2015, Van Meter wrote two mini-series starring The Death-Defying Dr. Mirage for Valiant.

Personal life

Van Meter lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, comics creator Greg Rucka, and their two children.[6]

On September 4, 2020, Van Meter's older son Elliot was arrested for rioting as a member of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement.[7]

Bibliography

Dark Horse Comics

  • Dark Horse Presents Annual '98: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: MacGuffins" (with Luke Ross, anthology, 1998)
    • Collected by Dark Horse in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 2 (tpb, 296 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-5930-7826-9)
    • Collected by Boom! Studios in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Legacy Edition Book One (tpb, 320 pages, 2020, ISBN 1-6841-5499-5)
  • Eerie vol. 2 #8: "Human Resources" (with Tony Parker, anthology, 2015) collected in Eerie: Experiments in Terror (tpb, 168 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-6165-5880-6)

Oni Press

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Other publishers

References

  1. ^ "About Jen". jenvanmeter.com. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
  2. ^ "Jen Van Meter" Archived 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine. Oni Press. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
  3. ^ "2002 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards". Hahn Library Comic Book Awards Almanac. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
  4. ^ "2004 Popular Paperbacks". American Library Association. 2004. Retrieved February 13, 2012.
  5. ^ O'Shea, Tim (July 28, 2010). "Talking Comics with Tim: Jen Van Meter". Comic Book Resources.
  6. ^ "About Greg Rucka". Greg Rucka. 2012. Retrieved January 13, 2012.
  7. ^ Salo, Jackie. New York Post. Sept. 7, 2020 edition. Pg. 4.
  8. ^ Sims, Chris (April 6, 2016). "The A-Team In Toe Shoes: Jen Van Meter And Rick Burchett On The Post-War Ballet Of 'Prima'". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016.

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