J. M. DeMatteis

Born and raised in Brooklyn New York J M DeMatteis was a professional musician and rock music journalist before entering the comic book field DeMatteis has written almost all of the major DC and Marvel icons including memorable runs on SpiderMan his classic Kravens Last Hunt was voted number one in a 2012 Comic Book Resources poll of SpiderMan stories and number twelve in a 2017 CBR poll of the greatest comic book stories of all time The Hollywood Reporter called KLH perhaps the greatest SpiderMan standalone story and Justice League winning DeMatteis and his collaborators Keith Giffen and Kevin Maguire comics highest honor the Eisner Award But his greatest acclaim has come for sophisticated original graphic novels like Seekers Into The Mystery Blood A Tale The Last One and Mercy The autobiographical Brooklyn Dreams was picked by the ALA as one of the Ten Best Graphic Novels and Booklist in a starred review called it as graphically distinguished and creatively novelistic a graphic novel as has ever beena classic of the form