Dan Jolley
Dan Jolley is an American novelist and comic book writer. His comics work includes DC Comics' Firestorm and Graphic Universe's Twisted Journeys, a series of interactive fiction or gamebooks in graphic novel form, and his novel work includes the young-adult science fiction espionage series Alex Unlimited along with his international best selling novel, The Gray Widow's Walk, which is his first book in the Gray Widow trilogy that he publishes through Seventh Star Press.
Career
Dan Jolley began his writing career in the early nineties. His limited series Obergeist was voted Best Horror Comic of 2001 by Wizard magazine, and his DC Comics project JSA: The Unholy Three received an Eisner Award nomination for Best Limited Series of 2003. His other comics work includes Bloodhound, a series about an unpowered investigator into a super-powered serial killer in the DC Universe.May 2007 saw the debut of his first novel series, an original young-adult science fiction espionage story called Alex Unlimited, published by a joint venture of TokyoPop and HarperCollins.
He is also scripting several manga projects, including The Lost Warrior, which is an extension of the Warriors novel series by Erin Hunter, and wrote the teen novelization of the 2008 motion picture Iron Man.
Jolley was on the design team of Icarus Studios' post-apocalyptic MMORPG, Fallen Earth. He now writes for video games from Activision and Ubisoft.
Works
Novels
- Five Elements Book 1: The Emerald Tablet, HarperCollins, New York, October 2016
- Gray Widow's Walk, Seventh Star Press, Lexington, May 2016
- Transformers 2 Junior Novel, HarperCollins, New York, May 2009
- Alex Unlimited Book 3: True Chemistry, TokyoPop/HarperCollins, New York, April 2008
- Iron Man Teen Novelization, HarperCollins, New York, March 2008
- Alex Unlimited Book 2: Split-Second Sight, TokyoPop/HarperCollins, New York, September 2007
- Alex Unlimited Book 1: The Vosarak Code, TokyoPop/HarperCollins, New York, May 2007
- Angel: Vengeance, Simon & Schuster, New York, August 2002
- Star Trek SCE: Some Assembly Required, Pocket Books, New York, January 2002
Video Games
- Chronos, Gunfire Games, March 2016
- Mafia 3, 2K Games/Hangar 13, 2016
- Dying Light, Warner Bros./Techland, January 2015
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, 2K Games, August 2013
- Transformers Prime: The Game, Activision/Nowpro, October 2012
- Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Activision/High Moon Studios, August 2012
- Prototype 2, Activision/Radical Entertainment, April 2012
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Activision/High Moon Studios & Behavior Interactive, July 2011
- Transformers: War for Cybertron, Activision/High Moon Studios, June 2010
- Transformers: Cybertron Adventures, Activision/Next Level Games, June 2010
- James Cameron's Avatar, Ubisoft Montreal, December 2009
- Fallen Earth, Icarus Studios, September 2009
Comics
- LARP!, three 80-page graphic novels, Dark Horse Comics, Portland, May 2015
- The Savage Sword of Robert E. Howard: The Maid of Winter's Night, short story, Dark Horse Comics, Portland, July 2014
- Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy, six-issue mini-series, Dark Horse Comics, Portland, February 2014
- Eerie: Invulnerable, short story, Dark Horse Comics, Portland, February 2014
- Bloodhound: Crowbar Medicine, five-issue mini-series, Dark Horse Comics, Portland, October 2013
- Wrapped Up in You , Lerner Books, Minneapolis, May 2012
- My Boyfriend Bites , Lerner Books, Minneapolis, July 2011
- Warcraft: Death Knight, TokyoPop, Los Angeles, November 2009
- Warcraft Legends: Bloodsail Buccaneer, short story, TokyoPop, Los Angeles, June 2009
- Warcraft Legends: Crusader's Blood, short story, TokyoPop, Los Angeles, March 2009
- Warcraft Legends: Miles to Go, short story, TokyoPop, Los Angeles, November 2008
- Warcraft Legends: How to Win Friends, short story, TokyoPop, Los Angeles, August 2008
- Warriors: Warrior's Return, HarperCollins, , 2008
- Warriors: Warrior's Refuge, HarperCollins,, 2007
- Warriors: The Lost Warrior, HarperCollins,, 2007
- Angel: Choice Cuts, one issue in five-issue mini-series, IDW Studios, San Diego, 2006
- Hell, Michigan, four-issue mini-series, FC9 Publishing, Morristown, 2005
- G.I. Joe Vs. The Transformers II, four-issue mini-series, Devil's Due / Image Comics, Chicago, 2005
- G.I. Joe Vs. The Transformers I, two issues in five-issue mini-series, Devil's Due / Image Comics, Chicago, 2004
- Bloodhound #1-10
- Firestorm, ongoing series
- Micronauts
- Vampirella: The Choir in the Mist, one issue, Harris Comics, New York, 2004
- Metal Hurlant: Worship Service, short story, Humanoids Comics, Los Angeles, 2004
- Voltron, ongoing series, Devil's Due / Image Comics, Chicago, 2003-2004
- G.I. Joe Frontline: Icebound, four-issue mini-series, Devil's Due / Image Comics, Chicago, 2003
- Micronauts, ongoing series, Devil's Due / Image Comics, Chicago, 2003-2004
- JSA: The Unholy Three
- Superman Adventures, three issues, DC Comics, New York, 2002
- Sabretooth: Mary Shelley Overdrive
- Purgatori, ongoing series
- Obergeist
- ', DC Comics, 2001
- Lazarus 5
- '
- Doctor Strange: The Flight of Bones
- Aliens: Colonial Marines, two issues in ten-issue mini-series, Dark Horse Comics, Milwaukie, 1993
- Universal Monsters: The Mummy, one-shot special, Dark Horse Comics, Milwaukie, 1992
Educational Comics
- Twisted Journeys: Shipwrecked on Mad Island, Lerner Books, Minneapolis, August, 2009
- Graphic Universe: Hero Twins: Against the Lords of Death , Lerner Books, Minneapolis, March 2009
- Graphic Universe: Guan Yu: Blood Brothers to the End , Lerner Books, Minneapolis, March 2009
- Twisted Journeys: Agent Mongoose & the Hypno-Beam Scheme, Lerner Books, Minneapolis, February 2009
- Graphic Universe: Pigling: A Cinderella Story , Lerner Books, Minneapolis, November 2008
- Twisted Journeys: Vampire Hunt, Lerner Books, Minneapolis, September 2008
- Twisted Journeys: Alien Incident on Planet J, Lerner Books, Minneapolis, September 2008
- Twisted Journeys: The Time Travel Trap, Lerner Books, Minneapolis, February 2008
- Graphic Universe: The Smoking Mountain: The Story of Popocatepetl & Iztaccihuatl , Lerner Books, Minneapolis, January 2008
- Twisted Journeys: Escape From Pyramid X, Lerner Books, Minneapolis, July 2007
- Graphic Universe: Odysseus: Escaping Poseidon's Curse, Lerner Books, Minneapolis, June 2007
Awards
- Best Horror Story of 2001, Wizard Magazine Awards, for Obergeist
- Nominated for Best Mini-series of 2003, Eisner Awards, for JSA: The Unholy Three