David Lapham (born 1970) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer, artist, and cartoonist, best known for his work on his groundbreaking independent comic book Stray Bullets.
Lapham started his career in 1990 as a penciller at Valiant Comics where he was discovered by editor Jim Shooter. He went on to join Shooter at Defiant Comics where they co-created Warriors of Plasm in 1993.
In 1995 he set up his own publisher El Capitan Books t...
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David Lapham (born 1970) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer, artist, and cartoonist, best known for his work on his groundbreaking independent comic book Stray Bullets.
Lapham started his career in 1990 as a penciller at Valiant Comics where he was discovered by editor Jim Shooter. He went on to join Shooter at Defiant Comics where they co-created Warriors of Plasm in 1993.
In 1995 he set up his own publisher El Capitan Books to publish Stray Bullets which he wrote, drew and lettered himself. By the end of that year Miramax had hired Lapham to write and direct a feature film. It is unclear what came of this contract as no movie has yet been produced.
In 2000 he took a sabbatical from Stray Bullets to produce his nine issue period murder mystery Murder Me Dead also from El Capitan Books.
In 2005 Lapham began accepting more mainstream comics work, writing a storyarc for Top Cow Comics' The Darkness ("Hell House", Vol. 2 #17-20), a 12 part Batman storyline in Detective...
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