Über den Autor John Carpenter
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John Carpenter's films are legendary: from the breakthrough Halloween (1978) to classics like Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trouble In Little China and They Live. His sci-fi love story, Starman, earned Jeff Bridges a Best Actor Oscar nomination. For the small screen, Carpenter directed the thriller Someone's Watching Me, the acclaimed biographical mini-series, Elvis, and the Showtime horror trilogy John Carpenter Presents Body Bags. He also directed two episodes of Showtime's Masters Of Horror series. He won the Cable Ace Award for writing the HBO movie, El Diablo. In the gaming world, he co-wrote the video game Fear 3 for Warner Bros. Interactive. In the world of comics, Carpenter co-wrote the BOOM! books Big Trouble in Little China with Eric Powell and the Old Man Jack series with Anthony Burch. At Storm King Comics he is the co-creator of the award-winning bi-monthly series, John Carpenter's Asylum and the acclaimed annual anthology collections, John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight and the monthly series, John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction.
