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ť For the author, see Sam Keith.

Sam Kieth (born January 11, 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and film director, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl.

Career

Comics

Keith first came to prominence in 1983 as the inker of Matt Wagner's Mage, his brushwork adding fluidity and texture to the broad strokes of Wagner's early work at Comico Comics. In 1989, he drew the first five issues of writer Neil Gaiman's celebrated series The Sandman, but felt his style was unsuited to the book (specifically saying that he "felt like Jimi Hendrix in The Beatles") and left, handing over to his former inker Mike Dringenberg.
   He acted as illustrator on two volumes of writer William Messner-Loebs' Epicurus the Sage and drew an Aliens miniseries for Dark Horse Comics, among other things, before creating The Maxx in 1993 for Image Comics, with, initially, writing help from Messner-Loebs. It ran for 35 issues and was adapted, with Kieth's assistance, into an animated series for MTV. Since then, as a writer-artist, he's gone on to create Friends of Maxx, Zero Girl, Four Women and Ojo. Ojo will comprise the first and My Inner Bimbo the second, in a cycle of original comic book limited series published by Oni Press. Loosely connected, the cycle will concern the intertwined lives of people with each other and sometimes with a supernatural entity known as the Mysterious Trout. Kieth has stated that other characters from The Maxx series will appear in this cycle of stories. My Inner Bimbo #1 was published in April 2006. Issue #2 was delayed past its original release date; It was finally resolicited in "Previews" in 2007 and hit the store shelves in November 2007.
   Kieth's most recent work also includes DC's Batman/Lobo: Deadly Serious, a two-issue prestige format mini-series that started in August 2007. The book is written and drawn by Kieth.
   Kieth provided the cover art for pogo-punk band Groovie Ghoulies' 1997 single "Running with Bigfoot".

Other work

In 2000, he directed a teen-oriented direct to DVD production, Take it to the Limit, about mountain climbing.
In Britain, he's contributed to 2000 AD's Judge Dredd and several covers for the Nemesis the Warlock reprint title.
His cousin is animator David Feiss.

Motifs

Several ideas and topics appear across multiple of Kieth's works, including:

funeral rites / honoring the dead
the subconscious / symbolic representations of the subconscious
trauma (especially childhood trauma)
introversion / exclusion
feminism
femininity
loss of loved ones
paralleling the past with the present
conflicted feelings towards mothers

Selected works

Artist-writer

I Before E (collection of Kieth's short stories)

Aliens: Earth War (written for Dark Horse by Mark Verheiden; later retitled "Female War)

Epicurus the Sage (two volumes, written by William Messner-Loebs)

Wolverine: Blood Hungry (collection of Marvel Comics Presents 85-92, written by Peter David)

The Maxx (original series)

Friends of Maxx

Legs (original one-shot comic)

Zero Girl (original series)

Four Women (original series; graphic novel revised)

Wolverine/Hulk

Scratch (featuring Batman)

Ojo (original series)

Batman: Secrets

My Inner Bimbo (original series)

Batman/Lobo: Deadly Serious
Co-writer only

Popbot (original series illustrated by and co-written with Ashley Wood; features cameo by the Maxx)
Artist only

Mage (inker)

Epicurus the Sage

The Sandman #1-5 (DC, 1989)

Marvel Comics Presents

Judge Dredd: I Was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Priest Killer (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.1 #20, 1992)

Venom

Peter Parker: Spider Man In addition, Kieth has done cover-art/illustrations for numerous titles, including:

Adolescent Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters

Nightmare on Elm Street

Marvel Comics Presents

Amazing Heroes

Wizard

Detective Comics

Marvel Tales

Zen: Intergalactic Ninja

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

B-sides (also known as The Craptacular B-Sides)

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