Don McGregor is coming to GSCF: Summer 25

Don McGregor is coming to GSCF: Summer 25

Don McGregor has become one of the foremost writers in comic books today. With almost thirty years of experience in the field, Don incorporates a deep understanding of human nature into his stories, blending humanity with humility and pain with glory.

McGregor began his comic writing career in 1969, creating his own series DETECTIVES INC. as a fanzine that he took to the annual New York Comic Convention.  It was after meeting publisher Jim Warren in hot debate at that convention that his comic writing career began, writing horror stories for Warren's illustrated horror line of CREEPY, EERIE and VAMPIRELLA.

After working as a proofreader, and eventually editor on several of MARVEL COMICS B&W line of comic/magazines, he was assigned to write the BLACK PANTHER in Marvel's JUNGLE ACTION comics.  The "Panther's Rage" series was the first mainstream comic to have an essentially all-black cast of comics, in 1973.  Before that, the few comics that did have black leads were normally surrounded by a white supporting cast.

Don also wrote LUKE CAGE, POWERMAN and MORBIUS, THE LIVING VAMPIRE in that time period, stories that explored drug dealing, political chicanery, loss of time and place.  He also created HODIAH TWIST in the story, 'The Preying Mantis Principle."

In the middle of the 1970s he started work on creating the historically important independent graphic novel, SABRE, that was aimed directly for the comic book store market.  Many people at the time thought he and Dean Mullaney, who started the publishing company ECLIPSE COMICS, with the printing of SABRE, were nuts to undertake such a project.  The skeptics were positive the fans could not support a series.

Other work includes the DC Comics' miniseries Nathaniel Dusk and Nathaniel Dusk II, both with Colan; and, for New Media Publishing's Fantasy Illustrated, "The Hounds of Hell Theory", starring the husband-and-wife detective team Alexander and Penelope Risk, with artist Tom Sutton.

McGregor revisited the Black Panther with Colan in "Panther's Quest", published as 25 eight-page installments within the biweekly omnibus series Marvel Comics Presents (issues #13–37 and, later, with artist Dwayne Turner in the squarebound miniseries Panther's Prey. McGregor and Marshall Rogers crafted a two-part story in Spider-Man issues #27–28 dealing with bullying and gun violence. Other comic book work in the 1990s includes Blade #1–3 starring the Marvel Comics vampire-slayer; the 14-page Morbius, the Living Vampire story "Desiring Martine", with artist Mike Dringenberg, in the Marvel one-shot Strange Tales: Dark Corners #1 and various issues of such Topps Comics licensed properties as Mars Attacks!, James Bond, the Lone Ranger, and The X-Files.McGregor wrote "Thin Edge of a Dime", a Batman Black and White backup story, in Batman: Gotham Knights #28  which was illustrated by Dick Giordano

Returning to one of his signature characters, McGregor contributed a story to the Black Panther Annual #1, released in February 2018

For a full bio check out https://www.donmcgregor.com/