William O'Neil

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William O'Neil started out as a comic letterer, but has since been involved in writing, editing and drawing comics. He was hired by Richard Starkings at Comicraft as their second full-time employee<ref>Richard Starkings/John Roshell interview on Silver Bullet Comics!</ref> and lettered on titles including Transformers: Generation 2, Gen13, and Stormwatch.<ref name="comicbookdb1">William "Bill" O'Neil on comicbookdb</ref> In '96, he and John Roshell collaborated on Waste LA. While working as a writer on Chassis for Millennium Comics, O'Neil grew discontent with the conditions he was working under, and it led him to form Hurricane Entertainment with his wife, Jan.<ref>Interview with Bill O'Neil on the Escape From New York and LA Page</ref> At Hurricane, he teamed up with Joshua Dysart to create the comics Violent Messiahs and publish Chassis, as well as writing John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles.<ref name="comicbookdb1" /> He has also continued to letter on various titles such as The Authority and Planetary, and wrote most of the Top Cow Productions title Fathom.<ref name="comicbookdb1" />

Lettering work

• "New Dawn" (with Richard Starkings)
• "Escalation!" (with Richard Starkings)

External links

• Hurricane Entertainment

References

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