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Simon Oliver is a British-American comic book writer, best known for his creator-owned series '' The Exterminators'' and '' FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics'', published under
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imprint.


Career

Simon Oliver was born in the
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but left the country in the early 90s. After traveling around the world for several years, he settled in
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, working in the film industry, mostly as a camera assistant on TV shows such as ''
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'' and ''
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''. Oliver began writing '' The Exterminators'' as a potential TV series but, after his early scripts were passed to Karen Berger, the Editor-in-Chief of
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imprint, Oliver received an offer from the publisher to turn the series into a comic book. ''The Exterminators'' began publishing as an ongoing monthly series in January 2006. The following year, Oliver became the writer of the
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ongoing series '' Gen13'' and penned '' Hellblazer Presents: Chas – The Knowledge'', a spin-off mini-series published as part of the ''
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'' 20th anniversary. In 2013, Vertigo began publishing Oliver's second creator-owned series, ''Collider''. The series' title was changed to '' FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics'' following legal action from an international comics publisher.


Bibliography

To date, the entirety of Oliver's work has been published by
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and its various imprints: *'' The Exterminators'' (with Tony Moore, Chris Samnee (#8), Mike Hawthorne (#11–12), John Lucas (#15–16, 27),
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(#17–18, 26),
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(#19–23),
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, 2006–2008) collected as: **''Bug Brothers'' (collects #1–5, tpb, 128 pages, 2006, ) **''Insurgency'' (collects #6–10, tpb, 128 pages, 2007, ) **''Lies of Our Fathers'' (collects #11–16, tpb, 144 pages, 2007, ) **''Crossfire and Collateral'' (collects #17–23, tpb, 168 pages, 2008, ) **''Bug Brothers Forever'' (collects #24–30, tpb, 168 pages, 2008, ) *'' Gen13'' vol. 4 #14–20 (with Carlo Barberi, Sunny Lee (#16) and Wes Craig (#20),
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, 2008) collected as ''Gen13: 15 Minutes'' (tpb, 160 pages, 2008, ) *'' Hellblazer Presents: Chas – The Knowledge'' #1–5 (with Goran Sudžuka, Vertigo, 2008–2009) collected as ''Chas: The Knowledge'' (tpb, 128 pages, 2009, ) *'' Vertigo Crime: Noche Roja'' (with Jason Latour,
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, hc, 184 pages, 2011, ; sc, 2011, ) *'' FBP: Federal Bureau of Physics'' (with Robbi Rodriguez (#1–13) and Alberto Ponticelli (#14–24), Vertigo, 2013–2015) collected as: **''The Paradigm Shift'' (collects #1–7, tpb, 160 pages, 2014, ) **''Wish You Were Here'' (collects #8–13, tpb, 144 pages, 2014, ) **''Audeamus'' (collects #14–19, tpb, 144 pages, 2015, ) **''The End Times'' (collects #20–24, tpb, 128 pages, 2016, ) *''
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: Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters'' #1–2 (with John McCrea, 2015) collected in ''Convergence: Infinite Earths Book Two'' (tpb, 272 pages, 2015, ) *'' Last Gang in Town'' #1–6 (with Rufus Dayglo, Vertigo, 2016) collected as ''Last Gang in Town'' (tpb, 160 pages, 2016, ) *'' The Hellblazer'' (with Moritat,
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(#5–6), Philip Tan (#7–8) and Davidé Fabbri, 2016–2017) collected as: **''The Poison Truth'' (collects the ''
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'' one-shot and #1–6, tpb, 168 pages, 2017, ) **''The Smokeless Fire'' (collects #7–12, tpb, 144 pages, 2017, )


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliver, Simon British comics writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people)