David Lapham
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David Lapham is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer, artist, and cartoonist, best known for his work on his groundbreaking independent comic book Stray Bullets.
He started his career in 1990 as a penciller at Valiant Comics where he was discovered by editor Jim Shooter. He went on to join Shooter at Defiant Comics where they co-created Warriors of Plasm in 1993.
In 1995 he set up his own publisher El Capitan Books to publish Stray Bullets which he wrote, drew and lettered himself. By the end of that year Miramax had hired Lapham to write and direct a feature film. It is unclear what came of this contract as no movie has yet been produced.
In 2000 he took a sabbatical from Stray Bullets to produce his nine issue period murder mystery Murder Me Dead also from El Capitan Books.
In 2005 Lapham began accepting more mainstream comics work, writing a storyarc for Top Cow Comics' The Darkness ("Hell House", Vol. 2 #17-20), a 12 part Batman storyline in Detective Comics ("City of Crime" #801-808 and 811-814) for DC Comics and writing and pencilling the six part Daredevil Vs. Punisher: Means And Ends limited series for Marvel Comics. In late 2006, Marvel released Giant-Size Wolverine #1, with a 34 page Lapham story illustrated by David Aja, and DC began releasing Tales of the Unexpected, with an 8 issue arc starring The Spectre.
He has also announced that he will write and do layout artwork for a new futuristic science fiction limited series, The Parallax Man, again from El Capitan. The series was set to debut in 2005; there have been no subsequent announcements referencing either delays or cancellation.
He continues to produce new issues of Stray Bullets, albeit sporadically.
