David Pepose
American comics writer
David Pepose is an American comics writer and former crime reporter who has written for Marvel Comics and independent comics. His book Spencer & Locke was nominated multiple times for the Ringo Awards and he won in 2021 for Best Single Issue for his self-published comic The O.Z.
Career
Pepose worked as a reviewer and editor at Newsarama before deciding to write his own comics. His first comic, Spencer & Locke, was published through Action Lab Comics in 2017 with artist Jorge Santiago. It was described as "What would you get if you crossed Calvin and Hobbes and Sin City?" It was optioned for a movie by Adrian Askarieh, the producer of the Hitman films, and was nominated for Best Series at the 2018 Ringo Awards. In 2019, he and Santiago put out a sequel, Spencer & Locker 2, which satirized Beetle Bailey, which was also nominated in the 2020 Ringo Awards. He also wrote an action-comedy called Going to the Chapel.
In 2020, he ran a kickstarter to fund self-publishing The O.Z., a comic which recasts Oz as a war zone. Per Pepose: "The O.Z. is like what if The Hurt Locker took place in The Wizard of Oz — we’re reimagining Dorothy Gale killing the Wicked Witch of the West as something akin to a botched regime change, and when Dorothy returned home to Kansas, she inadvertently left Oz in a horrific power vacuum that would spiral into brutal civil war." The book won the 2021 Ringo Award for Best Single Issue or Story. He also published the post-apocalyptic comic Scout's Honor through AfterShock Comics, about a cult in the aftermath of a global disaster that has built itself around a single artifact: a Boy Scouts manual.
In 2022, he and artist Carlos Magno were announced as the creative team for the new Savage Avengers book from Marvel.
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