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Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, J. M. DeMatteis was a professional musician and rock music journalist (writing reviews and interviews for a variety of music publications, including Rolling Stone), before entering the comicbook field.

One of the most versatile writers in the graphic story medium, DeMatteis has been applauded for his intense characterizations and psychological themes, winning acclaim for a wide variety of projects. The epic Kravenâs Last Hunt (which About.com chose as one of the Top 10 Superhero Graphic Novels) is considered a high-water mark in the forty year history of Marvelâs Spider-Man, while DCâs award-winning Speeding Bullets effortlessly blended the Superman and Batman myths. Collaborating with Keith Giffen, he produced DCâs hilarious Justice League, an acclaimed spoof of the super-hero genre that spawned spin-offs and imitations throughout the industry. Their 2004 mini-series I Canât Believe Itâs Not The Justice League won the Eisner Award, the comic book equivalent of the Oscar, for DeMatteis, Giffen and artist Kevin Maguire. (DeMatteis and Giffen are currently at work on Boom! Studios' acclaimed super-hero buddy-comedy, Hero Squared.)

DeMatteisâs greatest acclaim has come for sophisticated original graphic novels like Seekers Into The Mystery, Blood: A Tale, The Last One, Mercy, the groundbreaking, critically-lauded Moonshadow and the autobiographical Brooklyn Dreams, which the ALA picked as one of the Ten Best Graphic Novels and Booklist, in a starred review, called âAs graphically distinguished and creatively novelistic a graphic novel as has ever been...a classic of the form.â

Most recently, DeMatteis and award-winning fantasy illustrator Mike Ploog created the acclaimed fantasy, Abadazad, which Entertainment Weekly, giving the series an A grade, hailed as â...one of those very rare fantasy works that can enchant preteen kids and 40-year old fanboys...â and Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, called "An appealing blend of Spirited Away and The Wizard of Oz." The first two books in the new Abadazad seriesâThe Road To Inconceivable and The Dream Thiefâwhich cleverly combine prose, illustration and sequential artâdebuted in June of 2006, published by Hyperion Books For Children. Book Threeâ The Puppet, The Professor and The Prophetâwill be published in February, 2007.

His fame in the comic book medium has led DeMatteis to work in both television and movies, where his ability to fuse the fantastic with the psychologically real has brought about fruitful collaborations with Caleb Carr, Chris Columbus, and Dean Devlin, among others.

In 1997, DeMatteis returned to his rock music roots with the release of the independent CD How Many Lifetimes? The CD, which features songs about the pain, struggles and ineffable joys of the spiritual search, has been unavailable for some time, but is now being re-released to a mass audience, available through CD Baby, iTunes and other digital outlets.

DeMatteis and his family live in upstate New York.