Tag: The Jam

Rest in peace, Bernie Mireault

The creator of ‘The Jam’ and ‘Grendel: The Devil Within’ has passed away at 63.

Bernie Mireault, creator of The Jam, Mackenzie Queen and Dr. Robot, and the artist of Matt Wagner’s Grendel: The Devil Inside, has passed away at the age of 63.

Mireault’s death was shared by his friend and fellow artist Howard Chackowicz, who posted on Facebook that Mireault committed suicide on Monday.

“Bernie was a wonderful friend (truly like a brother to me),” Chackowicz wrote. “I can’t tell you how much he’s helped me over the years, what a great, great person, I love him so much. My heart and soul goes out to his two sons and his three sisters, his family and friends.”

Continue reading “Rest in peace, Bernie Mireault”

Smash Pages Q&A: Bernie Mireault on ‘XVI’

The creator of ‘The Jam’ talks about his career, current projects and new short story collection from About Comics.

The new book XVI from About Comics collects short comics from the acclaimed creator Bernie Mireault. He has never been the most well-known or best-selling comics creator, but over the past few decades he’s been a key figure in comics.

His miniseries Mackenzie Queen wears its influences on its sleeves, and those influences are Steve Ditko and Doctor Strange and Harvey Kurtzman, European comics and manga, back in the early 1980’s when that range of influences was not as common – or as easy to find – as it is today. Mireault went onto draw Grendel: The Devil Inside and colored many other stories in Matt Wagner’s Grendel series. Mireault then created The Jam, a different kind of superhero comic, which appeared before many other reinventions of the genre appeared.

Mireault spoke about the new collection of his black and white comics, what he’s working on now and more.

Continue reading “Smash Pages Q&A: Bernie Mireault on ‘XVI’”