Sean McKeever

This article is about the American comic book writer born in 1972. For the American comic artist/writer born in 1960, see Ted McKeever.
Sean McKeever
BornSean Kelley McKeever
1972 (age 52–53)
Appleton, Wisconsin
NationalityAmerican
AreaWriter
Notable works
The Waiting Place
Sentinel
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane
Teen Titans
Star Wars: The Old Republic
AwardsEisner Award (2005)
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Sean Kelley McKeever (born 1972) is an American comic book writer and video game writer. Born in Appleton, Wisconsin he grew up in Eagle River.[1] He is mostly known for his creator-owned series The Waiting Place and Outpost Zero, Spider-Man Loves Mary-Jane and Sentinel for Marvel Comics and his run on Teen Titans for DC Comics. Among the video games he worked on are BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic and FoxNext Games' Storyscape: The X-Files.[2]

Career

After dropping out of college, Sean McKeever ran a 250-foot comic store inside his parent’s hardware and sporting goods store. Being inspired by comic books like Strangers in Paradise, Stray Bullets and Hate as well as TV series like Seinfeld and ER, he created his self-published comic book series The Waiting Place. After three issues, it was picked up and republished by indie comic publisher Slave Labor Graphics, where two volumes with 18 issues in total have been published from 1997 to 2002.[3]

Since the end of his creator-owned teen drama series, McKeever has written several series for Marvel Comics, including The Incredible Hulk, Sentinel, Mary Jane, Inhumans and Gravity.

In 2005, he won an Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.[4]

He has written for the monthly comic books Gravity, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Sentinel and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, all for Marvel Comics, and on January 9, 2007, DC Comics announced that McKeever had signed an exclusive contract with the publisher. He was a part of the writing team working on DC's weekly series Countdown,[5] and took over for Gail Simone as the writer of Birds of Prey after issue #112, however, his last issue was #117 due to time constraints with deadlines. Sean also took up writing duties on Teen Titans with the double sized August issue #50[6][7] and also wrote the Terror Titans limited series that spun off from this.[8] His run on Teen Titans has ended with issue #71,[9][10] although he has continued with a Ravager back-up story starting in #72.[11]

It was announced at Wizard World Philadelphia 2009 that McKeever, no longer under exclusive contract to DC, would write the limited series Nomad: Girl Without a World for Marvel Comics[12][13] and this led into Young Allies a new series and team formed after the Heroic Age line-wide reboot, all with artist David Baldeon.[14][15]

In 2009, McKeever wrote a new story for The Waiting Place illustrated by Mike Norton. The story was printed in The Waiting Place: The Definitive Edition from IDW Publishing.[11]

In 2011, with Marvel cancelling several titles and placing a moratorium on new series, and DC launching The New 52, McKeever found himself suddenly out of comic book work. He applied for a game writing position at BioWare and after being accepted, he moved to Austin, TX, to work full-time on the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic. After his time at BioWare, he wrote for other video games, including a The X-Files narrative mobile game, published by FoxNext Games.[2][16]

He returned to comic book writing with his creator-owned series Outpost Zero (Skybound/Image Comics) in 2018. From 2022 to 2023 he wrote story arcs for Marvel's digital comic series Love Unlimited and Avengers Unlimited. In 2023, he contributed a story to Blood Hunters #3 for Marvel. In 2024, McKeever worked as narrative director on a mobile game from Scopely.[17]

Bibliography

Comics

Self-published

  • Counter (24-hour comic) (also artist) (2004)
  • Looking at the Front Door (2002)
  • The Meredith Club (2004)

Anarchy

Caliber

Dark Horse

DC Comics

Devil's Due

  • G.I. Joe: Frontline #9–10 (2003)
  • Lloyd Kaufman Presents: The Toxic Avenger and Other Tromatic Tales #1 (OGN anthology) (2007)

IDW

Image Comics

  • Outpost Zero #1–14 (2018–2019)

Marvel Comics

Sirius

  • Tower oneshot (2002)

SLG

Collected editions

About Comics

  • 24 Hour Comics All-Stars (Softcover) (ISBN 0-9753958-4-X)

DC Comics

  • Birds of Prey: Metropolis or Dust (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-1962-8)
  • Countdown to Final Crisis vol. 1 (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-1789-1); vol. 2 (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-1824-9); vol. 3 (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-1911-6); vol. 4 (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-1912-3)
  • Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-1798-3)
  • Teen Titans vol. 8: Titans of Tomorrow (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-1807-2)
  • Teen Titans vol. 9: On the Clock (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-1971-0)
  • Teen Titans vol. 10: Changing of the Guard (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-2309-0)
  • Teen Titans vol. 11: Deathtrap (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-2509-4)
  • Terror Titans (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-2294-9)
  • Titans vol. 2: Lockdown (Softcover) (ISBN 978-1-4012-2476-9)

Devil's Due

IDW Publishing

Marvel Comics

  • Elektra: The Official Movie Adaptation (Softcover) (ISBN 0-7851-1713-X)
  • Gravity: Big-City Super Hero (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1798-9)
  • Inhumans vol 1: Culture Shock (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1755-5)
  • Marvel Age Fantastic Four vol 1: All For One (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1468-8)
  • Marvel Adventures Spider-Man vol 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2432-0)
  • Marvel Adventures Spider-Man vol 2: Power Struggle (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1903-5)
  • Marvel Adventures Spider-Man vol 3: Doom With a View (Digest) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2000-1)
  • Mary Jane vol 1: Circle of Friends (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1467-X)
  • Mary Jane vol 2: Homecoming (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1779-2)
  • Mega Morphs (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1868-3)
  • Mini Marvels: Secret Invasion (Digest) (ISBN 978-0-7851-3717-7)
  • Mystique vol. 3: Unnatural (Softcover) (ISBN 0-7851-1556-0)
  • Mystique vol. 4: Quiet (Softcover) (ISBN 0-7851-1475-0)
  • Sensational Spider-Man: Back in Black (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2920-2); (Softcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2997-4)
  • Sentinel vol 1: Salvage (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1380-0)
  • Sentinel vol 2: No Hero (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1368-1)
  • Sentinel vol 3: Past Imperfect (Digest) (ISBN 0-7851-1914-0)
  • Spider-Man Family vol. 1: Back in Black (Digest) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2626-3)
  • Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 1 (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2610-2)
  • Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-3083-3)
  • Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 1: Super Crush (Digest) (ISBN 978-0-7851-1954-8)
  • Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 2: The New Girl (Digest) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2265-4)
  • Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 3: My Secret Life (Digest) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2266-1)
  • Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 4: Still Friends (Digest) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2564-8)
  • Spider-Man: Amazing Friends (Digest) (ISBN 978-0-7851-3764-1)
  • Ultimate X-Men vol. 8 (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-3080-2)
  • Ultimate X-Men vol. 16: Cable (Softcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-2548-8)
  • X-Men Origins (Hardcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-3451-0)
  • Young Inhumans (Softcover) (ISBN 978-0-7851-3382-7)

SLG

  • The Waiting Place Book One (Softcover) (ISBN 0-943151-36-8)
  • The Waiting Place Book Two (Softcover) (ISBN 0-943151-53-8)
  • The Waiting Place Book Three (Softcover) (ISBN 0-943151-76-7)

Comic strips

  • Crankshaft 5/15/2006–5/20/2006 (uncredited writer)
  • Funky Winkerbean 4/10/2006–4/15/2006; 4/17/2006–4/22/2006; 5/22/2006–5/27/2006; 5/29/2006–6/3/2006; 6/19/2006–6/24/2006; plus an additional 10 weeks, Monday-Saturday (uncredited writer)

Trading Cards

Upper Deck Company

  • Avengers: Kree-Skrull War (main story: 90 cards, side stories: 99 cards) (2011)

Filmography

Television

Gameography

BioWare

  • Star Wars: The Old Republic: Rise of the Hutt Cartel (2013)
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter (2014)
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Strongholds (2014)
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan (2014)
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire (2015)

FoxNext Games

  • Storyscape: The X-Files - Season 1 (2019)

Characters created

Marvel

Notes

  1. ^ An Interview with Sean McKeever Retrieved 2018-11-01.
  2. ^ a b O'Keefe, Matt (2022-04-06). "Why creators leave comics for video games (and what brings them back)". The Beat. Retrieved 2025-12-24.
  3. ^ Whittaker, Richard (2023-05-04). "Comic Creator Spotlight on Sean McKeever: "I Went Off and Found My Voice"". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2025-12-24.
  4. ^ "Eisner Award Recipients: 2000s". Comic-Con International: San Diego. 2 December 2012. Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  5. ^ Interview with Paul Dini Archived 2007-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Announcement posted on SeanMcKeever.com Archived 2007-09-27 at archive.today
  7. ^ "Sean McKeever - All Things Titan - 'Deathtrap' and More". Newsarama. January 12, 2009. Archived from the original on March 31, 2009.
  8. ^ "Terror Titans Stand the Test of (Clock King's) Time". Comic Book Resources. August 14, 2008.
  9. ^ "Sean McKeever Leaves Teen Titans With #71". Newsarama. March 19, 2009. Archived from the original on March 23, 2009.
  10. ^ "Sean McKeever Leaves Teen Titans". Comic Book Resources. March 19, 2009.
  11. ^ a b "Sean McKeever - Ravager and Returning to The Waiting Place". Newsarama. March 31, 2009. Archived from the original on April 3, 2009.
  12. ^ Paggi, David (June 22, 2009). "Writer Sean McKeever returns to the Marvel Universe and brings Rikki Barnes along with him". Marvel.com. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
  13. ^ Rogers, Vaneta (June 21, 2009). "Heroes Con '09: New Girl in Town - McKeever Talks Nomad". Newsarama. Archived from the original on June 24, 2009. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
  14. ^ Phegley, Kiel (March 9, 2010). "McKeever Enlists "Young Allies"". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  15. ^ Rogers, Vaneta (March 9, 2010). "YOUNG ALLIES Joins Marvel's Summer Youth Movement". Newsarama. Archived from the original on March 11, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
  16. ^ O'Keefe, Matt (2018-06-05). "Sean McKeever on Returning to Comics, New Series Outpost Zero, and Why He'll Always Love Writing Teens". The Beat. Retrieved 2025-12-24.
  17. ^ Johnston, Rich (2025-01-02). "Sean McKeever Has Had One Hell Of A Year". bleedingcool.com. Retrieved 2025-12-24.

References

  • Thomas, John Rhett (2005). Marvel Spotlight: John Cassaday/Sean McKeever. Marvel Comics.
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