Michael T. Gilbert

Michael T. Gilbert attended the State University of New York. He graduated from SUNY at New Paltz in 1973, and published his first comic stories that same year in his self-published New Paltz Comix. Read more

He worked on the celebrated Elric series with P. Craig Russell, and is best known as the creator of Mr. Monster, which has been published by Pacific Comics, Eclipse Comics and Dark Horse Comics since 1984. He has also worked on Rat Hater, Mr. V., Wacky Squirrel and Fantagraphics' Critters and Prime Cuts. In recent years he has written or drawn characters as diverse as Superman, Batman, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. He has been a scriptwriter for Disney comics since 1990, as has his wife Janet Gilbert. He has written and drawn Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, which reflects, in a very creative way, on sixty years of Batman adventures.