After a series of one-off jobs for independent comics companies, including a biographical
Ozzy Osbourne comic and a fantasy tale starring the band
Pantera, Carey became a contributor to the British comics anthology
2000 AD, where he co-created the original series
Thirteen and
Carver Hale, and wrote two series for
The Sandman Presents line published by
DC Comics'
Vertigo imprint,
Lucifer and
Petrefax.
Lucifer was subsequently extended into an ongoing series, which Carey wrote for its entire 75-issue run. Further work for Vertigo includes a 40-issue run on the imprint's flagship title
Hellblazer as well as the spin-off
graphic novel All His Engines, several creator-owned endeavors, such as the six-part mini-series
Faker with art by
Jock and the ongoing series
Crossing Midnight with artist
Jim Fern, and two more
The Sandman spin-offs in the form of graphic novels,
The Sandman Presents: The Furies and
God Save the Queen, both created with artist
John Bolton. In 2009, Carey launched his longest creator-owned series to date,
The Unwritten, co-created with the
Lucifer collaborator
Peter Gross and featuring covers by
Yuko Shimizu. booth at the
New York Comic Con, 10 October 2010 Other work for DC Comics includes the long-delayed reboot of
Wildstorm's
Wetworks and two graphic novels for the
Minx imprint aimed at the teenage female audience, one of which was co-written by Carey with his daughter Louise. In 2003, Carey was announced as the new writer of the
Firestorm ongoing series, however, he left the project few months after the announcement as the editors wanted to take it in a different direction. The series was launched in 2004 with
Dan Jolley as the writer. In 2006, Carey took over the writing duties of
Marvel's
X-Men series, which was soon rebranded into
X-Men: Legacy. He saw the title through a number of inter-title crossovers between the various
X-Men books such as "
Endangered Species", "
Messiah Complex", "Original Sin" (a crossover between
X-Men: Legacy and
Wolverine: Origins that was tentatively titled "Dark Deception") and "
Age of X". Carey wrote
X-Men: Legacy for six years and contributed a number of X-Men stories to other publications, such as two tie-ins to the "
Secret Invasion" crossover storyline, the four-issue mini-series
Secret Invasion: X-Men and an eight-page story in the
one-shot anthology Secret Invasion: Who Do You Trust? featuring
Abigail Brand of
S.W.O.R.D., a retelling of
Beast's
origin story as part of the
X-Men: Origins line and an
Iceman serial in the
X-Men: Manifest Destiny anthology series. Other work for Marvel includes the comic book adaptation of
Orson Scott Card's ''
Ender's Shadow''. Carey's first novel,
The Devil You Know, was released in the UK by Orbit books in April 2006, and as a hardcover in the US in July 2007. Its sequel,
Vicious Circle, was published in October 2006, and the following three novels in the series, ''Dead Men's Boots
, Thicker Than Water
, and The Naming of the Beasts'', followed in September 2007, March 2009 and September 2009, respectively. What would have been Carey's first feature film, the erotic ghost story
Frost Flowers, was reported to be in pre-production in June 2006, with filming to begin that September under the direction of Andrea Vecchiato. Also for Virgin, Carey took part in the short-lived Coalition Comix project created in association with
Myspace, where users could suggest ideas for a comic which then would be used during its production. In 2014, Carey published another novel,
The Girl with All the Gifts. That same year,
the screenplay of the same name, written by Carey concurrently with the novel, appeared on the
Brit List. Filming began in May 2015, with
Colm McCarthy directing and
Gemma Arterton,
Paddy Considine,
Glenn Close and
Sennia Nanua starring. The story, depicting a post-apocalyptic future where most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection, focuses on the struggle of a scientist, a teacher and two soldiers who embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. In 2017
The Boy on the Bridge was published, a novel set in the same post-apocalyptic world of
The Girl with All the Gifts but featuring a different set of characters. ==Bibliography==