Comics Kieth's first published work was "a story in the back of a
Comico comic" when he was "about seventeen"; it was "about a killer rabbit named Max the Hare". He came to prominence in 1984 as the
inker of
Matt Wagner's
Mage, and a year later as the inker of
Fish Police. In 1989, he penciled the first five issues (the "
Preludes & Nocturnes" story arc) of writer
Neil Gaiman's celebrated series
The Sandman and collaborated with
Alan Grant on a
Penguin story in
Secret Origins Special #1 (1989). He illustrated two volumes of writer
William Messner-Loebs'
Epicurus the Sage, drew an
Aliens miniseries for
Dark Horse Comics, and drew
The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #368, After taking a break from comics to pursue other interests, Kieth came back with the one-shot “Legs” for Image Comics, then created the series
Zero Girl for
DC Comics'
Wildstorm imprint in 2001. He followed that with the drama
Four Women later that year, a Hulk/Wolverine mini-series for Marvel in 2002, and
Zero Girl: Full Circle in 2003. In August 2004, he launched the
Scratch series featuring a teenage werewolf. Kieth then wrote and drew the five-issue series
Batman: Secrets, featuring the
Joker, and
Batman/Lobo: Deadly Serious, a two-issue
miniseries starting in August 2007. This was followed by 2009's
Lobo: Highway to Hell, written by
Scott Ian of the band
Anthrax, and the painted story "Ghosts", which appeared in
Batman Confidential #40–43. In 2010, Kieth wrote and illustrated the original hardcover graphic novel
Arkham Asylum: Madness, which spent two weeks on
The New York Times Best Seller list, reaching number five in the category of "Hardcover Graphic Books".
Ojo comprises the first, and
My Inner Bimbo the second, in a cycle of original limited series or graphic novels published by
Oni Press, which he dubbed "The Trout-a-Verse". The cycle concerned the intertwined lives of Annie (
Ojo), Lo (
My Inner Bimbo), In the UK, he has contributed to
2000 AD's
Judge Dredd and provided several covers for the
Nemesis the Warlock reprint title. In 2011, Kieth began drawing
IDW Publishing's
30 Days of Night series.
Other media In addition to co-producing
The Maxx animated series for MTV, Kieth co-wrote "No Smoking", the pilot to
Cow and Chicken (created by his cousin,
David Feiss), and directed the film
Take It to the Limit (2000) for
Roger Corman's
Concorde-New Horizons. ==Awards==