Vito Delsante

Vito Delsante (born 1973) is a U.S. comic book writer. He has published stories in several U.S. comic books, and has worked on such characters as "Batman", Wolverine from the "X-Men", and "Scooby Doo".

Overview

Vito Delsante was born in 1973 in Staten Island, New York, United States. He attended high school in Ford City, Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh. He now resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Delsante worked for the U.S. comics company Speakeasy Comics in a Public Relations capacity prior to their closing doors in the Spring of 2006, and was seen by some as the only public face in the company's final days. He was also a creator at Speakeasy, with part one of the six part series "Fallout" with Dean Haspiel printed as a back-up to "Beowulf" #7 before the series was cancelled as a result of the publisher's closing. With the closing of the publisher, the future for "Fallout" is uncertain.

His first major creator-owned title, "The Mercury Chronicles" with artist Mike Lilly, has been rumoured for publication in 2007.

In March 2006, he began a weekly column called "Random Shuffle" on Comicon's comics news website The Pulse [http://www.google.com/search?q=site:comicon.com+intitle:random-shuffle] . He is also a manager at one of New York's biggest comic stores, Jim Hanley's Universe.

In August 2006 The Chemistry Set, a webcomics collective of which Delsante is a member, launched. He produces the comic "Stuck" with Thomas Williams and is currently writing, "FCHS", a "semi-autobiographical look" at his high school days, with artist Rachel Freire [http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/12/07/fchs-launches-next-week/] .

In 2007, Delsante was slated to write a three-issue "JSA Classified" arc with artist Eric Wight. [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=100477] He has written a graphic novel for Simon & Schuster based on the childhood of Albert Einstein. The book, "Before They Were Famous", is due out in July 2008 [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6526466.html] .

Bibliography

Comics

* "Batman Adventures" #9 ("The Couch", with Dean Haspiel)
* "X-Men Unlimited" #5 ("Bar Stools", with Lee Ferguson)
* "Reflux Comics" #3 ("I Love Her Madly", with Michel Fiffe)
* in "Beowulf" #7 (backup "Fallout, Pt. 1", with Dean Haspiel)
* "Scooby Doo" #109-110, 126, 128
* "Stuck" (The Chemistry Set, with Thomas Williams)
* "Superman" #676 (Originally "Superman Confidential" #9; later changed to #8 [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=128076] ; subsequently canceled by the publisher [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=129909] ; now resolicited as stated [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=153853] )
* "Cartoon Network Block Party" #42
* "Savage Tales" #'s 7 & 8
* "The Mercury Chronicles" #0 (with artist, Mike Lilly)
* "Before They Were Famous: Albert Einstein" (with artist, Mike Lilly) (due out July, 2008)
* "FCHS" (The Chemistry Set, with artist, Rachel Freire)

External links

* [http://www.chemsetcomics.com/ The Chemistry Set] - Home of "Stuck"
* [http://www.sinstudiosonline.com/ SIN Studios Online.com] - official Strength In Numbers Studios website
* [http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=66452 "Up & Coming: Vito Delsante"] - April 2006 interview (by Chris Arrant at Newsarama)
* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6313554.html "Speakeasy Comics Shuts Down"] - March 2006 article (by Heidi MacDonald at Publishers Weekly)
* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=004942 "Writer Man of All Trades: Vito Delsante"] - March 2006 interview (by Jen Contino at Comicon.com/The Pulse)