Tony DiGerolamo

Tony DiGerolamo (born Anthony M. DiGerolamo on March 9, 1966) is a comic book writer and screenwriter from New Jersey. He began his comics career in 1996 with the publication of his first comic book, Jersey Devil #1, based on the Jersey Devil legend. It was published under his own imprint, South Jersey Rebellion Productions. Pencilled largely by Steven Cornicelli and inked by Bob Clark, Jersey Devil #1 enjoyed modest sales. Replacing the art team, DiGerolamo recruited Dom LaGrutta, Jr. for the pencils and Donn Smith for the inks, giving Jersey Devil #2 a cleaner look. Although the improvements continued to bring DiGerolamo and the SJRP strong local sales, comic fans largely ignored the comic. DiGerolamo's insistence on longer issues and multi-issue stories put a strain on his art team and forced him to recruit additional artists.

Around 1999, DiGerolamo launched what would become a more successful comic book, [The Travelers] which was eventually picked up by Kenzer and Company at issue #4. With the changes of art teams, Jersey Devil was dropped by Diamond Distributors after issue #7 due to low sales. DiGerolamo struggled to keep the comic alive publishing issues 8 thru 12 in mini-comic formats.

Now relieved of the financial burden of publication, DiGerolamo concentrated more on making the Travelers a success. The bimonthly schedule put a strain on artist Brian Dawson and the variety of inkers on the book which included the Fraim Brothers. DiGerolamo also launched a 4-issue mini-series called The Fix to coincide with a novel with the same character.

By issue 9, Dawson could no longer commit to The Travelers hectic schedule, so inker James Dunn took over the art chores for issues 10 and 11. Eventually, DiGerolamo found a new artist with Chris Moreno on the Travelers #12. Sales peaked with the Travelers during issue #14, which was a crossover with Knights of the Dinner Table Illustrated. Shortly thereafter, he took over the writing chores for another Kenzer comic called Everknights. DiGerolamo moved The Travelers to Wingnut Games with issue #21. By issue 22, Moreno could no longer keep doing the Travelers with his other comic work. DiGerolamo struggled with a series of other artists with Moreno occasionally coming back to help with the art. The comic limped to the 25th issue before Wingnut had to cancel it.

By this time, DiGerolamo had landed side work with Bongo Comics writing for the Bart Simpson comic. His first story was a Lisa story entitled "A Chair of One's Own" in November of 2002. While he continued to write for Bongo, he met the publishers at Silent Devil [http://www.silentdevil.com] . Looking for another project that both he and Moreno could work on, the duo launched the Super Frat webcomic [http://www.superfrat.com] under Silent Devil's banner. In 2006, Silent Devil published its first compilation of Super Frat called Super Frat: Rush Week Collection.

DiGerolamo continues to writer screenplays and comic books in New Jersey. He is also the creator of Complete Mafia for d20 from Living Room Games. His current project is an online zombie TV show called Zombie Country [http://www.zombiecountry.com] .

External links

* [http://www.thefixsite.com/ DiGerolamo's website]
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EKb6iWEL0w&mode=related&search= Tony DiGerolamo interview at the New York Comicon]
* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=005869 Hanging with the Super Frat on Pulse]
* [http://glintofhope.com/web16.php Tony DiGerolamo written episode of Hero Envy]