David de Vries

David (Dave) de Vries (born 1961) is a New Zealand film writer, director, and producer who also writes and illustrates comic books. He was born in New Zealand and emigrated with his family to Australia. De Vries was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1961, and grew up in the inner suburb of Ngaio. He emigrated to Melbourne at an early age with his parents, where he lived until he was eighteen. After studying painting at RMIT he started his comic book career in the early 1980s with work for OzComics, , MAD Magazine and Penthouse. Together with Gary Chaloner, Glenn Lumsden and he established Cyclone Comics in 1985, to ensure that their characters could be published while remaining under their control. De Vries and Lumsden entered the American market through First Comics, and Malibu Graphics with The Southern Squadron, a superhero team that had taken over the Cyclone title. Together they h...