AUTHOR SIGNING 7/21/22 SAN DIEGO COMIC CON (CREDIT: ABRAMS)
NEIL McGINNESS IS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR WHOSE WORK SPANS NARRATIVE NONFICTION, FICTION AND VISUAL STORYTELLING.
HE CO-AUTHORED DARKHORSE (HARPER COLLINS, 2026) AND HAS COLLABORATED WITH LITERARY POWERHOUSE JAMES PATTERSON ON MULTIPLE BESTSELLING SERIES, INCLUDING THE SHADOW AND THE PERFECT ASSASSIN.
ADEPT AT TURNING COMPLEX HISTORIES INTO COMPELLING NARRATIVES, McGINNESS IS ALSO THE AUTHOR OF PULP POWER (ABRAMS, 2022) A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED VISUAL AND NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS OF SUPERHERO CULTURE, FEATURING A FOREWORD BY LEGENDARY CREATOR, FRANK MILLER. PULP POWER WAS REVIEWED BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY IN MAY OF 2022 AND HAILED AS “ENTHRALLING HISTORICAL ANALYSIS.”
HIS WORK HAS BEEN ADAPTED INTO UNIVERSITY CURRICULA AND HAS HELPED SHAPE MAJOR POP CULTURE FRANCHISES. WITH EXPERIENCE ACROSS PUBLISHING, MEDIA AND FILM DEVELOPMENT, McGINNESS BRINGS A CINEMATIC PRECISION AND STORYTELLING DEPTH TO EVERY PROJECT HE TOUCHES.
BOOKS
COMING SOON. . . A TRANSFORMATIVE WAR STORY THAT CHALLENGES TRADITIONAL VIEWS OF TOUGHNESS AND LEADERSHIP, WHERE MASCULINITY DEVELOPS FROM EMPATHY, GRIT IS BORN FROM FAILURE, AND POWER COMES FROM PLACING SERVICE ABOVE SELF.
IN DARKHORSE (HARPER COLLINS, OCTOBER 2025) , AMATANGELO “AJ” PASCIUTI DELIVERS AN ENTIRELY NEW WAR NARRATIVE. “IF YOU WANT AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE STRENGTH, READ DARKHORSE.” — ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER. PRE-ORDER HERE.
MCGINNESS AUTHORED, PULP POWER, THE DEFINITIVE WRITTEN HISTORY OF THE EARLY AMERICAN SERIAL HERO FICTION THAT LED TO THE CREATION OF BATMAN AND SUPERMAN. THE BOOK PUBLISHED IN JULY, 2022 FROM NEW YORK’S ABRAMS BOOKS, PULP POWER WAS LAUNCHED AT THE SAN DIEGO COMIC CON TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY ADOPTED FOR COURSE CURRICULA BY A MAJOR UNIVERSITY. ORDER PULP POWER HERE.
MCGINNESS PARTNERED WITH AUTHOR JAMES PATTERSON TO DEVELOP TWO NEW SERIES IN 2020. VOLUME 1, THE SHADOW, PUBLISHED JULY 2021 MAKING THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST FOR MULTIPLE WEEKS AND CHARTING ON 10 ADDITIONAL BESTSELLER LISTS. THE SECOND SERIES FIRST TITLE, THE PERFECT ASSASSIN, PICTURED BELOW PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 15, 2022.
PULP POWER FEATURED A FOREWORD ON EARLY AMERICAN FICTION HEROES LIKE THE SHADOW FROM FRANK MILLER , THE LEGENDARY CREATOR OF BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT, DAREDEVIL, 300, & SIN CITY. MILLER’S FILMS ALONE HAVE GROSSED OVER A BILLION DOLLARS AT BOX OFFICES WORLDWIDE.
PULP POWER @ THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATOR’S MUSEUM NYC SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
L-R: DAN DIDIO, FRANK MILLER, SILENN THOMAS, ANELLE MILLER, NEIL McGINNESS (CREDIT: SCALE LA)
PULP POWER FEATURED IN VANITY FAIR, SEPTEMBER 2022.
PULP POWER FEATURED IN THE NEW YORKER, JUNE 13, 2022.
