Shane McCarthy


Shane McCarthy is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work.

Career

A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story Low for DC Comics in 2004, beginning in Detective Comics #797. McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in #185 and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816, pitting Batman against Zsasz.
Other published works include Zombies: Feast for IDW Publishing and contributions to Event Horizon for Mam Tor Publishing, and Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse.
McCarthy completed a twelve-part Transformers series entitled All Hail Megatron for IDW Publishing. He is the creator of the character Drift.
His work appears in Marvel's Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1.
Between writing projects McCarthy runs a swing dancing school in Perth Western Australia.