Education
Gilbert attended the State University of New York at New Paltz, graduating in 1973.
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Early work Gilbert"s first comic stories were printed in 1973 in his self-published underground, New Paltz Comix. He began drawing for several Star Reach and Kitchen Sink titles. A mix of underground comix (Slow Death, Bizarre Sex, American Splendor issues #4 and #6 by Harvey Pekar) and ground-level comics such as Star*Reach and Quack!.
He also did script and artwork on Aardvark"s Strange Brew, Tiny Terror Tales and The Wraith (a parody of the famous Will Eisner character The Spirit), and he worked on the celebrated Elric series with P. Craig Russell, a Pacific Comics adaptation of the Michael Moorcock sword and sorcery novels.
Mr. Monster Gilbert is most well known for his black and white series called Mr. Monster, about a monster fighter.
lieutenant was published by Eclipse Comics, based on an earlier character created by Fred Kelly from a Canadian comic book, Triumph Comics #51 (April 1946), which had entered public domain. Mr. Monster was published throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with graphic novel collections and special issues also devoted to reprints of American horror comics of the 1950s.
Gilbert also wrote a column discussing these comics called Mr.
Monster"s Comic Crypt, beginning in writer/editor Roy Thomas" fanzine Alter Ego (originally as part of the magazine Comic Book Artist). Mr. Monster was later published by Dark Horse Comics. Other works Douresseau, LJ (2004).
Interview with Michael T. Gilbert Weiland, Jonah (June 9, 2004).
"Michael T. Gilbert Chats With The Irrepressible Mr. Monster". Comic Book Resources.
Will Scott Michael T. Gilbert in Sequential Highway August 15, 2012.
