Joe Gentile

Joe Gentile is an American author, editor and the founder of Moonstone Books, a Chicago publishing house. He is also known as a comic book writer and author. Gentile was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois. He is married to Kathy Gentile, an Information Technology Director. He is also the owner of a chain of comic book stores located in Illinois, Amazing Fantasy. A life-long comic book fan, Gentile's forays into comic books have dealt with both original previously established media characters such as Sherlock Holmes. All were published by Moonstone Books. He wrote an original graphic novel The Mysterious Traveler with art by Trevor Von Eeden, and two Sherlock Holmes comic book storylines in The Scorned Mistress Sherlock Holmes Mysteries #1, and followed it with a "Sherlock Holmes and The Clown Prince of London" with interior art by Rich Gulik and cover art by Drew Tucker. In addition to Sherlock Holmes, he has also written for Buckaroo Banzai including "Return of the Screw", a three-issue story arc.