Darick Robertson is the co-creator of Transmetropolitan.  After 16 years in the industry he can easily be considered a seasoned veteran of comics, having worked for Marvel, DC, Vertigo, and a few now defunct companies, such as Malibu Comics (where he co-created and designed the Nightman, and wrote and created Ripfire), Acclaim, Eclipse and Innovation.  His career started just out of Aragon high school in San Mateo, California when he was 17.  He created, wrote drew and painted covers for Space Beaver which became the only title published by Tibor Sardy's Ten Buck Comics.

Space Beaver, (as laughable as it was from the title alone), enabled Darick to learn the ropes of the comic book business and at 21 he broke into the mainstream with his work on Justice League for DC Comics.  From there he went on to work for Marvel on Wolverine, Spider-Man and most notably the New Warriors.

Related items: A discussion with Darick Robertson.