Shane McCarthy

Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) 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 Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), 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.

McCarthy formerly ran a swing dancing school in Perth, Western Australia.