Ken F. Levin has been a gamer all his life. He was earning bridge master points in high school, put himself through law school playing on the school’s top cutthroat Hollywood gin rummy team, was in the top 100 (and several times as high as first) three years running on ANGRY BIRDS RIO, and in recent years has trophied in or won seven of the comic book industry’s charitable poker tournaments. He learned to read from noir novels and comics, and years later co-founded the iconic independent 1First Comics, where he serves as publisher and is recognized as one of the comics industry’s top book editors and developers of projects.
His early work in independent comics led him to close friendships with some of the top creators in comics today, and he has produced with or managed properties for such industry superstars as Max Allan Collins (for whom he negotiated the deals for the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks feature film ROAD TO PERDITION adapting Collins’ graphic novel, and with whom he Executive Produced the episodic TV show QUARRY for HBO/Cinemax based on Collins’ award winning prose novel series); Dan Schaffer, producing the feature film THE SCRIBBLER from Dan Schaffer’s screenplay adapting his 1First Comics graphic novel; Mike Mignola, for whom he closed the deals for the three HELLBOY features and co-produced the animated short THE AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD; and Garth Ennis and the late great artist Steve Dillon, for whom he set up and Executive Produced the four seasons of PREACHER, and later set up and with Garth Ennis is Executive Producer on THE BOYS, Amazon Prime’s highest ever rated show now working on its fourth season, as well as an Amazon green-lit THE BOYS spin-off series.
He is also the owner of 1First Comics and 1First Games.
