Eric Trautmann is an American writer best known for his work at Microsoft Game Studios, DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment. For nearly eight years, Eric Trautmann contributed to Microsoft Game Studios properties such as ALLEGIANCE, CRIMSON SKIES and HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED. He also wrote prose fiction and non-fiction related to those properties, including a CRIMSON SKIES novella and a non-fiction art portfolio book, THE ART OF HALO. In 2006 he left Microsoft to become a full-time freelance writer. His first comic book work was for Prima Games, a comic series based on the Perfect Dark franchise. His six issue miniseries titled PERFECT DARK: JANUS' TEARS debuted in August 2006. In August 2007 he wrote issue #17 of the DC Comics series CHECKMATE, with series writer Greg Rucka.As a result of his work on CHECKMATE #17, Trautmann became the regular co-writer of the series alongside Greg Rucka, beginning with issue #21 and continuing through issue #25.Following this, Trautmann and Rucka collaborated again on the one-shot FINAL CRISIS: RESIST, illustrated by Ryan Sook and Marco Rudy. He later wrote or co-wrote several DC Comics titles, including THE SHIELD, THE MIGHTY CRUSADERS, ADVENTURE COMICS, and ACTION COMICS.Dynamite Entertainment comics work includes the monthly adventures of RED SONJA, VAMPIRELLA and venerable space-opera hero Flash Gordon in a series entitled FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST. Now available is the long-awaited DC/Vertigo graphic novel, SHOOTERS, written with frequent collaborator Brandon Jerwa, and illustrated by Eisner award-winning artist Steve Lieber.