Beginning his career in comic books as a freelance artist in 1990, David Lapham founded El Capitan Books in 1995 exclusively to publish his Eisner Award-winning crime comic book series, Stray Bullets. In recent years, he has worked as a writer for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, IDW Publishing, Dark Horse, and finally Avatar Press, on many Crossed projects (Family Values, Crossed 3D, Badlands, and Psychopath), Ferals, Dan the Unharmable and Caligula. Lapham recently adapted Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogans's The Strain into comics.