That year he supervised a dangerous liver operation on Shaftesbury that likely saved his patron’s life.įor the next two decades, Locke’s fortunes were tied to Shaftesbury, who was first a leading minister to Charles II and then a founder of the opposing Whig Party.
The two struck up a friendship that blossomed into full patronage, and a year later Locke was appointed physician to Shaftesbury’s household. In 1666 Locke met the parliamentarian Anthony Ashley Cooper, later the first Earl of Shaftesbury.
He also studied medicine extensively and was an associate of Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and other leading Oxford scientists. Before she married the two had exchanged love poems, and on his return from exile, Locke moved into Lady Damaris and her husband’s household.īetween 16, John Locke was a student and then lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, where he focused on the standard curriculum of logic, metaphysics and classics. Using his wartime connections, he placed his son in the elite Westminster School.ĭid you know? John Locke’s closest female friend was the philosopher Lady Damaris Cudworth Masham. His father was a lawyer and small landowner who had fought on the Parliamentarian side during the English Civil Wars of the 1640s. In 2019, he partnered with Hill once again for two new Locke & Key stories, “Dog Days” and “Nailed It.John Locke was born in 1632 in Wrighton, Somerset.
He continued developing other creator-owned projects: the Eisner-winning Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, with Eric Shanower Sword of Ages and the gritty sci-fi adventure Onyx, with Chris Ryall. In 2007, he co-created the award-winning series Locke & Key with Joe Hill.
He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodríguez.īorn in Santiago, Chile, Gabriel Rodríguez began working as an illustrator in the late 90s and in 2002 started drawing books for IDW Publishing, including CSI, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, and Beowulf, amongst others. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Throttle, The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and NOS4A2, recently made into a TV series from AMC. His horror novella In the Tall Grass, co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature film from Netflix.
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