Following college, Robert worked as a literary agent, an editor at Twilight Zone Magazine and at Bantam Books as an editor and Publishing Manager for their mass market paperback division before returning to comics as an editor at DC Comics in 1992. While at DC he served as editor on a wide range of titles, from prose fiction and the behind-the-scenes “making of” books for three of the four Batman films, to comics titles including The Teen Titans, The New Gods, and Sovereign Seven by longtime X-Men writer Chris Claremont.
After leaving DC in 1997, Robert served as an editor for Nickelodeon, edited novelizations of videogames and contributed storylines to Pocket BooksÂ’ Star Trek line, developed story material for Platinum Studios (producers of Men In Black), was Deputy Editor of VIBE Magazine, Executive Editor of Maxim and Stuff Magazine's book division, and worked on the websites for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolution, editing interviews and translating the websites into fifteen different languages as well as commissioning and editing comics material based on the film series.
As a writer he has written novels for children and adults based on the television show Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (from the creators of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and the classic comics and videogame character Turok.
“We’re very excited to have Robert become part of the Dark Horse team,” commented Dark Horse President Mike Richardson. “Robert’s outstanding and diverse background will be a true asset to our top-notch editorial department.”
Simpson will be the senior editor overseeing Dark Horse PublishingÂ’s new prose imprints M Press and DH Press. Available now is the first offering from M Press, Ursula BaconÂ’s Shanghai Diary. Also available now are the first two DH Press offerings, Don BluthÂ’s Art of Storyboard and Jim SilkeÂ’s PinUp: The Illegitimate Art.