Early Life and Career
Carey was born in Liverpool, England, in 1959 - describing his young self as "one of those ominously quiet kids... lived so much inside my own head I only had vestigial limbs". As a child, he maintained an interest in comics, writing and drawing primitive stories to entertain his younger brother. He studied English at St Peter's College, Oxford before becoming a teacher. He continued to teach for 15 years before moving on to writing comics.
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