Joe Pruett (January 8, 1966)[1] is an American comic book writer, editor, and publisher.

In 1992 Joe joined Gary Reed's Caliber Comics where he served through 1998 as a writer, an editor, and a creative director.

While at Caliber, Joe's anthology title, Negative Burn, was nominated for numerous Harvey[2][3][4][5] and Eisner awards.

[6][7] In 1998 he left Caliber to become a freelance writer and became a regular contributor to Marvel's X-Men books.

Pruett formed Desperado Publishing in the summer of 2004 and brought back the second series of Negative Burn.