Pierce Askegren was born in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suburb of Mount Lebanon,[1] and had two brothers, James W. and Robert, and a sister, Margaret.
[3] Askegren got his start in the comics industry with three short stories published in 1979 and 1980 in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics magazines Creepy and Vampirella, beginning with the eight-page "Hell's Playground", illustrated by Leo Duranona, in Creepy No.
Askegren eventually became the copy editor for Theakston's Bettie Pages while submitting his prose to publishing houses.
[citation needed] By the mid-1990s, he was writing prose short stories for anthologies starring Marvel Comics characters, beginning with "The Broken Land" in The Ultimate Silver Surfer (1995).
[citation needed] Askegren was found dead in his Annandale, Virginia, apartment on November 29, 2006, after suffering a heart attack on an unreported date.