Sturges is best known for the Eisner-award nominated Jack of Fables from DC/Vertigo. In the 1990s, he was a member of the writers' collective Clockwork Storybook, which also included Bill Willingham, Chris Roberson, and Mark Finn.
With Willingham Sturges has not only worked on Fables but has also co-written House of Mystery. Following his signing an exclusive deal with DC Comics, Sturges took over the writing of Blue Beetle in issue #29 and will see it through to its end in issue #36. He has also written Final Crisis Aftermath: Run! featuring the Human Flame and, with Willingham again, he is also taking over the writing of Justice Society of America with issue #29.
He is also the author of a novel, Midwinter (2009), and a book of short horror fiction, Beneath the Skin and Other Stories (2000).