So, that was it. How did you pick them as your partner and how is the collaboration going? So I completely get those people. In the early conversation, most of my contact is with Mark Roybal. So, I think they got a pretty good sensibility.
What genres are you focusing on; will you mine more of your comic book properties, including more Spawn -related shows? Do you keep them in a shared space, or do you break them off and just segregate them away from each other? Marvel did it. DC did it. Can it be done again? Marvel started theirs in Nothing is close. It goes something like this. You work in it for 40 years, you do three projects, you die, and they call you prolific at your gravesite. Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody!
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Close the menu. Follow Us. He was awarded a baseball scholarship to Eastern Washington University, where he earned a general studies degree with an emphasis on graphic arts, communications and art. Despite the baseball scholarship, Todd worked as a janitor and at a comic book store, enabling him to finance his entire college education on his own.
He was recruited by a Seattle Mariners scout to play on a semi-professional summer team in Kamloops, British Columbia. Determined to find a job in the industry, Todd submitted his artwork to comic book editors across the United States and Canada, collecting more than rejection letters along the way. In the meantime, McFarlane married his high school sweetheart, Wanda, in July They moved to Washington, where Wanda completed her biology degree and then moved back to Canada, living in a suburb of Vancouver.
Marvel eventually gave McFarlane a title that he solely could write, pencil and ink: Spider-Man. Spider-Man 1 shipped to stores in September and became the best-selling comic book of all time, selling more than 2. Todd took a six-month hiatus from Marvel in August when his first daughter was born, and a few months later, the family relocated to Portland, Oregon.
During the hiatus, Todd helped care for his newborn daughter, and laid plans to form his own publishing company. Todd had grown frustrated with the workings of the mainstream publishing companies, which allowed artists little creative freedom or control over their own creations. Determined to create a company in which the artist could make the important decisions about his characters, Todd spoke with several other prominent Marvel artists, learning that many of them felt the same way.
After months of discussion among themselves, the seven hottest Marvel artists announced their departure from the company. Although the partners publish together, they each control the destiny of their own characters and reap the rewards individually, including all licensing and merchandising decisions. Only with the creation of Image Comics did Todd feel that he could begin publishing the comic he had created nearly 10 years before, Spawn. I made it dark to make the guy who he is.
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