Cullen Murphy

Cullen Murphy ( born September 1, 1952 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American comic book writer.

Murphy was born as the oldest of eight children of John Cullen Murphy. In 1974 he completed his studies in medieval history summa cum laude at Amherst College, Massachusetts, from. He began, even at the behest of Hal Foster, contributing individual stories for Prince Valiant saga. As Foster 1979 completely retired, Cullen began to get more serious to worry about the weekly installments. In parallel, he made ​​a career in the media world. He was senior editor of the Wilson Quarterly, wrote articles for magazines such as Harper's and since 1985 is the managing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, since 2002 even now chief editor (editor in chief).

With his wife Anna -Marie and their three children, Jack, Anna and Tim lives in Medfield / Massachusetts. Furthermore, he (not sure the detriment of the comics) deals with Medieval history and holds lectures about it. In addition, researches and writes a lot about the English language.

Since March 2004 he has been working with Gary Gianni on Prince Valiant as his father went as a draftsman in the ( deserved ) retirement. Four months later, in July 2004, his father died. And already in November 2004 heard Cullen Murphy to work on Prince Valiant. His successor is now a row from 3537 November 21, 2004 Mark Schultz.

• Comic author
• Americans
• Born in 1952
• Man