Mark Evanier

Mark Stephen Evanier ( born March 2, 1952) is an American novelist, screenwriter and comic book author.

Life and work

Evanier decided at an early age, influenced by the unfortunate existence of his father as an employee of the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. tax authorities, as a freelance and therefore want to work from constraints and paternalism free "artist".

As early as 1969, he succeeded at the age of seventeen to sell first scripts for comic stories to publishers. While he learned the craft of his profession in which the industry acclaimed as " King of the comic world," authors and illustrators Jack Kirby, he earned his money by having written some comic stories for the Walt Disney Company for the foreign market. This was followed by work orders for the American " Disney Market", as well as for the publisher Gold Key Comics.

From 1974 was Evanier in tandem with Dennis Palumbo as a writer for television acting. So he delivered from screenplays and gags for Nancy Walker Show, McLean Stevenson Show and the series Welcome Back, Kotter. After the adjustment of Welcome Back, Kotter solved Evanier and Palumbo on their partnership to go their separate ways. Evanier took over in the wake author Jobs for comic series based on the cartoons of the production company Hanna-Barbera, and finally began to write for this series itself. The most well-known series for which he submitted scripts in this context, was the " Saturday morning cartoon classic" Scooby Doo.

In the 1980s, followed by engagements as a writer for animated series such as The ABC Weekend Special, The Wuzzles and Garfield and Friends.

As a comic book writer Evanier worked in these years to titles like Plastic Man, Blackhawk, Crossfire and Hollywood superstars. With the Mexican Sergio Aragonés, he produced stories for Groo the Wanderer.

2006 had Evanier, who despite several Emmy nominations in the authors' division of the price of this accolade could never win them over, to go through a complicated bypass surgery in the stomach area in Los Angeles, which resulted in it within a year 45 kg of has lost weight.

The appearance of Evaniers in October 2007 announced biography of his teacher, Jack Kirby, which is to appear in Abrams, has been postponed for unknown reasons on spring 2008.

• Comic author
• Americans
• Born in 1952
• Man