Louise Simonson
Mary Louise Simonson, born Mary Louise Alexander, formerly Louise Jones ( born September 26, 1946 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American comic book writer and editor.
Life and work
Simonson was born Mary Louise Alexander. The name Simonson she took after her marriage with the author Walter " Walt " Simonson after the meantime - had told Louise Jones - during her marriage to the artist Jeff Jones.
Simonson came as they stood in 1971 the illustrator Bernie Wrightson 92 model for a figure on the cover of the comic issue House of Secrets # in the comic book industry. Said issue was particularly famous as the comic book with the first story of the famous horror figure of the Swamp Things, the thing from the swamps later.
1974 Simoson began as an editor for the publishing house Warren Publishing to work for she oversaw series such as Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella, before they left the publisher in 1979 and 1980 began to work for Marvel Comics. In the same year she married the authors Walt Simonson whom she had met in 1973.
At Marvel they looked after almost four years, the hit series Uncanny X -Men ( # 137-182 ) and the X-Men spin-off series The New Mutants as Editorin before she began to work under her married name, Simonson as an author. She was also occasionally worked as a colourist so for the graphic novel written by her husband Star Slammers, which was published in 1983.
1984 Simonson created together with the artist June Brigman series Power Pack which is about four gifted with superpowers children and both commercially and with critics was a success. Simonson, he remained loyal series almost four years. 1986, even while working on power pack they started the series X-Factor post to where it worked until 1991 and for which she wrote 58 Expenditure ( # 6-64 ). As an artist you artists such as Jackson Guice, Jon Bogdanove or her husband Walt Simonson were set aside. For the series, she created the characters of the Archangel, one came not least from the X-Men movie to great popularity superheroes, and Apocalypse, one of the most popular opponents of the X -Men.
In 1991, Simonson who - created especially for them - series Superman: Man of Steel to make it compulsory in Action Comics and Adventures of Superman was already the fourth monthly series with the adventures of the oldest and most famous of all superheroes alongside Superman, Superman series, and she remained faithful until 1998/1999, up to issue # 86. As an artist, she was placed to the side of the Impressionist artist Jon Bogdanove. Together they created a series of new opponent and secondary characters for the superhero known as " Man of Steel ". For example, the nuklearverstrahlten Atomic Skull, the lively thief Riot, the diabolical Cerberus or the immensely powerful colossus Armstrong on side of the opponent and the orphan boy Keith or the clever technician Natasha Irons on side of the secondary characters.
In issue # 19 of the Man of Steel series Simonson and Bogdanove created also the figure of the hammer-wielding African- American superhero Steel, which was so popular that he was given a 1994 to 1998 ongoing own comic book series, the first three years courses (up to Issue # 31 ) Simonson also wrote. In addition, Warner Brothers produced a movie which was based on Simonson Steel Idea: Despite some of the content variations, but retaining the title of " Steel" adapted the film in which the basketball player Shaquille O'Neal played the lead role, Simonson's idea for the big screen.
1999 Simonson returned back as the author of the series " Warlock" and the miniseries " Galactus the Devourer " to Marvel.
In 2002 and 2003 two Simonson wrote on the animated series " Justice League " based books, "Wonder Woman" and " Wild at Heart" which appeared at Bantam Books. For the publisher ibooks she wrote at the same time some of the stories for the series Magnus: Robot Fighter.