Mark Waid
Mark Waid ( born March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer.
Life and work
A native of the U.S. state of Alabama Waid began working as a professional comic book writer and an editor for the early 1980s. After he had presented first work for the magazine Amazing Heroes, Waid was engaged as a full time editor at DC Comics, Marvel Comics next to one of the two leading U.S. comic publishers.
As an editor at DC Waid initially looked after such titles as Secret Origins and Legion of Super - Heroes. In parallel, he wrote as a guest author fill-in editions for series like Action Comics (# 572, 576, 641 ). In the late 1980s Waid finally gave his work as editor largely to operate instead as a freelance author. As a result, he first wrote to appearing in DC's short-lived Impact -imprint series The Comet (# 1-10, 12-18, Annual ) and Legends of the Shield ( # 1-12) before 1992 the job of the regular contributors for the popular science fiction series The Flash ( # 62-129, 142-159, Annual 4 to 6.8; Secret files # 1, 80 - Page Giant # 1; Life Story of the Flash, speed Force ) received that his artistic breakthrough marked.
Waids Run on the Flash title was not only one of the longest - eight years until 2000 - in the history of the series, but is also considered as one of the most popular and commercially successful in over sixty years of character history. To Waids artistic partners to Flash included artists such as Greg LaRoque and Mike Wieringo, and Brian Augustyn, the managing editor of the title, which also acted as Waids co-author from 1999 to 2000. From Waids work on Flash also showed the spin- off series impulses that Waid 1995-1997 temporarily texted (# 1-6, 8-17, 19-27 ).
There were also additional commitment to DC, so for the fantasy titles Valor, for the JLA superhero series (# 18-21, 32-33, 43-58, 60), the Maxi series JLA: Year One and the mini-series Underworld Unleashed ( # 1-3), antern Flash / Green: The Brave and the Bold (# 1-6) and Metamorpho (# 1-4). With the four-part mini-series Kingdom Come 1996, which was later widely reprinted as a graphic novel in the entire meter form, Waid was able to record its greatest artistic success: based in a dystopian future epic about the final fate of the characters Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman for a future " great devastation " consistently broke through the traditional boundaries of the superhero genre to vary the old theme from new angles. Despite the apocalyptic theme of the series, the " dark and cynical " Waid in response to the comics who wrote 1980's and early 1990, Kingdom Come is penetrated by a towering optimism, which is not least artistic in the realistic painting drawings of Waids, the painter and illustrator Alex Ross ( cartoonist ) reflects. Kingdom Come was followed by a sequel, the miniseries The Kingdom, as well as a novel version of the science fiction writer Elliot S! Maggin was concerned, one of Waids main models, which he had been dedicated to the original comic book version of the substance.
For DCs competitors put Waid Marvel almost a year first, and later a longer run on the traditional superhero title Captain America before. As a signatory supported him while under other Ron Garney. This was followed by stories for the series Fantastic Four ( 2002-2003).
2003 Waid was to design the twelve-part maxi series Superman: Birthright mandated that took a reinterpretation or overhaul of Superman substance and told the currently valid so-called Origin Story of Superman character and the status quo established on the stories of the ongoing Superman series are based. In the previous and following years Waid also wrote some more Superman stories ( Superman # 114, Superman: Man of Steel # 58, 73, Action Comics # 723, Adventures of Superman # 536, Superman / Batman ).
2004-2007 supervised Waid DC series like Legion of Super - Heroes, The Brave and the Bold, 52 (# 1-52 ) and the miniseries Infinite Crisis. As a signatory him doing such artists such as George Pérez stood by.