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Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic-book creator, best known for his work as an artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and as the creator, writer, and artist on the superhero horror-fantasy series Spawn, as well as being the current President and a co-founder of Image Comics.
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Born 16 March 1961 · Q352460
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s 300-issue series Cerebus as the longest-running creator-owned comics series. The book, released on October 2 of that year, earned McFarlane a place in the Guinness World Records, for which McFarlane was given a certificate on October 5, 2019 at the New York Comic Con, prior to his panel,
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“first 16 issues, many issues of which featured other popular Marvel characters such as Wolverine and Ghost Rider in guest roles. Despite his acclaim as an artist, according to David Wallace of Comics Bulletin, many found McFarlane”
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bleedingcool: Todd McFarlane Inks Mark Spears Cover For Spawn '77 #1
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It was announced that McFarlane would write a new Batman/Spawn crossover, with Greg Capullo as artist, and a release date of December 2022
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As part of the league's Reverse Retro jersey program
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At the New York Comic Con, prior to his panel, "The Road to Historic Spawn 300 and 301
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McFarlane wrote and drew Spawn #301, surpassing Dave Sim's 300-issue series Cerebus as the longest-running creator-owned comics series
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“s 300-issue series Cerebus as the longest-running creator-owned comics series. The book, released on October 2 of that year, earned McFarlane a place in the Guinness World Records, for which McFarlane was given a certificate on October 5, 2019 at the New York Comic Con, prior to his panel,”
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Filming was set to begin in June 2019, but was eventually delayed to a later date
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McFarlane was invited to deliver the keynote speech at one of two graduation ceremonies at his alma mater, Eastern Washington University
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McFarlane sued his former friend and employee, Al Simmons, from whom the name of Spawn's alter ego was derived
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At San Diego Comic-Con, McFarlane and Stan Lee debuted their new comic, Blood Red Dragon
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At the Joe Shuster Awards in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Awarded Joe Shuster Award (2011).
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Awarded Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame (2011).
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McFarlane was hired as an artist for the game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, on which his duties included key frame art, storyboards and directing
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Marvel Comics resolved the matter by purchasing the property
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McFarlane returned to co-plot the series with returning writer Brian Holguin, with issue 185
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McFarlane announced plans for Spawn/Batman with artist Greg Capullo, which McFarlane wrote and inked, and which paid tribute to Jack Kirby
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Awarded Grammy Awards (2000).
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McFarlane was the subject of a National Film Board of Canada documentary Devil You Know: Inside the Mind of Todd McFarlane, directed by Kenton Vaughan
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And peaking at number 1 on its thirteenth day, February 25
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The company sold over 6 million action figures
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McFarlane, an avid baseball fan, paid $2
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The two signed a deal in which Gaiman would give his share of characters Angela, Medieval Spawn and Cogliostro to McFarlane in exchange for McFarlane's share of British superhero Marvelman (in reality, what McFarlane own
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McFarlane and DC Comics collaborated on an intercompany crossover, each producing a book featuring Batman and Spawn
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McFarlane created a toy company, Todd Toys, initially to merchandise collectible action figures of the Spawn characters
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (1994).
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Earned Silver Reuben Award (1993).
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Wizard declared Spawn "the best-selling comic on a consistent basis that is currently being published
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Awarded Inkpot Award (1992).
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McFarlane stated in a 1992 interview that he was an atheist.
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Helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high-school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s
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After a 28-issue run of Amazing Spider-Man, McFarlane told editor Jim Salicrup that he wanted to write his own stories, and would be leaving the book with issue No
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For example, later sold for $71,200 in 2010
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McFarlane joined writer David Michelinie on Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man, beginning with issue 298, drawing the preliminary sketch for that cover's image on the back of one of his Incredible Hulk pages
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McFarlane illustrated the last three issues of Detective Comics' four-issue "Batman: Year Two" storyline
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McFarlane and his wife Wanda married in 1985.
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A year after his injury, McFarlane's final chance to play for the big leagues came when he tried out with the Toronto Blue Jays' farm team in Medicine Hat, Alberta, but he ended up being ranked last on the roster, ending
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With an offer for Todd's first comic job: a backup story in Coyote #11
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McFarlane began attending Eastern Washington University (EWU) on a baseball scholarship, studying as part of a self-designed program for graphics and art
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Born 1961-03-16.
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In Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to Bob and Sherlee McFarlane
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