Mark Evanier
Mark Stephen Evanier (born March 2, 1952 ) is an American writer , screenplay and comic book writer .
Life and work
Evanier decided at a young age, influenced by the unfortunate existence of his father as an employee of the Internal Revenue Service , the American tax authority, to want to work as a freelance "artist" and therefore free from constraints and paternalism.
As early as 1969, at the age of seventeen, he managed to sell his first scripts for comic stories to publishers. While he was learning the manual part of his profession from the writer and draftsman Jack Kirby, celebrated in the industry as the "king of the comic world" , he earned his living by writing comic stories for the Walt Disney Company intended for the foreign market . Work orders for the American "Disney market" followed, as well as for the Gold Key Comics publishing house .
From 1974 Evanier worked in a team with Dennis Palumbo as a writer for television productions. So he delivered scripts and gags for the Nancy Walker Show , the McLean Stevenson Show and the series Welcome Back, Kotter . After the hiring of Welcome Back, Kotter , Evanier and Palumbo dissolved their partnership in order to go their separate ways. Evanier then took on writing jobs for comic series based on the cartoons produced by the production company Hanna-Barbera and eventually began to write for these series himself. The best known series for which he submitted scripts in this context was the "Saturday morning cartoon classic" Scooby Doo .
In the 1980s, engagements as a writer for cartoon series such as The ABC Weekend Special , The Wuzzles and Garfield and his friends followed .
As a comic book writer, Evanier worked on titles like Plastic Man , Blackhawks , Crossfire and Hollywood Superstars during these years . He produced stories for Groo the Wanderer with the Mexican Sergio Aragonés .
In 2006, Evanier, who has never won this award despite several Emmy nominations in the author's category, had to undergo a complicated bypass operation in the stomach area in Los Angeles, as a result of which he gained 45 kilograms within a year Has lost weight.
The publication of Evanier's biography of his teacher Jack Kirby , which was announced for October 2007 and is due to appear at Abrams Books, has been postponed to spring 2008 for unknown reasons.
Web links
- Mark Evanier in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Evanier, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Evanier, Mark Stephen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American novelist, screenplay and comic book writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1952 |