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Wikipedia / Marc Andreyko

Marc Andreyko (born 1970) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter, best known for the true crime series Torso he co-wrote with Brian Michael Bendis and for co-creating the character Kate Spencer for DC Comics.

Career

Marc Andreyko co-wrote the limited series Torso with Brian Michael Bendis, for which he was nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience and the Prize for Scenario (script) in 2003. He and Bendis have worked with Paramount Pictures on a film adaptation of the work.

In 1991, Kent State University student Michael Mould began translating Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci into English for a comics adaptation, but died on USAir Flight 405 before he could complete it. Andreyko finished Mould's translation as The Clowns, a one-shot written by P. Craig Russell and illustrated by Galen Showman. Published in 1998 by Dark Horse Comics, The Clowns is dedicated in memory of Mould.

He co-created with Russell, an Eisner- and Harvey-winning one-shot for Marvel Comics featuring Dr. Strange entitled What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen?

In 1996, he directed a production of Joe Orton's Loot for the Weathervane Theater in Akron.

In 1997 he co-created (with Jay Geldhof and Galen Showman) The Lost, a Harvey-nominated comics mini-series which continued the story of Peter Pan in modern times, with the protagonist presented as an amoral vampiric boy prostitute.

He has written comics for Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, Todd McFarlane Productions, and Image Comics.

In 2004 he began writing DC Comics' Manhunter series, relaunching it with a third volume, in which he (with artist Jesus Saiz) introduced the character of Kate Spencer, the first woman to carry the long-running "Manhunter" legacy. He also created Spencer's civilian business partner Damon Matthews, who is in a romantic relationship with superhero Obsidian, one of the few gay-identified couples in mainstream superhero comics. The series ran for 38 issues, and Andreyko went on to write a Manhunter back-up feature in DC Comics' Batman: Streets of Gotham monthly series shortly afterward.

Later work includes The Ferryman for Wildstorm, created by Joel Silver, with artist Jonathan Wayshak. In 2010 he wrote Bruce Wayne: The Road Home: Oracle, a one-shot that tied into the Return of Bruce Wayne event. In 2011 he collaborated with artist Billy Tucci on a fill-in story for Birds of Prey, which featured his Manhunter character.

In September 2013, after the creative team of J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman announced their departure from Batwoman, DC co-publisher Dan Didio announced Andreyko as the new writer of the series, starting with issue No. 25. He continued as writer until the series' end with issue No. 40.

In October 2014, Andreyko was announced as the writer of DC Comics series Wonder Woman '77, set in continuity with the Lynda Carter series.

Since 2016 Marc Andreyko has been a competitor on the Movie Trivia Schmoedown dubbed "The Android" and on May 31, 2019, Andreyko and his Tag Team Partner Jeff Sneider of the team known as "The Odd Couple" were crowned Tag Team Championship. He is also the first openly gay competitor to win the championship making it the first time in the show's history that a competitor from the LGBT Community has been crowned a Schmoedown Champion.

Personal life

Andreyko lives in Los Angeles. He is openly gay.

Bibliography

Early work

Mara of the Celts (co-written by Andreyko and Dennis Cramer, art by Cramer, Eros):

  • Mara of the Celts Book Two No. 1 (1995)

  • Mara: Celtic Shamaness #1 (1995)

The Lost (Caliber):

The Lost #1–2 (script by Andreyko from a plot by Andreyko, Mark Scott Ricketts, Galen Showman and Jay Geldhof, art by Showman, 1996)

  • After the title was discontinued by Caliber, the creators took it to Chaos! Comics with the intention of publishing it as a long-running, ongoing series.

Chaos! reprinted the first two issues as The Lost #1–2 (1997–1998) and published only one issue of new material before the title was canceled once again:

  • The Lost #3 (script by Andreyko from a plot by Andreyko, Mark Scott Ricketts, Galen Showman and Jay Geldhof, art by Ricketts and Geldhof, 1998)

Chaos! Comics:

Marvel Comics

Wolverine Annual '99: "Crying Wolf!" (with Walter A. McDaniel) and "Beer Run" (with Massimiliano Frezzato, 1999)

  • The first story is collected in Deadpool Classic Companion Volume 1 (tpb, 384 pages, 2015, )

  • Both stories are collected in Wolverine: Blood Debt (tpb, 488 pages, 2018, )

  • Wha... Huh? (with Jim Mahfood, among other writers, one-shot, 2005) collected in Secret Wars Too (tpb, 208 pages, 2016, )

Captain America and Bucky #620–624 (co-written by Andreyko and Ed Brubaker, art by Chris Samnee, 2011–2012)

  • Collected as Captain America and Bucky: The Life Story of Bucky Barnes (hc, 112 pages, 2012, ; tpb, 2012, )

  • Collected in Captain America: Return of the Winter Soldier Omnibus (hc, 752 pages, 2015, )

Dark Horse Comics

Image Comics

Jinx: Torso #1–6 (co-written by Andreyko and Brian Michael Bendis, art by Bendis, 1998–1999)

  • Collected as Torso (tpb, 280 pages, 2001, ; hc, Icon, 2012, )

  • Collected in Brian Michael Bendis: Crime Noir Omnibus (hc, 1,152 pages, Icon, 2017, )

Case Files: Sam and Twitch (Todd McFarlane Productions):

DC Comics

Manhunter (Kate Spencer):

Manhunter vol. 3 (with Jesús Saiz, Javier Pina, Brad Walker (#13), Fernando Blanco and Michael Gaydos, 2004–2009) collected as:

  • Street Justice (collects #1–5, tpb, 128 pages, 2005, )

  • Trial by Fire (collects #6–14, tpb, 224 pages, 2007, )

  • Origins (collects #15–23, tpb, 224 pages, 2007, )

  • Unleashed (collects #24–30, tpb, 176 pages, 2008, )

  • Forgotten (collects #31–38, tpb, 192 pages, 2009, )

Batman: Streets of Gotham #1–13: "Manhunter" (with Georges Jeanty, Jeremy Haun, Cliff Richards (#7) and Szymon Kudranski (#12–13), co-feature, 2009–2010)

Batwoman (with Jeremy Haun, Georges Jeanty, Jason Masters (#29 and the Futures End one-shot), Scott Kolins (#33), Moritat (#34 and Annual #1) and Juan José Ryp (#38), 2014–2015) collected as:

  • Webs (collects #25–34 and Annual #1, tpb, 272 pages, 2014, )

  • The Unknowns (collects #35–40, Annual No. 2 and the Batwoman: Futures End one-shot, tpb, 208 pages, 2015, )

  • Fairest #21–26: "Of Men and Mice" (with Shawn McManus, Vertigo, 2014) collected as Fairest: Of Men and Mice (tpb, 144 pages, 2014, )

Wonder Woman '77 (digital):

Wonder Woman '77 #1–15 (with Drew Johnson, Matt Haley, Richard Ortiz, Jason Badower and Cat Staggs (#10–12), 2015–2016)

  • These installments were first published in print as a 4-issue limited series titled Wonder Woman '77 Special (2015–2016)

The Wonder Woman '77 Special series was subsequently reprinted in the following collected editions:

  • Volume 1 (collects #1–2, tpb, 168 pages, 2016, )

  • Volume 2 (collects #3–4, tpb, 168 pages, 2017, )

Batman '66 Meets Wonder Woman '77 #1–12 (co-written by Andreyko and Jeff Parker, art by David Hahn, 2016–2017)

Supergirl vol. 6 (with Kevin Maguire, Evan Shaner (#24), Emanuela Lupacchino (#25) and Eduardo Pansica, 2018–2020) collected as:

  • The Killers of Krypton (collects #21–26, tpb, 160 pages, 2019, )

  • Sins of the Circle (collects #27–33, tpb, 144 pages, 2019, )

Infectious (includes #34–36, tpb, 280 pages, 2020, )

Wildstorm

Eye of the Storm:

IDW Publishing

Dynamite Entertainment

Dark Shadows:

  • Dark Shadows/Vampirella #1–5 (with Patrick Berkenkotter (#1–2) and Jose Malaga, 2012) collected as Dark Shadows/Vampirella (tpb, 112 pages, 2013, )

  • Dark Shadows: Year One #1–6 (with Guiu Vilanova, 2013) collected as Dark Shadows: Year One (tpb, 128 pages, 2014, )

    Chastity #1–6 (with Dave Acosta, 2014) collected as Chastity: Life/Death (tpb, 160 pages, 2015, )

Legenderry: Red Sonja:

  • Legenderry: Red Sonja #1–5 (with Aneke and Juanan Ramírez (#4), 2015) collected as Volume 1 (tpb, 128 pages, 2015, )

  • Legenderry: Red Sonja vol. 2 #1–5 (with Igor Lima (#1–2) and Rodney Buchemi, 2018) collected as Volume 2 (tpb, 128 pages, 2015, )

  • Jeepers Creepers #1–5 (with Kewber Baal, 2018) collected as Jeepers Creepers: Trail of the Beast (tpb, 128 pages, 2019, )

Other publishers

Aspen MLT:

Clive Barker's Nightbreed vol. 2 (with Piotr Kowalski, Emmanuel Xerx Javier and Devmalya Pramanik (#9–11), Boom! Studios, 2014–2015) collected as:

References