Todd McFarlane

Canadian comic book creator

Todd McFarlane

File:10.5.17ToddMcFarlaneByLuigiNovi1.jpg

McFarlane at the 2017 New York Comic Con

Born|  (1961-03-16) March 16, 1961 (age 65)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Area(s)| Writer, Penciller, Inker, Publisher

Notable works

| The Amazing Spider-Man
Batman: Year Two
Haunt
The Incredible Hulk
Infinity, Inc
Spawn
Spider-Man
Awards| Inkpot Award 1992[1]
National Cartoonists Society Award 1992
National Football League Artist of the Year 2005
Spouse(s)|

Wanda McFarlane

(m. 1985)​

Children| 3
Official website

Todd McFarlane (/məkˈfɑːrlɪn/; born March 16, 1961) is a Canadian comic book creator, artist, writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur, best known for his work as the artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and as the writer and artist on the superhero horror-fantasy series Spawn.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise, on which he was the artist to draw the first full appearances of the character Venom. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. Spawn was a popular hero in the 1990s and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties.

Since leaving inking duties on Spawn with issue No. 70 (February 1998), McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio.

In September 2006, it was announced that McFarlane would be the Art Director of the newly formed 38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, founded by major league baseball pitcher Curt Schilling.[4] McFarlane used to be a co-owner of the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers before selling his shares to Daryl Katz.[5] He is also a high-profile collector of record-breaking baseballs.

As a filmmaker, he produced the 1997 film adaptation of Spawn starring Michael Jai White. He will make his directorial debut with the reboot film, which will star Jamie Foxx.

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 2.1 Early work, DC, and Marvel
* 2.1.1 The Amazing Spider-Man
* 2.1.2 New Spider-Man title
* 2.2 Image Comics
* 2.3 Todd McFarlane Entertainment
* 3 Sports
* 4 Other media
* 4.1 Video games
* 4.2 Media about McFarlane
* 5 Legal issues
* 6 Awards and recognition
* 7 Personal life
* 8 Bibliography
* 8.1 Awesome Comics
* 8.2 DC Comics
* 8.3 Disney
* 8.4 Image Comics
* 8.4.1 Art
* 8.4.2 Writing
* 8.5 Marvel
* 8.5.1 Art
* 8.5.2 Writing
* 9 References
* 10 External links

## Early life[edit | edit source]

Todd McFarlane was born on March 16, 1961, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada,[2][6] to Bob and Sherlee McFarlane.[7] He is the second[8] of three sons,[9] which Farlane says contributed to his competitive streak.[8] Curtis and Derek. Bob worked in the printing business, which led him to take work where he could find it, and as a result, during McFarlane's childhood, the family lived in thirty different places from Alberta to California.[7][10]

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Prototype version of the character Spawn, which McFarlane drew in his teens

McFarlane began drawing as a hobby at an early age,[11] and developed an interest in comics, acquiring as many as he could, and learning to draw from them.[7] He was a fan of comics creators such as John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller and George Pérez, as well as the writing of Alan Moore.[2] (John Parker of ComicsAlliance has also noted the influence of Walt Simonson in McFarlane's work.[3]) McFarlane created the character Spawn when he was 16, and spent "countless hours" perfecting the appearance of each component of the character's visual design.[11]

One day while in the twelfth grade[7] at Calgary's William Aberhart High School,[2][12] McFarlane, working as a groundskeeper for the Calgary Cardinals, was standing in the bleachers when a 13-year-old ninth grader sitting near him named Wanda began flirting with him. The two began dating, over the objections of Wanda's father, who thought she was too young for him, though in time McFarlane won him over.[7]

Right after high school, McFarlane attended baseball tryouts at Gonzaga University. Despite being a good fielder and fast, he was not a good hitter. Moreover, he could not afford Gonzaga, so he attended Spokane Falls Community College for a year,[10] his relationship with Wanda developing into a long-distance one.[7] In 1981 McFarlane began attending Eastern Washington University (EWU) on a baseball scholarship, studying as part of a self-designed program for graphics and art. His practical goal was to join his father in the printing business in Calgary, Alberta, though his dream was always to be a comic book creator.[10][11] He worked part-time on campus as a janitor in the school's administration building, as his scholarship required an on-campus job, and also worked weekends at a comics shop called the Comic Rack, devoting a couple of hours late at night to practice his comics art.[7][10][13]

He sought to play baseball professionally after graduation, but suffered a serious ankle injury in his junior year during a game with arch rivals Washington State University. He subsequently focused on drawing, working at the comic book store to pay for the rest of his education, and living in a trailer park in Cheney, Washington with Wanda,[7][10][11] who had moved to the area to be with him and attend EWU as well.[7] In 1984, 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 his professional baseball prospects.[7] McFarlane graduated with a bachelor's degree that same year.[10][11][14][15] He stayed in Spokane while Wanda finished her degree.[10]

## Career[edit | edit source]

### Early work, DC, and Marvel[edit | edit source]

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McFarlane's cover for DC's Batman No. 423 (Sept 1988)

While still in college, McFarlane began sending 30–40 packages of submissions each month to comics editors, totaling over 700 submissions after a year and a half, most of which were in the form of pinups. Half resulted in no response, while the other half resulted in rejection letters, though he received some constructive criticism from a few editors. One of them, DC Comics' Sal Amendola, gave McFarlane a dummy script in order to gauge McFarlane's page-to-page storytelling ability. Amendola's advice that McFarlane's submissions needed to focus page-to-page stories rather than pinups led McFarlane to create a five-page Coyote sample that he initially sent to Uncanny X-Men editor Ann Nocenti at Marvel Comics, who passed it along to Archie Goodwin and Jo Duffy, the editors of the Marvel imprint Epic Comics, which published Coyote. They in turn passed it onto Coyote creator Steve Englehart, who called McFarlane to offer McFarlane his first comic job,[7][10][11] a 1984 backup story in Coyote.[16]

McFarlane soon began drawing for both DC and Marvel, with his first major body of work being a two-year run (1985–1987) on DC's Infinity, Inc. In 1987, McFarlane illustrated the last three issues of Detective Comics' four-issue "Batman: Year Two" storyline.[17] From there, he moved to Marvel's Incredible Hulk, which he drew from 1987 to 1988, working with writer Peter David.[18]

#### The Amazing Spider-Man[edit | edit source]

In 1988, 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.[19] McFarlane garnered notice for the more dynamic poses in which he depicted Spider-Man's aerial web-swinging, his enlarging of the eyes on the character's mask, and greater detail in which he rendered his artwork. In particular was the elaborate detail he gave to Spider-Man's webbing. Whereas it had essentially been rendered as a series of Xs between two lines, McFarlane embellished it by detailing far more individual strands, which came to be dubbed "spaghetti webbing".[20][21][22] McFarlane drew the first full appearance of Eddie Brock, the original incarnation of the villain Venom. He has been credited as the character's co-creator, though this has been a topic of dispute within the comic book industry (see Eddie Brock: Creation and conception).[23][24][25]

McFarlane's work on Amazing Spider-Man made him an industry superstar.[22] His cover art for Amazing Spider-Man No. 313, for which he was originally paid $700 in 1989, for example, would later sell for $71,200 in 2010.[26] One critic of McFarlane's detail-heavy style was Comics Journal editor Gary Groth, who said of McFarlane in a 2017 interview, "He doesn't have any authentic virtues as a visual stylist. His work is so overembellished that it disguised the fact that the composition is chaotic and cluttered to the point of being almost unreadable. He never really learned the craft of comics — he just faked it really well."[27]

During his run on The Amazing Spider-Man, McFarlane became increasingly dissatisfied with the lack of control over his own work, as he wanted more say in the direction of storylines. He began to miss deadlines, requiring guest artists to fill-in for him on some issues.[20] In 1990, 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. 328, which was part of that year's company-wide "Acts of Vengeance" crossover storyline. In July 2012 the original artwork to that issue's cover, which features Spider-Man dispatching the Hulk, sold for a record-breaking $657,250 USD, the highest auction price ever for any piece of American comic book art.[28][29] McFarlane was succeeded on Amazing Spider-Man by McFarlane's future fellow Image Comics co-founder Erik Larsen.[30]

#### New Spider-Man title[edit | edit source]

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McFarlane's cover for Marvel's Spider-Man No. 1 (August 1990)

Wanting to appease McFarlane, Marvel gave McFarlane a new, adjectiveless Spider-Man title for him to both write and draw. Spider-Man #1 (August 1990) sold 2.5 million copies,[31][32] largely due to the variant covers with which Marvel, seeking to capitalize on McFarlane's popularity, published the issue in order to encourage collectors into buying more than one edition. This practice was a result of the comics speculator bubble of the 1990s, which would burst later that decade.[20] McFarlane, unbeknownst to his parents at the time, was making about a million dollars a year.[7] McFarlane wrote and illustrated 15 of the series' first 16 issues, many issues of which featured other popular Marvel characters such as Wolverine and Ghost Rider in guest roles.[20]

Despite his acclaim as an artist, according to David Wallace of Comics Bulletin, many found McFarlane's writing to be "clumsy, unsophisticated and pretentious", and questioned the wisdom of allowing him to write a new Spider-Man title in the first place. At the same time, editorial had problems with the dark tone of the stories McFarlane was telling, beginning with the inaugural "Torment" storyline, which depicted a more vicious version of the reptilian villain Lizard under the control of the voodoo priestess Calypso.[20] Subsequent storylines such as "Masques" featured Spider-Man confronting the demonic Hobgoblin, while "Perceptions", which involved Spider-Man dealing with police corruption, child rape and murder (a hint of the work he would later do on Spawn), led some stores to refuse to stock the book. This created further tensions between McFarlane and editorial, which viewed Spider-Man as an historically light-hearted character marketed to young readers. Editor Jim Salicrup in particular was required to make a number of compromises for McFarlane's work, including enforcing McFarlane's minor costume changes across the entire line of other Spidey comics, placing limitations on his choice of villains for his stories, and dealing with strong disagreement on the handling of the character Mary Jane Watson. This strained McFarlane's relationship with Salicrup, which was expressed in the remarkable amount of public disagreement that appeared in the book's letters page. Eventually McFarlane's attention to his deadlines again began to waiver, and he missed issue 15 of the title. His final issue on the book, #16 (November 1991), was part of a crossover storyline with X-Force, and led to creative clashes with new editor Danny Fingeroth.[20] According to McFarlane and editor Tom DeFalco in the 2000 documentary The Devil You Know: Inside the Mind of Todd McFarlane, among the examples of the issues that prompted his departure were editorial's censorship of a panel in that issue in which the character Juggernaut was graphically stabbed in the eye with a sword. DeFalco supported the editing of the panel, calling it "inappropriate", while McFarlane called this "lunacy", arguing that such graphic visuals are commonplace in Marvel's books.[7] Fed up with editorial interference, he left the company under something of a cloud. In the words of David Wallace of Comics Bulletin, "McFarlane's fifteen issues of Spider-Man are now (perhaps slightly unfairly) held up alongside the likes of X-Force as the epitome of everything that was wrong in 1990s comics, and their cash-in approach to the then-booming speculator market precipitated the near-collapse of the industry."[20]

### Image Comics[edit | edit source]

McFarlane then teamed with six other popular artists[33][34] to form Image Comics, an umbrella company under which each owned a publishing house. McFarlane's studio, Todd McFarlane Productions, published his creation, the occult-themed Spawn, written and drawn by McFarlane. It was Image's second release, following the release of Rob Liefeld's Youngblood the month prior.[35] Upon its release in 1992, Spawn #1 (May 1992) sold 1.7 million copies, still a record for an independent comic book.[20][35]

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The cover to Spawn No. 1 (1992)

Responding to harsh criticism of his abilities as a writer, McFarlane hired acclaimed writers to guest-write issues #8–11, including Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Dave Sim, and Frank Miller.[35] Subsequent writers he would hire on the series included Grant Morrison, Andrew Grossberg, and Tom Orzechowski. Greg Capullo penciled several issues as a guest artist, and became the regular penciler with #26, with McFarlane remaining as writer and inker until #70. The series continued to be a hit, and in 1993 Wizard declared Spawn "the best-selling comic on a consistent basis that is currently being published."[36] Spawn is notable for being one of only two Image books that debuted during the company's 1992 launch, along with Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, that continued to be published into the 2020s.[37][38]

During Image's early years of operation, the company was subject to much industry criticism over aspects of its business practices, including late-shipped books,[35] and its creators' emphasis of art over writing. One of these critics was McFarlane's former Hulk collaborator, writer Peter David. This came to a head during a public debate they participated in at Philadelphia's Comicfest convention in October 1993, which was moderated by artist George Pérez. McFarlane stated that Image was not being treated fairly by the media, and by David in particular. The three judges, Maggie Thompson, editor of the Comics Buyer's Guide, William Christensen of Wizard Press, and John Danovich of the magazine Hero Illustrated, voted 2–1 in favor of David, with Danovich voting the debate a tie.[39]

In 1994 McFarlane and DC Comics collaborated on an intercompany crossover, each producing a book featuring Batman and Spawn. The first of the two books, Batman-Spawn: War Devil was written by Doug Moench, Chuck Dixon, and Alan Grant, drawn by Klaus Janson, and published by DC.[40][41] It was followed by Spawn/Batman, which was written by Frank Miller and drawn by McFarlane.[42] That year marked the point when McFarlane ceased to be the regular writer and artist of Spawn. The first issue that he did not draw was issue 16, which was drawn by Greg Capullo. Aside from the four fill-in writers on issues #8–11, it was the first issue on which McFarlane was not the regular writer, as it was the first of a three-issue storyline written by Grant Morrison. Over the course of the ensuing decades, he would hire other writers such as Brian Holguin and David Hine, and artists such as Whilce Portacio, Angel Medina, and Philip Tan. McFarlane occasionally offered story input and inked covers. He would sporadically return as the interior artist for intermittent issues, and for a few years wrote it under a pseudonym in order to generate interest in the book by fostering the illusion that new talent was being brought into the book's production.[35][43]

In 2006 McFarlane announced plans for Spawn/Batman with artist Greg Capullo, which McFarlane wrote and inked, which paid tribute to Jack Kirby. He also began taking an active role in comics publishing again, publishing collections of his Spawn comics in trade paperback form. Spawn Collection Volume 1 collecting issues 1–12 minus issue 9 (due to royalty issues with Neil Gaiman) and 10 (due to a vow he made to Sim) was released in December 2005. The first volume achieved moderate success, ranking 17 in the top one hundred graphic novels, with pre-order sales of 3,227 for that period.[44]

In 2008, McFarlane returned to co-plot the series with returning writer Brian Holguin, with issue 185. The book survived the comics speculator bubble's crash, but its sales have fluctuated, never matching the sales figures of the 1990s. Though it continues publication, its appearance on the Diamond Top 300 chart has been intermittent since the mid-2000s. Nonetheless, Shea Hennum of Paste magazine has observed of the series, "It's a book that, for a time, people continued to buy because of the character instead of the creator. It has become as much of an institution as it is a comic.[35]

Haunt, an ongoing series co-created by McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, was announced in 2007 and launched on October 7, 2009.[45] The comic was initially written by Kirkman, penciled by Ryan Ottley, and inked by McFarlane, with Greg Capullo providing layouts. McFarlane contributed pencils to some issues, and co-wrote issue 28, the series finale, with Joe Casey, who took over writing duties from Kirkman.[46]

In 2019, McFarlane wrote and drew Spawn #301, surpassing Dave Sim's 300-issue series Cerebus as the longest-running creator-owned comics series.[47] The book, whose release date is October 2 of that year,[48] 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, "The Road to Historic Spawn 300 and 301."[49]

At San Diego Comic-Con 2022, it was announced that McFarlane would write a new Batman/Spawn crossover, with Greg Capullo as artist, and a release date of December 2022.[50]

### Todd McFarlane Entertainment[edit | edit source]

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McFarlane speaking at the Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona

Todd McFarlane Productions published multiple Spawn spin-offs and mini-series.[51] He increasingly concentrated his own personal attention to those other ventures, which resulted in more sporadic work as an illustrator. In 1994, McFarlane created a toy company, Todd Toys, initially to merchandise collectible action figures of the Spawn characters.[52] In three months, the company sold more than 2.2 million of the action figures nationwide. After Mattel sent a cease-and-desist order on the basis of a male doll in Mattel's Barbie line named Todd, McFarlane changed the company name to McFarlane Toys. The company's line of figures quickly expanded to those of popular cultural icons, such as members of the band Kiss, characters from the film franchise Texas Chainsaw Massacre, TV series such as The X-Files, and sports figures such as Terrell Owens.[53][54] In 1999, the company sold over 6 million action figures.[7] As of 2017, the company was fifth-largest action-figure manufacturer in the United States.[27]

Todd McFarlane produced the album art for Iced Earth's 1996 Spawn-based concept album The Dark Saga[55] and Korn's 1998 third studio album Follow the Leader.[56]

That same year, McFarlane founded Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio. In collaboration with New Line Cinema, it produced the 1997 Spawn film and a new Spawn movie, planned in 2008.[57] Spawn, while critically panned,[58] was a modest box office success, earning $54.8 million domestically, and almost $33 million worldwide, against a $40 million budget.[59] Todd McFarlane Entertainment also produced the animated series Todd McFarlane's Spawn, (featuring voice work by actor Keith David) which aired on HBO from 1997 until 1999. Ed Bark of The Dallas Morning News called the series a "very unpleasant viewing experience" and asked "why anyone would want to subject themselves to such a relentlessly grim, gruesome dehumanizing experience."[10][60] Nonetheless, the animated series won a 1998 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation.[61][62]

The studio produced a number of music videos and other animations, including:

* 1998: "Do the Evolution" by Pearl Jam – Rolling Stone included this video in its 2012 list of The Greatest Animated Music Videos.[63]
* 1999: "Freak on a Leash" by KoЯn – This video debuted at number eight on MTV's Total Request Live on February 9, 1999,[64][65] and peaking at number 1 on its thirteenth day, February 25.[66] and spent ten non-consecutive days at the top position until its "retirement", on May 11, 1999.[67][68] The video won the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video and the 1999 Metal Edge Readers' Choice Award for Music Video of the Year.[69] It was also nominated for a 1999 MTV Video Music Award.[70][71]
* 2002: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys – McFarlane produced the animated sequences in this film by Peter Care,[72] in which the main characters, Tim and Francis, imagine themselves as muscle-bound warriors.[73] Although the consensus at Rotten Tomatoes was equivocal of the sequences' effectiveness,[74] Armond White of New York Press singled them out for praise.[73]
* 2002: "Breathe" In December of this year, Todd McFarlane directed the music video "Breathe" for Canadian hip-hop group Swollen Members that featured Nelly Furtado.[citation needed]
* 2006: "Land of Confusion" by Disturbed – McFarlane, who worked with Greg Capullo on the art for the 2005 album Ten Thousand Fists, also created the animated video for the band's cover of Genesis' 1986 single, "Land of Confusion".[75]
* 2022: "Patient Number 9" by Ozzy Osbourne \- Co-directed with M. Wartella.

In October 2003 saw the release of the Swollen Members album Heavy, with Canadian and international covers that were both illustrated by McFarlane.[citation needed]

On July 21, 2011, at San Diego Comic-Con International, McFarlane and Stan Lee debuted their new comic, Blood Red Dragon. The series is a collaboration with musician Yoshiki and stars a fictionalized version of him.[76]

McFarlane and Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling formed the gaming studio 38 Studios (formerly Green Monster Games), in order to produce role-playing games, with McFarlane overseeing art direction.[77][78][79]

In February 2012, the company released its only title, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a single-player action role-playing game that was a moderate success, but by late May 2012, the company had ceased operation,[80] due to financial difficulties[81][82] for which it had filed for bankruptcy.[83]

McFarlane was one of several artists to illustrate a variant cover for Kirkman's The Walking Dead No. 100, which was released July 11, 2012 at the San Diego Comic-Con.[84]

In July 2017, Blumhouse Productions announced McFarlane would direct a reboot of the 1997 film Spawn. McFarlane had by then written a first-draft script.[85] In May 2018, it was announced that Jamie Foxx would portray the titular character.[86] In July 2018, it was reported that Jeremy Renner would be starring alongside Foxx as Detective Twitch.[87] On October 25, 2018, filming was set to begin in June 2019,[88] but was eventually delayed to a later date.[89] In August 2021, it was reported that Broken City screenwriter Brian Tucker had been hired to rewrite McFarlane's screenplay.[90] In October 2022, The Hollywood Reporter stated that Scott Silver, Malcolm Spellman, and Matthew Mixom had been hired to pen a new draft on the screenplay, and that Renner's continuede involvement depended on the new draft's outcome. McFarlane expressed doubts about directing the film himself.[91]

In November 2021, McFarlane launched a dedicated television development and production arm of his McFarlane Films,, which has signed a first-look deal with production company wiip. As of November 2021, the company has three shows in development: a Spawn spin-off Sam & Twitch, stop-motion, animated event series McFarland, and a live-action adaptation of the Sean Lewis comic Thumbs.[92]

## Sports[edit | edit source]

In 1998, McFarlane, an avid baseball fan, paid $2.6 million USD at auction for the baseball that St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hit for his then record-breaking 70th home run,[9][93] and $175,000 for Sammy Sosa's 66th home run ball.[93]

In June 2003 McFarlane paid about $517,500 at auction for San Francisco Giants left fielder Barry Bonds' October 2001, record-breaking 73rd home run ball. The auction took place at the ESPN Zone in New York's Times Square and was featured live on SportsCenter.[9][93] When asked by Time magazine's Michael Grunwald in a 2007 interview if he was interested in Bonds' record 756th career home run ball, McFarlane indicated that he was more interested in Bonds' last home run ball.[9]

McFarlane is a former minority owner of the Edmonton Oilers, and designed the logo used on the team's alternate third jersey, which debuted in 2001.[94][95]

## Other media[edit | edit source]

### Video games[edit | edit source]

Spawn appears as a guest character in the Xbox version of Soulcalibur II. McFarlane also designed the unique character Necrid for the game.[96]

A PlayStation 2 game, McFarlane's Evil Prophecy, was released in 2004 by Konami. In it, players battle creatures based on a line of Todd McFarlane's action figures including classic movie monsters such as Frankenstein's monster and Dracula.[97]

In January 2005, McFarlane announced that he was set to produce a half-hour anthology television series for Fox called Twisted Tales, based on the Bruce Jones' comic book to which McFarlane had purchased the rights.[98]

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McFarlane at the Image Comics booth at the 2011 New York Comic Con

For the release of the video game Halo 3, McFarlane was enlisted to design a series of action figures.[99][100]

In 2011, McFarlane was hired as an artist for the game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning,[101] on which his duties included key frame art, storyboards and directing.[102]

### Media about McFarlane[edit | edit source]

Stan Lee interviewed McFarlane in Episode 1 of the 1991 documentary series The Comic Book Greats.[103][104] In 2000, 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.[105] The film first aired on CBC-TV's Life and Times biography series on January 9, 2001.[citation needed]

In "Spidey Cents", a fourth-season episode of the History reality television series Pawn Stars which aired in May 2011, a man tries to sell McFarlane's original artwork for page 25 of The Amazing Spider-Man No. 316 (June 1989) for $20,000 to the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. Because the seller lacked the paper work authenticating the artwork, Gold & Silver manager Corey Harrison would only pay $1,000 for the page, an offer that the seller declined.[26]

## Legal issues[edit | edit source]

McFarlane lost judgments in two lawsuits in the 2000s. The first was a 2002 suit in which McFarlane contested with writer Neil Gaiman over the rights to some supporting Spawn characters created by Gaiman in issue No. 9 of the Spawn series and over payment for later works featuring those characters. In 1997, 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 actually owned were two trademarks for Miracleman logos, not the character, which would become clear only after the lawsuit concluded). This deal was broken by McFarlane, which motivated Gaiman to start the lawsuit. The jury was unanimous in favor of Gaiman. The two were involved in a lengthy dispute over ownership of Miracleman, but no lawsuit has been filed in that dispute. In 2009, Marvel Comics resolved the matter by purchasing the property.[106] The creators settled their dispute over the Spawn characters in January 2012. The exact terms of the settlement were not disclosed,[107] though Gaiman apparently retained ownership of Angela, as she became a character in the Marvel Universe when Gaiman began doing work for Marvel in 2013.[108][109] BleedingCool later confirmed that Marvel Comics had completely bought the rights to Angela from Gaiman.[110]

Another suit in which McFarlane became embroiled was a December 2004 suit in which hockey player Tony Twist sued McFarlane because he named a mobster character in Spawn after Twist. The lawsuit was settled out of court for $5 million.[111]

In 2012, McFarlane sued his former friend and employee, Al Simmons, from whom the name of Spawn's alter ego was derived. According to a lawsuit lodged in Arizona federal court, the real Al Simmons published a book called The Art of Being Spawn, in which Simmons purportedly suggests that his own life was the inspiration for the Spawn character. McFarlane's position was that Simmons violated the terms of his employment pact and breached his duty of loyalty.[112][113] The lawsuit was settled in December 2012 when McFarlane came to an agreement with Simmons. The terms of any settlement were not made public.[27][114][115]

## Awards and recognition[edit | edit source]

McFarlane's has won numerous awards, including:

* 1992 National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Comic Book[116]
* 1992 Inkpot Award[117]
* 2000 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video for "Freak on a Leash"[118]
* National Football League's 2005 Artist of the Year Award, for his work on program covers for the Baltimore Ravens[citation needed]
* Induction into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame, on June 18, 2011, at the Joe Shuster Awards in Calgary, Alberta, Canada[119]
* In 2013 McFarlane was invited to deliver the keynote speech at one of two graduation ceremonies at his alma mater, Eastern Washington University.[14]

## Personal life[edit | edit source]

McFarlane and his wife Wanda[120][121] married in 1985. They stayed in Spokane, Washington until 1986, when they moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. They later moved to Portland, Oregon,[10] and then to the Ahwatukee Foothills of Phoenix, Arizona,[10][122] where they continue to live as of 2007. There, they raised their three children: Cyan, Kate, and Jake. Cyan's love of the TV series Lost inspired her father's decision to produce action figures based on that show, while Kate voiced the young Cyan in the animated Spawn TV series.[122] McFarlane's offices are located near Phoenix.[27]

McFarlane stated in a 1992 interview that he was an atheist.[22]

## Bibliography[edit | edit source]

### Awesome Comics[edit | edit source]

Cover art

* Prophet #1 (Vol. 3) (Variant) (2000)

### DC Comics[edit | edit source]

* All-Star Squadron #47 (with Mike Clark) (1985)
* Detective Comics #576–578 ("Batman: Year Two") (1987)
* Infinity, Inc #14–37 (full art); Annual #1–2 (among other artists) (1985–1987)
* Invasion!, miniseries, #1–2 (1989)
* Sandman (1989 2nd Series) #50 (Pin-up)
* Superman Special #1 (one page pinup) (1992)

Cover art

* Batman #423 (Cover)
* Wildcats #1B (2006 2nd Series DC)

### Disney[edit | edit source]

Cover Art

* Prince of Persia Before the Sandstorm #1 GN (2010)

### Image Comics[edit | edit source]

#### Art[edit | edit source]

* Cyberforce #8 (1994)
* Haunt #1–18 (inks only) (2009–2011)
* Image Comics Summer Special #1 (2004)
* Image Comics Hardcover (Spawn story) (2005)
* Image United #1–3 (2009–2010)
* Spawn #1–15, 21–24 (full art); #26–34, 50 (along with Greg Capullo) (1992–1995); #190, 200 (among other artists) (2010)
* Spawn/Batman (1994)

Cover art

* Badrock (1995) #1A (Inks only)
* Black Flag Preview Edition #1 (1994) (Inks only)
* Cyber Force #8 (1994)
* Reborn #1H (2016)
* The Crow #1B (2013)
* The Darkness #100B (2012)
* The Infinite #1D, 2E (2011) (Inks only)
* Walking Dead #100D (2003)

#### Writing[edit | edit source]

* Sam and Twitch #21-16 (2001-2004)
* Savior #1–8 (2015)
* Spawn #1–7, 12–15, 21–150 (1992–2005); 185–current (2008–present)
* Spawn Kills Everyone #1 (2016)
* Spawn Kills Everyone Too #1–4 (2018–2019)
* Gunslinger Spawn #1–current (2021–present)

### Marvel[edit | edit source]

#### Art[edit | edit source]

* Amazing Spider-Man #298–323, 325, 328 (1988–1990)
* Coyote #11–14 (1985)
* Daredevil #241 (1987)
* G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #60 (1987)
* G.I. Joe Special #1 (1995)
* Incredible Hulk #330–334, 336–346 (1987–1988)
* Marvel Holiday Special (Spider-Man) 2004
* Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #10 (1990)
* Spider-Man #1–14, 16 (1990–1991)
* Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #4 (1987)
* What The--?! #3 (1988)

Cover art

* Amazing Spider-Man: Skating on Thin Ice #1 (1993)
* Conan the Barbarian #241 (1991)
* Marvel Comics Presents #32 (1988)
* Marvel Tales #223–239 (1989–1990)
* New Mutants #85–89, 93 (1990) (Inks only)
* Quasar #14 (1990)
* Return of Wolverine (2018 Marvel) #1I, 1J
* The Olympians #1 (1991) (Epic; cover only)
* X-Force #1E (2019)

#### Writing[edit | edit source]

* Spider-Man #1–14, 16 (1990–1991)

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## External links[edit | edit source]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Todd McFarlane.

* Official website
* Todd McFarlane at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
* Todd McFarlane at IMDb
* McFarlane, Todd (July 26, 2002). "TONY TWIST APPEAL DENIED: Missouri Court Upholds 2000 Ruling". Spawn.com. Archived at the Internet Archive.
* "Tony Twist wins battle over name: Judge orders comic artist pay $15 million". Associated Press. July 11, 2004. Archived from the original on January 6, 2009 - via Columbia Daily Tribune.

Preceded by

Don Newton

|  Infinity, Inc. artist
1985–1987  | Succeeded by

Vince Argondezzi

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Preceded by

Al Milgrom

|  The Incredible Hulk artist
1987–1988  | Succeeded by

Jeff Purves

Preceded by

Alex Saviuk

|  The Amazing Spider-Man artist
1988–1990  | Succeeded by

Erik Larsen

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N/A

|  Spider-Man writer/artist
1990–1991  | Succeeded by

Erik Larsen

Preceded by

N/A

|  Spawn artist
1992–1995  | Succeeded by

Greg Capullo

Preceded by

N/A

|  Spawn writer
1992–2005, 2008–  | Succeeded by

David Hine

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Characters|

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* Nyx
* Man of Miracles
* Jim Downing

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Heaven|

* Angela
* Tiffany
* Zera
* Celestine
* Redeemer
* Disciple
* God
* Bootsy
* Godsend
* Mike The Messenger
* Gabreille
* Rafael

Hell|

* Violator
* Malebolgia
* Cogliostro
* Mammon
* Billy Kincaid
* Hellspawn
* Phlebiac Brothers
* Satan
* Ab and Zab
* Hel
* Bingo
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Other characters|

* Curse
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* Chapel
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* The Heap
* Cyan Fitzgerald
* Andy Frank
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* Bobby
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* Bludd
* Sara Johntson
* Helen Williams
* Max Williams
* Susan Mathews
* Christopher Welland
* Sulture
* Urizen
* Soul Crusher
* King Spider
* Decay

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* Curse of the Spawn
* Hellspawn
* Sam and Twitch
* Shadows of Spawn
* The Adventures of Spawn
* Spawn: Godslayer
* Violator

Media|

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* Spawn (1997)
* Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997–1999)

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Video games|

* Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Video Game (1995)
* Spawn: The Eternal (1997)
* Spawn (1999)
* Spawn: In the Demon's Hand (2000)
* Soulcalibur II (2003)
* Spawn: Armageddon (2003)
* Mortal Kombat 11 (2019)

Writers and artists|

* Todd McFarlane
* Brian Holguin
* David Hine
* Greg Capullo
* Angel Medina
* Philip Tan
* Brian Haberlin

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* Alan Moore
* Image Comics
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* Necroplasm
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* Spawn/Batman
* Batman/Spawn: War Devil
* The Dark Saga

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* Rob Liefeld
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* Marc Silvestri
* Jim Valentino

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* Curse of the Spawn
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* Wanted
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* Youngblood

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* Battle Chasers
* The Crow
* Kiss
* Micronauts
* Street FIghter
* Summoners War: Sky Arena

Crossover|

* Batman/Spawn: War Devil
* Crossover
* Darker Image
* Deathmate
* EVO
* Image United
* Mindhunter
* The Pact
* Spawn/Batman
* Spawn/WildC.A.T.S.
* WildC.A.T.s/Aliens
* WildC.A.T.s/X-Men

Other media|

| Films|

* Firebreather
* The Old Guard
* Spawn
* Wanted
* Witchblade

|

TV series|

* Generator Rex
* Invincible
* Outcast
* Todd McFarlane's Spawn
* The Savage Dragon
* The Walking Dead
* Fear the Walking Dead
* World Beyond
* Witchblade

Video games|

| The Darkness|

* The Darkness
* The Darkness II

|

Spawn|

* Todd McFarlane's Spawn: The Video Game
* Spawn: The Eternal
* Spawn: In the Demon's Hand
* Spawn (1999)
* Soulcalibur II
* Spawn: Armageddon
* Mortal Kombat 11

The Walking Dead|

* Telltale Games series
* Season One

Wanted|

* Wanted: Weapons of Fate

See also|

* Image Universe
* McFarlane Toys
* Eric Stephenson
* Robert Kirkman

* v
* t
* e

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English|

| Editorial,
spot and gag|

| Living|

* Aislin (Terry Mosher)
* Michael de Adder
* Barry Blitt
* Sheree Bradford-Lea
* Gary Clement
* Fred Curatolo
* Andy Donato
* Brian Gable
* Nikahang Kowsar
* Graeme MacKay
* Bruce MacKinnon
* Shahid Mahmood
* Steve Nease
* Adrian Raeside
* Vic Roschkov Sr.
* Paul Szep
* Wyatt Tremblay

|

Deceased|

* Sid Barron
* John Wilson Bengough
* Blaine
* Roy Carless
* Bob Chambers
* William Garnet "Bing" Coughlin
* George Feyer
* Sam Hunter
* Duncan Macpherson
* Len Norris
* Roy Peterson
* Lou Skuce
* Charles Thorson
* Ting
* Ben Wicks
* Avrom Yanovsky

Strip|

| Living|

* Sandra Bell-Lundy
* Wally Fawkes
* J. D. Frazer
* Paul Gilligan
* Glen Hanson
* Lynn Johnston
* Terry Mosher
* Steve Nease
* Rina Piccolo
* Noreen Stevens
* Philip Street

|

Deceased|

* Walter Ball
* John Collins
* Hal Foster
* Jimmy Frise
* Rand Holmes
* Sean Martin
* James Simpkins
* Jim Unger
* Doug Wright

Comics|

| Living|

* Adrian Alphona
* Ho Che Anderson
* Graham Annable
* Kaare Andrews
* Chris Bachalo
* Samm Barnes
* Kate Beaton
* Marc Bell
* Stanley Berneche
* Ian Boothby
* David Boswell
* Rupert Bottenberg
* Chester Brown
* John Byrne
* Howard Chackowicz
* Bernard Chang
* Svetlana Chmakova
* Michael Cho
* David Collier
* Katherine Collins
* Dave Cooper
* Willow Dawson
* Michael DeForge
* Stéphane Delaprée
* Julie Doucet
* Max Douglas
* Dale Eaglesham
* Alex Fellows
* Patrick Fillion
* David Finch
* Tom Fowler
* George Freeman
* Ed Furness
* Michel Gagné
* Gerhard
* Ralph Hamelmann
* Faith Erin Hicks
* Stuart Immonen
* Russ Jones
* Dave Lapp
* Julian Lawrence
* Jeff Lemire
* Troy Little
* Jay Malone
* Bruce McCall
* Jason Marcy
* Derek McCulloch
* Todd McFarlane
* Grant Miehm
* Bernie Mireault
* Ryan North
* Bryan Lee O'Malley
* Arn Saba
* Michel Rabagliati
* Seth
* Dave Sim
* Leanne Shapton
* Ken Steacy
* Jay Stephens
* Jillian Tamaki
* Ty Templeton
* Colin Upton
* Henriette Valium
* Chip Zdarsky

|

Deceased|

* Jon St. Ables
* Leo Bachle (Les Barker)
* Harry Brunt
* Darwyn Cooke
* Gene Day
* Adrian Dingle
* Owen McCarron
* Bus Griffiths
* Win Mortimer
* Joe Shuster
* Jack Sparling

French|

| Editorial,
spot and gag|

| Living|

* Bado (Guy Badeaux)
* Garnotte [fr]
* Serge Chapleau

|

Deceased|

* Henri Julien

Strip|

| Living|

* Delaf
* Annie Groovie

|

Deceased|

* Raoul Barré
* Albéric Bourgeois
* Albert Chartier

Comics|

| Living|

* Jimmy Beaulieu
* Guy Delisle
* Julie Doucet
* Michel Rabagliati
* Steve Requin
* Yves Rodier

|

Deceased|

* Geneviève Castrée

* v
* t
* e

Inkpot Award (1990s)

1990|

* Karen Berger
* Bob Burden
* Tom DeFalco
* William Gaines
* Jim Henson
* Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier
* Grant Morrison
* Bob Overstreet
* Mary Reynante
* Bob Schreck
* Ken Steacy
* Rick Sternbach
* Charles Vess

1991|

* Alicia Austin
* Clive Barker
* Dan Barry
* Dan DeCarlo
* Creig Flessel
* Neil Gaiman
* Ted "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
* Keith Giffen
* George Gladir
* Joe Haldeman
* Lynn Johnston
* Carol Kalish
* Don Maitz
* Sheldon Moldoff
* Steve Oliff
* Julie Roloff
* Stan Sakai

1992|

* Carina Burns-Chenelle
* Bob Chapman
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Robin Doig
* Alan Grant
* Bill Griffith
* Ray Harryhausen
* Marc Hempel
* Jim Lee
* Milo Manara
* Scott McCloud
* Todd McFarlane
* Rowena Morrill
* Diane Noomin
* Louise Simonson
* Dick Sprang
* Vernor Vinge
* Mark Wheatley

1993|

* Jim Aparo
* Gary Carter
* Phil Foglio
* Robert Goodwin
* Ferd Johnson
* Don Martin
* Dave McKean
* Clydene Nee
* Paul Norris
* Paul Power
* P. Craig Russell
* Mark Schultz
* Vincent Sullivan
* Michael Whelan
* Roger Zelazny

1994|

* Mike Carlin
* Paul Chadwick
* Al Feldstein
* Stan Goldberg
* Roberta Gregory
* Chad Grothkopf
* Jerry Ordway
* Bud Plant
* Mike Richardson
* John Romita, Jr.
* Richard Rowell
* Lucius Shepard
* Mickey Spillane
* J. Michael Straczynski
* Rumiko Takahashi

1995|

* Roger Corman
* Greg Hildebrandt (Brothers Hildebrandt)
* Tim Hildebrandt (Brothers Hildebrandt)
* Ryoichi Ikegami
* Irv Novick
* Joe Sinnott

1996|

* Donna Barr
* Mort Drucker
* Joe Giella
* Jim Mooney
* Kurt Schaffenberger
* François Schuiten
* David Siegel

1997|

* Dick Ayers
* Steve Bissette
* Terry Brooks
* Bob Haney
* Russ Heath
* Carol Lay
* Michael Moorcock
* Janice Tobias
* George Tuska

1998|

* John Broome
* Eddie Campbell
* Nick Cardy
* David Glanzer
* Fred Guardineer
* Lorenzo Mattotti
* Paul S. Newman
* John Severin
* Joe Simon
* Naoko Takeuchi
* Mark Yturralde

1999|

* Tom Batiuk
* Chuck Cuidera
* Samuel R. Delany
* Arnold Drake
* Sam Glanzman
* Larry Gonick
* Irwin Hasen
* Sue Lord

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