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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. 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.

While still in college, McFarlane began sending 30—40 packages of submissions each month to comics editors, totaling over 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. 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 backup story in Coyote. In , McFarlane joined writer David Michelinie on Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man , beginning with issue , drawing the preliminary sketch for that cover's image on the back of one of his Incredible Hulk pages.

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". 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.

McFarlane's work on Amazing Spider-Man made him an industry superstar. 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. 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. Spider-Man 1 August sold 2. This practice was a result of the comics speculator bubble of the s, which would burst later that decade. 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.

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 , was part of a crossover storyline with X-Force , and led to creative clashes with new editor Danny Fingeroth.

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. 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 s comics, and their cash-in approach to the then-booming speculator market precipitated the near-collapse of the industry.

McFarlane then teamed with six other popular artists [33] [34] to form Image Comics , an umbrella company under which each owned a publishing house. It was Image's second release, following the release of Rob Liefeld 's Youngblood the month prior. 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.

Greg Capullo penciled several issues as a guest artist, and became the regular penciler with 26, with McFarlane remaining as writer and inker until The series continued to be a hit, and in Wizard declared Spawn "the best-selling comic on a consistent basis that is currently being published. 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.

McFarlane stated that Image was not being treated fairly by the media, and by David in particular. 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. 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. 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 The first volume achieved moderate success, ranking 17 in the top one hundred graphic novels, with pre-order sales of 3, for that period.

In , McFarlane returned to co-plot the series with returning writer Brian Holguin, with issue The book survived the comics speculator bubble's crash , but its sales have fluctuated, never matching the sales figures of the s.

Though it continues publication, its appearance on the Diamond Top chart has been intermittent since the mids. 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. Haunt , an ongoing series co-created by McFarlane and Robert Kirkman , was announced in and launched on October 7, McFarlane contributed pencils to some issues, and co-wrote issue 28, the series finale, with Joe Casey , who took over writing duties from Kirkman.

In , McFarlane wrote and drew Spawn , surpassing Dave Sim 's issue series Cerebus as the longest-running creator-owned comics series. Todd McFarlane Productions published multiple Spawn spin-offs and mini-series.

In , McFarlane created a toy company, Todd Toys, initially to merchandise collectible action figures of the Spawn characters. In three months, the company sold more than 2. 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. In collaboration with New Line Cinema , it produced the Spawn film and a new Spawn movie, planned in 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.

In October saw the release of the Swollen Members album Heavy , with Canadian and international covers that were both illustrated by McFarlane. The series is a collaboration with musician Yoshiki and stars a fictionalized version of him. In February , 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 , the company had ceased operation, [79] due to financial difficulties [80] [81] for which it had filed for bankruptcy.

McFarlane had by then written a first-draft script. In November , McFarlane launched a dedicated television development and production arm of his McFarlane Films ,, which has signed a first-look deal with production company wiip. 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 Spawn appears as a guest character in the Xbox version of Soulcalibur II.

McFarlane also designed the unique character Necrid for the game. 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. In January , 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.

For the release of the video game Halo 3 , McFarlane was enlisted to design a series of action figures. In , McFarlane was hired as an artist for the game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning , [99] on which his duties included key frame art, storyboards and directing. McFarlane lost judgments in two lawsuits in the s. The first was a suit in which McFarlane contested with writer Neil Gaiman over the rights to some supporting Spawn characters created by Gaiman in issue No. In , 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 , Marvel Comics resolved the matter by purchasing the property. The exact terms of the settlement were not disclosed, [] though Gaiman apparently retained ownership of Angela, as she became a character in the Marvel Universe when Gaiman began doing work for Marvel in Another suit in which McFarlane became embroiled was a December suit in which hockey player Tony Twist sued McFarlane because he named a mobster character in Spawn after Twist.

In , 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.

The terms of any settlement were not made public. McFarlane and his wife Wanda [] [] married in They later moved to Portland, Oregon , [10] and then to the Ahwatukee Foothills of Phoenix, Arizona , [10] [] where they continue to live as of 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.

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