Todd McFarlane

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Todd McFarlane born March 16 1961 is an Canadian cartoonist writer toy designer and entrepreneur best known for his work in comic books such as the fantasy series Spawn In the late 1980s and early 1990s McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics SpiderMan franchise In 1992 he helped form Image Comics pulling the occult antihero 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 creatorowned comic book properties Since leaving inking duties on Spawn with issue 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 will be the Art Director of the newly formed 38 Studios formerly Green Monster Games founded by major league baseball pitcher Curt Schilling McFarlane used to be coowner of National Hockey Leagues Edmonton Oilers but sold his shares to Daryl Katz Hes also a highprofile collector of historymaking baseballs Description above from the Wikipedia article Todd McFarlane licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia