Marc Andreyko


Marc Andreyko 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.
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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 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 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.

Early work

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Marvel Comics

Doctor Strange: What is it that Disturbs You, Stephen? Shadows and Light #2: "The Date" collected in Spider-Man: Webspinners — The Complete Collection Blade: Sins of the Father collected in Blade: Blood and Chaos The Supernaturals #1–4 Wolverine Annual '99: "Crying Wolf!" and "Beer Run"
  • * The first story is collected in Deadpool Classic Companion Volume 1
  • * Both stories are collected in Wolverine: Blood Debt Wha... Huh? collected in Secret Wars Too Captain America and Bucky #620–624
  • * Collected as Captain America and Bucky: The Life Story of Bucky Barnes
  • * Collected in ''Captain America: Return of the Winter Soldier Omnibus''

Dark Horse Comics

The Clowns Predators Movie Prequel #1–4: "Welcome to the Jungle" collected in Predators Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #1–2: "Storytelling" collected in Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword Volume 1 Let Me In: Crossroads #1–4 collected as Let Me In: Crossroads Mulan: Revelations #1–4

Image Comics

Jinx: Torso #1–6

DC Comics

Wildstorm

IDW Publishing

Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy #1–5 collected as Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy Pantheon #1–5 collected as Pantheon G.I. Joe: Origins #12: "Firsts and Lasts" collected in G.I. Joe: Origins Omnibus Volume 1 True Blood: Tainted Love #1–6 collected as True Blood: Tainted Love The Illegitimates #1–6 collected as The Illegitimates Love is Love: "Falling in Love"

Dynamite Entertainment

Dark Shadows:
  • * Dark Shadows/Vampirella #1–5 collected as Dark Shadows/Vampirella
  • * Dark Shadows: Year One #1–6 collected as Dark Shadows: Year One Chastity #1–6 collected as Chastity: Life/Death Legenderry: Red Sonja:
  • * Legenderry: Red Sonja #1–5 collected as Volume 1
  • * Legenderry: Red Sonja vol. 2 #1–5 collected as Volume 2 Jeepers Creepers #1–5 collected as ''Jeepers Creepers: Trail of the Beast''

Other publishers