Marcus McLaurin


Marcus McLaurin is an American comic-book writer and editor known for developing and editing the influential Marvel Comics series Marvels.

Biography

Marc McLaurin studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he and his roommate Richard Rice founded the Comics Illustrators Guild, later renamed Static Fish Comic Club. They produced a student-run comic anthology once per semester, with comics from them and other students. Getting his BFA in Communications Design. He got an Internship at Marvel in 1986 as an assistant editor. He rose to become a full editor working on the Epic Comics imprint and on other Marvel projects. These included Epic's various Alien Legion limited series, its "Heavy Hitters" line of action comics by Peter David, Howard Chaykin and others, and licensed titles such as the manga Akira and filmmaker and fantasy novelist Clive Barker's Nightbreed and Hellraiser. He also edited the Razorline imprint of superheroes created by Barker for Marvel.
As a writer, McLaurin did the entire 20-issue run of the Luke Cage revival series Cage. He also wrote issues of The Punisher and occasional features in Marvel Comics Presents.

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