If you know Mark Waid like we do…
…then you already knew.
Yes, it’s true. I mean, look at the resemblence.
And he’s committed blogging. In two different places. What more proof do you need?
Tagged: Mark Waid
‘The Dark Knight’ alternate trailer
Yes, yes. Highest grossing movie of 2008. Second highest of all time. A billion dollars in box office when all is said and done. And yet– it could have made even more money, if only they’d worked with the studio with the best batting average in the business…
We all know it’s about the toys anyway, right?
Hat tip: Mark Waid.
ComicMix Radio at NYCC: Familiar Faces and Plans for ’09
It was the homestretch here in New York City yesterday when we rounded up some of the biggest news items from New York Comic Con, including a new Farscape series, more Dark Tower from Marvel and Mark Waid on Spider-Man. We also spent a family-friendly minute with comics legend Joe Kubert.
Head back to the floor – just press the button!
And remember, you can always subscribe to ComicMix Radio podcasts via 
or RSS!
On This Day: Mark Waid
Born on March 21, 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama, Waid entered the comics industry in the mid-1980s as an editor and writer for Fantagraphics Books’ fan magazine, Amazing Heroes.
He soon moved to DC as an editor on Secret Origins and Legion of Super-Heroes. In 1990, he shifted from full-time editorial to freelance writing, and in 1992 DC hired him to write The Flash. Waid stayed with The Flash for eight years and can be credited with establishing Wally West as a worthy bearer of the Flash name and costume. Waid then moved to Marvel to work on Captain America.
In 1996 he went back to DC to produce his best-known work, the mini-series Kingdom Come with Alex Ross. He also wrote the follow-up series, The Kingdom, and has since written JLA, Impulse, Empire, Fantastic Four, and others.
In July 2007 Waid joined Boom! Studios as Editor-in-Chief. He’s stated since that all of his future creator-owned work will be with Boom!
Steve Niles and Mark Waid on ‘Cthulhu Tales’
Comic readers looking for a monthly fix of slimy, tentacled horror from the inky blackness, it appears that your search is over.
Boom! Studios has decided to take its former Cthulhu Tales one-shots the monthly route beginning in March, providing a regular fix of Lovecraftian horror for aficianadoes of the Ancient Ones’ dark shenanigans.
CBR spoke to Boom! Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid about the new ongoing anthology series, which will launch with a set of stories by Steve Niles and continue with an ever-changing cast of writers and artists.
Here, Niles explains one of his upcoming contributions to the series:
“The new one that I’m writing right now is going to get much stranger,” continued Niles. “This new one I’m working on is very, very weird. If I were the artist on these things — I’m sitting here working on a story, there’s a body on a slab in a morgue, and basically the world of the Ancient Ones is inside the body, so when it bursts out, we’re going to have this corpse with a room full of tentacle. Man, if I was the artist I’d have so much fun drawing that."
And isn’t that the real appeal of Lovecraftian horror? It makes you want to simultaneously clap your hands and clutch your stomach against the sudden wave of nausea.
Good times.
Let’s you and him reconcile
Via Budgie, for your reading pleasure comes this post by artist Jesse Hamm on the ways in which writers drive him crazy, followed by a three part rebuttal by Mark Waid on why certain artists should perhaps choose their words as carefully as they choose their illustrations. Beyond the sarcasm and vitriol is some terrific information and useful advice on the collaborative process in comics.
