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Todd McFarlane Illustrator & Author

Grammy-and Emmy-winning producer/director Todd McFarlane became a true comic book superstar from his work on Marvel Comics Spider-Man franchise. He co-founded Image Comics and launched his own comic title, Spawn. The comic became an Emmy Award-winning animated series on HBO and a feature film from that grossed more than $100 million. McFarlane founded the international award-winning McFarlane Toys now one of America s top action figure manufacturers. Greg Capullo is a self-taught illustrator and artist on the bestselling and highly acclaimed Batman series for DC Comics. Prior to that, he was best known for his 80-issue run on Image Comics' Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane. Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics' X-Force and Quasar (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). He is also the creator of The Creech, a sci-fi/horror comic published by Image Comics. Greg has provided art for Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, contributed lead character designs for the award-winning HBO animated Spawn series, was the cover artist for many popular musical groups including Korn and Disturbed, and worked behind the scenes on many projects ranging from toy design to video games for TME.