Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlaneis a Canadian artist, writer, designer and entrepreneur, best known for his work in comic books, such as the fantasy series Spawn...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth16 March 1961
CityCalgary, Canada
CountryCanada
action direct finance finish plans script year
The plans this year are for me to finish the script that I'm working on and to finance and direct the live action Spawn movie myself.
knew soldiers
We knew we wanted to make the soldiers look realistic,
fortunate places scratch
I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.
add bit instead keeping looked took trying tweak
That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
argue case cool definitely dialogue knew might movies
I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.
bit dc exclusive guys lock marvel
It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts.
enormous forefront fun industry number people plus time
A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.
best bit hope next time
You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.
book independent artist
That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
phones focus research
About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'
children years three
Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.
book ink here-and-there
I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.