Salicrup offered McFarlane a new Spider-Man book, prompting the launch of a new monthly title simply called Spider-Man, which McFarlane both wrote and illustrated. In 1990, after a 28-issue run of Amazing Spider-Man, McFarlane told editor Jim Salicrup he'd grown tired of drawing other people's stories and would be leaving the book with issue No. 313, for which he was originally paid $700 in 1989, for example, would later sell for $71,200 in 2010. McFarlane's work on Amazing Spider-Man made him an industry superstar. ( See Eddie Brock: Creation and conception.)
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He has been credited as the character's co-creator, though this has been a topic of dispute within the comic book industry. McFarlane was also the first artist to draw the first, full appearance of Eddie Brock, the original incarnation of the villain Venom. Whereas it has essentially been rendered as a series of X's between two lines, McFarlane embellished it by detailing far more individual strands, which came to be dubbed "spaghetti webbing". McFarlane rendered Spider-Man's webbing with far more detail. In 1988, McFarlane joined writer David Michelinie on Marvel's The Amazing Spider-Man, beginning with issue 298. From there, he moved to Marvel's Incredible Hulk, which he drew from 1987 to 1988, working with writer Peter David. In 1987, McFarlane illustrated the latter three issues of Detective Comics' four-issue " Batman: Year Two" storyline. McFarlane soon began drawing for both DC and Marvel, with his first major body of work being a two-year run (1985–1987) on DC's Infinity, Inc.
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They in turn passed it onto Coyote creator Steve Englehart, who reached out to McFarlane to offer McFarlane his first comic job, a 1984 backup story in Coyote. Amendola's advice that McFarlane's submissions needed to focus page-to-page stories rather than pinups led McFarlane to create a five-page Coyote sample that he initially sent to Uncanny X-Men editor Ann Nocenti at Marvel Comics, who passed it along to Archie Goodwin and Jo Duffy, the editors of the Marvel imprint Epic Comics, which published Coyote. One of them, DC Comics' Sal Amendola, gave McFarlane a dummy script in order to gauge McFarlane's page-to-page storytelling ability. Half resulted in no response, while the other half resulted in rejection letters, though he received some constructive criticism from a few editors. Seeking to find work drawing comics, McFarlane sent out dozens of submissions each month to editors, totaling over 700 submissions in total, most of which were in the form of pinups. He subsequently focused on drawing, working in a comic book store to pay for the rest of his education, and sharing a trailer with his then-girlfriend, Wanda. He sought to play baseball professionally after graduation, but suffered a career-ending ankle injury in his junior year. In the early 1980s, McFarlane attended Eastern Washington University on a baseball scholarship, and studied graphic art. He graduated from William Aberhart High School. ) McFarlane created the character Spawn when he was 16, and spent "countless hours" perfecting the appearance of each component of the character's visual design. (John Parker of ComicsAlliance has also noted the influence of Walt Simonson in McFarlane's work. He began drawing as a hobby at an early age, and was a fan of comics creators such as John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller and George Pérez, as well as the writing of Alan Moore.
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McFarlane was born on Main Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is also a high-profile collector of history-making baseballs. McFarlane used to be a co-owner of the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers but sold his shares to Daryl Katz. In September 2006, it was announced that McFarlane would be the Art Director of the newly formed 38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, founded by major league baseball pitcher Curt Schilling. 70 (February 1998), McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio. Since leaving inking duties on Spawn with issue No.
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Spawn was a popular hero in the 1990s and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise, on which he was the artist to draw the first full appearances of the supervillain Venom. Todd McFarlane (born March 16, 1961) is a Canadian cartoonist, artist, writer, designer, and entrepreneur, who is best known for his work in comic books, such as the fantasy series Spawn. National Football League Artist of the Year 2005 The Amazing Spider-Man, Infinity, Inc, Spawn, Spider-Man