Todd McFarlane

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Todd McFarlane
Gender:	Male
Medium(s):	Comic books
Roles:	Writer; Penciler; Inker; Cover artist; Cover inker
Born:	March 16th, 1961
Birthplace:	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Notable works:	Spawn

Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic book artist, writer and businessman. He was born in Calgary, Alberta on March 16th, 1961. He is best known for creating the popular horror anti-hero Spawn. Though Canadian by birth, Todd McFarlane is the epitome of the American success story. While working as an in-house comic book artist for DC Comics, and later Marvel Comics, McFarlane began to develop a reputation for his stylistic illustrative techniques, which he employed on titles such as Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man. In 1991, McFarlane and several other disgruntled artists, separated from Marvel to form their own independent publishing company, Image Comics. Image's mission statement was to provide creator-owned projects for staff members, with each creator taking sole ownership of their intellectual properties. The flagship title for Image Comics at the time was Spawn, which is still in print today, which McFarlane wrote and illustrated. Spawn became a runaway success and helped turn the fledgling comic house into a juggernaut that dominated comic book shelves during the 1990s. Spawn spun-out into several offshoot titles and eventually received a video game, a feature film and an animated television series. Todd McFarlane went on to create Todd McFarlane Entertainment, which produced the Spawn feature film and animated series, as well as McFarlane Toys, which licensed several action figure lines for Spawn as well as other franchises.

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Founder of Todd McFarlane Productions, Todd McFarlane Entertainment and McFarlane Toys.

Married to comic book editor Wanda Kolomyjec.

Former co-owner of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team.

McFarlane is an avid baseball fan. He has bought, at auction, multiple balls from Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's 1998 race to establish a record for the greatest number of home runs hit in a single season. McFarlane owns Sosa's 33rd, 61st and 66th home run balls, and McGwire's first, 63rd, 67th, 68th, 69th and 70th.

Through his production company, Todd McFarlane Entertainment, Todd McFarlane received an executive producer credit on the Spawn feature film and the Spawn animated series.

A limited edition Todd McFarlane "Bum" action figure was produced to coincide with the Spawn feature film toyline. It was a low distribution and is considered a valuable and, at the time, highly sought after collector's item.

Todd McFarlane designed the character of Necrid for the Soulcalibur II video game.

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