
Joe Quesada, long the Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics, is adding another title to the list: Chief Creative Officer. In his new role, Quesada "will provide creative oversight of all areas of Marvel's business including theatrical, television, publishing, animation and games, while also actively participating in all story and script development for Marvel's films and animation."
Quesada will remain Editor-in-Chief in addition to his new duties as CCO, and while that seems like a lot, DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns still manages to handle writing "Brightest Day," "Flash" and "Green Lantern" in his free time, so multitasking is certainly possible.
And Quesada elaborated to CBR, "At the end of the day, I suspect that my involvement will be on creating new concepts, reviewing proposals, scripts, art and so on. It's a lot of work but we have a tremendous team at Marvel West that makes my working in both publishing and animation a lot easier." Check out the full press release after the jump.
MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT PROMOTES JOE QUESADA TO CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER
New York, NY – June 2, 2010 – Marvel Entertainment, LLC announced today that it has promoted Joe Quesada to Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment. In this new role, Mr. Quesada will work alongside Alan Fine, Executive Vice President, Office of the President and Chairman of Marvel Studios' Creative Committee, to ensure that all portrayals of Marvel's characters and storytelling remain true to the essence of Marvel's rich history. Additionally, Mr. Quesada will provide creative oversight of all areas of Marvel's business including theatrical, television, publishing, animation and games, while also actively participating in all story and script development for Marvel's films and animation. Prior to this promotion, Mr. Quesada held the role of Chief Creative Officer & Editor-In-Chief, Marvel Animation & Publishing and oversaw the creative aspects of Marvel Comics and Marvel Animation. The announcement was made today by Mr. Fine, to whom Mr. Quesada will report.
Mr. Fine stated, "I am excited to have Joe join me as Marvel Entertainment enters the next chapter in our history. Joe has already played an instrumental role as Editor-in-Chief in changing the face of the comic book industry with bold new ventures and an unprecedented penetration of the mainstream consciousness. His love and passion for Marvel, along with his experience guiding publishing for the last decade, will be invaluable as we bring our characters to life in new media."
"I am honored to take this new position at Marvel Entertainment and work with Alan to bring the rich history of Marvel to a brand new audience" said Mr. Quesada. "Together with the incredible talent here at Marvel, in all our divisions, I look forward to making Marvel an even bigger part of the entertainment industry and showing why we've been an industry leader for over 70 years."
Mr. Quesada will also continue to serve as Editor-In-Chief, Marvel Publishing, where over the past decade he has helped usher in bold new imprints such as Marvel Knights, the Ultimate Universe and Marvel MAX. During his tenure, Marvel received acclaim for its Heroes special to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001; the groundbreaking Death of Captain America storyline; and President Obama's historic team up with Spider-Man. Mr. Quesada is also one of the industry's most popular artists, providing cover and interior art to blockbusters such as Amazing Spider-Man, Daredevil, Invincible Iron Man and more.
































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Wednesday 02 June
By cactusfly
Oooh! I can't wait to see what other hamfisted edito ~ Chief Creative Officerial story changes he's going to be making. I mean advising on.
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Wednesday 02 June
By dnwilliams
It will never cease to amaze me how many times you can promote THE BOSS.
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Thursday 03 June
By Cassandra
OH HELL NO.
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Thursday 03 June
By Falstaff
Wait, wait, WAIT. Isn't this the monumental dumbass who, when asked how he expected women to read his comics after whatever sexist dumbassery they'd published, came out and said that he didn't WANT women to read his comics?
I mean, I know he's done a lot of other stupid things. I really don't want to think about those. It's just that... grah. Anger rising.
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Thursday 03 June
By Richenbaum
well see the thing is...he IS great at his job. it doesn't actually matter what you or anyone else personally feel about him as an individual. the fact is, whether you like them or not, Marvel is dominating the market and is more successful than ever. he's making huge profits for "the suits" because the "people that matter" are buying their product more than ever...which in reality IS what matters to a business, not appeasing the minority of whiny internet fanboys who are still bitter about the treatment of Spider-Man (but still buying it anyway).
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Thursday 03 June
By Richenbaum
(and incidentally, I already realize it was entirely pointless to try to rationally ratio explain this to the kind of nutjob that thinks someone should be shot for not making comic books the way they want)
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Thursday 03 June
By Richenbaum
(-ratio)
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Thursday 03 June
By Stephen
Nice Mickey shirt.
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Thursday 03 June
By dnwilliams
LOL
Thursday 03 June
By Laura Hudson
Complaining is one thing, you guys, but threatening to kill someone, even as a joke, is way over the line and makes me reach for the banhammer. Cut it out.
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