Curated playlist
DC Comics people
- Kevin SmithKevin Smith maxed out credit cards and sold his comic books to make Clerks. The film raised $27,575 and won at Sundance.
- Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman is the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal and the Newbery Medal for the same book.
- Mark MillarAt four, Mark Millar drew a spider web on his face with indelible marker.
- Jack KirbyJack Kirby was drafted in 1943 and became a scout who drew reconnaissance maps in towns.
- Steve DitkoSteve Ditko covered Spider-Man's face because it looked too young. He reasoned a full mask would add mystery.
- Damon LindelofBefore writing professionally, Lost creator Damon Lindelof read other people's screenplays for film studios.
- Joe ShusterSuperman's city of Metropolis was modeled on Toronto, where artist Joe Shuster grew up.
- Cavan ScottCavan Scott wrote Skylanders novels under the pen name Onk Beakman. The first was The Machine of Doom in 2012.
- Joss WhedonJoss Whedon earned more from a web musical than from directing The Avengers.
- Brian Michael BendisWriter Brian Michael Bendis stretched Spider-Man's origin into seven issues. Peter Parker waits until issue five.
- Jim ShooterJim Shooter was 14 when DC Comics bought his scripts. His first paycheck went toward a rebuilt family car engine.