Axel Alonso
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Axel Alonso (
Early life
Alonso's father is from Mexico, and his mother is from England.[2][3][4] A native of San Francisco,[5] Alonso earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and politics from University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.[5][6]
Career
Alonso began his career as a journalist for New York's
Alonso's first published work for DC Comics was Doom Patrol #80 and Animal Man #73, which were published in July 1994, the latter of which was part of the company's Vertigo line, which publishes books in genres such as horror and fantasy aimed at mature readers. Other Vertigo titles he edited until 1999 included Garth Ennis' Preacher, Black Orchid, Kid Eternity, Hellblazer, Unknown Soldier, 100 Bullets, and Human Target.
In late September 2000 Alonso went to work at DC's main competition, Marvel Comics, as senior editor[9][10][11] where he worked on Spider-Man books such as The Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker: Spider-Man. His first published work as editor was The Amazing Spider-Man trade paperback that collected issues #30 - 32 of that title, and was published in 2001.
Alonso spent more than a decade as an editor at Marvel, working on some of its most notable characters. In 2001, he began editing The Amazing Spider-Man. He would continue on the title during
In 2002, Alonso, then a senior editor, had lured Frank Cho to Marvel on the basis of Cho's comic strip series Liberty Meadows. Alonso approached Cho to revamp the third-string character Shanna the She-Devil, a scantily clad jungle girl whom Cho recast in a seven-issue, 2005 miniseries as an Amazonian naïf, the product of a Nazi experiment with the power to kill dinosaurs with her bare hands but an unpredictable lack of morality.[12]
Alonso is also credited with bringing
Alonso edited stories featuring the
Although primarily an editor, Alonso also wrote Spider-Man: One More Day Sketchbook, a 2007 tie-in book to the "
Alonso would also oversee critically acclaimed runs on X-Men, such as "X-Men: Messiah Complex" (2007–08) and "Curse of the Mutants" (2010–11).[10]
He was promoted to vice president, executive editor in early 2010, and oversaw cross-promotional projects such an issue of the
In July 2010 Alonso and fellow Marvel Editor Tom Brevoort began a weekly column on Comic Book Resources called "Marvel T&A", a new installment of which appears every Friday, along with Joe Quesada's "Cup O' Joe" column.[8][19]
On January 4, 2011, Alonso was named editor in chief of Marvel Comics, replacing Joe Quesada,[10] who was named chief creative officer the previous June.[17] In attaining the position of editor in chief, he became only the third person in 15 years to hold the position, and one of the few in the company's history to gain it "without tumult or corporate bloodshed".[20]
The last few years of Alonso's tenure as editor in chief saw Marvel deal with both dwindling sales
In 2019,[29] Alonso founded a new comics publisher,[30] Artists, Writers and Artisans as the chief creative officer, or AWA Studios,[29][30] reuniting him with former Marvel Publisher Bill Jemas. The publisher announced that its first slate of titles would include books by creators such as Peter Milligan, Frank Cho, and Christa Faust.[29] One of its early publications was The Resistance, a miniseries by J. Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato, which depicts a global pandemic caused by a pathogen that kills 95 percent of those infected, leaving the remaining 5 percent with superhuman abilities. The series, which was intended to establish a new superhero universe, debuted on March 18, 2020,[30][31] as the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold in the United States.[31] The series garnered positive reviews, achieved a rating of 9.0 out of 10 at the review aggregator website Comic Book Roundup, based on 20 reviews.[32]
Personal life
Alonso and his wife[33] have a son named Tito[20] who was 11 as of March 2014.[34]
Awards
Wins
- 2004 Eagle Award for Favourite Comics Editor[35]
- 2006 Eagle Award for Favourite Comics Editor[36]
- 2010 Eagle Award for Favourite Comics Editor[37]
Nominations
References
- ^ a b c Marston, George (November 17, 2017). "AXEL ALONSO Out, CB CEBULSKI In As Marvel Editor-in-Chief". Newsarama.
- ^ "Marvel Comics introduces mixed-race Spider-Man". BBC News. August 3, 2011.
- ^ Truitt, Brian (August 2, 2011). "A TV comedy assured new Spidey's creator". USA Today. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2011.
- ^ Ching, Albert (August 2, 2011). "Identity of the New ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN Revealed". Newsarama.
- ^ a b "Avengers VS X-Men: War Journals: Cast: Axel Alonso". MTV. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
- CBR.com.
- ^ Thielman, Sam (May 26, 2016). "Marvel editor-in-chief: 'Writing comics was a hobby for white guys". The Guardian.
- ^ a b c Phegley, Kiel (January 4, 2011). "Alonso Named Marvel Editor-In-Chief". CBR.com.
- Quesada, Joe (September 24, 2010). "Marvel T&A: Tributes & Teasers", CBR.com.
- ^ a b c d e f Moore, Matt. "Marvel Promotes Axel Alonso to Editor-in-Chief", ABC News, January 4, 2011
- ^ "Marvel Promotes Axel Alonso to Editor-in-chief", CBS News, January 4, 2011
- ^ Shin, Annys (August 29, 2010). "Personal Liberties: Comic book artist Frank Cho has made a career of being bawdy and bold". The Washington Post.
- ^ Phegley, Kiel (January 7, 2011). "Alonso Speaks as Editor-In-Chief". CBR.com.
- ^ Paul, Ryan (2003-03-19). "Rawhide Kid #1-2". PopMatters. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
- ^ "Rawhide Kid (Marvel, MAX imprint, 2003 Series)". Grand Comics Database. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
- The Advocate. Here. February 4, 2003. p. 23. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
- ^ a b "Marvel's JOE QUESADA Promoted to Chief Creative Officer". Newsarama. June 2, 2010
- ^ Phegley, Kiel (October 21, 2010). "Marvel & ESPN Redraft the NBA". CBR.com.
- ^ Quesada, Joe (July 9, 2010). "Introducing Marvel T&A!". CBR.com.
- ^ a b Itzkoff, Dave (March 25, 2011). "Modern Marvel". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Karan, Tim (November 2017). "Marvel names new editor-in-chief". Looper.
- ^ a b Gustines, George Gene (April 7, 2017). "Marvel Comics May Have Slumping Sales, but Don't Blame Its Diverse Heroes". The New York Times.
- ^ Gustines, George Gene (May 25, 2016). "Reintroducing Captain America and Dr. Manhattan". The New York Times.
- ^ Rothman, Michael (May 2, 2017). "Marvel on Captain America's turn to Hydra: 'We hear your concerns'". ABC News.
- ^ Gustines, George Gene (August 28, 2017). "Captain America: Fighting Evil Again". The New York Times.
- ^ Griepp, Milton (March 31, 2017). "Marvel's David Gabriel on the 2016 Market Shift". ICv2.
- ^ Gustines, George Gene (November 17, 2017). "Marvel Entertainment Names New Editor in Chief". The New York Times.
- ^ "Axel Alonso leaves an incredible mark at Marvel..." Marvel Entertainment/Twitter. November 17, 2017.
- ^ a b c "AWA Announces First Comic Titles by Cho, Milligan, Faust, Moreci, More". ICv2. March 26, 2019. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- ^ a b c Rosner, Elias (January 29, 2020). "Interview with 'The Resistance': JMS and Mike Deodato on Their New Universe". Multiversity Comics. Archived from the original on February 1, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- ^ a b O'Neil, Tegan (March 24, 2020). "REVIEWS: The Resistance". The Comics Journal. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- ^ "THE RESISTANCE". Comic Book Roundup. March 2020. Archived from the original on July 26, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
- ^ Terror, Jude (April 1, 2017). "Axel Alonso and David Gabriel Say Marvel 'Changed Too Many Characters,' Publisher 'Is Not About Politics'". Bleeding Cool.
- ^ Ching, Albert (March 14, 2014). "Axel-In-Charge: SXSW Wrap Up, Digital Initiatives and Marvel's New #1s". CBR.com.
- ^ Patty, Shawn. "2004 Eagle Awards Winners" Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine. Comics Bulletin. November 11, 2004
- Eagle Awards. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ "2010 Eagle Award winners" Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine The Beat. October 30, 2010
- ^ "2007 Eagle Awards winners" Archived October 7, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Eagle Awards. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
- ^ "2008 Eagle Awards winners" Archived October 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Eagle Awards. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
External links
- Axel Alonso at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)