John Semper

John Semper
John Semper
Born	John Semper Jr.
Education	Harvard University (BA)
Occupations	Screenwriter; showrunner; director; producer;
Years active	1979–present
Known for	Head writer of Spider-Man: The Animated Series

John Semper Jr. is an American screenwriter, producer and story editor with numerous credits in animation for television. He is best known for being both producer and head writer on the television series

Spider-Man: The Animated Series

.

Semper is the creative originator of the "Spider-Verse", also known as the "Spiderman Multiverse", a storyline propagated in various Spider-Man comics, cartoons and films in the early 21st century.

Education

John Semper Jr. graduated from Harvard University in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in Visual and Environmental Studies.

Career

Semper has worked for miscellaneous companies as

Hanna-Barbera Productions during a career which has involved the development of projects for Jim Henson, George Lucas, Stan Lee, Rob Minkoff

and others.

Semper created the English-language dialogue for two of

Castle in the Sky and Kiki's Delivery Service, and co-wrote the screenplay for the live-action comedy Class Act

.

During the 1990s, Semper was producer/story editor of Spider-Man: The Animated Series. which ran from 1994 to 1998.

In 2016, he began writing a

Cyborg series for DC Comics drawn by Brian Stelfreeze.^[1]

Spider-Verse

Semper is the first Spider-man artist to involve the storyline of the "Spider-Verse", also known as the "Spiderman Multiverse". The penultimate and finale episodes of his animated Spiderman series, "Spider Wars, Chapter IV: I Really, Really Hate Clones" and "Spider Wars, Chapter V: Farewell, Spider-Man", respectively, involved multiple parallel universe Spider-Man characters convening. This marked the first Spider-Man story involving parallel universes. The work later appeared in various Spider-Man comics, cartoons and films in the early 21st century, such as the Spider-Verse movie franchise, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Creeporia

In 2014, Semper created the family comedy-horror webseries Creeporia (2014). The character of Creeporia was first introduced in the webseries titled Crypt of Creeporia, a live-action/animated blend of humor and horror. The title role in the original webseries was played by Kommerina DeYoung.

Spider-Man website

As of November 2014, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the

Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Semper started cartoonspiderman.com, which includes behind-the-scenes content, a Facebook page, podcasts about the show, and more information about his work related to the 1994 animated series.^[5]

Books

His books include The Singular Affair of the Missing Ball: A Sherlock Whippet Mystery (Lulu Press, 2005), as well as several books based on his scripts for the TLC/PBS Kids preschool series Jay Jay the Jet Plane, and Kids' WB action/adventure series Static Shock.

Awards

"Day of the Chameleon", an episode Semper wrote for Spider-Man: The Animated Series, earned him a 1995

Annie Award nomination for Best Individual Achievement for Writing in the Field of Animation. In 1996, the series was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category Outstanding Animated/Live Action/Dramatic Youth or Children's Series/Special. In 2004, Semper was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his work on Static Shock

.