Steven T. Seagle
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| Steven T. Seagle | |
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| Born | March 31, 1965 |
| Genres | Comics, television, film, video game, theater |
Steven T. Seagle (born on March 31, 1965) is an American writer who works in the comic book, television, film, live theater, video game, and animation, industries.
He is best known for his nationally acclaimed[1] graphic novel memoir It's a Bird (Vertigo, May 2004),[2] and as part of his Man of Action Studios (with Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey and Joe Kelly) which created the animated Cartoon Network series Ben 10 responsible for both Cartoon Network's highest-rated single program and highest rated series premiere.
Seagle is also a founding member of Speak Theater Arts, creators of innovative live stage productions and is a former college instructor having taught at Ball State University, Pasadena City College and Mt. San Antonio College where he also served as a coach for the Forensics team during many of their national championship seasons.
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[edit] Biography
Seagle has written numerous comics, plays, screenplays, animation and a number of original graphic novels. Seagle has a varied resume in contemporary comics ranging from super-hero franchises Superman and Uncanny X-Men (Wizard Award for Best Series of the Year) to cult favorite DC/Vertigo Comics genre books like Sandman Mystery Theatre (multiple Eisner Award nominations),[2] House of Secrets,[3] and American Virgin (GLAAD Media Award nominee 2007 & 2008) to more personal works like the It’s a Bird (with Teddy Kristiansen) and Solstice (CBR’s 2007 graphic novel of the year). Seagle and Rouleau also created the Marvel Comics super-hero team Big Hero 6.
Steve’s original comic book series House of Secrets was sold as a feature to Marc Canton/Warner Brothers, and Steve wrote the screenplay (unproduced). The same week Steve also sold the genre action pilot Carnival (not Carnivale) to FOX in association with Spelling Entertainment (unproduced). In that same week he sold the girls action/comedy Dot’s Bots to Mainframe Animation completing an amazing week and an “unproduced” trifecta.
Most recently Steve co-wrote, co-directed and produced two live stage comedies. N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK (www.NWClive.com) has played to packed houses coast-to-coast for over three years generating explosive laughs, a massive fan base, and impressive reviews including full-page features in both The LA Times and the New York Times. ArmeniaMania! (www.armeniamania.com) staged two preview performances as part of the Los Angeles Grand Performances series and will open in LA early next year.
Man of Action Studios recently launched its own comic book imprint published through Image Comics. Seagle is contributing original comic book and graphic novel properties to the line starting in 2009 with the limited series Soul Kiss[4]
[edit] Awards and nominations
Seagle's work has received numerous Eisner Award nominations, including twice for best writer - in 1995 for his work on Sandman Mystery Theatre (DC/Vertigo) and in 1999 for the same title and his story "Drive By" in Oni Double Feature #10 (Oni Press). Seagle's work on American Virgin has been nominated twice for the GLAAD Meida Award for Best Comic Book. Seagle's run on Uncanny X-Men was awarded the Wizard Fan Award for Favorite Ongoing Series.
[edit] Works
[edit] Comic books
- Kafka #1-6 - Renegade Press - Eisner Nomination
- The Amazon #1-3 - Comico
- Jaguar Stories #1-5 (of 12) produced/unpublished - Comico/Keyline Books
- In Thin Air - Caliber/Tome
- Grendel #40/Grendel Tales Preview - Comico
- Asylum #1 - Millennium
- Solstice #1-2 - Watermark Press
- Captain Satan #1-2 - Millennium
- Justice League Quarterly - 14-15 - DC Comics
- Primal Force #0-15 - DC Comics
- Hawkman #18
- Showcase '95 #3 - DC Comics
- Sandman Mystery Theatre #13-70, Annual #1 - DC Comics/Vertigo - Eisner Nominations
- WildCATS #8 (back-up) - Image/Wildstorm
- Stormwatch #20, 21, 25 - Image/Wildstorm
- Warblade #1-4 - Image/Wildstorm
- Wetworks #8 - Image Wildstorm
- Grendel Tales:The Devil In Our Midst #1-5 - Dark Horse Comics
- Team 1: Stormwatch #1-2 - Image/Wildstorm
- Voodoo/Zealot: Skin Trade - Image/Wildstorm
- Grifter: One Shot - Image/Wildstorm
- Grifter #1-10 - Image/Wildstorm
- Dark Horse Presents: "My Vagabond Days" 113, 124, 138, Annual 1 - Dark Horse Comics
- Allegra - #1-4 - Image/Wildstorm
- Grifter/The Mask #1-2 - Dark Horse Comics
- Oni Double Feature #10/#11 "Drive-By" - Oni Press - Eisner Nomination
- House of Secrets #1-25 - DC Comics/Vertigo
- House of Secrets: Facade #1-2 - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1-2 - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Flinch #9 - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Alpha Flight (vol 2) #1-20, & -1 - Marvel Comics
- X-Men #68 - Marvel Comics
- Uncanny X-Men #350-365 - Marvel Comics - Wizard Fan Award - Best Ongoing Series
- Sleepy Hollow Movie Adaptation - DC Comics/Vertigo
- The Crusades #1-20, "Urban Decree One Shot (precedes issue 1) - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Green Lantern: Brightest Day, Blackest Night - DC Comics
- Superman: The 10-Cent Adventure - DC Comics
- Superman #190-200 - DC Comics
- Vertical - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Constantine Movie Adaptation - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Cartoon Network Action Pack #6 (BEN 10 story as Man Of Action)- DC Comics
- DC Infinite Halloween Special #1 - DC Comics
- American Virgin #1-23 - DC Comics/Vertigo - GLAAD Media Award Nominations 2006 & 2007
- Soul Kiss (with Marco Cinello) #1-5, Man Of Action/Image Comics
- The Amazon #1-3 - Dark Horse
[edit] Graphic novels and collections
- The Amazon [remastered] - Dark Horse
- American Virgin - Volume 1: Head - DC Comics/Vertigo
- American Virgin - Volume 2: Going Down - DC Comics/Vertigo
- American Virgin - Volume 3: Wet - DC Comics / Vertigo
- American Virgin - Volume 4: Around the World & 69 - DC Comics / Vertigo
- Batman Black & White - Volume 2 - DC Comics
- House Of Secrets: Foundation - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Grendel Tales: The Devil In Our Midst" - Dark Horse
- It's a Bird - DC Comics/Vertigo - Eisner Nomination
- JSA Presents Green Lantern - DC Comics
- Kafka - Caliber Press
- Kafka [remastered] - Active Images
- Solstice [remastered/completed] - Active Images
- SOUL KISS - Man Of ACtion / Image Comics
- Sandman Mystery Theatre - Volume 3: The Vamp - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Sandman Mystery Theatre - Volume 4: The Scorpion - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Sandman Mystery Theatre - Volume 5: Dr. Death & Night of the Butcher - DC Comics/Veritgo
- Sandman Mystery Theatre - Volume 6: The Hourman & The Python - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Sandman Mystery Theatre - Volume 7: The Mist & The Phantom of the Fair - DC Comics/Vertigo
- Wildstorm Rising - Image Comics
- X-Men : Zero Tolerance - Marvel
[edit] Television
- BEN 10 - Series Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION), Writer (selected episodes) - Cartoon Network
- BEN 10 Season 1 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION), Writer (selected episodes) - Cartoon Network
- BEN 10 Season 2 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION), Writer (selected episodes) - Cartoon Network
- BEN 10 Season 3 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION), Writer (selected episodes) - Cartoon Network
- BEN 10 Season 4 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION) - Cartoon Network
- BEN 10: Alien Force - Series Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION) - Cartoon Network
- BEN 10: Alien Force Volume 1 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION)
- BEN 10: Alien Force Volume 2 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION)
- BEN 10: Alien Force Volume 3 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION)
- BEN 10: Alien Force Volume 4 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION)
- BEN 10: Alien Force Volume 5 DVD - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION)
- Carnival - Creator, Writer - FOX/Spelling Entertainment (unproduced)
- Dot's Bots - Co-Creator - Mainframe Animation
- Generator Rex - Series Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION), Writer (selected episodes) - Cartoon Network
- Sex TV - (as himself), interview - CTV
[edit] Film
- House Of Secrets - Creator, Writer - Warner Brothers/Marc Canton Productions (unproduced)
- BEN 10: Race Against Time - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION) - Cartoon Network
- BEN 10: Alien Swarm - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION) - Cartoon Network
- BEN 10: Secrets of the Omnitrix - Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION) - Cartoon Network
[edit] Stage
- N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK - Comedy - Co-writer, Co-director - Speak Theater Arts (www.speaktheaterarts.com)
- ArmeniaMania! - Comedy - Co-writer, Co-director - Speak Theater Arts (www.speaktheaterarts.com)
- The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, An Epilogue - Drama - Co-director, Designer - Speak Theater Arts/GMCLA (www.speaktheaterarts.com)
- The SEX Show - One Act - Co-writer, Co-director - World Premiere Award ARTa 2006
- BUILD - One Act - Writer, Director - Audience Award ARTa 2002
- Guernica - One Act - Writer, Director - Best Play ARTa 2001
[edit] Video games
- X-Men : Legends - Writer - Activision
[edit] Notes
- ^ Reviewed by The New Yorker, Slate.com and included in a feature interview on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross
- ^ a b Irvine, Alex (2008), "It's a Bird...", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 98–99, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
- ^ Irvine, Alex (2008), "House of Secrets", in Dougall, Alastair, The Vertigo Encyclopedia, New York: Dorling Kindersley, pp. 89, ISBN 0-7566-4122-5, OCLC 213309015
- ^ MEN ON ACTION: Seagle & Cinello "Soul Kiss" Joe Casey, Comic Book Resources, December 18, 2008
[edit] References
- Steven T. Seagle at the Comic Book DB
[edit] External links
- Steven T. Seagle at the Internet Movie Database
- Interview with Seagle by Shaun Manning, Comics Bulletin
| Preceded by Scott Lobdell |
Uncanny X-Men writer 1997–1999 |
Succeeded by Alan Davis |
