Axel Alonso (b. 1967)

Born: 1967 September 21 in San Francisco, California, United States Issue List Issue Overview Issue Edit List Cover List Series List Character List Feature List Sequence List Co-Creator List via story credit search for "Axel Alonso" Issues to be Migrated Issue List Story Credits in the GCD external links Who's Who of American Comic Books Internet Movie Database (IMDB) Wikipedia

Biography:

Axel Alonso is an American comic book creator and former journalist, best known as the former editor in chief at Marvel, a role which he held from January 2011 until November 2017.

Alonso began his career as a journalist for New York's Daily News. He later worked as an editor at DC from 1994 to 2000, during which he edited a number of books published under their Vertigo line, such as Doom Patrol, Animal Man, Hellblazer, Preacher, and 100 Bullets. In 2000, he went to work for Marvel as a senior editor. While there, he edited Spider-Man and X-Men-related books before ascending to vice president, executive editor in 2010, and editor in chief in January 2011, replacing Joe Quesada. He left Marvel in 2017.

In 2019, Alonso founded a new comics publisher, Artists, Writers and Artisans, or AWA Studios, as the chief creative officer reuniting him with former Marvel Publisher Bill Jemas.