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Steven T. Seagle

This article is about the comic book writer. For the animator/filmmaker, seeSteve Segal.For the actor and martial artist, seeSteven Seagal.

Steven T. Seagleis an American writer who works in thecomic book,television,film,live theater,video gameandanimationindustries.

Steven T. Seagle
Seagle at the 2024 WonderCon
Seagle at the 2024WonderCon
BornBiloxi, Mississippi,U.S.
GenreComics,television,film,video game,theater

He is best known[1]for hisgraphic novelmemoirIt's a Bird...(Vertigo,May 2004),[2]and as part of hisMan of Action Studios(withDuncan Rouleau,Joe CaseyandJoe Kelly) which created the animatedCartoon NetworkseriesBen 10.

Seagle is also a founding member of Speak Theater Arts, creators of live stage productions, and is a former college instructor having taught atBall State University,Pasadena City College andMt. San Antonio College,where he also served as a coach for the Forensics team during many of their national championship seasons.

Early life

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Seagle was born inBiloxi, MS.Seagle's father, Jack, was in theUnited States Air Force,and as a result, the family moved many times. The family twice lived inColorado Springs, Colorado,near theUnited States Air Force Academywhere Jack was stationed. Seagle recalls watching theMoon landingon television in their apartment by what is todayChapel Hills Mall.Seagle's first encounter withSpider-Manwas when his mother, Jennie, brought Seagle's brother, David, to the airforceBase Exchange,where she purchasedThe Amazing Spider-Man#66, which featured the villainMysteriofor David andAvengers#89 featuringCaptain Marvelfor Steven. Years later, after Seagle had begun collecting comics himself, and his best friend, Eric Koppisch, recommended that he read an issue ofSpider-Manhimself, Seagle read an issue featuring a team-up withNova.Seagle migrated to readingUncanny X-Menstarting with issue #114 and this began Seagle's interest in comics. Seagle would later become the writer of Uncanny X-Men and Nova would later be the co-star on the TV series Seagle would produce,Ultimate Spider-Man.[3]

After Jack retired from the Air Force and took a job at KRDO, the family moved to a house right next toGarden of the Gods.Seagle attendedCoronado High School.Seagle harbored a heavy interest in music, participating in the marching band, orchestra, jazz band, andchamber singers.He also competed on the speech and debate team. During the summers he worked atFlying W Ranchbaking biscuits for a couple of years and then went to work as the villain two years in a row at Iron Springs Chateau, a job he characterized thus: "I was paid to insult people! Best job ever!"[3]

Career

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Seagle at theNew York Comic Conin Manhattan, October 10, 2010

Seagle has written numerous comics books. His first series wasKafkaforRenegade Presswhich was drawn byThe Walking Deadartist Stefano Gaudiano and which was nominated for anEisner awardin the Best Limited Series category. His second limited series wasThe Amazonwith artistTim Sale.With the collapse of the publisher in the middle of his third limited series,Solstice,Seagle left comics to become a full-time college instructor and speech and debate coach atBall State Universityand thenPasadena City College.Solstice was eventually completed by artistMoritatand published byImage Comics.His return to comics was on the seriesUncanny X-Men,Sandman Mystery Theatre(three Eisner nominations),House of Secrets,Alpha Flight,andGrifter.His Later Series work includedSuperman,The Crusadeswith artist Kelley Jones,Primal Force,American Virginwith Becky Cloonan, and the limited seriesSoul Kiss,andImperial.

Seagle has authored a number of original graphic novels including the Eisner-winningIt's a Bird...,and the Eisner nominatedThe Red Diary/The RE[a]D Diary– both with artistTeddy Kristiansen;two volumes of hisCamp Midnightseries with theNew Yorkercartoonist Jasoon Katzerstein; andGET NAKEDa collection of graphic essays illustrated by various artists fromThe Animation WorkshopinViborg, Denmarkwhere Seagle is an occasional lecturer. In addition, Seagle and artist Marco Cinello have authored two children's story books;Frankie SteinandBatula.

In 2000, Seagle co-founded Man of Action Studios – laterMan of Action Entertainment– a creative think tank, writers collective, and production house, with fellow partners and comic book creatorsJoe Casey,Joe Kelly,andDuncan Rouleau.Man of Action scripted four short films for an independent producer before being tapped to write the script for Activision'sX-Men: Legendsvideo game.

Their third professional credit was the original animation seriesBen 10which they created and sold toCartoon Network.The original series ran for 52 episodes and has so far spawned sequel seriesBen 10: Alien Force,Ben 10: Ultimate Alien,Ben 10: Omniverse,the2016 reboot,two live action made-for TV-movies, a live stage show, as well as a roller coaster attraction in England. Their second original creation for Cartoon Network,Generator Rex,aired sixty episodes andcrossed overwithBen 10in 2011. With Man of Action, Seagle was supervising producer onUltimate Spider-ManonDisney XD,which premiered in April 2012.[3][4]Seagle and Man of Action also served as co-executive producer duties on Disney XD'sAvengers Assemble.Seagle and Man of Action co-createdZak Stormwhich airs onNetflix,and developed and executive produceMegaMan:Fully Charged,andBakugan Battle Planetwhich both air onCartoon Networkin the U.S.

In November 2014, Disney in their first animated collaboration with Marvel Comics premieredBig Hero 6,a film based on the team co-created by Seagle and his Man of Action Entertainment partner Duncan Rouleau. Seagle's original comic book seriesHouse of Secretswas sold as a feature to Marc Canton/Warner Brothers, and Seagle wrote the screenplay(unproduced).The same week Seagle also sold and wrote the genre action pilotCarnivaltoFOXin association with Spelling Entertainment (unproduced), as well as and the female action/comedyDot’s Botsto Mainframe Animation.

Seagle, along with Liesel Reinhart and Rafael Agustin, is a co-founder of Speak Theater Arts the Los Angeles-based theater company that produced the touring comedy N*W*C; Armeniamania with Sona Movsesian; andIt Gets Better.In 2009, Seagle co-directed one of the national premiere live stage readings ofTheLaramie Project:an Epilogueperformed by a celebrity cast and theGay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles.[5]

Awards and nominations

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Seagle's work has received numerousEisner Awardnominations, including twice for best writer – in 1995 for his work onSandman Mystery Theatre(DC/Vertigo) and in 1999 for the same title and his story "Drive By" inOni Double Feature#10 (Oni Press). Seagle's work onAmerican Virginhas been nominated twice for the GLAAD Meida Award for Best Comic Book. Seagle's run onUncanny X-Menwas awarded the Wizard Fan Award for Favorite Ongoing Series.

Bibliography

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Early work

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  • Kafka#1–6 (withStefano Gaudiano,Renegade Press,1987)
    • A remastered version of the series was published byActive ImagesasKafka(tpb, 180 pages, 2006,ISBN0-9766-7615-X)
    • The remastered version was colorized and published viaImageasKafka(hc, 180 pages, 2013,ISBN1-6070-6763-3)
  • Comico:
  • In Thin Air: The Mystery of Amelia Earhart(withKen Holewczynski,one-shotpublished in two versions with different endings,Tome Press,1991)
  • Millennium:

Wildstorm

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DC Comics

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Vertigo

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Marvel Comics

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Image Comics

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Other publishers

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Filmography

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Television

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  • BEN 10– Series Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION) and writer (selected episodes) – Cartoon Network
  • BEN 10: Alien Force– Series Co-Creator (as MAN OF ACTION) – Cartoon Network
  • BEN 10: Ultimate Alien– 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

Film

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  • 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

Stage

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  • 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

Video games

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References

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  1. ^Reviewed byThe New Yorker,Slate.comand included in a feature interview on NPR'sFresh Air with Terry Gross
  2. ^Irvine, Alex(2008), "It's a Bird...", in Dougall, Alastair (ed.),The Vertigo Encyclopedia,New York:Dorling Kindersley,pp. 98–99,ISBN978-0-7566-4122-1,OCLC213309015
  3. ^abcTerrones, Terry (March 27, 2012)."Q&A with 'Ultimate Spider-Man' producer and Springs native Steven Seagle"ArchivedMarch 14, 2013, at theWayback Machine.ColoradoSprings.com
  4. ^Ching, Albert (March 27, 2012)."Joe Kelly and Steven Seagle Help Guide ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN".Newsarama.ArchivedJune 22, 2012, at theWayback Machine
  5. ^Grasso, Eugene."FAN FEST EXCLUSIVE: Steven T. Seagle Talks Man of Action".Fan Fest | For Fans, By Fans.Retrieved2019-02-14.
  6. ^"Mike Allred and Steven T. Seagle Confirm They Did Not Announce A New Project At Comic Con!".ComicRelated.com. July 31, 2009. Archived fromthe originalon November 29, 2014.
  7. ^Nolen-Weathington, Eric.Modern Masters Volume 16: Mike Allred.pp. 12–13.
  8. ^Marz, Ron (May 22, 2014)."Shelf Life: Casting a Glance Back at" StormWatch "".Comic Book Resources. Archived fromthe originalon September 5, 2015.
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