Carl Potts
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Personal History
Personal History of Carl Potts is unknown.
Professional History
Carl Potts (born November 12, 1952[1] in Oakland, California) is an American comic-book writer, artist, and editor best known for creating the series Alien Legion for the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics.
Early life
Raised in Oakland, San Leandro, and San Diego, California, as well as in Hawaii, Potts received an Associate's degree in commercial art from Chabot College in Hayward, California.[2]
Career
After contributing to such comics fanzines as the anthology Venture,[3] Potts drew backgrounds and some secondary figures for a late fill-in issue of DC Comics' Richard Dragon: Kung Fu Fighter, being drawn by Bay Area comics artists Jim Starlin and Alan Weiss.[2] Potts began his comics career in 1975.[4]
Relocating to New York City, he freelanced briefly until joining Neal Adams' commercial-art company and comic-book packager Continuity Studios. As he explained in a 2000 interview: "Continuity was gearing up to produce black-and-white magazines based on several TV series: The Six Million Dollar Man, Space: 1999 and Emergency!. I got involved with storyboard and comp art for major New York ad agencies. I also produced finished-illustration for magazines and books for several years before joining Marvel's editorial staff in 1983".[2]
Marvel Comics
At Marvel as an editor, Potts worked with such notable comics creators as Jon Bogdanove, Mike Okamoto (who won the Russ Manning Award as artist on Epic's Atomic Age), Whilce Portacio, Steve Skroce, Larry Stroman, and Scott Williams early in their careers. He oversaw the development of The Punisher from guest star to franchise character, and edited such titles as The Incredible Hulk, Doctor Strange, The Defenders, The Thing,[5] and Alpha Flight, as well as the newly created Power Pack and Strikeforce: Morituri. Potts' editorship was humorously characterized in 1988 as "a remarkable feat considering [his] legendary spelling disability."[4] Potts was the editor through whom both Art Adams and Jim Lee broke into the comics industry with their first Marvel Comics work.[6][7][8]
After hours, Potts continued to write and produce occasional art for Marvel, and in 1983 teamed with Alan Zelenetz and Frank Cirocco to co-create the series Alien Legion, conceived as "the French Foreign Legion in space." Two ongoing series and several miniseries and one-shots were produced.[2][9] In the mid- to late 2000s, Alien Legion was optioned by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and The Walt Disney Company.[10]
In 1989, Potts was named executive editor in charge of the Epic imprint, and about a third of the mainstream Marvel titles. Five years later, he became editor-in-chief of the "General Entertainment" and Epic Comics divisions.[2]
Later career
After 13 years at Marvel, Potts left to become Creative Director at VR-1, a massively multiplayer online game company.[2] He then worked with Gary Winnick and Cirocco's Lightsource Studios.[2]
Personal life
With wife Cathy, Potts has two children.[11]
Footnotes
- ↑ Comics Buyer's Guide #1636 (December 2007); Page 135
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Interview: Carl Potts" PopImage.com, May 2000. WebCitation archive.
- ↑ Carl Potts at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. WebCitation archive.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Punisher: War Journal #1 (1988). Reprinted in The Punisher War Journal: Classic, (Marvel Comics, 2008) ISBN 978-0-7851-3118-2, p. 33
- ↑ Shooter, Jim. "Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel comics cover-dated November 1983.
- ↑ Cooke, Jon B. "The Art of Arthur Adams", Reprinted from Comic Book Artist #17, November 15, 2001
- ↑ George Khoury and Eric Nolen-Weathington. Modern Masters Volume Six: Arthur Adams, 2006, TwoMorrows Publishing.
- ↑ Jim Lee and Bill Baker. Icons: The DC Comics & Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee Titan Books, 2010, Pages 8 and 10
- ↑ "Lists" at Alien Legion official site. WebCitation archive.
- ↑ Geddes, John. "'Alien Legion' Prepares for Blast-off", USA Today, November 16, 2009. WebCitation archive.
- ↑ "Bullpen Bulletins," Marvel comics cover-dated July 1992.
References
- Carl Potts at the Grand Comics Database
- Carl Potts at the Comic Book DB
External links
- General Eclectic (Carl Potts official blog). WebCitation archive.
- "VF / NM Industry Interview: Carl Potts", VeryFineNearMint.com, January 10, 2010. WebCitation archive.
| Preceded by Tom DeFalco |
Marvel Comics Group Editor-in-Chiefs, Epic & general entertainment
Mark Gruenwald Universe (Avengers & Cosmic) titles;
Bob Harras, mutant titles;
Bob Budiansky, Spider-Man titles;
Bobbie Chase, Marvel Edge titles; |
Succeeded by Bob Harras |
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