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Todd Mcfarlane Biography

Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic book creator, artist, writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur who was born and brought up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is well known for his work as the artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and the artist on the superhero horror-fantasy series Spawn.

10 Quick Facts About Todd McFarlane

1. Name: Todd McFarlane
2. Age: 61 years
3. Birthday: 16 March
4. Zodiac Sign: Pisces
5. Height: 5 feet 5 inches(1.7 m)
6. Nationality: Canadian
7. Occupation: Comic book creator, artist, writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur
8. Marital Status: Married
9. Salary: Under Review
10. Net worth: $300 million dollars

Todd Mcfarlane Age

Todd is 61 years old as of 2022, he was born on 16 March 1961, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He celebrates his birthday on 16 March every year and his birth sign is Pisces.

Todd Mcfarlane Height

Mcfarlane stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches(1.7 m). He appears to be quite tall in stature if his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by.

Todd Mcfarlane Weight

Todd has a weight of 70 kg.

Todd Mcfarlane Education

McFarlane enrolled at Eastern Washington University on a baseball scholarship where he pursued graphic art.

Todd Mcfarlane Family

Todd was born and raised by his parents in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Our efforts to find out more about her family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. Thus, the identity of Todd’s parents is still unclear. We will update this section once this information is available. He has two siblings.

Todd Mcfarlane Wife

Todd is happily married to Wanda. The couple tied the knot in the year 1986. They have three kids namely; Cyan, Kate, and Jake.

Todd Mcfarlane Net Worth

Mcfarlane has an estimated net worth of $300 million dollars as of 2022. This includes his assets, money and income. His primary source of income is his career as a comic book creator, artist, writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur. Through his various sources of income, Mcfarlane has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Todd Mcfarlane Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Mcfarlane.

Todd Mcfarlane Wiki

• Full Name: Todd Mcfarlane
• Popular As: Todd
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Comic book creator, artist, writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur
• Nationality: Canadian
• Race / Ethnicity:  Not Available
• Religion: Not Available
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Todd Mcfarlane Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 61 years
• Zodiac Sign: Pisces
• Date of Birth: 16 March 1961
• Place of Birth: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Birthday: 16 March

Todd Mcfarlane Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: Not Available
• Height / How Tall?: 5 feet 5 inches(1.7 m)
• Weight: 70 kg
• Eye Color: Not Available
• Hair Color: Not Available
• Shoe Size: Not Available

Todd Mcfarlane Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Not Available
• Mother: Not Available
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Two
• Marital Status: Married
• Wife/Spouse: Married to Wanda
• Dating / Girlfriend: Not Applicable
• Children: Three

Todd Mcfarlane Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: $300 million dollars
• Salary: Under Review
• Source of Income: His career as a Comic book creator, artist, writer, filmmaker and entrepreneur

Todd Mcfarlane Career

McFarlane started sending 30–40 packages of submissions each month to comics editors, totaling more than 700 submissions after a decade and twelve months while still in college, most of which were in the form of pinups. Half resulted in no response and the other half resulted in rejection letters, though he received some constructive criticism from a few editors. One of them, DC Comics’ Sal Amendola, gave him a dummy script in order to gauge McFarlane’s page-to-page storytelling ability.

Amendola’s advice that his submissions needed to be major page-to-page stories rather than pinups led him to create a 5-page Coyote example that he initially sent to Uncanny X-Men editor Ann Nocenti at Marvel Comics, who passed it along to Archie Goodwin and Jo Duffy, the editors of the Marvel imprint Epic Comics, which published Coyote. They in turn passed it on to Coyote creator Steve Englehart, who called him to give him his first comic work, a 1984 backup story in Coyote.
McFarlane started drawing for both DC and Marvel, with his first major body of work being 2 decades run from 1985–1987 on DC’s Infinity, Inc. He explains the last 3 issues of Detective Comics’ 4-issue Batman; Year 2 storyline. From 1987 to 1988, he moved to Marvel’s Incredible Hulk, which he drew working with writer Peter David.

Todd Mcfarlane Spawn

The series revolves around the story of former Marine Force Recon Lieutenant Colonel Al Simmons, who worked as a government assassin in covert black ops. He was betrayed and killed by a man whom he believed to be his close friend. The man, later to be revealed as Chapel, burned him alive with a flamethrower during a mission. Upon his death, Simmons vowed revenge on Chapel and hoped that he would one day return to his beloved wife Wanda.
Because of his life as an assassin, his soul goes to Hell.

In order to accomplish his vow, he makes a pact with the devil Malebolgia who was the overlord on the eighth plane of Hell. The pact was as simple as ABCD, Simmons would become a soldier in Malebolgia’s army known as a Hellspawn or Spawn for short in return for the ability to walk the earth once again in order to see his wife. He was tricked by Malebolgia; his body was not returned to him and he is returned to Earth 5 decades after his death.

He had been given a different body which was a festering, pungently cadaverous, maggot-ridden walking corpse that had a massive living red cape attached to it. Because his new body had been rotten for some time and was in an advanced state of decay, his face had become heavily malformed, to the point that he barely appeared human, which led to his donning a mask in order to cover its grotesque appearance.
On his return to life, Spawn seeks out Simons’s wife, who had apparently gotten over the grief of having lost Al and married another man, Al’s best friend Terry Fitzgerald with whom she had had a daughter, Cyan. Terry, a respectable man, works as an analyst for a man named Jason Wynn. Wynn is a powerbroker in the CIA and secretly a black market arms dealer, amongst other things such as the head of secret government organizations within the NSA and National Security Council.

Wynn is revealed to be the man responsible for the death of Al Simmons due to a disagreement that the 2 had with each other concerning their job. Jason’s actions would also prove dangerous to the lives of Terry, Wanda, and their children as well. Realizing that he is no longer the man in his wife’s life, Al swears to protect her and her new family.
The series depicts Spawn nesting in the dark alleyways, killing any who invade his newfound territory. Rejecting these actions as unworthy of Spawn’s time and power, Malebolgia then dispatches another of his minions a demonic creature known as the Violator that assumes the form of a short, obese clown to try to persuade Spawn to commit acts of violence and savagery in the name of Hell.
Spawn struggles to fight the lure of evil, as well as seeking to escape being hunted by not only the forces of Hell but by assailants from Heaven, who have a need to destroy the Hellspawn’s in order to cripple the forces of Hell so that they do not gain an edge in the escalating war between the two spiritual hosts. As the war intensifies, the line between the forces of good and evil becomes increasingly blurry. Spawn finds help along the way in the form of a disheveled old man named Cogliostro who was once a Hellspawn that overcame the demonic powers resting within, amongst a couple of other characters.
Spawn learns how to shapeshift and, appearing as Terry, makes love to Wanda, impregnating her in the last episodes of the series. It is revealed that there is a prophecy that the kid of a Hellspawn will play the deciding factor in Armageddon, and maybe the real reason Spawn was allowed to return to Earth.

Todd Mcfarlane DC Comics

• All-Star Squadron
• Detective Comics
• Infinity, Inc

• Invasion!
• Sandman
• Superman Special

Todd Mcfarlane Image Comics

• Cyberforce
• Haunt
• age Comics Summer Special

• Image United
• Image Comics Hardcover
• Spawn/Batman

Todd Mcfarlane Cover art

• Badrock
• Black Flag Preview Edition
• Cyber Force

• Reborn
• The Crow
• The Darkness

• The Infinite
• Walking Dead

Todd Mcfarlane Writing

• Sam and Twitch
• Savior
• Spawn

• Spawn Kills Everyone
• Spawn Kills Everyone Too
• Gunslinger Spawn

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