Todd McFarlane

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March 16, 1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Comics & Graphic Novels, Horror

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Todd McFarlane is a Canadian comic book artist, writer, toy manufacturer/designer, and media entrepreneur who is best known as the creator of the epic occult fantasy series Spawn.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. Spawn was one of America's most popular heroes in the 1990's and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties.

In recent years, McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and...more

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Books by Todd McFarlane

Average rating: 3.54 · 3,432 ratings · 168 reviews · 127 distinct works

	Spawn Collection Volume 1 3.97 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Spawn Collection Volume 2 by Todd McFarlane, Grant Morrison 3.75 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Spawn Collection Volume 3 by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo 3.83 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Spider-Man: Torment Tpb 3.30 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Spawn Collection Volume 4 by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Brian Holguin 3.82 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Spawn, Book 1: Beginnings 3.99 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Spawn Collection Volume 5 by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Brian Holguin 4.05 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Spawn Collection Volume 6 by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Brian Holguin 4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Spawn, Book 2: Dark Discoveries by Todd McFarlane, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Spawn Origins Collection, Volume 1 3.42 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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Series by Todd McFarlane

Spawn (82 books)
by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo (Illustrator)

3.53 avg rating — 2,298 ratings

Spawn Collection (6 books)
by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Brian Holguin

3.90 avg rating — 792 ratings

Spawn (UK) (15 books)
by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo

3.80 avg rating — 298 ratings

Spawn (US) (12 books)
by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo (Illustrator)

3.90 avg rating — 280 ratings

Spawn: Origins (TPB) (10 books)
by Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo (Contributor), Kevin Conrad (Contributor)

3.56 avg rating — 121 ratings

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“Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.”
― Todd McFarlane

tags: batman , comics , spawn

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“This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans. ...But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there [Britain].”
― Todd McFarlane

tags: britain , dolls , england , great-britain , language , toys

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“If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.”
― Todd McFarlane

tags: truth

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