David Tennant Original Art in Jessica Jones – (c) Netflix
Marvel’s Jessica Jones is due to hit Netflix on 20th November and we’re counting down the days until it does!’
We’ve got some dedicated pages on the show but we won’t be stopping there — oh no! Stick around with us in the days leading up to the premiere for all the skinny on the series, the writers, the cast and the production team — everyone and everything that makes Marvel’s Jessica Jones tick.
For more details about Jessica Jones see our dedicated pages.
It is Day 10 of our countdown to the premiere of the highly anticipated series. Today — and for the rest of this week — we’re going behind the scenes so we can get to know some of the people responsible for bringing Marvel’s Jessica Jones to life.
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Today for our feature we’ve got the creative team of Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Gaydos and David Mack, the creators of the comic book series Alias. Alias — the first Marvel MAX imprint — brought Jessica Jones into the Marvel Universe. Their cutting edge comic book about a damaged former superhero struggling with the repercussions of trauma touched a nerve and won them huge critical success. Fourteen years later, the comic will finally see its long-overdue turn on the screen.
In the coming days leading up to the series premiere we’ll also be featuring the cast of the show as well as some other exciting surprises! — but for right now let’s get down to business….
Brian Michael Bendis
Krysten Ritter in the Netflix original series “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”. Photo Credit: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix
Brian Bendis is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is a five-time Eisner Award winner best known for his small press creator-owned work (Jinx, Powers) and for his work with Marvel Comics (Ultimate Spiderman, Daredevil, X-Men, Alias/The Pulse, Avengers.)
Bendis was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He went to the Cleveland Institute Of Art and during his first years there he worked at a local comic books store. He credits his time at the comic book store for teaching him a world of knowledge about the business of comic book making. He was also able to sell his college thesis comic on the stand at the store, which eventually brought him to Caliber’s attention. By the early 1990’s he’d moved into producing work for both Caliber and Image Comics – producing the titles Jinx, Goldfish, Fire, and Torso among others.
When he joined Marvel in 2000 he was given the task of writing Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis began work on Ultimate Spider-Man in 2000 and Daredevil in 2001. Also in 2001, Bendis helped launch Marvel’s non-Comics Code-approved, adult MAX imprint with Alias, featuring former superhero Jessica Jones operating as a private investigator. The series ran for 28 issues before many of the characters moved to Bendis’ mainstream Marvel Universe series The Pulse.
Bendis subsequently wrote other books in the Ultimate line, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, which Bendis himself pitched to Marvel as a follow-up to his success on Ultimate Spider-Man, as well as Ultimate Fantastic Four, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Origins, Ultimate Six, the first three issues of Ultimate Power, and the Ultimate Comics: Doomsday metaseries. In 2011, Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli created the Miles Morales character as the new version of the Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis continues to write every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man in its current form, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man.
In addition to writing comics, he has worked in television, video games and film, and began teaching writing at the University of Oregon in the fall of 2013. He has also occasionally taught at Portland State University.
Bendis is credited with writing all thirteen episodes of Marvel’s Jessica Jones.
Sources:
Brian Bendis’ offical website biography
Brian Bendis’ IMDB page
Brian Bendis’ wikipedia page
“Comics Legend Brian Michael Bendis on Guardians of the Galaxy, Sexism, and Making a Nonwhite Spider-Man” – Vulture, 1 May 2014
“Brian Michael Bendis” – A.V. Club, 9 Aug 2007
Michael Gaydos
Krysten Ritter in the Netflix original series “Marvel’s Jessica Jones”. Photo Credit: Myles Aronowitz/Netflix
Illustrator, painter and printmaker Michael Gaydos is an award-winning American comic book artist whose home and studio are located in Beacon, NY. He is a two-time Eisner Award nominee best known for his work alongside Brian Michael Bendis with Marvel Comics on Alias/The Pulse. His list of credits include list of credits include illustrations, graphic novels and sequential artwork for Marvel, DC, Virgin, Dark Horse, Fox Atomic, Image, Tundra, NBM, Caliber and White Wolf among others.
Gaydos was educated at the Cleveland Institute of Art. His thesis for his last year at the school was Scorched Earth, which was also his first foray into comics courtesy of Tundra Comics. Other early works were Inferno (published by Caliber, and Citizen Wayne, a short story he did with Brian Michael Bendis for DC.
His work on the aforementioned comics brought him to the attention of Brian Michael Bendis and when Bendis was developing Alias, Gaydos was approached by Bendis to do the illustrative work and worked with colorist Matt Hollingsworth and cover artist David Mack.
His works are too extensive to list in detail (he is credited with over 200 comic issues) but include Dark Circle Comics’ Black Hood, IDW’s 24 and True Blood, Spider Man, and Wolverine. He has also illustrated Marvel’s mini-series such as Powerless and Daredevil Redemption, as well as drawing a Devlin Waugh story for 2000 AD. He illustrated Virgin Comics’ Snakewoman, and has illustrated a story for Fox Atomic Comics graphic novel The Nightmare Factory.
Since Alias and its follow-up The Pulse, Gaydos has worked extensively in fine arts as well as comics. Gaydos’ work has been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions over the past few years and his work is in private collections worldwide. He has also established himself in various other artistic channels such as the illustrated word and the graphic novel. He has his own design website, Thistlebox, and he also maintains his own website showcasing his paintings and illustrations.
Gaydos is credited with writing all thirteen episodes of Marvel’s Jessica Jones.
Sources:
Michael Gaydos’ Wikipedia page
Michael Gaydos’ IMDb page
Michael Gaydo’s official website
List of Michael Gaydos’ work
Cadence Comic Art
Interview – Michael Gaydos – Pop Image, 2001
Thistlebox
David Mack
David Mack is the New York Times Best Selling author and artist of the Kabuki Graphic Novels, cover artist for Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, the writer and artist of Daredevil from Marvel Comics, including Daredevil: End of Days which just debuted in hardcover as #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List (co-written with Brian Michael Bendis), and the artist for the 2001-2004 series Alias/The Pulse.
Mack’s work has garnered nominations for seven Eisner Awards, four International Eagle Awards, and both the Harvey and Kirby Awards in the category of Best New Talent, as well as many other national and international awards and nominations.
In 2004 Mack, along with his collaborators (and members of M.O.B) Brian Michael Bendis & Mike Oeming, formed a brand new imprint at Marvel Comics which they named ICON, to publish their creator-owned comics Kabuki and Powers. ICON continues as an imprint of Marvel to this day publishing some of the most successful creator-owned comics, including KICK-ASS.
David Mack is one of the only creators to be listed in both the Top Ten Writers List, and the Top Ten Artists List in Wizard Magazine. Mack’s writing and art work on Kabuki have earned him international acclaim for his innovative storytelling, sophisticated content, mixed media painting techniques, and page design. The series has spawned successful lines of action figures, toys, and sophisticated collectables and art objets (many of which were featured on Showtime’s TV show Dexter). He was the first American to be nominated for Germany’s most prestigious Max-Und-Moritz award in the category of Best Imported Comic.
Mack’s Kabuki books have been the subject of under-graduate and graduate university courses in Art and Literature, and listed as required reading. His work has been studied in graduate seminars at USC and hung in the Los Angeles Museum of Art. He’s lectured at universities and taught classes in writing, drawing, and painting all over the world, including a Masterclass at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, for Japan’s School of Communication Arts of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, and an invitation to speak at Harvard as the Guest of Honor at their annual Science Fiction Writing convention.
Besides working for Twentieth Century Fox as a writer of the treatment to the Kabuki motion picture, Mack’s film credits also include Visual Designer, Creative Consultant, and Co-Producer.
Mack created the last two seasons of Dexter Early Cuts episodes for Showtime (the first, collaborating with legendary artist Bill Sienkiewicz). The latest season earned him nominations for both the Writers Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.
Mack has illustrated poetry collaborations with Neil Gaiman and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, wrote the adaptation of Science Fiction Master Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant as a graphic novel at Marvel Comics, and is currently working on a new creator-owned project with Brian Michael Bendis and new Kabuki material for this year’s 20th anniversary of Kabuki as a comic book.
Sources:
David Mack’s official page
David Mack’s Wikipedia page
Comic Book Database, Alias
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