COMIC ARTIST

Todd McFarlane

1961 - Today

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Todd McFarlane (; born March 16, 1961) is a Canadian comic book creator, best known for his work as the artist on The Amazing Spider-Man and as the creator, writer, and artist on the superhero horror-fantasy series Spawn, as well as being the current President and a co-founder of Image Comics. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic-book superstar due to his high-selling work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise, on which he was the artist to draw the first full appearances of the character Venom. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Todd McFarlane has received more than 2,731,238 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Todd McFarlane is the 145th most popular comic artist (down from 117th in 2019), the 532nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 381st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Comic Artist.

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  • 2.7M

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  • 44.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Todd McFarlane ranks 145 out of 226. Before him are Inio Asano, Sylvain Chomet, Lynn Okamoto, Kiyohiko Azuma, Gege Akutami, and Sergio Aragonés. After him are Tooru Fujisawa, Rose O'Neill, Dave Gibbons, Mike Mignola, Guy Delisle, and Norihiro Yagi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Todd McFarlane ranks 393. Before him are Kim Delaney, Hiro Matsushita, Vissarion, Angelo Mazzoni, Satoshi Tsunami, and Danny Carey. After him are Abigail Johnson, Lolita Davidovich, Andrés Calamaro, Nancy Travis, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, and Monika Fagerholm.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Todd McFarlane ranks 532 out of 1,622. Before him are Patrick J. Adams (1981), Gil Bellows (1967), Chris Hadfield (1959), Sidney Olcott (1872), Christopher Heyerdahl (1963), and Marie Avgeropoulos (1986). After him are Anne Dorval (1960), James Tupper (1965), Sarah Polley (1979), Martin Kamen (1913), Erica Durance (1978), and Douglas Rain (1928).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Canada

Among comic artists born in Canada, Todd McFarlane ranks 3. Before him are Joe Shuster (1914), and Hal Foster (1892). After him are Guy Delisle (1966), and Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979).

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