[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2023″ img_size=”1080×720″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_column_text]Todd McFarlane is best known for his work and creation of Spawn but Todd has worked with some of the best known characters and comic publishers there are. He has worked with both Marvel and DC Comics including characters Batman and Incredible Hulk but he also had a great run with Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man in the 80s-90s. Todd McFarlane recently spoke about one of his Spider-Man trademarks, “Spaghetti Webbing”. Todd mentioned that is was not himself who came up with the term but his Editor in Chief with Marvel.
“I began that look right from the start of my run as the artist on the book and, over time, the webs got longer and longer. During one of my visits to Marvel, I was called into the Editor-in-Chief’s office. This wasn’t the first time I had been in his office to discuss Spider-Man‘s new art direction, but because I was messing with their icon character, some thought my style wasn’t appropriate. On this day, the conversation was going well, but I could sense some frustration in the chief’s voice. Finally, he couldn’t contain himself and he said, ‘Todd… I need you to stop doing those… those… those damn spaghetti webbings!’”
McFarlane goes on to add that he did not listen to his EIC and in fact he made them longer than before:
“It was perfect!” he said. “I ended the conversation by telling him that I would stop doing them that way, then immediately went out and began drawing the next issue with the ‘spaghetti webbings’ twice as long as before!”
McFarlane is currently in the middle of writing his script for his directorial debut in the Spawn movie starring Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner.
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