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Bio: The son of a renowned professor of Italian literature, Arcudi grew up in Buffalo, New York during the turbulent 1970s. He attended Columbia University, where he majored in English and devoured the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and William Faulkner with equal enthusiasm. After serving various apprenticeships on the fringes of the comic industry, including a stint at the New York branch of Forbidden Planet and the United Features comic syndicate, Arcudi joined Malibu Comics upon its founding in 1986, working on its Eternity line. At the same time he started writing for comics, making his first sales to Savage Tales and Savage Sword of Conan in 1986, and becoming a regular contributor to the humor magazine Cracked. Arcudi joined the stable of writers at Dark Horse Comics. He worked on developing the character the Mask first in Mayhem #1-4, and then in a highly successful series of books illustrated by Doug Mahnke. Arcudi’s work formed the basis of the feature film starring Jim Carrey. Arcudi and Mahnke teamed up for several projects besides the Mask. Most notable among these was the series Major Bummer published by DC Comics. The series focuses on a defective band of superheros, including a slightly senile time traveler, an incompetent super vocalist, a man who can stick to things and the main character, a slacker who doesn't care about his super-genius and strength. The title was canceled after only 15 issues. Arcudi also did a stint on Gen13, illustrated by Gary Frank and Cam Smith, and wrote a run on Doom Patrol, illustrated by Tan Eng Huat. Arcudi’s work on The Mask was preceded by a number of effective graphic novels based on films, including RoboCop, Terminator, Predator, Alien, and The Thing. Two of these graphic works were subsequently adapted as full-length novels published by Bantam Books. His most recent work in this line, Aliens: Alchemy, was illustrated by Richard Corben. Arcudi’s series Barb Wire, featuring bounty hunter and bartendress Barbara Kopetski, was adapted into a film starring Pamela Anderson. A lifelong aficionado of hardboiled crime novels, Arcudi also scripted several highly effective stories published in Dark Horse Presents, a series called “The Creep,” and a police procedural called “Homicide”. The protagonist of the latter, Detective Will Ford, was named in homage to one of Arcudi’s literary heroes, Charles Willeford. He has returned to the form recently with several scripts for Batman: The Dark Knight and Batman: Black and White. Arcudi invented the character Captain Daimio for the series B.P.R.D., which he writes with Mike Mignola. Arcudi had contributed a B.P.R.D. story to the Hellboy comic issued in conjunction with the film as a premium from Wizard Entertainment. As B.P.R.D. developed into a separate series, Mignola tapped Arcudi to write the scripts. Three complexly plotted tales have been published to date, with a fourth (Killing Ground) currently in production. Date of Birth: Birthplace: Favorite Creators: John Arcudi is a favorite creator of 13 users View a chronological listing of this creator's work  Writer: Abe Sapien: The Abyssal Plain (2010) Abe Sapien: The Devil Does Not Jest (2011) Abe Sapien: The Devil Does Not Jest and Other Stories (2012) Abe Sapien: The Haunted Boy (2009) Aliens (2009) Aliens Omnibus (2007) Aliens: Alchemy (1997) Aliens: Genocide (1991) Aliens: Stronghold (1994) Amazing Spider-Man Family (2008) Aquaman (2003) B.P.R.D. (2003) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth (2011) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth (2013) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: A Cold Day in Hell (2013) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Gods (2011) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Monsters (2011) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: New World (2010) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Russia (2011) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Devil's Engine (2012) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Long Death (2012) B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Return of the Master (2012) B.P.R.D.: 1948 (2012) B.P.R.D.: Garden of Souls (2007) B.P.R.D.: Killing Ground (2007) B.P.R.D.: King of Fear (2010) B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame (2005) B.P.R.D.: The Black Goddess (2009) B.P.R.D.: The Dead (2004) B.P.R.D.: The Ectoplasmic Man (2008) B.P.R.D.: The Universal Machine (2006) B.P.R.D.: The Warning (2008) B.P.R.D.: War on Frogs (2008) Barb Wire (1994) Barb Wire Omnibus (2008) Baseball Greats (1992) Batman Black and White (1996) Batman: Gotham Knights (2000) Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) Battle to the Death (1987) Brass (2000) The Comics Journal (1977) The Compleat Aliens (1993) The Complete Major Bummer Super Slacktacular (2011) The Creep (2012) Creepy (2009) Dark Horse Comics (1992) Dark Horse Futures (1989) Dark Horse Insider (1992) Dark Horse Presents (1986) Dark Horse Presents (2011) Dark Horse Presents: Aliens (1992) Dark Horse Signing & Preview Book (2009) Decade (1997) A Decade of Dark Horse (1996) Doom Patrol (2001) Excalibur (1988) Eye of the Storm Annual (2003) Flinch (1999) Free Comic Book Day: Aliens/Predator (2009) Gen13 (1995) Gen13: Carny Folk (2000) A God Somewhere (2010) A God Somewhere (2012) The Goon (2003) The Goon: Noir (2006) Hellboy Premiere Edition (2004) Hellboy, B.U.A.P. & Aliens (2010) Hellboy: Free Comic Book Day (2008) Hellboy: The Mole and Other Stories (2008) Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others (2007) Hellboy: Weird Tales (2003) JLA Superpower (1999) JLA: Destiny (2002) Lobo (1997) Lobo/Mask (1997) Lobster Johnson: Caput Mortuum (2012) Lobster Johnson: Satan Smells a Rat (2013) Lobster Johnson: The Burning Hand (2012) Lobster Johnson: The Prayer of Neferu (2012) The Machine (1994) Major Bummer (1997) Martian Manhunter (1998) The Mask Omnibus (2008) The Mask Returns (1992) The Mask Strikes Back (1995) The Mask (1991) Mayhem (1989) Mega komiks prezentuje (1999) Men of War (2011) Monsters Attack (1989) Motorhead Special (1994) MySpace Dark Horse Presents (2007) New Avengers: Luke Cage (2010) Predator (2009) Predator Omnibus (2007) Predator: Big Game (1991) Prelude to Infinite Crisis (2005) Robocop: Prime Suspect (1992) Robocop: Roulette (1993) Rocketeer Adventures (2011) The Saga of Solomon Kane (2009) The Savage Sword Of Conan (1974) Savage Tales (1985) Silver Sable and the Wild Pack (1992) Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: Lost and Gone Forever (2011) Sledgehammer 44 (2013) Solo (2004) The Terminator Omnibus (2008) The Terminator (1990) The Thing from Another World and Climate of Fear (1993) The Thing From Another World: Climate of Fear (1992) Thunderbolts (1997) Timely 70th Anniversary Collection (2010) Top Komiks (1998) USA Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009) Walter (1996) Warlock and the Infinity Watch (1992) Wednesday Comics (2009) What If...? 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