Art Holcomb

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Art Holcomb (born December 31, 1955) is an American comic book creator, screenwriter and playwright.

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At age 13, he began his writing career in the sixth grade (at age 13) when one of his plays, The Birnbaum Guide to Hell on Five Dollars a Day [1] was professionally performed by the American Conservatory Theater.

He has published poetry, essays and short stories and has written more than 50 comic book stories for franchises such as X-Men, as well as original and licensed properties for Defiant Comics, Valiant Comics, Acclaim, Big Entertainment, Funimation, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics. His screen work has appeared on UPN, the Sci-Fi Channel and the Showtime Channel and is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of creative development firm Andromedia Entertainment, which consults on and adapts screenplays into graphic novels, creating some of the earliest examples of the “illustrated screenplays”. [2]

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