Ben Abernathy

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Ben Abernathy
Born Bend, OR
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Ben Abernathy is a comic book editor and writer. He has worked at DC Comics as an Executive Editor and Group Editor of the Batman books. He was EIC and founder at Madefire, a company that creates motion books, and was previously an editor at Wildstorm, Dark Horse Comics and Marvel Comics.

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Biography

Ben Abernathy broke into comics as an Assistant Editor at Dark Horse Comics in Portland in 1998 before jumping to New York to work as Creative Services Coordinator at DC Comics the following year in 1999.

In 2000, he joined Marvel Comics in New York as Special Projects Manager for a year and change.

In 2002, he moved back to DC Comics as Group Editor of DC Comics Digital for an entire decade, from 2002 until 2012.

In 2012, he left DC to become co-founder and editor-in-chief of a new digital comics publisher, Madefire, with Liam Sharp, including writing the series The Heroes Club and bringing DC Comics to the platform. [1] [2]

When that closed in 2015, he returned to DC Comics. [3] First as Director – Talent Relations in 2015, then as Batman Group Editor [4] in 2019, which began with his hiring of James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez to take over from Tom King on the main Batman book, as well as later hiring Chip Zdarsky to replace Tynion. As a result of such successes, Ben Abernathy was promoted to Executive Editor in late 2021, [5] still keeping his Bat duties.

In 2024, he left DC Comics [6] to move to Skybound Entertainment. [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Ben Abernathy Leaves DC Comics". 23 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "Ben Abernathy Joins Madefire". 28 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "Ben Abernathy is Now Director of Talent Relations for DC Comics". 25 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "Gossip: All Change at DC Comics - New Group Editors for Batman, Superman and DCU?". 29 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "Jobs for Michelle H. Nagler Ben Abernathy, Matt Hawkins & Kuo-yu Liang". 12 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "Scoop: Ben Abernathy, Batman Group Executive Editor, Quits DC Comics". 9 January 2024.
  7. ↑ "Ben Abernathy Quit DC and Batman for Robert Kirkman's Skybound?". 10 January 2024.

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