John Semper

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John Semper
Born
John Semper Jr.
Education Harvard University (BA)
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • showrunner
  • director
  • producer
Years active1979–present
Known forHead writer of Spider-Man: The Animated Series

John Semper Jr. (born August 14) is an American screenwriter, producer and story editor with numerous credits in animation for television. He is best known for being both producer and head writer on the television series Spider-Man: The Animated Series .

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Semper is the creative originator of the "Spider-Verse", also known as the "Spiderman Multiverse", a storyline propagated in various Spider-Man comics, cartoons and films in the early 21st century.

Education

John Semper Jr. graduated from Harvard University in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in Visual and Environmental Studies.

Career

Semper has worked for miscellaneous companies as Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Animation and Hanna-Barbera Productions during a career which has involved the development of projects for Jim Henson, George Lucas, Stan Lee, Rob Minkoff and others.

Semper created the English-language dialogue for two of Hayao Miyazaki's anime feature films Castle in the Sky and Kiki's Delivery Service , and co-wrote the screenplay for the live-action comedy Class Act .

During the 1990s, Semper was producer/story editor of Spider-Man: The Animated Series . which ran from 1994 to 1998.

In 2016, he began writing a Cyborg series for DC Comics drawn by Brian Stelfreeze. [1]

Spider-Verse

Semper is the first Spider-man artist to involve the storyline of the "Spider-Verse", also known as the "Spiderman Multiverse". The penultimate and finale episodes of his animated Spiderman series, "Spider Wars, Chapter IV: I Really, Really Hate Clones" and "Spider Wars, Chapter V: Farewell, Spider-Man", respectively, involved multiple parallel universe Spider-Man characters convening. This marked the first Spider-Man story involving parallel universes. The work later appeared in various Spider-Man comics, cartoons and films in the early 21st century, such as the Spider-Verse movie franchise, and Spider-Man: No Way Home . [2] [3] [4]

Creeporia

In 2014, Semper created the family comedy-horror webseries Creeporia (2014). The character of Creeporia was first introduced in the webseries titled Crypt of Creeporia, a live-action/animated blend of humor and horror. The title role in the original webseries was played by Kommerina DeYoung.

Spider-Man website

As of November 2014, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Spider-Man: The Animated Series , Semper started cartoonspiderman.com, which includes behind-the-scenes content, a Facebook page, podcasts about the show, and more information about his work related to the 1994 animated series. [5]

Books

His books include The Singular Affair of the Missing Ball: A Sherlock Whippet Mystery (Lulu Press, 2005), as well as several books based on his scripts for the TLC/PBS Kids preschool series Jay Jay the Jet Plane, and Kids' WB action/adventure series Static Shock.

Awards

"Day of the Chameleon", an episode Semper wrote for Spider-Man: The Animated Series, earned him a 1995 Annie Award nomination for Best Individual Achievement for Writing in the Field of Animation. In 1996, the series was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category Outstanding Animated/Live Action/Dramatic Youth or Children's Series/Special. In 2004, Semper was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for his work on Static Shock .

Screenwriting credits

Television

Films

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References

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  2. ↑ Bacon, Thomas (6 April 2020). "Spider-Man: The Animated Series Did Spider-Verse First". Screen Rant . Retrieved 11 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Staff, P. (2016, May 19). 'Spider-Man: The Animated Series' Team Remembers the '90s Classic and Opens Up About the New Show That Will Reunite the Cast. Peoplemag. https://people.com/tv/spider-man-the-animated-series-team-remembers-the-show/
  4. ↑ Cronin, B. (2021). Spider-Man: The animated series producer would like credit for creating the Spider-Verse. CBR. https://www.cbr.com/spider-man-animated-series-john-semper-credit-spider-verse/
  5. ↑ "SPIDER-MAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES 20th ANNIVERSARY REUNION - Panel Discussion". YouTube. 19 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
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