Marc Andreyko

Marc Andreyko (born 20 June 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a comic book and screenplay writer, known for writing the 2000s series Manhunter for DC Comics. In 1997 he co-created (with Jay Geldhof, Galen Showman, and Mark Ricketts) The Lost, a Harvey-nominated comics mini-series which continued the story of Peter Pan in modern times, with the protagonist presented as an amoral vampiric boy prostitute. Only three of the four issues were finished, however.

Andreyko co-wrote the limited series Torso with Brian Michael Bendis, for which he was nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience and the Prize for Scenario (script) in 2003. He and Bendis are working with Paramount Pictures on a film adaptation of the work.

He co-created with P. Craig Russell, an Eisner- and Harvey-Award-winning one-shot for Marvel Comics featuring Dr. Strange entitled What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen? He has written comics for other publishers, including Dark Horse Comics, IDW Publishing, and Todd McFarlane Productions/Image Comics.

In 2004 he began writing DC Comics' Manhunter series, relaunching it with a third volume, in which he introduced a new "Manhunter" character named Kate Spencer, the first female character to carry the long-running legacy. He also created her civilian business partner Damon Matthews, who is in a romantic relationship with superhero Obsidian, one of the few gay-identified couples in mainstream superhero comics. After a couple brushes with near-cancellation, the series finally ended with issue #38 in January 2009.