Comic book writer and historian, television writer, essayist, and comic Mark Evanier is perhaps best known for his over-two-decades-long collaboration with cartoonist Sergio Argonés on the series "Groo the Wanderer," featuring the antics of an intellectually challenged barbarian. Since starting his career as an assistant to noted comic-book creator Jack Kirby in the late 1960s, Evanier has worked with many of the industry's greats. He is the author and editor of many other comic-book series, hundreds of columns, and several television shows, including cartoon programs such as Scooby Doo, Rickety Rocket, and Superman: The Animated Series. Awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 from the Writers Guild of America for his work in animation writing, Evanier was lauded for standing "'head and shoulders above most others in the field,'" as Craig Miller noted on the Writers Guild of America Web site.

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