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Peter David

January 01, 1970

For the politician, see Peter David (politician). For the journalist, see Peter David (journalist).

Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956),[3][4] often abbreviated PAD,[5] is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games.[6] His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk, as well as runs on Aquaman, Young Justice, SpyBoy, Supergirl, Fallen Angel, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, Captain Marvel and X-Factor.

Peter David
David in 2017
BornPeter Allen David
(1956-09-23) September 23, 1956 (age 67)
Fort Meade, Maryland, U.S.
Area(s)Superhero fantasy, science fiction, fantasy
Pseudonym(s)David Peters
Notable works
The Incredible Hulk, X-Factor, Young Justice, Star Trek: New Frontier, Fallen Angel
Awards
Spouse(s)
Myra Kasman
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(m. 1977; div. 1998)​
Kathleen O'Shea
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(m. 2001)​
Children4
Signature
Alma materNew York University (BA)
Occupations
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • screenwriter
  • comic book writer
Years active1985–present
Official website

His Star Trek work includes comic books, novels such as Imzadi, and co-creation of the New Frontier series. His other novels include film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series. His television work includes series such as Babylon 5, Young Justice, Ben 10: Alien Force[6] and Nickelodeon's Space Cases, which he co-created with Bill Mumy.

David often jokingly describes his occupation as "Writer of Stuff",[6][7] and he is noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real-world issues with humor[8][9] and references to popular culture, as well as elements of metafiction[5] and self-reference.[10][11]

David has earned multiple awards for his work, including a 1992 Eisner Award, a 1993 Wizard Fan Award, a 1996 Haxtur Award, a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award.

Early life edit

Peter David's paternal grandparents, Martin and Hela David, and his father, Gunter, emigrated to the United States in the 1930s after the antisemitism in Nazi Germany progressed to the point that Martin's Berlin shoestore became the target of vandalism.[12][13][14] David was born September 23, 1956, in Fort Meade, Maryland,[3] to Gunter and Dalia David (née Rojansky),[15][16] an Israeli Jewish mother[17][18] who had worked with DNA mappers James Watson and Francis Crick[16][19] and to whom David credits his sense of humor.[15] He has two siblings,[20] a brother Wally,[21] seven years his junior,[22] who works as an IT Systems Administrator in the financial sector, and a younger sister named Beth.[23][24][25]

David first became interested in comics when he was about five years old, reading copies of Harvey Comics' Casper and Wendy in a barbershop. He became interested in superheroes through the Adventures of Superman TV series.[26] Although David's parents approved of his reading Harvey Comics and comics featuring Disney characters, they did not approve of superhero books,[27] especially those published by Marvel Comics, feeling that characters that looked like monsters, such as the Thing or the Hulk, or who wore bug-eyed costumes, like Spider-Man, did not appear heroic. As a result, David read those comics in secret,[28][29] beginning with his first Marvel book, Fantastic Four Annual #3 (November 1965), which saw the wedding of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman.[30] His parents eventually allowed him to start reading superhero titles,[27] his favorite of which was Superman.[5][31] He cites John Buscema as his favorite pre-1970s artist.[32] David attended his first comic book convention around the time that Jack Kirby's New Gods premiered, after asking his father to take him to one of Phil Seuling's shows in New York, where David obtained Kirby's autograph, his first encounter with a comics professional.[28]

David's earliest interest in writing came through the journalism work of his father, Gunter, who sometimes reviewed movies and took young Peter along (if it was age-appropriate). While Gunter wrote his reviews back at the newspaper's office, David wrote his own, portions of which sometimes found their way into Gunter's published reviews.[31][33] David began to entertain the notion of becoming a professional writer at age twelve, buying a copy of The Guide to the Writer's Market, and subscribing to similar-themed magazines,[34] in the hopes of becoming a reporter.[5]

David lived in Bloomfield, New Jersey,[35] in a small house at 11 Albert Terrace,[28] and attended Demarest Elementary School.[36] His family later moved to Verona, New Jersey, where he spent his adolescence.[37] By the time he entered his teens, he had lost interest in comic books, feeling he had outgrown them.[38] David's best friend in junior high and first year in high school, Keith, was gay, and David has described how both of them were targets of ostracism and harassment from homophobes.

Although his family eventually moved to Pennsylvania,[37] his experiences in Verona soured him on that town and shaped his liberal sociopolitical positions regarding LGBT issues. He later made Verona the home location of villain Morgan le Fay in his novel Knight Life, and has often discussed his progressive views on LGBT issues in his column and on his blog.[39][40][41]

David's interest in comics was rekindled when he saw a copy of Superman vs. Muhammad Ali (1978) while passing a newsstand,[42] and later, X-Men #95 (October 1975), and discovered in that latter book the "All-New, All-Different" team that had first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975). These two books were the first comics he had purchased in years.[38]

A seminal moment in the course of his aspirations occurred when he met writer Stephen King at a book signing, and told him that he was an aspiring writer. King signed David's copy of Danse Macabre with the inscription, "Good luck with your writing career.", which David now inscribes himself onto books presented to him by fans who tell him the same thing.[43] Other authors that David cites as influences include Harlan Ellison, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert B. Parker, Neil Gaiman,[44] Terry Pratchett,[31] Robert Crais[33] and Edgar Rice Burroughs.[45] Specific books he has mentioned as favorites include To Kill a Mockingbird, Tarzan of the Apes, The Princess Bride, The Essential Ellison, A Confederacy of Dunces,[46] Adams Versus Jefferson, and Don Quixote.[33] David has singled out Ellison in particular as a writer whom he has tried to emulate.[47]

David attended New York University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism.[31]

Career edit

Early work edit

David's first professional assignment was covering the World Science Fiction Convention held in Washington in 1974 for the Philadelphia Bulletin.[31][48]

David eventually gravitated towards fiction after his attempts at journalism did not meet with success.[5] His first published fiction appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction in 1980. He sold an op-ed piece to The New York Times, but overall his submissions that met with rejection far outnumbered those accepted.[49]

Comics career edit

1980s edit

 
Peter David and Larry Stroman at a comic book signing for X-Factor in the early 1990s

David eventually gave up on a career in writing and came to work in book publishing. His first publishing job was for the E.P. Dutton imprint Elsevier/Nelson, where he worked mainly as an assistant to the editor-in-chief.[50] He later worked in sales and distribution for Playboy Paperbacks. He subsequently worked for five years in Marvel Comics' Sales Department, first as Assistant Direct Sales Manager under Carol Kalish, who hired him, and then succeeding Kalish as Sales Manager.[6][31][51][52] During this time he made some cursory attempts to sell stories, including submission of some Moon Knight plots to Dennis O'Neil, but his efforts were unfruitful.[53]

Three years into David's tenure as Direct Sales Manager, Jim Owsley became editor of the Spider-Man titles. Although crossing over from sales into editorial was considered a conflict of interest in the Marvel offices, Owsley, whom David describes as a "maverick," was impressed with how David had not previously hesitated to work with him when Owsley was an assistant editor under Larry Hama. When Owsley became an editor, he purchased a Spider-Man story from David, which appeared in The Spectacular Spider-Man #103 (June 1985).[5][6] Owsley subsequently purchased from David "The Death of Jean DeWolff", a violent murder mystery darker in tone than the usually lighter Spider-Man stories that ran in issues #107–110 (October 1985 – January 1986) of that title.[6][54] Responding to charges of conflict of interest, David made a point of not discussing editorial matters with anyone during his 9-to-5 hours as Direct Sales Manager,[55] and decided not to exploit his position as Sales Manager by promoting the title. Although David attributes the story's poor sales to this decision, he asserts that such crossing over from Sales to Editorial is now common.[49] In the Marvel offices, a rumor circulated that it was actually Owsley who was writing the stories attributed to David.[56] Nonetheless, David says he was fired from Spectacular Spider-Man by Owsley due to editorial pressure by Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, and he has commented that the resentment stirred by Owsley's purchase of his stories may have permanently damaged Owsley's career.[5] Months later, Bob Harras offered David The Incredible Hulk, as it was a struggling title that no one else wanted to write,[49][55] which gave David free rein to do whatever he wanted with the character.[57]

During his 12-year run on Hulk, David explored the recurring themes of the Hulk's multiple personality disorder, his periodic changes between the more rageful and less intelligent Green Hulk and the more streetwise, cerebral Gray Hulk, and of being a journeyman hero, which were inspired by The Incredible Hulk #312 (October 1985), in which writer Bill Mantlo (and possibly, according to David, Barry Windsor-Smith) had first established that Banner had suffered childhood abuse at the hands of his father. These aspects of the character were later used in the 2003 feature film adaptation by screenwriter Michael France and director Ang Lee.[6][52][58] Comic Book Resources credits David with making the formerly poor-selling book "a must-read mega-hit".[5] David collaborated with a number of artists who became fan-favorites on the series, including Todd McFarlane, Dale Keown and Gary Frank.[6] Among the new characters he created during his run on the series were the Riot Squad[59] and the Pantheon.[6][60] David wrote the first appearance of the Thunderbolts, a team created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley, in The Incredible Hulk #449 (January 1997).[61]

It was after he had been freelancing for a year, and into his run on Hulk, that David felt that his writing career had cemented.[31] After putting out feelers at DC Comics, and being offered the job of writing a four-issue miniseries of The Phantom by editor Mike Gold, David quit his sales position to write full-time.[62] David had a brief tenure writing Green Lantern when the character was exclusive to the short-lived anthology series Action Comics Weekly from issues #608–620 in 1988.[63]

David took over Dreadstar during its First Comics run, with issue #41 (March 1989) after Jim Starlin left the title, and remained on it until issue #64 (March 1991), the final issue of that run. David's other Marvel Comics work in the late 1980s and 1990s includes runs on Wolverine, the New Universe series Mark Hazzard: Merc and Justice, a run on the original X-Factor, and the futuristic series Spider-Man 2099,[64] about a man in the year 2099 who takes up the mantle of Spider-Man, the title character of which David co-created. David left X-Factor after 19 issues, and he wrote the first 44 issues of Spider-Man 2099 before quitting that book to protest the firing of editor Joey Cavalieri. The book was cancelled two issues later, along with the entire 2099 line.[65]

1990s edit

 
Peter David at a comics convention in the early 1990s

In 1990, David wrote a seven-issue Aquaman miniseries, The Atlantis Chronicles, for DC Comics,[66] about the history of Aquaman's home of Atlantis, which David has referred to as among the written works of which he is most proud,[67] and his first time writing in the full script format.[68] He later wrote a 1994 Aquaman miniseries, Aquaman: Time and Tide, which led to a relaunched monthly Aquaman series,[69] the first 46 issues of which he wrote from 1994 to 1998. His run on Aquaman gained notoriety, for in the book's second issue, Aquaman lost a hand, which was then replaced with a harpoon, a feature of the character that endured for the duration of David's run on the book. More broadly, his run recast the character as an aggressive man of action, one deserving of greater respect, in contrast to the "fish-talking punch line" into which the TV series Super Friends had rendered him.[6] David quit that book over creative differences.[65]

David wrote the Star Trek comic book for DC from 1988 to 1991, when that company held the licensing rights to the property, though he has opined that novels are better suited to Star Trek, whose stories are not highly visual.[5] He and Ron Marz cowrote the DC vs. Marvel intercompany crossover in 1996.[70] David enjoyed considerable runs on Supergirl[71] and Young Justice,[72] the latter eventually being canceled so that DC could use that book's characters in a relaunched Teen Titans monthly.

David's work for Dark Horse Comics has included the teen spy adventure SpyBoy, which appeared in a series and a number of miniseries between 1999 and 2004, and the 2007 miniseries The Scream.

Other 1990s work includes the 1997 miniseries Heroes Reborn: The Return,[73] for Marvel, and two creator-owned properties: Soulsearchers and Company, published by Claypool Comics, and the Epic Comics title Sachs and Violens, which he produced with co-creator/artist George Pérez.

2000s edit

David's early 2000s work includes runs on two volumes of Captain Marvel as well as the Before the Fantastic Four: Reed Richards limited series.[74]

David and his second wife, Kathleen, wrote the final English-language text for the first four volumes of the manga series Negima for Del Rey Manga.[75]

In 2003, David began writing another creator-owned comic, Fallen Angel, for DC Comics, which he created in order to make use of plans he had devised for Supergirl after the "Many Happy Returns" storyline, but which were derailed by that series' cancellation. That same year, he wrote a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series for Dreamwave that tied into the animated television series broadcast that year.[5]

DC canceled Fallen Angel after 20 issues, but David restarted the title at IDW Publishing at the end of 2005. Other IDW work included a Spike: Old Times one-shot and the Spike vs. Dracula mini-series, both based on the character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel television series.

 
David with writer Dan Slott at Jim Hanley's Universe in Manhattan, October 25, 2007, promoting the beginning of David's tenure as writer on She-Hulk[76]

In 2005, David briefly returned to The Incredible Hulk, though he left after only 11 issues because of his workload.[77] He started a new series, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, beginning with a twelve-part crossover storyline called "The Other",[78] which, along with J. Michael Straczynski's run on The Amazing Spider-Man, and Reginald Hudlin's run on Marvel Knights Spider-Man, depicted the webslinger as he discovered he was dying, lost an eye during a traumatic fight with Morlun, underwent a metamorphosis and emerged with new abilities and insights into his powers. As tends to be the case when fundamental changes are introduced to long-standing classic comics characters, the storyline caused some controversy among readers for its introduction of retractable stingers in Spider-Man's arms, and the establishment of a "totem" from which his powers are derived.[79] David's final issue of that title was #23.[80]

David wrote a MadroX miniseries that year, whose success led to a relaunch of a monthly X-Factor volume 3 written by him.[81] This was a revamped version of the title starring both Madrox and other members of the former X-Factor title that David had written in the early 1990s, now working as investigators in a detective agency of that name. David's work on the title garnered praise from Ain't it Cool News,[82] and David has stated that the opt in/opt out policy and greater planning with which Marvel now executes crossover storylines has made his second stint on the title far easier.[5] His decision to explicitly establish male characters Shatterstar and Rictor as sharing a sexual attraction to one another (a confirmation of clues that had been established in X-Force years earlier in issues such as X-Force #25, 34, 43, 49, 56 and X-Force '99 Annual), drew criticism from Shatterstar's co-creator, Rob Liefeld,[83] though Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada supported David's story.[84] David eventually won a 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for his work on the title.[85][86][87]

On February 11, 2006, David announced at the WonderCon convention in California in that he had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics. Fallen Angel, Soulsearchers and Company and David's Spike miniseries were "grandfathered" into the contract, so as to not be affected by it.[88] The first new project undertaken by David after entering into the contract, which he announced on April 5, 2006, was writing the dialogue for The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born, the comic book spin-off of Stephen King's The Dark Tower novels, which was to be illustrated by Jae Lee,[89] as well as scripting the subsequent Dark Tower comics.

David took over Marvel's She-Hulk after writer Dan Slott's departure, beginning with issue #22.[90][91] His run, which won praise,[92] ended with issue #38, when the series was canceled.[93] He wrote a 2008–09 Sir Apropos of Nothing miniseries, based on the character from his novels, which was published by IDW Publishing.[94]

David's other 2000s comics based on licensed or adapted properties include Halo: Helljumper, a 2009 miniseries based on the Halo video game, a 2009 Ben 10: Alien Force manga book published by Del Rey, Ben Folds Four,[95] a "Little Mermaid" story in Jim Valentino's Fractured Fables anthology that was praised by Ain't It Cool News,[8] an adaptation of the 1982 film Tron that was released to tie in with that film's 2010 sequel,[96] and a John Carter of Mars prequel to the 2012 feature film.[45] In 2010, he co-wrote The Spider-Man Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book with Rare Collectibles Spun from Marvel's Web with Robert Greenberger.[97] David wrote the script for Avengers: Season One, an original graphic novel published to promote the DVD release of The Avengers.[98]

2010s edit

On November 24, 2011, David was one of the balloon handlers who pulled the Spider-Man balloon during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.[99][100]

 
David at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon

In October 2013, X-Factor ended its run with issue #262, concluding the X-Factor Investigations incarnation of the series. The book was then relaunched as All-New X-Factor, a new series with artist Carmine Di Giandomenico, as a part of the All-New Marvel NOW! initiative announced at the 2013 New York Comic Con. The opening storyline, which continues events from issue #260 of the previous series, establishes the new corporate-sponsored version of the team, and includes Polaris, Quicksilver, and Gambit.[101][102]

In July 2014, David returned to Spider-Man 2099, writing the second volume of Spider-Man 2099 with artist Will Sliney.[103] With this series, David was again writing two series, X-Factor and Spider-Man 2099, after having previously done so decades prior, a coincidence that prompted him to joke at the June 2014 Special Edition NYC convention, "I don't know whether to be proud of that or if I'm in a rut!"[104]

In 2014 David wrote a six-part story-arc for The Phantom for publishing company Hermes Press, a story that David, reportedly had wanted to write for many years.[105]

In 2015, Simon and Schuster published Stan Lee's autobiographical graphic novel, Amazing Fantastic Incredible, which David co-wrote, and which became a New York Times bestseller in its first week of release.[106]

In April 2017, following the conclusion of the Spider-Man storyline "Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy", which saw the return of Ben Reilly, Marvel premiered the monthly series Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider, with David as writer.[107] David explained to Syfy Wire that when Marvel offered him the job, he was initially ambivalent, as Ben Reilly had never been his favorite incarnation of Spider-Man, and given Reilly's recent emergence as the villainous Jackal. However, David gave further consideration to the fact that a book whose main character had a skewed, villainous worldview was not something Marvel had historically done much of, and decided that the premise presented itself with opportunities that intrigued him enough to accept the job.[108] His other Spider-Man work during this decades included 2019 five-issue miniseries Symbiote Spider-Man, which holds a 7.5 out of 10 rating at the review aggregator Comic Book Roundup,[109] and the 2020 follow-up miniseries Symbiote Spider-Man: Alien Reality, which holds a 7.6 rating at Comic Book Roundup.[110]

Novels edit

David's career as a novelist developed concurrently with his comic-book writing career. David had been working at a publisher that went out of business, and a former coworker from that publisher became his agent, through whom he sold his first novel, Knight Life, to Ace Books.[31] Although the sale was made before he wrote any comic books, the novel was not published until eighteen months later, in 1987.[52] The novel depicts the reappearance of King Arthur in modern-day New York City. Another early novel of his, Howling Mad, is about a wolf that turns into a human being after being bitten by a werewolf. Ace Books hired David to write the Photon and Psi-Man novels, though they published them under the "house name" David Peters, over David's objections.[111] David updated Knight Life years later when Penguin Putnam brought it back into print in 2003, and made it a trilogy with the sequels One Knight Only and Fall of Knight, which were published in 2004 and 2007, respectively.[49] Penguin rereleased Howling Mad and the Psi-Man books under David's actual name.

David first began writing Star Trek novels at the request of Pocket Books editor Dave Stern, who was a fan of David's Star Trek comic book work.[49][112] His Star Trek novels are among those for which he is best known, including Q-in-Law; I, Q; Vendetta; Q-Squared; and Imzadi, one of the best-selling Star Trek novels of all time. He created the ongoing novel series, Star Trek: New Frontier, a spin-off from Star Trek: The Next Generation, with John J. Ordover in 1997. New Frontier continued until September 2015, with the publication of the third part of the digital novel, The Returned, the final New Frontier novel to date. David's other science fiction tie-in novels include writing five Babylon 5 novels, three of which were originals, and two of which were adaptations of the TV movies Thirdspace and In the Beginning.

His other novel adaptations include those of the movies The Return of Swamp Thing, The Rocketeer, Batman Forever, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Hulk, The Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man. He wrote an original Hulk novel, The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast,[113] and an adaptation of an unused Alien Nation television script, "Body and Soul".[114]

David's 2009 novel Tigerheart is a re-imagining of Peter Pan with a mix of new and old characters, told as a Victorian bedtime story, much like the classic tale. It was praised by Ain't It Cool News,[115] and honored by the School Library Journal as one of 2008's Best Adult Books for High School Students.[116] His Sir Apropos of Nothing fantasy trilogy, Sir Apropos of Nothing, The Woad to Wuin and Tong Lashing, features characters and settings completely of David's own creation, as does his 2007 fantasy novel, Darkness of the Light, which is the first in a new trilogy of novels titled The Hidden Earth. The second installment, The Highness of the Low, was scheduled to be published in September 2009,[95] but David has related on his blog that it has been delayed until the winter of 2012.[15]

David's 2010 novel work includes Year of the Black Rainbow, a novel cowritten with musician Claudio Sanchez of the band Coheed and Cambria, that was released with the band's album of the same name,[117] and a Fable original novel The Balverine Order, set between the events of Fable II and Fable III.[96] In April 2011, David announced that, in addition to another Fable novel, he and a number of other writers, including Glenn Hauman, Mike Friedman and Bob Greenberger, were assembling an electronic publishing endeavor called Crazy Eight Press to publish e-books directly to fans, the first of which would be David's Arthurian story, The Camelot Papers. David explained that the second book in his "Hidden Earth" trilogy would be published through Crazy Eight.[7][118] In September 2013, David acknowledged that books published through Crazy Eight are not as lucrative for him as those for publishers that pay him advances, and announced that his then-impending novel, ARTFUL: Being the Heretofore Secret History of that Unique Individual, The Artful Dodger, Hunter of Vampyres (Amongst Other Things.), would be published by Amazon.com.[119]

Writing habits and approach edit

 
David (at far right) on a panel on comic book writing at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival. Beside him (left to right) are Jim McCann, Dan Slott and Fred Van Lente.

David has stated that he tries to block out different days and different times to work on different projects.[120] He usually works in the morning, for example, on novels, and does comics-related work in the afternoon.[15] Having previously used Smith Corona typewriters, he writes on a Sony Vaio desktop computer, using Microsoft Word for his comics and novel work, and Final Draft for his screenplays.[33] When writing novels, he sometimes outlines the story, and sometimes improvises as he is writing.[121] Following his stroke in December 2012, David began using DragonDictate to write.[9][122] Todd McFarlane's original art for the cover of The Incredible Hulk #340, featuring Wolverine,[123] which McFarlane gave to David as a gift, hangs in David's office.[124]

David previously wrote his comic book scripts using the Marvel Method,[125] but due to his tendency to overplot, as during his collaboration with McFarlane on The Incredible Hulk, he switched to the full script method,[126] which he continues to use as of 2003.[31] He has stated that he prefers to plot his comics stories in six-month arcs.[10] He has stated that when he works on a particular title, he always does so with a particular person or group of people in mind to which he dedicates it, explaining that he wrote Supergirl for his daughters, Young Justice for a son he might one day have and The Incredible Hulk for his first wife, Myra, who first urged him to accept the job of writing that book. David has further explained that the events of his own life are sometimes reflected in his work, as when, for example, following the breakup of his first marriage, the direction of The Incredible Hulk faltered, with the Hulk wandering the world aimlessly, hopelessly looking to be loved.[127]

David has stated that his favorite female character of his own creation is Lee, the protagonist of Fallen Angel, which he says is derived from the positive female fan reaction to that character.[128] Characters that David has not written but which he has expressed an interest in writing for the comics medium include Batman, Tarzan, Doc Savage, the Dragonriders of Pern, the Steed/Peel Avengers, and Dracula. He has specifically mentioned interest in writing a Tarzan vs. the Phantom story.[31][120]

Other published work edit

  • Before David became a professional writer, he wrote fan fiction, examples of which include The TARDIS at Pooh Corner.[129]
  • David began writing his weekly opinion column, "But I Digress...", in Comics Buyer's Guide, since July 27, 1990, agreeing to do the column on the suggestion of an anonymous fan to Comics Buyer's Guide editors Don and Maggie Thompson,[130] David credits the existence of the column to Harlan Ellison, whom he has attempted to emulate with the column, and who wrote the introduction to the 1994 But I Digress collection.[47][95] David donates his earnings from the column to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.[49] David continued the column following CBG's switch to a monthly magazine format in 2004, until the magazine ceased publication in March 2013.[131] A second collection, More Digressions, was published by Mad Norwegian Press in June 2009.[95]
  • David assisted Star Trek actor James Doohan with Doohan's 1996 autobiography, Beam Me Up, Scotty.
  • An interview with David appeared in the first volume of Writers on Comic Scriptwriting in 2002.
  • David's instructional book, Writing for Comics with Peter David, was published by Impact Books in June 2006.[132][133] A second edition, Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels with Peter David, was published in August 2009.[95]
  • David's short story, "Colors Seen by Candlelight", appeared in Tales of Zorro, the first collection of original Zorro short fiction ever authorized by Zorro Productions, Inc. The anthology, edited by Richard Dean Starr, was published by Moonstone Books in 2008.
  • In 2009 David organized a satirical round-robin story called "Potato Noon", organized by David and hosted on his website.[134][135] which was inspired by the announcement of Russet Noon, an unauthorized fan fiction novel based on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.[136][137] Authors including Hugh Casey, Keith R.A. DeCandido, and Kevin Killiany participated in the story, with characters such as Michael Dukakis, Dan Quayle, and Ernest Hemingway appearing alongside satirical versions of Meyer's characters. David conceived the satire as a not-for-profit venture, and while he has no plans to publish the completed "Potato Moon", he has allowed for the possibility of a future charity release to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.[138]
  • In 2022, David curated an anthology entitled The Fans are Buried Tales, which, in his own words, combined Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with an event at a Farpoint convention in which everyone was snowed in "and created the concept of a large, general SF convention in which the attendees are snowed in and wind up exchanging stories of their characters/genres in the hotel bar." When he discovered that organizers of the 2022 Farpoint convention would not be requiring attendees to show proof of vaccination or negative test results, he resorted to using a Kickstarter to pay those involved. Many of the stories were from fellow Crazy 8 authors, while others were submitted by other professional writers and even fans.[139][140]

Other media edit

 
David with Warren Spector at the November 30, 2010 Times Square Disney Store launch party for Epic Mickey, which Spector designed, and for which David wrote two tie-in products

David has written for several television series and video games. He wrote two scripts for Babylon 5 (the second-season episodes "Soul Mates" and "There All the Honor Lies"), and the episode "Ruling from the Tomb" for its sequel series, Crusade. With actor/writer Bill Mumy, he is co-creator of the television series Space Cases, which ran for two seasons on Nickelodeon, and which proved to be his most lucrative work.[141] David himself appeared as Ben, the father of series regular Bova, in the second-season episode "Long Distance Calls".[142] David's oldest daughter, Shana, later appeared as Pezu, the emotionally disturbed sentient computer in the series finale "A Friend in Need".[143] David has written and co-produced several films for Full Moon Entertainment and has made cameo appearances in some of the films as well.

David wrote an unproduced script for the fifth season of Babylon 5 called "Gut Reactions", which he wrote with Bill Mumy.[144]

David wrote "In Charm's Way", an episode of Ben 10: Alien Force. The script was recorded in early 2009, and the episode premiered November 13, 2009.[95][145] He later wrote three episodes of the spinoff Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, the first of which, "Reflected Glory", premiered October 15, 2010.[146]

David wrote the script for the Xbox 360 video game Shadow Complex, which debuted in August 2009.[147][148]

David wrote several episodes of the Young Justice animated TV series, which premiered in 2010, and is based on the comic book series he wrote from 1998 to 2003.[149] The first episode he penned is episode #18.[15] The same year, he wrote a graphic novel adaptation of the video game Epic Mickey, and a prequel digicomic, Disney's Epic Mickey: Tales of Wasteland.[150][151][152]

In 2011 David wrote the video game Spider-Man: Edge of Time.[153][154][155]

At the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International, Stan Lee announced his new YouTube channel, Stan Lee's World of Heroes, which airs several programs created by Lee and other creators. One of them, Head Cases, is a superhero sitcom created by David and his wife Kathleen and produced by David M. Uslan. The series centers on Thunderhead, a would-be hero whose inability to utilize his ability to produce loud thunderblasts without injury to himself leads him to become a source of comedic derision in the superhero community. The series, which explores events that occur in between the battles typically seen in comic books, was based on a concept originated by Uslan, and partly inspired by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. David describes Head Cases as a 75-minute movie divided into 5-minute webisodes. The series will feature guest appearances by other industry personalities, including Stan Lee, who appears as himself, functioning in a similar manner to Norm Peterson from Cheers.[156][157][158]

Awards and nominations edit

Awards edit

  • 1992 Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist or Writer/Artist Team (shared with Dale Keown for The Incredible Hulk)[159]
  • 1993 Wizard Fan Award
  • 1993 UK Comic Art Award
  • 1994 Golden Duck Award for Young Adult Series (for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy)
  • 1995 Australian OZCon 1995 Award for Favorite International Writer
  • 1996 Haxtur Award for Best Script (for Para que la oscuridad no nos alcance ["So That the Dark Does Not Reach Us"], in Hulk La caída del Panteón [Hulk: The Fall of the Pantheon])[160]
  • 2007 Julie Award for achievements in multiple genres[161]
  • 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book (X-Factor vol. 3)[85][86][87]
  • 2011 International Association of Media Tie-In Writers Grandmaster Award (aka Faust Award)[162]

Nominations edit

Public image edit

On more than one occasion, editorial problems or corporate pressure to modify or re-script his plotlines have prompted David to leave books, particularly his decision to terminate his first run on Marvel's X-Factor, due to constantly having to constrain his plots to accommodate crossover events with other books.[46][171][172] He resigned from Spider-Man 2099 to protest the firing of editor Joey Cavalieri and from Aquaman over other creative differences.[5][173] When David abruptly left his first stint on The Incredible Hulk due to editorial pressures,[127] some of the plot points of the character that David established were retconned by later creative teams.[46]

In his "But I Digress" column, which began appearing in the Comics Buyer's Guide on July 27, 1990, and in his blog, in operation since April 2002,[174][175] David has been outspoken in many of his views pertaining to the comic book industry and numerous other subjects. He has criticized the low regard in which writers are held,[176][177] the practice of selling polybagged comics,[178] so-called "poster covers" that showcase a character without indicating anything about the comic's content, the meaninglessness of killing off characters to be eventually revived, the poor commitment on the part of some to maintaining continuity in shared fictional universes, and the emphasis on gearing monthly comics series toward eventual collection into trade paperbacks. David has opined that failure on the part of consumers to purchase the monthly individual issues in favor of waiting for the trade collections hurts the sales of the monthly and its chances of being collected at all.[31][44] A father of four daughters, David has worked on a number of series that feature female leads, such as Supergirl, Fallen Angel and She-Hulk, and he has lamented that the American comic book market is not very supportive of such books.[5][93] David has spoken out about fans who are abusive or threatening to creators,[179] and against copyright infringement,[180] particularly that which is committed through peer-to-peer file sharing and posting literary works in their entirety on the Internet without the permission of the copyright holder.[181]

On many occasions, he has offered criticisms of specific publishers, as when he criticized Wizard magazine for ageism.[182][183] He has criticized companies for not sufficiently compensating the creators of their long-standing and lucrative characters, such as Marvel Comics for its treatment of Blade creator Marv Wolfman[184] and Archie Comics for its treatment of Josie and the Pussycats creator Dan DeCarlo.[185][186] He has criticized publishers for various other business practices,[187] including Marvel[188] and Image Comics.[189] He has defended said companies from criticism he feels is unfounded, as when he defended Marvel from a February 17, 1992, Barron's magazine article.[190] He has criticized deletionists on Wikipedia on more than one occasion.[191][192]

On occasion, he has disagreed publicly with specific industry personalities such as Frank Miller[183] and Jim Shooter.[193] Particularly publicized were his disagreements with Spawn creator Todd McFarlane in 1992 and 1993, in the wake of the formation of Image Comics, the company McFarlane co-founded. This came to a head during a public debate they participated in at Philadelphia's Comicfest convention in October 1993, which was moderated by artist George Pérez. McFarlane claimed that Image was not being treated fairly by the media, and by David in particular. The three judges, Maggie Thompson, editor of the Comics Buyer's Guide, William Christensen of Wizard Press, and John Danovich of the magazine Hero Illustrated, voted 2–1 in favor of David, with Danovich voting the debate a tie.[194] David has since criticized McFarlane for other business practices,[195] and has engaged in public disagreements with The Comics Journal editor Gary Groth,[196] Erik Larsen,[197][198][199] Rob Liefeld,[177] Marvel Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada,[200] writer/director Kevin Smith,[201] DC Comics Vice President and Executive Editor Dan DiDio,[202] and John Byrne.[203] Despite his differences with Byrne, David has stated that he is still a fan of Byrne's, citing Byrne's work on X-Men, Fantastic Four, Next Men, Alpha Flight and Babe.[44]

Politically, David identifies himself as liberal.[204] He was critical of the George W. Bush administration in general,[205] and the Iraq War in particular,[206][207] as well as other Republicans[208][209] and the religious right.[210] He also became a staunch critic of President Donald Trump and his administration, criticizing his policies on a weekly basis.[211][212] He has spoken out in favor of Israel's right to defend itself from aggressors, and has opined that certain criticisms of Israel indicate bias and double standards.[213] He favors gun control,[214][215] and holds progressive or liberal views on LGBT issues, including favoring gay marriage[40][41] and allowing openly homosexual individuals to serve in the military.[216] He opposes capital punishment.[206][217][218] He is an advocate of freedom of speech,[215][219] having criticized various publicized instances of censorship in general,[220] such as the targeting of comic book retailers for prosecution for selling certain comic books,[204][221] and the Comics Code Authority in particular.[222] He is a promoter and activist for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which comes to the aid of such creators and retailers.[223] He has criticized ideas associated with liberalism or political correctness,[18] such as certain publicized cases of alleged sexual harassment or discrimination that he deems unfounded,[224] and has not shied away from criticizing liberals and Democrats,[225] including Bill Clinton,[226] Al Gore,[206] Hillary Clinton,[227] Michelle Obama,[228] Caroline Kennedy,[209] and Barack Obama.[229]

In October 2016, David generated controversy for remarks he made during a panel discussion at the New York Comic Con to Vicente Rodriguez, a fan and the founder of Roma Pop, an organization that seeks to promote more positive representation of the Romani in comics. Rodriguez had asked speakers at multiple panels at the convention about greater Romani reprentation in comics, in light of what he said were stereotypical depictions of that group. When he asked David about what the public could do about Marvel's editorial policies regarding this, David related an anecdote from a 1993 trip to Bucharest, where he was told by his guide that the crippled children he saw had been maimed by their parents to improve their success as beggars. David then angrily rebuffed further interjections by Rodriguez before moving onto the next question.[230][231] David would later defend these beliefs on his blog, insisting that he had written Romani characters like Quicksilver in a positive manner, and was angered by the crippling of children.[232] However Comics Beat, in reporting on the incident, stated that David's claim about the children is an urban myth commonly circulated in Romania, and that the malformed limbs seen in such children more likely resulted from lack of medical care, owing to the Romani distrust of the medical establishment that resulted from the forcible sterilization programs imposed upon them in many European nations until the 2000s.[230] Two days after his first blog post, and the day after the Comics Beat article, David published a second blog post in which he apologized for his conduct, stating that after researching the matter, he concluded that the children he saw likely suffered from genetic conditions, and that he had no right to speak as he had to Rodriguez. David also related that he had apologized to Rodriguez in person in subsequent encounters at the convention, and resolved to treat Romani characters with respect.[233]

Personal life edit

David met his first wife, Myra Kasman,[15] at a Star Trek convention. They married in June 1977,[234] with his childhood friend Keith serving as best man.[37] Together they had three daughters, Shana, Guinevere and Ariel.[235] They separated in late 1996[236][237] and were divorced[238] by 1998.[239] David began dating Kathleen O'Shea, a bookseller,[240] puppeteer[241] and writer/editor[46] in 1998.[239] After dating for three years, David proposed to O'Shea at the Adventurers Club in Disney World on September 3, 2000.[242] They married on May 26, 2001[243][244] in Atlanta, Georgia.[245] Their daughter, Caroline Helen David, was born on December 5, 2002,[246] and named after David's late friend and coworker, Carol Kalish.[247] David and his family live in Suffolk County, New York,[248] on the south shore of Long Island,[249][250] where his favorite local comics shop is Fourth World Comics in Smithtown, New York.[22]: 159  David's father, Gunter, died of cancer on April 20, 2015.[251] David's mother, Dalia, died May 27, 2017.[16]

David had been a Conservative Jew but, as of October 2003, attends a Reform synagogue.[31] His Hebrew name in patronymic form is Jacob Ben Joachim.[252] He has, however, expressed reservations about organized religion.[253]

David has named Groo the Wanderer, Liberty Meadows, Fables, Y: The Last Man, Strangers in Paradise, Runaways, She-Hulk, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Knights of the Dinner Table, The Crossovers and J. Michael Straczynski's run on Spider-Man as comics that he has enjoyed.[31][33][67][120] Other creators whose work he has long-admired include John Romita, Sr., John Buscema, Gene Colan, and others he has stated he presently admires or are friends that he enjoys working with include George Pérez, Andy Kubert, and Rick Leonardi.[254] He has named Pérez as his favorite artistic collaborator,[255] and has named Pérez, Leonard Kirk and Dale Keown as the artists whose art has mostly closely matched the visuals he conceived when writing comic book scripts.[120]

David is an avid fan of bowling, and a bowler himself, as is his daughter Ariel.[256][257] He is a fan of the New York Mets,[258][259] and practices tai chi.[260] His favorite music includes The Beatles,[31] and his favorite albums include Harry Chapin's Verities and Balderdash and the soundtracks to Amadeus and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.[15] His favorite movies include the James Bond films,[261] The Adventures of Robin Hood, That, Casablanca, and the early Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films.[120] His favorite TV shows have included Doctor Who, Hill Street Blues, Charmed, Carnivale, Boston Public, The Practice, Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias and The West Wing.[31][44] He is a fan of musicals,[261][262] in particular 1776, Man of La Mancha, Li'l Abner and Into the Woods, with a taste for Lerner and Loewe and Stephen Sondheim.[31][121] He acts in local stage productions.[263][264][265]

In June 2010, David's wife announced on his website that he had successfully undergone surgery to relieve serious back pain.[266] He later explained on his site that the pain, which he had been suffering in his hips and knees for three weeks, left him unable to function, and was eventually diagnosed as a herniated disc caused by bone fragments and fluid buildup. He underwent a three-hour discectomy[267] and was told his full strength would return in six months.[268]

On December 29, 2012, David suffered a stroke while on vacation in Florida.[269][270] The stroke occurred in the pons section of David's brain, from which he lost most of the use of his right arm and his right leg, and suffered from blurred vision in his right eye. While a total recovery was indicated to be unlikely, he remained in good spirits, and underwent physical therapy in order to return to his prior routine.[271][272] Two and a half months later, his condition had improved. His vision problems were gone, and he was able to navigate around his house without a wheelchair, and resume bowling and practicing tai chi. He had made slow and steady progress on his right leg and arm, and was continuing his therapy.[260] Six months after the stroke, David had completed his physical therapy, though he still suffered some pain in his shoulder, and intended to work on improving his reduced endurance.[273] David revealed in January 2015 that he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes a year prior.[274]

In March 2017, David announced on his blog that the IRS was demanding that he pay $88,000 USD in unpaid taxes, penalty and interest, which began to accumulate when his divorce from his first wife used up his savings. He started a GoFundMe campaign to raise the money from friends and fans,[141] which raised $68,000 by April 12. David announced that he would begin a Patreon account where he would publish new work, and which would be used to pay taxes, and asked his readers for their content requests.[275] By May 11, having sold some original comics artwork acquired two decades earlier, the Davids' debts were paid off.[276]

On November 27, 2022, another GoFundMe was launched by Graham Murphy, who explained David's health was once again in decline, following kidney failure, another series of strokes, and a mild heart attack.[277][278]

Bibliography edit

Main article: Peter David bibliography

References edit

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  70. ^ Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 272: "Written by Peter David and Ron Marz with art by Dan Jurgens and Claudio Castellini, this four-issue miniseries event consisted of five major battles voted on in advance by reader ballots distributed to comic stores."
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  • Mitchel, Bill (June 24, 2009). "IN-DEPTH: Peter David". CBR.com.
Preceded by The Spectacular Spider-Man writer
1985–1988 		Succeeded by
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1987–1998 		Succeeded by
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1989 		Succeeded by
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Chris Claremont
 X-Factor writer
1991–1993 		Succeeded by
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n/a
 Spider-Man 2099 writer
1992–1996 		Succeeded by
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n/a
 Aquaman vol. 4 writer
1994–1998 		Succeeded by
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2005 		Succeeded by
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Jeff Jensen
(Volume 2)
 X-Factor writer
2005–2014 		Succeeded by
n/a
Preceded by She-Hulk writer
2007–2009 		Succeeded by
Charles Soule
(Volume 3)

January 01, 1970
peter, david, politician, politician, journalist, journalist, peter, allen, david, born, september, 1956, often, abbreviated, american, writer, comic, books, novels, television, films, video, games, notable, comic, book, work, includes, award, winning, year, i. For the politician see Peter David politician For the journalist see Peter David journalist Peter Allen David born September 23 1956 3 4 often abbreviated PAD 5 is an American writer of comic books novels television films and video games 6 His notable comic book work includes an award winning 12 year run on The Incredible Hulk as well as runs on Aquaman Young Justice SpyBoy Supergirl Fallen Angel Spider Man Spider Man 2099 Captain Marvel and X Factor Peter DavidDavid in 2017BornPeter Allen David 1956 09 23 September 23 1956 age 67 Fort Meade Maryland U S Area s Superhero fantasy science fiction fantasyPseudonym s David PetersNotable worksThe Incredible Hulk X Factor Young Justice Star Trek New Frontier Fallen AngelAwards1992 Eisner Award1993 Wizard Fan Award1996 Haxtur Award2007 Julie Award2011 GLAAD Media Award2016 Inkpot Award 1 Spouse s Myra Kasman m 1977 div 1998 wbr Kathleen O Shea m 2001 wbr Children4SignatureAlma materNew York University BA OccupationsNovelist short story writer screenwriter comic book writerYears active1985 presentOfficial website His Star Trek work includes comic books novels such as Imzadi and co creation of the New Frontier series His other novels include film adaptations media tie ins and original works such as the Apropos of Nothing and Knight Life series His television work includes series such as Babylon 5 Young Justice Ben 10 Alien Force 6 and Nickelodeon s Space Cases which he co created with Bill Mumy David often jokingly describes his occupation as Writer of Stuff 6 7 and he is noted for his prolific writing characterized by its mingling of real world issues with humor 8 9 and references to popular culture as well as elements of metafiction 5 and self reference 10 11 David has earned multiple awards for his work including a 1992 Eisner Award a 1993 Wizard Fan Award a 1996 Haxtur Award a 2007 Julie Award and a 2011 GLAAD Media Award Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Early work 2 2 Comics career 2 2 1 1980s 2 2 2 1990s 2 2 3 2000s 2 2 4 2010s 2 3 Novels 2 4 Writing habits and approach 2 5 Other published work 2 6 Other media 3 Awards and nominations 3 1 Awards 3 2 Nominations 4 Public image 5 Personal life 6 Bibliography 7 References 8 External links 8 1 InterviewsEarly life editPeter David s paternal grandparents Martin and Hela David and his father Gunter emigrated to the United States in the 1930s after the antisemitism in Nazi Germany progressed to the point that Martin s Berlin shoestore became the target of vandalism 12 13 14 David was born September 23 1956 in Fort Meade Maryland 3 to Gunter and Dalia David nee Rojansky 15 16 an Israeli Jewish mother 17 18 who had worked with DNA mappers James Watson and Francis Crick 16 19 and to whom David credits his sense of humor 15 He has two siblings 20 a brother Wally 21 seven years his junior 22 who works as an IT Systems Administrator in the financial sector and a younger sister named Beth 23 24 25 David first became interested in comics when he was about five years old reading copies of Harvey Comics Casper and Wendy in a barbershop He became interested in superheroes through the Adventures of Superman TV series 26 Although David s parents approved of his reading Harvey Comics and comics featuring Disney characters they did not approve of superhero books 27 especially those published by Marvel Comics feeling that characters that looked like monsters such as the Thing or the Hulk or who wore bug eyed costumes like Spider Man did not appear heroic As a result David read those comics in secret 28 29 beginning with his first Marvel book Fantastic Four Annual 3 November 1965 which saw the wedding of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman 30 His parents eventually allowed him to start reading superhero titles 27 his favorite of which was Superman 5 31 He cites John Buscema as his favorite pre 1970s artist 32 David attended his first comic book convention around the time that Jack Kirby s New Gods premiered after asking his father to take him to one of Phil Seuling s shows in New York where David obtained Kirby s autograph his first encounter with a comics professional 28 David s earliest interest in writing came through the journalism work of his father Gunter who sometimes reviewed movies and took young Peter along if it was age appropriate While Gunter wrote his reviews back at the newspaper s office David wrote his own portions of which sometimes found their way into Gunter s published reviews 31 33 David began to entertain the notion of becoming a professional writer at age twelve buying a copy of The Guide to the Writer s Market and subscribing to similar themed magazines 34 in the hopes of becoming a reporter 5 David lived in Bloomfield New Jersey 35 in a small house at 11 Albert Terrace 28 and attended Demarest Elementary School 36 His family later moved to Verona New Jersey where he spent his adolescence 37 By the time he entered his teens he had lost interest in comic books feeling he had outgrown them 38 David s best friend in junior high and first year in high school Keith was gay and David has described how both of them were targets of ostracism and harassment from homophobes Although his family eventually moved to Pennsylvania 37 his experiences in Verona soured him on that town and shaped his liberal sociopolitical positions regarding LGBT issues He later made Verona the home location of villain Morgan le Fay in his novel Knight Life and has often discussed his progressive views on LGBT issues in his column and on his blog 39 40 41 David s interest in comics was rekindled when he saw a copy of Superman vs Muhammad Ali 1978 while passing a newsstand 42 and later X Men 95 October 1975 and discovered in that latter book the All New All Different team that had first appeared in Giant Size X Men 1 May 1975 These two books were the first comics he had purchased in years 38 A seminal moment in the course of his aspirations occurred when he met writer Stephen King at a book signing and told him that he was an aspiring writer King signed David s copy of Danse Macabre with the inscription Good luck with your writing career which David now inscribes himself onto books presented to him by fans who tell him the same thing 43 Other authors that David cites as influences include Harlan Ellison Arthur Conan Doyle Robert B Parker Neil Gaiman 44 Terry Pratchett 31 Robert Crais 33 and Edgar Rice Burroughs 45 Specific books he has mentioned as favorites include To Kill a Mockingbird Tarzan of the Apes The Princess Bride The Essential Ellison A Confederacy of Dunces 46 Adams Versus Jefferson and Don Quixote 33 David has singled out Ellison in particular as a writer whom he has tried to emulate 47 David attended New York University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism 31 Career editEarly work edit David s first professional assignment was covering the World Science Fiction Convention held in Washington in 1974 for the Philadelphia Bulletin 31 48 David eventually gravitated towards fiction after his attempts at journalism did not meet with success 5 His first published fiction appeared in Asimov s Science Fiction in 1980 He sold an op ed piece to The New York Times but overall his submissions that met with rejection far outnumbered those accepted 49 Comics career edit 1980s edit nbsp Peter David and Larry Stroman at a comic book signing for X Factor in the early 1990s David eventually gave up on a career in writing and came to work in book publishing His first publishing job was for the E P Dutton imprint Elsevier Nelson where he worked mainly as an assistant to the editor in chief 50 He later worked in sales and distribution for Playboy Paperbacks He subsequently worked for five years in Marvel Comics Sales Department first as Assistant Direct Sales Manager under Carol Kalish who hired him and then succeeding Kalish as Sales Manager 6 31 51 52 During this time he made some cursory attempts to sell stories including submission of some Moon Knight plots to Dennis O Neil but his efforts were unfruitful 53 Three years into David s tenure as Direct Sales Manager Jim Owsley became editor of the Spider Man titles Although crossing over from sales into editorial was considered a conflict of interest in the Marvel offices Owsley whom David describes as a maverick was impressed with how David had not previously hesitated to work with him when Owsley was an assistant editor under Larry Hama When Owsley became an editor he purchased a Spider Man story from David which appeared in The Spectacular Spider Man 103 June 1985 5 6 Owsley subsequently purchased from David The Death of Jean DeWolff a violent murder mystery darker in tone than the usually lighter Spider Man stories that ran in issues 107 110 October 1985 January 1986 of that title 6 54 Responding to charges of conflict of interest David made a point of not discussing editorial matters with anyone during his 9 to 5 hours as Direct Sales Manager 55 and decided not to exploit his position as Sales Manager by promoting the title Although David attributes the story s poor sales to this decision he asserts that such crossing over from Sales to Editorial is now common 49 In the Marvel offices a rumor circulated that it was actually Owsley who was writing the stories attributed to David 56 Nonetheless David says he was fired from Spectacular Spider Man by Owsley due to editorial pressure by Marvel s Editor in Chief Jim Shooter and he has commented that the resentment stirred by Owsley s purchase of his stories may have permanently damaged Owsley s career 5 Months later Bob Harras offered David The Incredible Hulk as it was a struggling title that no one else wanted to write 49 55 which gave David free rein to do whatever he wanted with the character 57 During his 12 year run on Hulk David explored the recurring themes of the Hulk s multiple personality disorder his periodic changes between the more rageful and less intelligent Green Hulk and the more streetwise cerebral Gray Hulk and of being a journeyman hero which were inspired by The Incredible Hulk 312 October 1985 in which writer Bill Mantlo and possibly according to David Barry Windsor Smith had first established that Banner had suffered childhood abuse at the hands of his father These aspects of the character were later used in the 2003 feature film adaptation by screenwriter Michael France and director Ang Lee 6 52 58 Comic Book Resources credits David with making the formerly poor selling book a must read mega hit 5 David collaborated with a number of artists who became fan favorites on the series including Todd McFarlane Dale Keown and Gary Frank 6 Among the new characters he created during his run on the series were the Riot Squad 59 and the Pantheon 6 60 David wrote the first appearance of the Thunderbolts a team created by Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley in The Incredible Hulk 449 January 1997 61 It was after he had been freelancing for a year and into his run on Hulk that David felt that his writing career had cemented 31 After putting out feelers at DC Comics and being offered the job of writing a four issue miniseries of The Phantom by editor Mike Gold David quit his sales position to write full time 62 David had a brief tenure writing Green Lantern when the character was exclusive to the short lived anthology series Action Comics Weekly from issues 608 620 in 1988 63 David took over Dreadstar during its First Comics run with issue 41 March 1989 after Jim Starlin left the title and remained on it until issue 64 March 1991 the final issue of that run David s other Marvel Comics work in the late 1980s and 1990s includes runs on Wolverine the New Universe series Mark Hazzard Merc and Justice a run on the original X Factor and the futuristic series Spider Man 2099 64 about a man in the year 2099 who takes up the mantle of Spider Man the title character of which David co created David left X Factor after 19 issues and he wrote the first 44 issues of Spider Man 2099 before quitting that book to protest the firing of editor Joey Cavalieri The book was cancelled two issues later along with the entire 2099 line 65 1990s edit nbsp Peter David at a comics convention in the early 1990s In 1990 David wrote a seven issue Aquaman miniseries The Atlantis Chronicles for DC Comics 66 about the history of Aquaman s home of Atlantis which David has referred to as among the written works of which he is most proud 67 and his first time writing in the full script format 68 He later wrote a 1994 Aquaman miniseries Aquaman Time and Tide which led to a relaunched monthly Aquaman series 69 the first 46 issues of which he wrote from 1994 to 1998 His run on Aquaman gained notoriety for in the book s second issue Aquaman lost a hand which was then replaced with a harpoon a feature of the character that endured for the duration of David s run on the book More broadly his run recast the character as an aggressive man of action one deserving of greater respect in contrast to the fish talking punch line into which the TV series Super Friends had rendered him 6 David quit that book over creative differences 65 David wrote the Star Trek comic book for DC from 1988 to 1991 when that company held the licensing rights to the property though he has opined that novels are better suited to Star Trek whose stories are not highly visual 5 He and Ron Marz cowrote the DC vs Marvel intercompany crossover in 1996 70 David enjoyed considerable runs on Supergirl 71 and Young Justice 72 the latter eventually being canceled so that DC could use that book s characters in a relaunched Teen Titans monthly David s work for Dark Horse Comics has included the teen spy adventure SpyBoy which appeared in a series and a number of miniseries between 1999 and 2004 and the 2007 miniseries The Scream Other 1990s work includes the 1997 miniseries Heroes Reborn The Return 73 for Marvel and two creator owned properties Soulsearchers and Company published by Claypool Comics and the Epic Comics title Sachs and Violens which he produced with co creator artist George Perez 2000s edit David s early 2000s work includes runs on two volumes of Captain Marvel as well as the Before the Fantastic Four Reed Richards limited series 74 David and his second wife Kathleen wrote the final English language text for the first four volumes of the manga series Negima for Del Rey Manga 75 In 2003 David began writing another creator owned comic Fallen Angel for DC Comics which he created in order to make use of plans he had devised for Supergirl after the Many Happy Returns storyline but which were derailed by that series cancellation That same year he wrote a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series for Dreamwave that tied into the animated television series broadcast that year 5 DC canceled Fallen Angel after 20 issues but David restarted the title at IDW Publishing at the end of 2005 Other IDW work included a Spike Old Times one shot and the Spike vs Dracula mini series both based on the character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel television series nbsp David with writer Dan Slott at Jim Hanley s Universe in Manhattan October 25 2007 promoting the beginning of David s tenure as writer on She Hulk 76 In 2005 David briefly returned to The Incredible Hulk though he left after only 11 issues because of his workload 77 He started a new series Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man beginning with a twelve part crossover storyline called The Other 78 which along with J Michael Straczynski s run on The Amazing Spider Man and Reginald Hudlin s run on Marvel Knights Spider Man depicted the webslinger as he discovered he was dying lost an eye during a traumatic fight with Morlun underwent a metamorphosis and emerged with new abilities and insights into his powers As tends to be the case when fundamental changes are introduced to long standing classic comics characters the storyline caused some controversy among readers for its introduction of retractable stingers in Spider Man s arms and the establishment of a totem from which his powers are derived 79 David s final issue of that title was 23 80 David wrote a MadroX miniseries that year whose success led to a relaunch of a monthly X Factor volume 3 written by him 81 This was a revamped version of the title starring both Madrox and other members of the former X Factor title that David had written in the early 1990s now working as investigators in a detective agency of that name David s work on the title garnered praise from Ain t it Cool News 82 and David has stated that the opt in opt out policy and greater planning with which Marvel now executes crossover storylines has made his second stint on the title far easier 5 His decision to explicitly establish male characters Shatterstar and Rictor as sharing a sexual attraction to one another a confirmation of clues that had been established in X Force years earlier in issues such as X Force 25 34 43 49 56 and X Force 99 Annual drew criticism from Shatterstar s co creator Rob Liefeld 83 though Editor in Chief Joe Quesada supported David s story 84 David eventually won a 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book for his work on the title 85 86 87 On February 11 2006 David announced at the WonderCon convention in California in that he had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics Fallen Angel Soulsearchers and Company and David s Spike miniseries were grandfathered into the contract so as to not be affected by it 88 The first new project undertaken by David after entering into the contract which he announced on April 5 2006 was writing the dialogue for The Dark Tower The Gunslinger Born the comic book spin off of Stephen King s The Dark Tower novels which was to be illustrated by Jae Lee 89 as well as scripting the subsequent Dark Tower comics David took over Marvel s She Hulk after writer Dan Slott s departure beginning with issue 22 90 91 His run which won praise 92 ended with issue 38 when the series was canceled 93 He wrote a 2008 09 Sir Apropos of Nothing miniseries based on the character from his novels which was published by IDW Publishing 94 David s other 2000s comics based on licensed or adapted properties include Halo Helljumper a 2009 miniseries based on the Halo video game a 2009 Ben 10 Alien Force manga book published by Del Rey Ben Folds Four 95 a Little Mermaid story in Jim Valentino s Fractured Fables anthology that was praised by Ain t It Cool News 8 an adaptation of the 1982 film Tron that was released to tie in with that film s 2010 sequel 96 and a John Carter of Mars prequel to the 2012 feature film 45 In 2010 he co wrote The Spider Man Vault A Museum in a Book with Rare Collectibles Spun from Marvel s Web with Robert Greenberger 97 David wrote the script for Avengers Season One an original graphic novel published to promote the DVD release of The Avengers 98 2010s edit On November 24 2011 David was one of the balloon handlers who pulled the Spider Man balloon during the Macy s Thanksgiving Day Parade 99 100 nbsp David at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon In October 2013 X Factor ended its run with issue 262 concluding the X Factor Investigations incarnation of the series The book was then relaunched as All New X Factor a new series with artist Carmine Di Giandomenico as a part of the All New Marvel NOW initiative announced at the 2013 New York Comic Con The opening storyline which continues events from issue 260 of the previous series establishes the new corporate sponsored version of the team and includes Polaris Quicksilver and Gambit 101 102 In July 2014 David returned to Spider Man 2099 writing the second volume of Spider Man 2099 with artist Will Sliney 103 With this series David was again writing two series X Factor and Spider Man 2099 after having previously done so decades prior a coincidence that prompted him to joke at the June 2014 Special Edition NYC convention I don t know whether to be proud of that or if I m in a rut 104 In 2014 David wrote a six part story arc for The Phantom for publishing company Hermes Press a story that David reportedly had wanted to write for many years 105 In 2015 Simon and Schuster published Stan Lee s autobiographical graphic novel Amazing Fantastic Incredible which David co wrote and which became a New York Times bestseller in its first week of release 106 In April 2017 following the conclusion of the Spider Man storyline Dead No More The Clone Conspiracy which saw the return of Ben Reilly Marvel premiered the monthly series Ben Reilly The Scarlet Spider with David as writer 107 David explained to Syfy Wire that when Marvel offered him the job he was initially ambivalent as Ben Reilly had never been his favorite incarnation of Spider Man and given Reilly s recent emergence as the villainous Jackal However David gave further consideration to the fact that a book whose main character had a skewed villainous worldview was not something Marvel had historically done much of and decided that the premise presented itself with opportunities that intrigued him enough to accept the job 108 His other Spider Man work during this decades included 2019 five issue miniseries Symbiote Spider Man which holds a 7 5 out of 10 rating at the review aggregator Comic Book Roundup 109 and the 2020 follow up miniseries Symbiote Spider Man Alien Reality which holds a 7 6 rating at Comic Book Roundup 110 Novels edit David s career as a novelist developed concurrently with his comic book writing career David had been working at a publisher that went out of business and a former coworker from that publisher became his agent through whom he sold his first novel Knight Life to Ace Books 31 Although the sale was made before he wrote any comic books the novel was not published until eighteen months later in 1987 52 The novel depicts the reappearance of King Arthur in modern day New York City Another early novel of his Howling Mad is about a wolf that turns into a human being after being bitten by a werewolf Ace Books hired David to write the Photon and Psi Man novels though they published them under the house name David Peters over David s objections 111 David updated Knight Life years later when Penguin Putnam brought it back into print in 2003 and made it a trilogy with the sequels One Knight Only and Fall of Knight which were published in 2004 and 2007 respectively 49 Penguin rereleased Howling Mad and the Psi Man books under David s actual name David first began writing Star Trek novels at the request of Pocket Books editor Dave Stern who was a fan of David s Star Trek comic book work 49 112 His Star Trek novels are among those for which he is best known including Q in Law I Q Vendetta Q Squared and Imzadi one of the best selling Star Trek novels of all time He created the ongoing novel series Star Trek New Frontier a spin off from Star Trek The Next Generation with John J Ordover in 1997 New Frontier continued until September 2015 with the publication of the third part of the digital novel The Returned the final New Frontier novel to date David s other science fiction tie in novels include writing five Babylon 5 novels three of which were originals and two of which were adaptations of the TV movies Thirdspace and In the Beginning His other novel adaptations include those of the movies The Return of Swamp Thing The Rocketeer Batman Forever Spider Man Spider Man 2 Spider Man 3 Hulk The Incredible Hulk Fantastic Four and Iron Man He wrote an original Hulk novel The Incredible Hulk What Savage Beast 113 and an adaptation of an unused Alien Nation television script Body and Soul 114 David s 2009 novel Tigerheart is a re imagining of Peter Pan with a mix of new and old characters told as a Victorian bedtime story much like the classic tale It was praised by Ain t It Cool News 115 and honored by the School Library Journal as one of 2008 s Best Adult Books for High School Students 116 His Sir Apropos of Nothing fantasy trilogy Sir Apropos of Nothing The Woad to Wuin and Tong Lashing features characters and settings completely of David s own creation as does his 2007 fantasy novel Darkness of the Light which is the first in a new trilogy of novels titled The Hidden Earth The second installment The Highness of the Low was scheduled to be published in September 2009 95 but David has related on his blog that it has been delayed until the winter of 2012 15 David s 2010 novel work includes Year of the Black Rainbow a novel cowritten with musician Claudio Sanchez of the band Coheed and Cambria that was released with the band s album of the same name 117 and a Fable original novel The Balverine Order set between the events of Fable II and Fable III 96 In April 2011 David announced that in addition to another Fable novel he and a number of other writers including Glenn Hauman Mike Friedman and Bob Greenberger were assembling an electronic publishing endeavor called Crazy Eight Press to publish e books directly to fans the first of which would be David s Arthurian story The Camelot Papers David explained that the second book in his Hidden Earth trilogy would be published through Crazy Eight 7 118 In September 2013 David acknowledged that books published through Crazy Eight are not as lucrative for him as those for publishers that pay him advances and announced that his then impending novel ARTFUL Being the Heretofore Secret History of that Unique Individual The Artful Dodger Hunter of Vampyres Amongst Other Things would be published by Amazon com 119 Writing habits and approach edit nbsp David at far right on a panel on comic book writing at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival Beside him left to right are Jim McCann Dan Slott and Fred Van Lente David has stated that he tries to block out different days and different times to work on different projects 120 He usually works in the morning for example on novels and does comics related work in the afternoon 15 Having previously used Smith Corona typewriters he writes on a Sony Vaio desktop computer using Microsoft Word for his comics and novel work and Final Draft for his screenplays 33 When writing novels he sometimes outlines the story and sometimes improvises as he is writing 121 Following his stroke in December 2012 David began using DragonDictate to write 9 122 Todd McFarlane s original art for the cover of The Incredible Hulk 340 featuring Wolverine 123 which McFarlane gave to David as a gift hangs in David s office 124 David previously wrote his comic book scripts using the Marvel Method 125 but due to his tendency to overplot as during his collaboration with McFarlane on The Incredible Hulk he switched to the full script method 126 which he continues to use as of 2003 update 31 He has stated that he prefers to plot his comics stories in six month arcs 10 He has stated that when he works on a particular title he always does so with a particular person or group of people in mind to which he dedicates it explaining that he wrote Supergirl for his daughters Young Justice for a son he might one day have and The Incredible Hulk for his first wife Myra who first urged him to accept the job of writing that book David has further explained that the events of his own life are sometimes reflected in his work as when for example following the breakup of his first marriage the direction of The Incredible Hulk faltered with the Hulk wandering the world aimlessly hopelessly looking to be loved 127 David has stated that his favorite female character of his own creation is Lee the protagonist of Fallen Angel which he says is derived from the positive female fan reaction to that character 128 Characters that David has not written but which he has expressed an interest in writing for the comics medium include Batman Tarzan Doc Savage the Dragonriders of Pern the Steed Peel Avengers and Dracula He has specifically mentioned interest in writing a Tarzan vs the Phantom story 31 120 Other published work edit Before David became a professional writer he wrote fan fiction examples of which include The TARDIS at Pooh Corner 129 David began writing his weekly opinion column But I Digress in Comics Buyer s Guide since July 27 1990 agreeing to do the column on the suggestion of an anonymous fan to Comics Buyer s Guide editors Don and Maggie Thompson 130 David credits the existence of the column to Harlan Ellison whom he has attempted to emulate with the column and who wrote the introduction to the 1994 But I Digress collection 47 95 David donates his earnings from the column to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund 49 David continued the column following CBG s switch to a monthly magazine format in 2004 until the magazine ceased publication in March 2013 131 A second collection More Digressions was published by Mad Norwegian Press in June 2009 95 David assisted Star Trek actor James Doohan with Doohan s 1996 autobiography Beam Me Up Scotty An interview with David appeared in the first volume of Writers on Comic Scriptwriting in 2002 David s instructional book Writing for Comics with Peter David was published by Impact Books in June 2006 132 133 A second edition Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels with Peter David was published in August 2009 95 David s short story Colors Seen by Candlelight appeared in Tales of Zorro the first collection of original Zorro short fiction ever authorized by Zorro Productions Inc The anthology edited by Richard Dean Starr was published by Moonstone Books in 2008 In 2009 David organized a satirical round robin story called Potato Noon organized by David and hosted on his website 134 135 which was inspired by the announcement of Russet Noon an unauthorized fan fiction novel based on Stephenie Meyer s Twilight series 136 137 Authors including Hugh Casey Keith R A DeCandido and Kevin Killiany participated in the story with characters such as Michael Dukakis Dan Quayle and Ernest Hemingway appearing alongside satirical versions of Meyer s characters David conceived the satire as a not for profit venture and while he has no plans to publish the completed Potato Moon he has allowed for the possibility of a future charity release to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund 138 In 2022 David curated an anthology entitled The Fans are Buried Tales which in his own words combined Chaucer s Canterbury Tales with an event at a Farpoint convention in which everyone was snowed in and created the concept of a large general SF convention in which the attendees are snowed in and wind up exchanging stories of their characters genres in the hotel bar When he discovered that organizers of the 2022 Farpoint convention would not be requiring attendees to show proof of vaccination or negative test results he resorted to using a Kickstarter to pay those involved Many of the stories were from fellow Crazy 8 authors while others were submitted by other professional writers and even fans 139 140 Other media edit nbsp David with Warren Spector at the November 30 2010 Times Square Disney Store launch party for Epic Mickey which Spector designed and for which David wrote two tie in products David has written for several television series and video games He wrote two scripts for Babylon 5 the second season episodes Soul Mates and There All the Honor Lies and the episode Ruling from the Tomb for its sequel series Crusade With actor writer Bill Mumy he is co creator of the television series Space Cases which ran for two seasons on Nickelodeon and which proved to be his most lucrative work 141 David himself appeared as Ben the father of series regular Bova in the second season episode Long Distance Calls 142 David s oldest daughter Shana later appeared as Pezu the emotionally disturbed sentient computer in the series finale A Friend in Need 143 David has written and co produced several films for Full Moon Entertainment and has made cameo appearances in some of the films as well David wrote an unproduced script for the fifth season of Babylon 5 called Gut Reactions which he wrote with Bill Mumy 144 David wrote In Charm s Way an episode of Ben 10 Alien Force The script was recorded in early 2009 and the episode premiered November 13 2009 95 145 He later wrote three episodes of the spinoff Ben 10 Ultimate Alien the first of which Reflected Glory premiered October 15 2010 146 David wrote the script for the Xbox 360 video game Shadow Complex which debuted in August 2009 147 148 David wrote several episodes of the Young Justice animated TV series which premiered in 2010 and is based on the comic book series he wrote from 1998 to 2003 149 The first episode he penned is episode 18 15 The same year he wrote a graphic novel adaptation of the video game Epic Mickey and a prequel digicomic Disney s Epic Mickey Tales of Wasteland 150 151 152 In 2011 David wrote the video game Spider Man Edge of Time 153 154 155 At the 2012 San Diego Comic Con International Stan Lee announced his new YouTube channel Stan Lee s World of Heroes which airs several programs created by Lee and other creators One of them Head Cases is a superhero sitcom created by David and his wife Kathleen and produced by David M Uslan The series centers on Thunderhead a would be hero whose inability to utilize his ability to produce loud thunderblasts without injury to himself leads him to become a source of comedic derision in the superhero community The series which explores events that occur in between the battles typically seen in comic books was based on a concept originated by Uslan and partly inspired by It s Always Sunny in Philadelphia David describes Head Cases as a 75 minute movie divided into 5 minute webisodes The series will feature guest appearances by other industry personalities including Stan Lee who appears as himself functioning in a similar manner to Norm Peterson from Cheers 156 157 158 Awards and nominations editAwards edit 1992 Eisner Award for Best Writer Artist or Writer Artist Team shared with Dale Keown for The Incredible Hulk 159 1993 Wizard Fan Award 1993 UK Comic Art Award 1994 Golden Duck Award for Young Adult Series for Star Trek Starfleet Academy 1995 Australian OZCon 1995 Award for Favorite International Writer 1996 Haxtur Award for Best Script for Para que la oscuridad no nos alcance So That the Dark Does Not Reach Us in Hulk La caida del Panteon Hulk The Fall of the Pantheon 160 2007 Julie Award for achievements in multiple genres 161 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book X Factor vol 3 85 86 87 2011 International Association of Media Tie In Writers Grandmaster Award aka Faust Award 162 Nominations edit 1992 Haxtur Award for Best Script for Cronicas de Atlantis 163 1992 Prometheus Award for Star Trek The Rift 164 1992 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series shared with Dale Keown for The Incredible Hulk 159 1994 Eisner Award for Best Writer for The Incredible Hulk 165 1995 Haxtur Award for Best Long Story shared with George Perez for Sachs amp Violens 166 1997 Cable Ace Award for Best Children s Series shared with Bill Mumy for Space Cases 167 168 1998 Harvey Award for Best Single Issue or Story shared with Adam Kubert and Bobbie Chase for The Incredible Hulk 1 169 1999 Eisner Award for Best New Series shared with Todd Nauck and Larry Stucker for Young Justice 170 1999 Eisner Award for Best Title for a Younger Audience for Young Justice 170 Public image editOn more than one occasion editorial problems or corporate pressure to modify or re script his plotlines have prompted David to leave books particularly his decision to terminate his first run on Marvel s X Factor due to constantly having to constrain his plots to accommodate crossover events with other books 46 171 172 He resigned from Spider Man 2099 to protest the firing of editor Joey Cavalieri and from Aquaman over other creative differences 5 173 When David abruptly left his first stint on The Incredible Hulk due to editorial pressures 127 some of the plot points of the character that David established were retconned by later creative teams 46 In his But I Digress column which began appearing in the Comics Buyer s Guide on July 27 1990 and in his blog in operation since April 2002 174 175 David has been outspoken in many of his views pertaining to the comic book industry and numerous other subjects He has criticized the low regard in which writers are held 176 177 the practice of selling polybagged comics 178 so called poster covers that showcase a character without indicating anything about the comic s content the meaninglessness of killing off characters to be eventually revived the poor commitment on the part of some to maintaining continuity in shared fictional universes and the emphasis on gearing monthly comics series toward eventual collection into trade paperbacks David has opined that failure on the part of consumers to purchase the monthly individual issues in favor of waiting for the trade collections hurts the sales of the monthly and its chances of being collected at all 31 44 A father of four daughters David has worked on a number of series that feature female leads such as Supergirl Fallen Angel and She Hulk and he has lamented that the American comic book market is not very supportive of such books 5 93 David has spoken out about fans who are abusive or threatening to creators 179 and against copyright infringement 180 particularly that which is committed through peer to peer file sharing and posting literary works in their entirety on the Internet without the permission of the copyright holder 181 On many occasions he has offered criticisms of specific publishers as when he criticized Wizard magazine for ageism 182 183 He has criticized companies for not sufficiently compensating the creators of their long standing and lucrative characters such as Marvel Comics for its treatment of Blade creator Marv Wolfman 184 and Archie Comics for its treatment of Josie and the Pussycats creator Dan DeCarlo 185 186 He has criticized publishers for various other business practices 187 including Marvel 188 and Image Comics 189 He has defended said companies from criticism he feels is unfounded as when he defended Marvel from a February 17 1992 Barron s magazine article 190 He has criticized deletionists on Wikipedia on more than one occasion 191 192 On occasion he has disagreed publicly with specific industry personalities such as Frank Miller 183 and Jim Shooter 193 Particularly publicized were his disagreements with Spawn creator Todd McFarlane in 1992 and 1993 in the wake of the formation of Image Comics the company McFarlane co founded This came to a head during a public debate they participated in at Philadelphia s Comicfest convention in October 1993 which was moderated by artist George Perez McFarlane claimed that Image was not being treated fairly by the media and by David in particular The three judges Maggie Thompson editor of the Comics Buyer s Guide William Christensen of Wizard Press and John Danovich of the magazine Hero Illustrated voted 2 1 in favor of David with Danovich voting the debate a tie 194 David has since criticized McFarlane for other business practices 195 and has engaged in public disagreements with The Comics Journal editor Gary Groth 196 Erik Larsen 197 198 199 Rob Liefeld 177 Marvel Editor In Chief Joe Quesada 200 writer director Kevin Smith 201 DC Comics Vice President and Executive Editor Dan DiDio 202 and John Byrne 203 Despite his differences with Byrne David has stated that he is still a fan of Byrne s citing Byrne s work on X Men Fantastic Four Next Men Alpha Flight and Babe 44 Politically David identifies himself as liberal 204 He was critical of the George W Bush administration in general 205 and the Iraq War in particular 206 207 as well as other Republicans 208 209 and the religious right 210 He also became a staunch critic of President Donald Trump and his administration criticizing his policies on a weekly basis 211 212 He has spoken out in favor of Israel s right to defend itself from aggressors and has opined that certain criticisms of Israel indicate bias and double standards 213 He favors gun control 214 215 and holds progressive or liberal views on LGBT issues including favoring gay marriage 40 41 and allowing openly homosexual individuals to serve in the military 216 He opposes capital punishment 206 217 218 He is an advocate of freedom of speech 215 219 having criticized various publicized instances of censorship in general 220 such as the targeting of comic book retailers for prosecution for selling certain comic books 204 221 and the Comics Code Authority in particular 222 He is a promoter and activist for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund which comes to the aid of such creators and retailers 223 He has criticized ideas associated with liberalism or political correctness 18 such as certain publicized cases of alleged sexual harassment or discrimination that he deems unfounded 224 and has not shied away from criticizing liberals and Democrats 225 including Bill Clinton 226 Al Gore 206 Hillary Clinton 227 Michelle Obama 228 Caroline Kennedy 209 and Barack Obama 229 In October 2016 David generated controversy for remarks he made during a panel discussion at the New York Comic Con to Vicente Rodriguez a fan and the founder of Roma Pop an organization that seeks to promote more positive representation of the Romani in comics Rodriguez had asked speakers at multiple panels at the convention about greater Romani reprentation in comics in light of what he said were stereotypical depictions of that group When he asked David about what the public could do about Marvel s editorial policies regarding this David related an anecdote from a 1993 trip to Bucharest where he was told by his guide that the crippled children he saw had been maimed by their parents to improve their success as beggars David then angrily rebuffed further interjections by Rodriguez before moving onto the next question 230 231 David would later defend these beliefs on his blog insisting that he had written Romani characters like Quicksilver in a positive manner and was angered by the crippling of children 232 However Comics Beat in reporting on the incident stated that David s claim about the children is an urban myth commonly circulated in Romania and that the malformed limbs seen in such children more likely resulted from lack of medical care owing to the Romani distrust of the medical establishment that resulted from the forcible sterilization programs imposed upon them in many European nations until the 2000s 230 Two days after his first blog post and the day after the Comics Beat article David published a second blog post in which he apologized for his conduct stating that after researching the matter he concluded that the children he saw likely suffered from genetic conditions and that he had no right to speak as he had to Rodriguez David also related that he had apologized to Rodriguez in person in subsequent encounters at the convention and resolved to treat Romani characters with respect 233 Personal life editDavid met his first wife Myra Kasman 15 at a Star Trek convention They married in June 1977 234 with his childhood friend Keith serving as best man 37 Together they had three daughters Shana Guinevere and Ariel 235 They separated in late 1996 236 237 and were divorced 238 by 1998 239 David began dating Kathleen O Shea a bookseller 240 puppeteer 241 and writer editor 46 in 1998 239 After dating for three years David proposed to O Shea at the Adventurers Club in Disney World on September 3 2000 242 They married on May 26 2001 243 244 in Atlanta Georgia 245 Their daughter Caroline Helen David was born on December 5 2002 246 and named after David s late friend and coworker Carol Kalish 247 David and his family live in Suffolk County New York 248 on the south shore of Long Island 249 250 where his favorite local comics shop is Fourth World Comics in Smithtown New York 22 159 David s father Gunter died of cancer on April 20 2015 251 David s mother Dalia died May 27 2017 16 David had been a Conservative Jew but as of October 2003 attends a Reform synagogue 31 His Hebrew name in patronymic form is Jacob Ben Joachim 252 He has however expressed reservations about organized religion 253 David has named Groo the Wanderer Liberty Meadows Fables Y The Last Man Strangers in Paradise Runaways She Hulk Spider Man Loves Mary Jane Knights of the Dinner Table The Crossovers and J Michael Straczynski s run on Spider Man as comics that he has enjoyed 31 33 67 120 Other creators whose work he has long admired include John Romita Sr John Buscema Gene Colan and others he has stated he presently admires or are friends that he enjoys working with include George Perez Andy Kubert and Rick Leonardi 254 He has named Perez as his favorite artistic collaborator 255 and has named Perez Leonard Kirk and Dale Keown as the artists whose art has mostly closely matched the visuals he conceived when writing comic book scripts 120 David is an avid fan of bowling and a bowler himself as is his daughter Ariel 256 257 He is a fan of the New York Mets 258 259 and practices tai chi 260 His favorite music includes The Beatles 31 and his favorite albums include Harry Chapin s Verities and Balderdash and the soundtracks to Amadeus and Terminator 2 Judgment Day 15 His favorite movies include the James Bond films 261 The Adventures of Robin Hood That Casablanca and the early Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films 120 His favorite TV shows have included Doctor Who Hill Street Blues Charmed Carnivale Boston Public The Practice Friends Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Alias and The West Wing 31 44 He is a fan of musicals 261 262 in particular 1776 Man of La Mancha Li l Abner and Into the Woods with a taste for Lerner and Loewe and Stephen Sondheim 31 121 He acts in local stage productions 263 264 265 In June 2010 David s wife announced on his website that he had successfully undergone surgery to relieve serious back pain 266 He later explained on his site that the pain which he had been suffering in his hips and knees for three weeks left him unable to function and was eventually diagnosed as a herniated disc caused by bone fragments and fluid buildup He underwent a three hour discectomy 267 and was told his full strength would return in six months 268 On December 29 2012 David suffered a stroke while on vacation in Florida 269 270 The stroke occurred in the pons section of David s brain from which he lost most of the use of his right arm and his right leg and suffered from blurred vision in his right eye While a total recovery was indicated to be unlikely he remained in good spirits and underwent physical therapy in order to return to his prior routine 271 272 Two and a half months later his condition had improved His vision problems were gone and he was able to navigate around his house without a wheelchair and resume bowling and practicing tai chi He had made slow and steady progress on his right leg and arm and was continuing his therapy 260 Six months after the stroke David had completed his physical therapy though he still suffered some pain in his shoulder and intended to work on improving his reduced endurance 273 David revealed in January 2015 that he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes a year prior 274 In March 2017 David announced on his blog that the IRS was demanding that he pay 88 000 USD in unpaid taxes penalty and interest which began to accumulate when his divorce from his first wife used up his savings He started a GoFundMe campaign to raise the money from friends and fans 141 which raised 68 000 by April 12 David announced that he would begin a Patreon account where he would publish new work and which would be used to pay taxes and asked his readers for their content requests 275 By May 11 having sold some original comics artwork acquired two decades earlier the Davids debts were paid off 276 On November 27 2022 another GoFundMe was launched by Graham Murphy who explained David s health was once again in decline following kidney failure another series of strokes and a mild heart attack 277 278 Bibliography editMain article Peter David bibliographyReferences edit Inkpot Award December 6 2012 Vaughan Brian K w Staples Fiona a Chapter Ten Saga no 10 p 23 February 2013 Image Comics a b Salisbury Mark 1999 Writers on Comics Scriptwriting London UK Titan Books p 29 ISBN 978 1840230697 Miller John Jackson June 10 2005 Comics Industry Birthdays Comics Buyer s Guide Iola Wisconsin Archived from the original on February 18 2011 a b c d e f g h i j k l m Mitchel Bill June 24 2009 In Depth Peter David Comic Book Resources Archived from the original on August 9 2011 Retrieved September 10 2009 a b c d e f g h i j Buxton Marc March 29 2014 From Future Imperfect to 2099 Peter David s Greatest Hits Comic Book Resources a b Peter David Takes Fans Down Blind Man s Bluff startrek com April 20 2011 a b AICN Comics Reviews Scott Piilgrim Avengers GI Joe Cobra and Much More Ain t It Cool News July 28 2010 Archived from the original on December 26 2013 a b Peter David Post Stroke Returns Home startrek com February 11 2013 a b Margolin Howard October 24 2003 The 2003 Peter David interview CaptPhil Online Retrieved August 18 2010 Examples cited by David and others include commenting that he had a good run on Supergirl by having that character use that phrase in a letter to Clark Kent in David s final issue of that title Another is the aged future Rick Jones in the final issue of David s 12 year run on The Incredible Hulk telling an unseen interviewer by the name of Peter which David stated he left vague enough so that it could be interpreted as either himself or Peter Parker that he was finished talking about the Hulk and wanted to move on to other things which echoed David s own sentiments David appeared in an issue of the series in the form of the unnamed priest who married Jones and his wife in The Incredible Hulk 418 June 1994 who was illustrated to look like David David Peter Gay Abandon But I Digress Comics Buyer s Guide June 12 1992 Accessed in the 1994 But I Digress collection David Peter A science fiction con in Germany Ja But I Digress Comics Buyer s Guide 1464 December 7 2001 David Peter February 27 2004 Paranoid Jews peterdavid net a b c d e f g David Peter So what do ya wanna know peterdavid net January 19 2011 a b c David Peter May 31 2017 R I P Dalia Rojansky David peterdavid net David Peter February 24 2009 Soooo Electing Barack Obama was an Act of Cowardice peterdavid net David mentions these facts in a February 24 2009 6 31pm post and in a February 25 2009 2 32pm post a b David Peter November 19 2010 Political Correctness and other topics peterdavid net Reprinted from Comics Buyer s Guide 1066 April 22 1994 Magdoff B S Crick Francis 1955 A new crystal form of ribonuclease Acta Crystallographica 8 468 472 Mrs Dalia Rojansky David who did all the computation David Peter November 22 2007 Happy Thanksgiving November 24 10 49am post peterdavid net Retrieved September 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Misinformation and More peterdavid net Reprinted from Comics Buyer s Guide 1385 June 2 2000 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p David Peter October 21 2003 What Cha Wanna Know Peterdavid net David Peter November 26 2003 What Cha Wanna Know peterdavid net a b c d e David Peter April 14 2007 Q amp A peterdavid net April 14 2007 peterdavid net Retrieved September 10 2009 David Peter February 15 2010 On Publishers and Vanity Originally published in Comics Buyer s Guide 980 August 28 1992 peterdavid net David Peter But I Digress Comics Buyer s Guide 1251 November 7 1997 Page 90 David Peter November 22 2011 48 Years Ago Today peterdavid net a b c David Peter Gay Abandon But I Digress Collection 1994 Krause Publications pp 206 08 Reprinted from Comics Buyer s Guide 969 June 12 1992 a b David Peter w Leonard Kirk a X Factor p Letters page June 2012 Marvel Comics David Peter Just to clarify regarding George and Brad peterdavid net September 18 2008 a b David Peter October 23 2008 Shat slinging 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Guide David Peter Where Man Josh peterdavid net September 17 2012 Originally published in But I Digress Comics Buyer s Guide 1260 January 9 1998 Dark Tower The Gunslinger Born Premiere HC Indigo Retrieved November 25 2011 a b c Carter R J Carter August 14 2002 Interview Peter David An Apropos Conversation The Trades Archived from the original on May 22 2006 David Peter Because Hue Demanded It But I Digress Collection Page 12 Reprinted from the July 27 1990 Comics Buyer s Guide Manning Matthew K 2012 1980s In Gilbert Laura ed Spider Man Chronicle Celebrating 50 Years of Web Slinging London United Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 150 ISBN 978 0756692360 Revered as one of the finest Spider Man stories ever told this four part saga written by Peter David and penciled by Rich Buckler was a decidedly dark tale for the usually lighthearted web slinger a b David Peter But I Digress Comics Buyer s Guide 1321 March 2 1999 Johnston Rich August 19 2016 No More Black Panther Comics But Maybe A Novel Christopher Priest s Bleeding Cool Interview Bleeding Cool Avatar Press David Peter July 27 2012 Looking back on The Hulk peterdavid net Reprinted from The Comics Buyer s Guide 1244 September 19 1997 David Peter September 4 1992 Bigger Than Life PeterDavid net Retrieved February 19 2010 Reprinted from The Comics Buyer s Guide 981 Manning Matthew K 2008 1990s In Gilbert Laura ed Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History London United Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 248 ISBN 978 0756641238 Continuing his legendary Hulk run writer Peter David along with artist Jeff Purves created the Riot Squad Manning 1990s in Gilbert 2008 p 253 The Hulk first met Agamemnon the leader of the Pantheon team in a story written by Peter David with art by Dale Keown Manning 1990s in Gilbert 2008 p 282 Writer Peter David and artist Mike Deodato Jr debuted Marvel s newest superteam the Thunderbolts in issue 449 of The Incredible Hulk David Peter But I Digress Comics Buyer s Guide 1325 April 9 1999 p 58 Martin Brian August 2017 Where the Action is Weekly Back Issue 98 Raleigh North Carolina TwoMorrows Publishing 62 63 Manning 1990s in Gilbert 2008 p 260 Writer Peter David and artist Rick Leonardi s Spider Man 2099 character was first glimpsed in a sneak preview in the pages of The Amazing Spider Man 265 in August 1992 a b David Peter October 22 2012 More Assorted Things peterdavid net Originally published in But I Digress Comics Buyer s Guide 1269 March 13 1998 Manning Matthew K 2010 1990s In Dolan Hannah ed DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle London United Kingdom Dorling Kindersley p 245 ISBN 978 0 7566 6742 9 Paving the way for his legendary relaunch of Aquaman writer Peter David crafted a seven issue series delving into the history of the mythical people of the undersea kingdom of Atlantis a b David Peter April 26 2009 Fans The Next Generation Reprinted from April 3 1992 Comics Buyer s Guide peterdavid net Weiland Jonah December 22 2014 ECCC 2014 Secret Origins Presents Peter David FlipON TV YouTube 27 37 mark Retrieved November 27 2018 Manning 1990s in Dolan p 266 Writer Peter David had been building toward this series for years now David was finally ready to put all his backstory to practical use in the new monthly Aquaman title Manning 1990s in Dolan p 272 Written by Peter David and Ron Marz with art by Dan Jurgens and Claudio Castellini this four issue miniseries event consisted of five major battles voted on in advance by reader ballots distributed to comic stores Manning 1990s in Dolan p 274 The Girl of Steel flew back into an ongoing series at long last courtesy of fan favorite writer Peter David and artist Gary Frank Manning 1990s in Dolan p 285 Written by Peter David and illustrated by Todd Nauck Young Justice succeeded in finding its fan base just as the Teen Titans had in the 1960s Manning 1990s in Gilbert 2008 p 285 Manning 2000s in Gilbert 2008 p 302 The man who would become Mr Fantastic starred in a three issue limited series Courtesy of writer 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