Scott Snyder
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Born | New York City, New York, United States |
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | Fantasy, horror, superhero fantasy |
Scott Snyder is an American writer. He is known for his 2006 short story collection Voodoo Heart, and his comic book writing, including American Vampire, Detective Comics, Batman, Batman: Gates of Gotham and Swamp Thing.
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Early life
At the age of nine, Snyder attended a summer camp where one of the counselors read Stephen King's Eyes of the Dragon to him over the summer, an experience that Snyder says "really jump-started my love of story-telling."[1] He was also influenced by the writing of Denis Johnson, Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, Joy Williams, and George Saunders.[1]
Snyder graduated from Brown University in 1998 with a degree in creative writing, and then worked at Walt Disney World for about a year.[2] Snyder's Disney World stint strongly influenced his writing; he later recalled, "it did a world of good for my writing...All the things I ended up writing about, those things that are deeply frightening to me—fear of commitment and growing up, fear of losing loved ones, the wonder and terror of falling in love—all of it was constantly being played out all around me in this weird, cartoonish, magnified way at Disney."[2]
Snyder received his MFA from Columbia University in 2002.[citation needed]
Career
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Prose fiction
His first collection of stories, Voodoo Heart, was published by the Dial Press in June 2006. The collection received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and was a Kirkus Reviews "Hot Debut" of the year. The New York Times published a positive review by author Andrew Sean Greer in the Sunday Book Review.[3]
Stephen King picked two of the included stories—"Wreck" and "Dumpster Tuesday"—for the 2007 The Best American Short Stories anthology shortlist. Voodoo Heart was shortlisted for The Story Prize in 2006.[4]
Snyder teaches writing at New York University,[5] Columbia University,[6] and Sarah Lawrence College.[7]
Comics
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In 2009, Snyder began writing for Marvel Comics. His first foray into the genre was a one-shot focusing on the first Human Torch, part of Marvel's 70th anniversary celebrations. He later wrote the four-issue miniseries, Iron Man: Noir, which debuted in April 2010.[8]
Vertigo began publishing American Vampire,[9] Snyder's first creator-owned ongoing series, in March 2010.[10] The first five issues feature an original storyline by Stephen King.[11][12] American Vampire won the 2011 Eisner Award for Best New Series, as well as the 2011 Harvey Award for Best New Series.
His run as writer of Detective Comics began with issue No. 871 (Jan. 2011) of that title,[13] which marked the beginning of his exclusive contract with DC Comics.[14] He and Kyle Higgins wrote the Batman: Gates of Gotham miniseries which debuted in May 2011.[15]
Beginning in September 2011, Snyder became the writer of both Batman[16][17] and a new Swamp Thing ongoing series as part of The New 52, DC Comics' company-wide relaunch of all of its titles.[18][19][20] Snyder later became the co-writer of Talon, a spin-off of the "Court of Owls" storyline in Batman, which focused on a rogue Talon from the Court.[21][22]
It was announced at the 2012 New York Comic Con[23] that Snyder would be writing a new Superman ongoing series, titled Superman Unchained, with art by Jim Lee. The series began publication in June 2013.[24]
Snyder left the Swamp Thing series as of issue #18 (May 2013) and began writing The Wake, a 10-issue, ocean-based horror miniseries drawn by Snyder's American Vampire: Survival Of The Fittest collaborator Sean Murphy.[8] The series follows marine biologist Lee Archer, who along with the Department of Homeland Security, discovers a potential threat to humanity that may involve strange, humanoid creatures that inhabit the ocean depths. The story shifts between three time periods: the near future, two centuries in the future and the distant past. The covers of the first five issues form a mural when placed side by side.[25][26][27]
The same month, DC published a Free Comic Book Day sneak preview of Superman Unchained,[8] an ongoing series written by Snyder and illustrated by Jim Lee, which was later published on June 12, 2013, and intended to coincide with the feature film Man of Steel, which opened two days later. Snyder explained his approach to the series: "The way to approach a character as iconic as him is you just come at it from a standpoint of what you love the most about the character, and then write a story that explores that, tear it down and build it back up."[28]
Snyder is one of the co-writers of the Batman Eternal series which launched in April 2014.[29] The second run of Batman Eternal, retitled as Batman & Robin Eternal launched on October 7, 2015.[30][31]
Personal life
Snyder is married, with two children.[25]
Bibliography
DC Comics/Vertigo
- American Vampire:
- Volume 1 (hc, 200 pages, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4012-2830-9; tpb, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4012-2974-0) collects:
- "Big Break" (with Rafael Albuquerque, in No. 1, 2010)
- "Morning Star" (with Rafael Albuquerque, in No. 2, 2010)
- "Rough Cut" (with Rafael Albuquerque, in No. 3, 2010)
- "Double Exposure" (with Rafael Albuquerque, in No. 4, 2010)
- "Curtain Call" (with Rafael Albuquerque, in No. 5, 2010)
- Volume 2 (hc, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4012-3069-2; tpb, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4012-3070-8) collects:
- "Devil in the Sand" (with Rafael Albuquerque and Mateus Santolouco, in #6–9, 2010–2011)
- "The Way Out" (with Mateus Santolouco, in #10–11, 2011)
- Volume 3 (hc, 288 pages, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4012-3333-4; tpb, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4012-3334-1) collects:
- "Strange Frontier" (with Danijel Žeželj, in No. 12, 2011)
- "Ghost War" (with Rafael Albuquerque, in #13–18, 2011)
- Survival of the Fittest #1–5 (with Sean Murphy, 2011)
- Volume 4 (collects #19–27, hc, 208 pages, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4012-3718-9) collects:
- "The Beast in the Cave" (with Jordi Bernet, in #19–21, 2011–2012)
- "Death Race" (with Rafael Albuquerque, in #22–25, 2012)
- "The Nocturnes" (with Roger Cruz, in #26–27, 2012)
- Volume 5 (collects #28-34 and American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares #1-5, hc, 280 pages, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4012-3770-7)
- Volume 6 (collects American Vampire Anthology #1 and American Vampire: Long Road to Hell, hc, 144 pages, 2014, ISBN 1401247083)
- Volume 7 (collects American Vampire Second Cycle #1-5, hc, 144 pages, 2015, ISBN 1401248829)
- Volume 8 (collects American Vampire Second Cycle #6-11, hc, 144 pages, 2016, ISBN 1401254330)
- Volume 1 (hc, 200 pages, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4012-2830-9; tpb, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4012-2974-0) collects:
- Batman:
- Detective Comics:
- The Black Mirror (hc, 288 pages, 2011, ISBN 140123206X) collects:
- "The Black Mirror" (with Jock, in #871–873, 2011)
- "Skeleton Cases" (with Francesco Francavilla, in #871–872, 874, 2011)
- "Lost Boys" (with Francesco Francavilla, in No. 875, 2011)
- "Hungry City" (with Jock, in #876–878, 2011)
- "Skeleton Key" (with Francesco Francavilla, in No. 879, 2011)
- "My Dark Architect" (with Jock, in No. 880, 2011)
- "The Face in the Glass" (with Jock and Francesco Francavilla, in No. 881, 2011)
- The Black Mirror (hc, 288 pages, 2011, ISBN 140123206X) collects:
- Gates of Gotham #1–5 (with Kyle Higgins and Trevor McCarthy, 2011) collected as Batman: GoG (tpb, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3341-4)
- Batman (with Greg Capullo, 2011–2016) collected as:
- The Court of Owls (collects #1–7, hc, 176 pages, 2012, ISBN 1401235417)
- The City of Owls (collects #8-12 and Batman Annual #1, hc 208 pages, 2013, ISBN 1401237770)
- Death of the Family (collects #13-17, hc, 176 pages, 2013, ISBN 1401242340)
- Zero Year: Secret City (collects #21-24, hc, 176 pages, 2014, ISBN 1401245080)
- Zero Year: Dark City (collects #25-27 and #29-33, hc, 240 pages, 2014, ISBN 1401248853)
- Graveyard Shift (collects #0, #18-20, #28, #34, Batman Annual #2, hc, 224 pages, 2015, ISBN 1401252303)
- Endgame (collects #35-40, hc, 192 pages, 2015, ISBN 1401256899)
- Superheavy (collects #41-45, DC Sneak Peak: Batman #1, hc, 176 pages, 2016, ISBN 1401259693)
- Bloom (collects #46-50, a story from Detective Comics #27, hc, 184 pages, 2016, ISBN 140126462X)
- Love Never Dies (Collects #51-52, Batman Annual #4, hc, 2016, ISBN 1401267734)
- Batman Eternal (with James Tynion IV, Tim Seeley, Ray Fawkes, John Layman and Kyle Higgins, 2014-2015) collected as:
- Volume 1 (collects #1-21, tpb, 480 pages, 2014, ISBN 1401251730)
- Volume 2 (collects #22-34, tpb, 448 pages, 2015, ISBN 1401252311)
- Volume 3 (collects #35-52, tpb, 424 pages, 2015, ISBN 1401257526)
- Batman and Robin Eternal (with James Tynion IV, Tim Seeley, Genevieve Valentine, Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Ed Brisson, 2015-2016) collected as:
- Volume 1 (collects #1-13, tpb, 272 pages, 2016, ISBN 1401259677)
- Volume 2 (collects #14-26, tpb, 336 pages, 2016, ISBN 1401262481)
- Detective Comics:
- Flashpoint: Project Superman #1–3 (with Lowell Francis and Gene Ha, 2011) collected in Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Superman (tpb, 320 pages, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4012-3434-8)
- Swamp Thing (with Yanick Paquette, Marco Rudy and Francesco Francavilla, 2011–2013) collected as:
- Raise Them Bones (collects #1–7, tpb, 168 pages, 2012, ISBN 1401234623)
- Family Tree (collects #8-11, 0 and Annual #1, tpb, 160 pages, 2013, ISBN 1401238432)
- Rotworld: The Green Kingdom (collects #12-18 and Animal Man #12 & #17, tpb, 208 pages, 2013, ISBN 1401242642)
- Talon (with James Tynion IV and Guillem March, 2012-2013) collected as:
- Scourge of the Owls (collects #0-7, tpb, 192 pages, 2013, ISBN 1401238874)
- Superman Unchained #1-9 (with Jim Lee, 2013-2014) collected in Superman Unchained: The Deluxe Edition (hc, 352 pages, 2015, ISBN 1401245226)
- The Wake #1-10 (with Sean Murphy, 2013-2014), collected in The Wake (hc, 256 pages, 2014, ISBN 1401245234)
Other publishers
- Marvel:
- Human Torch Comics 70th Anniversary Special No. 1 (with Scott Wegener, 2009) collected in Timely 70th Anniversary Collection (hc, 280 pages, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7851-3899-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7851-4092-4)
- Nation X #1: "Testament" (with David Lopez, 2010) collected in Nation X (hc, 360 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3873-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4103-0)
- Iron Man Noir #1–4 (with Manuel Garcia, 2010) collected as Iron Man Noir (hc, 112 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4727-6; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4728-4)
- Image Comics:
- Severed #1–7 (with Scott Tuft and Attila Futaki, 2011–2012) collected as Severed (hc, 192 pages, 2012, ISBN 978-1-60706-529-6)
- Wytches #1-6 (with Jock, 2014-2015) collected as Wytches (tpb, 144 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-6321-5380-7)
Awards
- 2011 Eisner Award for Best New Series (with Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque for American Vampire)[32]
- 2011 Harvey Award for Best New Series (with Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque for American Vampire)[33]
- 2012 Eagle Award for Best Writer[34]
- 2012 Stan Lee Award for Best Ongoing Series (Detective Comics)[35]
- 2012 Stan Lee Award for Best Writer[36]
- 2012 Stan Lee Award for Man of the Year[36]
- 2014 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series (with Sean Murphy for The Wake)[37]
Nominations
- 2011 Eagle Award for Favourite Newcomer Writer[38]
- 2011 Eagle Award for Favourite New Comic Book (with Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque for American Vampire)
- 2011 Harvey Award for Most Promising New Talent[39]
- 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Graphic Novels & Comics (for Batman, Vol. 1: The Court of Owls)
- 2013 Harvey Award for Best Writer (for Batman)[40]
- 2014 Eisner Award for Best Writer (for Batman (DC); American Vampire, The Wake)[37]
References
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External links
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- Scott Snyder at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
- Scott Snyder at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
Preceded by | Detective Comics writer 2010–2011 |
Succeeded by Tony S. Daniel |
Preceded by | Swamp Thing writer 2011–2013 |
Succeeded by Charles Soule |
Preceded by | Batman writer 2011–2016 |
Succeeded by Tom King |
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- 1976 births
- American comics writers
- Brown University alumni
- Columbia University faculty
- Living people
- New York University faculty
- Sarah Lawrence College faculty
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni