Personal History
Professional History
Having moved to New York City to study moviemaking, and failing to get a stable job in that business once he finished his studies, Wright looked for a temporary job in comic industry. He was hired by Marvel's Epic Comics, where he worked for six months[2] performing bureaucratic work. He learned from editors Margaret Clark, Jo Duffy and Archie Goodwin the value of comics for storytelling purposes.[3]
Then, editor Mark Gruenwald's assistant Howard Mackie left,[2] leaving the assistant editor position vacant, and Wright was eventually chosen to replace him.[2][3] Gruenwald was particularly enthusiastic about his work, which rubbed off on Wright. At that point, Wright decided to forfeit his contemplated cinematographic career to concentrate in comics, having understood that he could use the latter for the visual narratives he intended to use the former for.[3] Gruenwald asked Wright to introduce himself to the readers with a short autobiography for the section "Mark's Remarks" published in West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #18.[2] However, as assistant editors were not well paid, Wright was encouraged to find freelance work in artistic parts of the process, as it would help him in his work as editor - which he did by re-doing bad colored pages, correcting graphic details, and working with other artists to create a 22-page issue of Merc in one night. Having enjoyed this, he asked Gruenwald for further work, and Gruenwald made him color West Coast Avengers Annual #2 -which he did over a single weekend, without knowing whether Gruenwald would accept it or not. Gruenwald, happy with Wright, give him a job on Marvel Age.[3]
After writing several scripts edited by Gruenwald, but never sold as such (especially for Solo Avengers), Wright worked with Dwayne McDuffie, finally writing stories that were sold, then drawn by Alan Davis and Jackson Guice.[3]
Eventually, Wright found himself with both editor tasks and freelance work, and chose the later because it was better paid, and more satisfying, working as a writer and a colorist, sometimes for the same issue. Although he had already written many stories for Solo Avengers, along with several for New Universe and the 1990s Deathlok series (having co-created the character), his real breakthrough came when he became the writer of Daredevil Annual #5 to Daredevil Annual #10. Editor Ralph Macchio asked him for shorter back-up stories on Daredevil's supporting characters, which Wright did (on the Fatboys, Ben Urich, and the Wildboys), and Wright found those back-up stories were more popular than his main story (including Macchio's opinion). Wright thought that his ideas were more respected after that.[3]
Wright received the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Colorist in 1990 and 1996.[4]
Wright later worked for Virtual Comics, which was not a fulfilling experience, and for DC Comics, coloring Batman: The Long Halloween.[3]Work History
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- ↑ "Comics Industry Birthdays", Comics Buyer's Guide, June 10, 2005. Accessed April 18, 2011, available in the Wayback Machine here.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 West Coast Avengers (Vol. 2) #18 , "Mark's Remarks"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Mithra, Kuljit. "Interview with Gregory Wright," ManWithoutFear.com (March 1998), available here
- ↑ Gregory Wright in Wikipedia
- ↑ Gregory Wright in Universo Marvel.com (in Spanish)