How Joe Quesada Changed Marvel Comics & What His Departure Means
Joe Quesada, former Editor-in-Chief and Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Comics, will be leaving the company after more than two decades to focus on his personal projects. Quesada's announcement was unexpected, as he took Marvel's reins at a time of financial and creative struggles and was fundamental in shaping and steering the company into the multimedia entertainment juggernaut it is today.
Quesada began his career in the comics industry in the early 1990s as an artist, gaining widespread recognition working for Valiant Comics and then founding his own publishing company, Event Comics, besides doing sporadic work for Marvel and DC. In 1998, shortly after filing for bankruptcy, Marvel Comics asked Quesada to work for them in an exclusive capacity and gave him a new line of books called Marvel Knights, which welcomed many creators from the independent industry. Two years later, Quesada became Editor-in-Chief and spearheaded a deep renovation of the company that was welcomed by readers with critical and commercial success. In 2010, Quesada left the Editor-in-Chief position to Axel Alonso and became Chief Creative Officer, overseeing the larger comics storylines and the creative aspects of media adaptations of Marvel properties, which became fundamental after the initial success of the MCU in the late 2000s.
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Quesada's direction of Marvel's editorial line in the 2000s is responsible for a significant shift towards a more mature storytelling approach. The Marvel Knights line took some (at the time) not very popular characters, such as the Punisher, Daredevil, and Black Panther, and gave them to independent or up-and-coming creators, such as
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