Marvel's Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada to Leave Role After 20 Years
Venerated Marvel Comics figure Joe Quesada is stepping down from his post as the company's creative director after playing a major role at the comics publisher for nearly a quarter century. In a stunning announcement on Twitter, Quesada informed fans that after a career of more than 20 years, he was leaving Marvel to pursue other opportunities.
Quesada began his career in comics as an artist for publishers such as DC and Valiant. His tenure with Marvel stretches back to the 1998 when he was contracted to run the Marvel Knights imprint, a line of books featuring titles such as Daredevil and Black Panther. The line was a smash success and after two years of heading up Marvel Knights, Quesada was promoted to Marvel's Editor-in-Chief position after Bob Harras left in 2000. In his time as Editor-in-Chief, Quesada was responsible for the addition of two other popular imprints; the mature-focused MAX line and the popular Ultimate Marvel line. After nearly a decade, Quesada was promoted again to the company's Chief Creative Officer, and later creative director of Marvel Entertainment.
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With such an illustrious career shaping the Marvel Universe for nearly a fifth of a century, Joe Quesada's recent announcement is all the more surprising. Quesada posted the message "And now for something completely different..." on Twitter with a long-form letter attached. The letter discusses the former Editor-in-Chief's humble beginnings and the adventure he's been on in the past two decades. While Quesada doesn't go into too much detail about why he's leaving, he does say that he has "an exciting new chapter that's about to begin," adding that he will be writing and
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