Evan Skolnick

Evan Skolnick is an American writer, editor and producer who has created content in a wide variety of media including newspapers, magazines, comic books, books, websites, CD-ROMs, computer games and video games. He is probably best known as a former Marvel Comics editor and writer due to his involvement in prominent series such as Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider 2099, 2099 Unlimited, and New Warriors. He is currently a producer and editorial director for Vicarious Visions, a division of the video game publisher Activision.

Skolnick was born in 1966 in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in several suburbs east of the city. From an early age his interest in both writing and art was apparent, and when he was 15 he began publication of Phantasy magazine, a small fanzine devoted to the then-wildly popular Dungeons & Dragons “paper and dice” role-playing games. The magazine’s popularity grew to the point that two local Connecticut newspapers, the Hartford Courant and the Journal Inquirer, ran stories profiling the teenaged magazine publisher.

At the University of Connecticut, Skolnick initially enrolled as a journalism major but, not wanting to be pigeonholed, decided to split his education across his various interests. He took advantage of the university’s progressive “individualized major” program and was approved for a major entitled English/Journalism/Graphic Design.

As if to foreshadow things to come, Skolnick juggled academic study with the creation of his daily comic strip called "Askew", which ran five days a week in the university's Daily Campus newspaper for three semesters.

After completing his studies and several internships with the Hartford Advocate weekly newspapers, he graduated in 1988 and took a job as a reporter at a local newspaper, while regularly visiting New York City in search of a career position at a magazine or – as a pipe dream – Marvel Comics.

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