Mark Millar

Mark Millar
Millar at the Big Apple Convention in Manhattan, 2 October 2010
Born	(1969-12-24) 24 December 1969 (age 47) Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Nationality	Scottish
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	Ultimate X-Men Ultimate Fantastic Four Civil War Wanted Kick-Ass Secret Service
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Mark Millar MBE (born 24 December 1969) is a Scottish comic book writer, known for his work on The Authority, The Ultimates, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, The Secret Service, Wanted, Chrononauts, Superior and Kick-Ass, the latter six of which have been, or will be, adapted into feature films.

For his work Millar has been nominated for four Eisner Awards and two Eagle Awards, and in June 2013 he was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II as a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to film and literature.

Millar was born in Coatbridge, Scotland. His parents were also born in Coatbridge; Millar, who spent the first half of his life in the Townhead area of Coatbridge, attending St Ambrose High in Coatbridge. He has four older brothers, and one older sister, who are 22, 20, 18, 16 and 14 years older than him, respectively. His brother Bobby, who today works at a special needs school, introduced him to comics at age 4 while attending university by taking him to shops and purchasing them for him. Still learning to read, Millar's first comic was the seminal The Amazing Spider-Man #121 (1973), which featured the death of Gwen Stacy. He purchased a Superman comic that day as well. Black and white reprinted comics purchased by his brothers for him would follow, cementing his interest in the medium so much that Millar drew a spider web across his face with indelible marker that his parents were unable to scrub off in time for his First Communion photo a week later. Millar has named Alan Moore and Frank Miller as the two biggest influences on his career, characterizing them as "my Mum and Dad." Other writers he names as influences include Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Warren Ellis and Garth Ennis. More recent writers that have impressed him include Jason Aaron and Scott Snyder.