Paul Castiglia
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Editor, writer, film producer |
Paul Castiglia is a comic book writer and editor known for his work for Archie Comics, including his work on Sonic the Hedgehog, Archie's Weird Mysteries and his editing work on the Archie Americana Series. He has also written non-fiction text articles for magazines and books on pop culture, has recorded music under the name Paul Cast, is a documentary film producer, and the co-writer of an animated web series.
Paul Castiglia was born February 7, 1966 in Passaic, New Jersey.
Paul Castiglia has been editor and writer on comic books including Archie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures and Sonic The Hedgehog. He wrote or co-wrote all 34 issues of Archie's Weird Mysteries/Archie's Mysteries and wrote stories for several issue of The New Little Archie Comics Digest Magazine.
Castiglia had an editorial hand (billed variously as "Americana Series Editor", "Assistant Editor", and "Compilation Editor") in all 12 volumes of the Archie Americana Series including the final volume Best of the Nineties Book 2 which was released in 2011.
In September, 2014 it was announced that Castiglia would be one of the leading editors and researchers on a new series of vintage reprint collections from Archie Comics called Archie's Favorites which began with the first volume, Archie's Favorite Christmas Comics in October, 2014.
As recounted in his introduction to The Love Showdown Collection ("A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to San Diego"), Castiglia conceived the idea of a storyline that would have Archie choose between Betty and Veronica "once and for all" as well as the denouement of the story in which Castiglia suggested the company revive Cheryl Blossom as the "wild card" character that Archie actually ends up with at story's end. The story, which ran in 1994 across four different Archie published comic book titles, was called the Love Showdown (Archie Comics). Castiglia promoted the storyline to mass media news outlets resulting in world-wide coverage. This made the "Love Showdown" the most notable and talked-about Archie Comics story of the 1990s. The company would not achieve the same level of publicity again until 14 years later with the Archie Marries Veronica/Archie Marries Betty storyline created by Michael Uslan.
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