NS: Former Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada Leaves Marvel After 22 Years

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Former Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada Leaves Marvel After 22 Years

Joe Quesada, former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief and current executive vice president and creative director of Marvel Entertainment, has announced he's leaving the company after 22 years.

 

Quesada made the surprise announcement via Twitter, telling fans, "After two plus decades (has it really been that long?), the time has come for me to move on. As you can imagine, my love for the company, its characters, and all my coworkers runs deep, but I have an exciting new chapter that's about to begin, so the time feels right."

Comments

[dianakingston]

Can't say I'll miss him - he did good at the start of his tenure with Jemas, you could tell there was a real effort to bring in new blood and try new things... but his legacy at Marvel will be that he turned it into a frat house for his buddies to do what they wanted, with no pushback or editorial oversight. And it's hard to argue that the "superstars" of his era - Bendis, Tieri, Way, Austen, etc. - ultimately merited the creative freedom he gave them.

The ongoing creative decline at Marvel may have continued under Alonso and Yoshida-sama, but it started with Quesada.

[numeronone]

Ah, memories...remember when he did that video giving you, the humble reader, a tour of the mighty Marvel bullpen...and it was entirely straight white men doing goofs?

[kd_the_movie]

Respectively, Gotta disagree heavily. At one point Marvel, under Quesada, couldnt miss AFA giving creatives the green light.

Some of the best material Marvel has ever put out occurred under Quesadas tenure as EIC with heavy hitters such as Morrison, Ellis, Millar, Fraction, Brubaker, Ennis, JMS, Whedon, Waid, Pak, etc.

[deh_tommy]

Same, putting aside his glaring shortcomings it was the books under Quesada’s reign that got me into MARVEL comics so I’ll always be grateful for that.

[arilou_skiff]

Yeah, Quesada has had his misses, but he's absolutely done good stuff too. And he was willing to experiment.