5 Quick Questions With Sean McKeever

Sean McKeever is an American comic book writer.

Since the end of his creator-owned teen drama series The Waiting Place, which was published from 1997 to 2002, he has written several series for Marvel Comics, including The Incredible Hulk, Sentinel, Mary Jane, Inhumans and Gravity.

In 2005, he won an Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.

He has written for the monthly comic books Gravity, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Sentinel and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, all for Marvel Comics, and on January 9, 2007, DC Comics announced that McKeever had signed an exclusive contract with the publisher. He is a part of the writing team working on DC's weekly series Countdown, and took over for Gail Simone as the writer of Birds of Prey after issue #112, however, his last issue was #117 due to time constraints with deadlines. Sean also took up writing duties on Teen Titans with the double sized August issue #50 and also wrote the Terror Titans limited series that spins off from this.



He agreed to answer 5 Quick Questions.

1) What would you say is your greatest achievement in comics?

I'm extremely pleased to have written my own creator-owned series (The Waiting Place) for 18 issues, and that it got me where I am today.

2) Who was your favorite writer or artist that you worked with & why?

I actually just co-wrote a crossover with Marv Wolfman, and he was a really smart collaborator. In terms of artists, it's Mike Norton, hands down. No one understands my scripts like he does.

3) What character you have never worked .., would you like to do & why?

I wouldn't mind writing Batman. I feel like there are aspects of his life as Bruce Wayne that would be a treat to explore.

4) Who are your influences?

In terms of comics writers, I'd say, in no particular order: Garth Ennis; Paul Jenkins; Kurt Busiek; J.M. DeMatteis; Warren Ellis; and old-school Peter David.

5) What hero or villain would you like to change if you could and why?

Oh, I dunno that I'd change any characters. If I want to do something different than what some other talent had intended or devised, then I should create something different rather than force my changes onto an existing character.

I did have a fun idea once of making The Punisher a teenager, though I guarantee you no one would ever publish it.

Brian Isaacs
Story Editor