Greg Weisman

Producer

Voice Actor

Young Justice

W.I.T.C.H

**Greg Weisman** (born September 28, 1963) is an American writer of comic books, animation and novels and a producer of television shows, as well as a voice actor. He is perhaps best known for the animated series *Gargoyles*, *The Spectacular Spider-Man,* and *Young Justice*.

## Early life and career

Weisman is a former English composition and writing teacher. He received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's from USC. Between college and graduate school, he worked on staff in the editorial department of DC Comics, while also co-writing *Captain Atom* with Cary Bates. When he was 22 years old, he wrote a four-issue mini-series for DC Comics starring the superheroine Black Canary; the first issue of the series was penciled, but the project was ultimately shelved due to the character being used in writer/artist Mike Grell's high-profile *Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters* series. Elements from the ill-fated project were later used for his *DC Showcase: Green Arrow* short film.

## Animation

After graduate school, Weisman worked as a development executive at Disney. There, in conjunction with others, he pitched an early comedy-adventure version of the TV series *Gargoyles* to Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Eventually, the idea underwent a transformation from Weisman's initial conception as a largely comedic cartoon, to an episodic but sequential animated action-drama, and the series was produced for syndication. Though *Gargoyles* itself bears no on-air creator credit, Weisman describes himself on his website as "one of the creators" of the show. Aired as a syndicated show for 65 episodes, *Gargoyles* was later picked up for a further 13 episodes by ABC. Weisman was credited as a co-producer of *Gargoyles* from episode 6, and as a supervising producer for much of the show's second season, but he has disassociated himself from the third season (*The Goliath Chronicles*). Weisman is notable for the question and answer forum he participates in with *Gargoyles* fans online.

Weisman's other television credits include overseeing the first season of *Max Steel*, the second season of *W.I.T.C.H.*, and both seasons of *The Spectacular Spider-Man* and four of *Young Justice*. Weisman has written episodes for numerous animated series, including *Men in Black: The Series*, *Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles*, and *Kim Possible*. He also voice directs and voice acts on occasion; he played the role of Donald Menken on *The Spectacular Spider-Man* and Lucas "Snapper" Carr on *Young Justice*. Weisman was also an executive producer on *Star Wars Rebels*, alongside Dave Filoni and Simon Kinberg, but left the series after the first season. In 2016, it was reported that he would return in the upcoming revival season of *Young Justice*, alongside Brandon Vietti; the new season, titled *Young Justice: Outsiders*, began streaming on DC Universe in January of 2019.

## Comic books

Weisman also continues to write for comics, including in continuity continuations of the storylines from the television series *Gargoyles* and *Young Justice*. On the latter, Weisman, along with Kevin Hopps, became full-time writers of the tie-in comic as of issue #7 (as well as issue #0). Weisman also wrote a parody of *Gargoyles* and *Captain Atom* in *JLA Showcase* #1. During his time with the *Star Wars* franchise, Weisman wrote the miniseries *Star Wars: Kanan* for Lucasfilm and Marvel Comics. From 2015 to 2016, he wrote the superhero series *Starbrand & Nightmask*, which lasted six issues.

## Novels

After leaving Disney in 1996, Weisman spent two years at DreamWorks, where he created and developed a new television series called *Rain of the Ghosts*. When the series was not picked up, Weisman bought the property back to turn it into a series of novels. His debut novel, also titled *Rain of the Ghosts*, was released in 2013. Its sequel, *Spirits of Ash and Foam*, followed in 2014. Weisman has announced that the third book will be titled *Masque of Bones*, and in 2015, he released a full-cast unabridged AudioPlay based on *Rain of the Ghosts* after successfully crowdfunding the project through Kickstarter. It was the most funded young adult project on Kickstarter. In 2016, Weisman released a children's novel in the *World of Warcraft* universe entitled *World of Warcraft: Traveler*, followed by a sequel, *World of Warcraft: Traveler - The Spiral Path*.

Weisman's next novel is set in the *Magic: The Gathering* universe. *War of the Spark - Ravnica* was released on April 23, 2019, and made the New York Times Best Sellers List. Its sequel, *War of the Spark - Forsaken*, was released in November of 2019.