Danny Fingeroth


Daniel Fingeroth is an American comic book writer and editor, best known for a long stint as group editor of the Spider-Man books at Marvel Comics.

Early life

Fingeroth was born in New York City, New York.

Career

As a writer and editor

Fingeroth got his start in the comics business in 1976 as an assistant to Larry Lieber at Marvel Comics. At Marvel Comics in the 1980s, he edited the Spider-Man titles as well as Marvel Team-Up and Ka-Zar.
As a writer, Fingeroth worked on Darkhawk, writing all 50 issues of the book between 1991 and 1995. Before that, he had a long stint on Dazzler, wrote the Deadly Foes of Spider-Man and Lethal Foes of Spider-Man mini-series, the Howard the Duck movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, including Avengers, Daredevil, Iron Man and What If?, as well as the Deathtrap: The Vault graphic novel.
Fingeroth resigned from Marvel in 1995 to become editor-in-chief of Virtual Comics for Byron Preiss Multimedia and AOL. From there, Fingeroth served as senior vice president for creative development at Visionary Media, home of Showtime's WhirlGirl, for which he served as story editor.
He edited Write Now!, a magazine about the craft of comics writing that he created, which ran for 20 issues from 2003 to 2009. He wrote the 2004 Continuum Publishing book Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society. Fingeroth also wrote The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels.

As an educator and public speaker

Fingeroth has taught comics writing at New York University, The New School, Media Bistro and Soho Gallery for Digital Art.
He has been a speaker at the New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium at Parsons The New School for Design. He has also taught classes, and functioned as organizer, moderator and curator of events at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.
In 2012, Fingeroth along with Karen Green, Graphic Novels Librarian and Jeremy Dauber, Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies organized , a symposium marking writer Chris Claremont's donation of his archives of all his major writing projects over the previous 40 years to the university's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The symposium, which was held March 24–25, 2012 at Columbia's Low Memorial Library, featured discussion panels with Fingeroth, Claremont, and numerous other mainstream and independent comics creators.

Selected works

Comics