Scott Snyder is an American writer. He is known for his 2006 short story collection Voodoo Heart, and his comic book writing, including American Vampire, Detective Comics, Batman, Batman: Gates of Gotham, and Swamp Thing.
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Early life
At the age of nine, Snyder attended a summer camp where one of the counselors read Stephen King's Eyes of the Dragon to him over the summer, an experience that Snyder says "really jump-started my love of story-telling." He was also influenced by the writing of Denis Johnson, Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, Joy Williams, and George Saunders.
Snyder graduated from Brown University in 1998 with a degree in creative writing, and then worked at Walt Disney World for about a year. He initially worked as a custodian, but after he injured his shoulder and started to have some problems with his co-workers, he auditioned and worked as some of the characters. Snyder's Disney World stint strongly influenced his writing; he later recalled, "it did a world of good for my writing ... All the things I ended up writing about, those things that are deeply frightening to me--fear of commitment and growing up, fear of losing loved ones, the wonder and terror of falling in love--all of it was constantly being played out all around me in this weird, cartoonish, magnified way at Disney."
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Career
Prose fiction
His first collection of stories, Voodoo Heart, was published by the Dial Press in June 2006. The collection received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and was a Kirkus Reviews "Hot Debut" of the year. The New York Times published a positive review by author Andrew Sean Greer in the Sunday Book Review.
Stephen King picked two of the included stories--"Wreck" and "Dumpster Tuesday"--for the 2007 The Best American Short Stories anthology shortlist. Voodoo Heart was shortlisted for The Story Prize in 2006.
Snyder teaches writing at New York University, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College.
Comics
In 2009, Snyder began writing for Marvel Comics. His first foray into the genre was a one-shot focusing on the first Human Torch, part of Marvel's 70th anniversary celebrations. He later wrote the four-issue miniseries, Iron Man: Noir, which debuted in April 2010.
Vertigo began publishing American Vampire, Snyder's first creator-owned ongoing series, in March 2010. The first five issues feature an original storyline by Stephen King. American Vampire won the 2011 Eisner Award for Best New Series, as well as the 2011 Harvey Award for Best New Series.
His run as writer of Detective Comics began with issue No. 871 (Jan. 2011) of that title, which marked the beginning of his exclusive contract with DC Comics. He and Kyle Higgins wrote the Batman: Gates of Gotham miniseries which debuted in May 2011.
Beginning in September 2011, Snyder became the writer of both Batman and a new Swamp Thing ongoing series as part of The New 52, DC Comics' company-wide relaunch of all of its titles. Snyder later became the co-writer of Talon, a spin-off of the "Court of Owls" storyline in Batman, which focused on a rogue Talon from the Court.
It was announced at the 2012 New York Comic Con that Snyder would be writing a new Superman ongoing series, titled Superman Unchained, with art by Jim Lee. The series began publication in June 2013.
Snyder left the Swamp Thing series as of issue #18 (May 2013) and began writing The Wake, a 10-issue, ocean-based horror miniseries drawn by Snyder's American Vampire: Survival Of The Fittest collaborator Sean Murphy. The series follows marine biologist Lee Archer, who along with the Department of Homeland Security, discovers a potential threat to humanity that may involve strange, humanoid creatures that inhabit the ocean depths. The story shifts between three time periods: the near future, two centuries in the future and the distant past. The covers of the first five issues form a mural when placed side by side.
The same month, DC published a Free Comic Book Day sneak preview of Superman Unchained, an ongoing series written by Snyder and illustrated by Jim Lee, which was later published on June 12, 2013, and intended to coincide with the feature film Man of Steel, which opened two days later. Snyder explained his approach to the series: "The way to approach a character as iconic as him is you just come at it from a standpoint of what you love the most about the character, and then write a story that explores that, tear it down and build it back up."
Snyder was one of the co-writers of the Batman Eternal series which launched in April 2014. The second run of Batman Eternal, retitled as Batman & Robin Eternal launched on October 7, 2015. In 2016, Snyder and artist John Romita Jr. collaborated on the All-Star Batman series as part of the DC Rebirth relaunch.
Snyder and Capullo launched the Dark Nights: Metal limited series in August 2017. In December 2017, Snyder will collaborate with artist Andy Kubert on the New Challengers, part of the Dark Matter line.
Personal life
Snyder is married, with two children.
Awards
- 2011 Eisner Award for Best New Series (with Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque for American Vampire)
- 2011 Harvey Award for Best New Series (with Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque for American Vampire)
- 2012 Eagle Award for Best Writer
- 2012 Stan Lee Award for Best Ongoing Series (Detective Comics)
- 2012 Stan Lee Award for Best Writer
- 2012 Stan Lee Award for Man of the Year
- 2014 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series (with Sean Murphy for The Wake)
Nominations
- 2011 Eagle Award for Favourite Newcomer Writer
- 2011 Eagle Award for Favourite New Comic Book (with Stephen King and Rafael Albuquerque for American Vampire)
- 2011 Harvey Award for Most Promising New Talent
- 2012 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Graphic Novels & Comics (for Batman, Vol. 1: The Court of Owls)
- 2013 Harvey Award for Best Writer (for Batman)
- 2014 Eisner Award for Best Writer (for Batman (DC); American Vampire, The Wake)
Bibliography
Fiction
- Voodoo Heart (collection of short stories, 288 pages, The Dial Press, 2006, ISBN 0-385-33841-4)
Marvel Comics
- Human Torch Comics 70th Anniversary Special (with Scott Wegener, one-shot, 2009) collected in Timely 70th Anniversary Collection (hc, 280 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3899-4; tpb, 201?, ISBN 0-7851-4092-1)
- Nation X #1: "Testament" (with David López, anthology, 2010) collected in X-Men: Nation X (hc, 360 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-3873-0; tpb, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4103-0)
- Iron Man Noir #1-4 (with Manuel García, 2010) collected as Iron Man Noir (hc, 112 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4727-6; tpb, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4728-4)
DC Comics and Vertigo
- American Vampire (with Rafael Albuquerque, Mateus Santolouco (#9-11), Danijel ?e?elj (#12), Sean Gordon Murphy (Survival of the Fittest mini-series), Jordi Bernet (#19-21), Roger Cruz (#26), Riccardo Burchielli (#27), Dustin Nguyen (Lord of Nightmares mini-series), Jason Aaron with Declan Shalvey + Ivo Milazzo + Jeff Lemire with Ray Fawkes + Becky Cloonan + Francesco Francavilla + Gail Simone with Tula Lotay + Gabriel Bá with Fábio Moon + Greg Rucka with John Paul Leon (Anthology #1) and Matías Bergara (Second Cycle #5), 2010- ...) collected as:
- Volume 1 (collects #1-5, hc, 200 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2830-5; tpb, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-2974-3)
- Volume 2 (collects #6-11, hc, 160 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3069-5; tpb, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3070-9)
- Volume 3 (collects #12-18 and Survival of the Fittest #1-5, hc, 288 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3333-3; tpb, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3334-1)
- Volume 4 (collects #19-27, hc, 208 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3718-5; tpb, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3719-3)
- Volume 5 (collects #28-34 and The Lord of Nightmares #1-5, hc, 280 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3770-3; tpb, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-3771-1)
- Volume 6 (collects The Long Road to Hell one-shot and Anthology #1, hc, 144 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4708-3; tpb, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4929-9)
- Volume 7 (collects Second Cycle #1-5, hc, 144 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-4882-9; tpb, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5432-2)
- Volume 8 (collects Second Cycle #6-11, hc, 168 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5433-0; tpb, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6258-9)
- Volume 9 (collects Anthology #2 and Annual #1, hc, 144 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-5965-0)
- Batman:
- Detective Comics v1 #871-881 (with Jock and Francesco Francavilla, 2011) collected as The Black Mirror (hc, 288 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3206-X; tpb, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3207-8)
- Batman: Gates of Gotham #1-5 (with Kyle Higgins, Trevor McCarthy and Derec Donovan + Dustin Nguyen (#4), 2011) collected as Gates of Gotham (tpb, 144 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3341-4)
- Batman v2 (with Greg Capullo, James Tynion IV (co-features in #8-12, 0, 13-16 and 18-25), Rafael Albuquerque (co-features in #8-11 and 21-24), James Tynion IV + Jason Fabok (Annual #1), Becky Cloonan (#12), Andy Clarke (co-features in #12, 0 and 25), Jock (co-features in #13-16), Andy Kubert (#18), Alex Maleev (co-features in #18-20), Ray Fawkes + Aco (Futures End one-shot), Sean Gordon Murphy (short story in Detective Comics v2 #27), Marguerite Bennett + Wes Craig (Annual #2), James Tynion IV + Dustin Nguyen (#28), Gerry Duggan + Matteo Scalera (#34), Brian Azzarello + Jock (#44) and James Tynion IV + Yanick Paquette (#49-50), 2011-2016) collected as:
- The Court of Owls (collects #1-7, hc, 176 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3541-7; tpb, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3542-5)
- The City of Owls (collects #8-12 and Annual #1, hc, 208 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3777-0; tpb, 2013, ISBN 93-5111-661-1)
- Death of the Family (collects #13-17, hc, 176 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-4234-0; tpb, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4602-8)
- Zero Year: Secret City (collects #21-24, hc, 176 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4508-0; tpb, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4933-7)
- Zero Year: Dark City (collects #25-27 and 29-33, hc, 256 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4885-3; tpb, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5335-0)
- Graveyard Shift (collects #0, 18-20, 28, 34 and Annual #2, hc, 224 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5230-3; tpb, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5753-4)
- Endgame (collects #35-40, hc, 192 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5689-9; tpb, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6116-7)
- Superheavy (collects Divergence preview and #41-45, hc, 176 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5969-3; tpb, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6630-4)
- Bloom (collects #46-50 and the short story from Detective Comics v2 #27, hc, 200 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6462-X; tpb, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6922-2)
- Epilogue (includes #51-52, Annual #4, the Futures End one-shot and portions of Batman: Rebirth #1, hc, 144 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6773-4; tpb, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-6832-3)
- Talon #0-7 (with James Tynion IV, Guillem March and Juan José Ryp (#2), 2012-2013) collected as Volume 1: Scourge of the Owls (tpb, 192 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3887-4)
- Batman Eternal (with James Tynion IV, Ray Fawkes, Kyle Higgins, Tim Seeley and John Layman, 2014-2015) collected as:
- Volume 1 (collects #1-21, tpb, 480 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-5173-0)
- Volume 2 (collects #22-34, tpb, 448 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5231-1)
- Volume 3 (collects #35-52, tpb, 424 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5752-6)
- Batman and Robin Eternal (with James Tynion IV, Tim Seeley, Genevieve Valentine, Ed Brisson, Steve Orlando, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, 2015-2016) collected as:
- Volume 1 (collects #1-13, tpb, 272 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5967-7)
- Volume 2 (collects #14-26, tpb, 336 pages, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-6248-1)
- Batman: Rebirth (with Tom King and David Finch, one-shot, 2016) collected in Volume 1: I am Gotham (tpb, 160 pages, 2017, ISBN 1-4012-6777-7)
- All-Star Batman #1-ongoing (with John Romita Jr. and Declan Shalvey (co-features in #1-ongoing), 2016- ...)
- Superman:
- Flashpoint: Project Superman #1-3 (with Lowell Francis and Gene Ha, 2011) collected in Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Superman (tpb, 320 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3434-8)
- Superman Unchained #1-9 (with Jim Lee, 2013-2014) collected as Superman Unchained (hc, 352 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4522-6; tpb, 2016, ISBN 1-4012-5093-9)
- Swamp Thing v5 (with Yanick Paquette, Marco Rudy (#4, 6, 8-9, 11-12 and 15), Francesco Francavilla (#10), Kano (#0), Scott Tuft + Andy Belanger + Becky Cloonan (Annual #1), 2011-2013) collected as:
- Raise Them Bones (collects #1-7, tpb, 168 pages, 2012, ISBN 1-4012-3462-3)
- Family Tree (collects #8-11, 0 and Annual #1, tpb, 160 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-3843-2)
- Rotworld: The Green Kingdom (collects #12-18 and Animal Man v2 #12 & 17, tpb, 208 pages, 2013, ISBN 1-4012-4264-2)
- Swamp Thing by Scott Snyder (collects #1-12, 0, 13-18, Annual #1 and Animal Man v2 #12 & 17, hc, 512 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5870-0)
- The Wake #1-10 (with Sean Gordon Murphy, 2013-2014) collected as The Wake (hc, 256 pages, 2014, ISBN 1-4012-4523-4; tpb, 2015, ISBN 1-4012-5491-8)
- Dark Days: The Forge (2017)
- Dark Days: The Casting (2017)
- Dark Nights: Metal 1-6 (2017-2018)
Image Comics
- Severed #1-7 (with Scott Tuft and Attila Futaki, 2011-2012) collected as Severed (hc, 192 pages, 2012, ISBN 978-1-60706-529-6)
- Wytches #1-6 (with Jock, 2014-2015) collected as Wytches (tpb, 144 pages, 2015, ISBN 1-63215-380-7)
- A.D.: After Death #1-3 (with Jeff Lemire, 2016-2017)
- Image+ v2 #1-ongoing (with Jock, 2017-ongoing), 2017- ...)
Kodansha
- Attack on Titan: Under the Surface (with Ray Fawkes, Rafael Albuquerque and John Raunch, 2016) collected as Attack on Titan Anthology (hc, 2016, ISBN 978-1-68233-448-5)
References
External links
- Scott Snyder on Twitter
- Scott Snyder at the Comic Book DB
- Scott Snyder at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
- Scott Snyder at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
Interviews
- Interview: Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire Face Their Fears in A.D.: After Death (2017)
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