Jeph Loeb

Birth Name:

Joseph Loeb

Birth Place:

Stamford, Connecticut, United States

Profession

Producer, Writer, Actor

His work on "Heroes" won him the Jules Verne Award for artistic achievement at the Jules Verne Festival in Paris in 2007
When his teenage son Sam died of bone cancer shortly before he finished writing his final comic, he and a number of others collaborated to finish and publish it, along with a feature in which a boy named Sam inspires Clark Kent to become a hero
A comic book lover since childhood, he started writing comics as a side job in the early 1990s
Quote: "The more you get published, the more you get published․"
Frequently collaborated with artist Tim Sale on comic books
His comic books, which include stories featuring such major characters as Spider-Man, Batman and Superman, have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list
Marvel Entertainment appointed him Executive Vice President, Head of Television in 2010, a position requiring the creation of live-action and animated television shows based on Marvel's characters

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