Greg Weisman

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Greg Weisman (born September 28, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an American animation writer and producer most famous as the creator of the animated television series Gargoyles. Weisman is a former English composition and writing teacher and recived degrees at Stanford University and USC.

Of late, Weisman is notable for the question and answer forum [1] he participates in with Gargoyles fans online, often revealing his intended plans for the show. He announced on the forum a deal with Disney to continue the Gargoyles storyline as a comic book produced by Slave Labor Graphics beginning in 2006. The first issue of the bi-monthly book sold out its initial print run. (see Gargoyles (comics))

Weisman is not new to writing comics, having spent some time at DC as an editor and co-writing Captain Atom with Cary Bates. Bates later wrote several episodes of Gargoyles. A parody of Gargoyles later appeared in a Weisman-penned story in JLA Showcase #1. Weisman has also written episodes of the animated series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Max Steel, Roughnecks: the Starship Trooper Chronicles, Kim Possible, The Batman, Men in Black: The Series, Ben Ten and others. He's also a voice director and was once a development executive at Disney. Weisman recently produced and story edited the second season of W.I.T.C.H., which is based on the comic book of the same name.