John Layman

Once an editor for Wildstorm, a branch of DC Comics, Layman turned to writing comics full-time in 2002 and mainly writes for Marvel Comics.

He has also worked on several comic books based on pre-existing licenses such as Xena: Warrior Princess, ThunderCats, as well as crossovers like Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness and Army of Darkness/Xena: Why Not?.

Layman has written a number of creator-owned titles at Image Comics, such as the graphic novel Puffed, and Chew with artist Rob Guillory.

In 2007, he began working as a writer for Cryptic Studios, a video game studio in Los Gatos, California.

In 2010, Layman's semi-autobiographical comic "Safe Word" (published by Image Comics) hit stands. It has been optioned by Brett Ratner for production beginning in 2012.

Layman also helped create the animals in Avatar.

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