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Mark Stephen Evanier (pronounced ev-uh-near; born March 2, 1952) is an American comic book and television writer.

He first worked as an assistant for Jack Kirby as well as writing for various Disney comic books. He later did comics for Looney Tunes, Woody Woodpecker, Scooby-Doo, Tarzan, Korak, and Blackhawk. He is the co-creator of Groo the Wanderer (with Sergio Aragonés), The DNAgents (with Will Meugniot) and its spin-off Crossfire (with Dan Spiegle).

In television, he wrote for live-action shows such as Pink Lady and Jeff, The Krofft Superstar Hour (aka The Bay City Rollers Show), Pryor's Place, Bob (the fourth series to star Bob Newhart) and The Half-Hour Comedy Hour. His animation credentials include Scooby-Doo (in which he wrote the first episode featuring Scrappy-Doo, whom he developed), Plastic Man, Richie Rich (which he story edited), Dungeons and Dragons (which he developed), Thundarr the Barbarian, Mother Goose and Grimm, and Superman: The Animated Series, as well as both Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show.

He also wrote "Point of View", a column for Comic Buyer's Guide, and Kirby: King of Comics, a biography of Jack Kirby.

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Garfield and Friends[]

Wrote or co-wrote (with Sharman DiVono) all episodes

The Garfield Show[]

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  • Garfield and Friends is Evanier's favorite animation project.[1]
  • One of Evanier's favorite movies is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; he was one of the commentators for its Criterion release.
  • Evanier is a big fan of the parody rock music group Big Daddy.
  • Evanier has a strong dislike for cole slaw. He once attempted an episode of Garfield that dealt with cole slaw (having previously done so with a C.B. Bears comic story), which went unmade due to a disagreement with Jim Davis (who loves cole slaw).[2]
  • Evanier's father, Bernard, was occasionally present at the recording sessions of Garfield and Friends during its first three seasons. The elder Evanier died one day before the first session for the fourth season.[3]
  • Evanier wrote the Looney Tunes comic book story "The Greatest of E's", released as part of Beep Beep the Road Runner issue 53 (cover-dated September 1975). In the story, "Ethelbert" is given as Wile E. Coyote's middle name.[4]

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