Interview With Alex Saviuk During The XIII Edition Of Etna Comics

Alex Saviuk is an american comic artist primarily known for his work on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man.

Saviuk graduated from Floral Park Memorial High School in 1970 and later attended the School of Visual Arts, where he studied with (among others) Will Eisner, graduating in 1974 with a degree in Illustration.
Saviuk’s first work for DC was a one-page story titled “The Victim!” in “House of Mystery” #255 in 1977, the year of his debut at DC Comics.
His first full work for the company, “Green Lantern” #100 (Jan. 1978), introduced an updated version of the Air Wave character.
At DC Comics, he illustrated such titles as “Green Lantern”, “The Flash” and “Superman” and by the early 1980s, Saviuk was the regular backup feature artist on “Action Comics”, where he drew the exploits of characters like Air-Wave, Aquaman and the Atom in collaboration with writer Bob Rozakis.
Saviuk also frequently drew the “Whatever Happened to…?” backup feature in DC Comics Presents and with the writer E. Nelson Bridwell he introduced the Global Guardians in “DC Comics Presents” #46.

In 1986, Saviuk moved to Marvel Comics, where he eventually established himself as a key Spider-Man artist with over seven-year run on “Web of Spider-Man” creating the design of Tombstone (Web Of Spider-Man #36), the Demogoblin (Web Of Spider-Man #) and the iconic Spider-Armor Mark I suit (Web Of Spider-Man #).
From 1994 to 1997, Saviuk worked on the series “Spider-Man Adventures”.

From 1997, Saviuk drew “The Amazing Spider-Man” Sunday newspaper comic strip, written by Stan Lee and inked by Joe Sinnott. Starting in 2003, he inked the daily Spider-Man strip, pencilled by Lee’s brother, Larry Lieber.
In September 2018, Saviuk took over as penciller as well and stayed on until the cancellation of the strip in March 2019.
He also created variant covers for Symbiote Spider-Man #1–4 in the same year.

In 1997–1998, he spent a one-year stint at Topps Comics drawing “The X-Files” until the end of its run.
In 2004, Alex Saviuk returned to The Phantom, a character he had already drawn in “Defenders of the Earth” in 1987, this time for European publisher Egmont. From 2018 to 2019, he pencilled and inked the first and fourth issue of the new anthology series “The Phantom Strikes”.
Nowadays, Saviuk is still involved in making variant covers for several comics and draws one or two stories a year of “The Phantom” for Egmont.
He’s also involved in the upcoming restart of the “Spider-Man ’94” comic series.

Alex Saviuk is also a talented storyboard artist, that worked over the years for the cinema industry and advertising.
His works include the storyboards for “Lonely Hearts” (with John Travolta, James Gandolphini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek), “Hoot” (Logan Lerman), “Never Back Down” (Cam Gigandet, Amber Heard, Sean Faris e Djimon Housou) and “The Reaping” (Idris Elba, Hilary Swank, David Morrissey).