Axel Alonso

Axel Alonso is an American comic book creator and former journalist, best known as the former editor in chief at Marvel, a role which he held from January 2011 until November 2017. Alonso began his career as a journalist for New York's Daily News. He later worked as an editor at DC from 1994 to 2000, during which he edited a number of books published under their Vertigo line, such as Doom Patrol, Animal Man, Hellblazer, Preacher, and 100 Bullets. In 2000, he went to work for Marvel as a senior editor. While there, he edited Spider-Man and X-Men-related books before ascending to vice president, executive editor in 2010, and editor in chief in January 2011, replacing Joe Quesada. He left Marvel in 2017. In 2019, Alonso founded a new comics publisher, Artists, Writers and Artisans, or AWA Studios, as the chief creative officer reuniting him with former Marvel Publisher Bill Jemas.