Marc Bernardin

Marc Bernardin (born November 29, 1971) is a New York-born, WGA Award-winning television writer-producer, comic book writer, entertainment journalist, and podcaster whose career spans every layer of popular culture storytelling. He attended St. John's University (BS, Communication Arts, 1993) and built his early career as one of the most prominent Black entertainment journalists in the industry — serving as film editor for the Los Angeles Times, senior editor for The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly, managing editor of Starlog, and deputy editor of Playboy.com, among other editorial roles. His television writing credits include supervising producer on Star Trek: Picard, staff writer on Castle Rock (earning a Writers Guild of America Award for Long Form Original in 2019), producer on Carnival Row, co-producer on Treadstone, and writer on Masters of the Universe: Revelation, The Legend of Vox Machina, The Continental, and Batman: Caped Crusader. He was an intern on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In comics, Bernardin is an Inkpot Award-winning writer whose creator-owned and licensed work spans Marvel, DC, and Image Comics. His titles include The Highwaymen (DC, in development as a feature film), Genius (Image), Monster Attack Network, Static Shock, Adora and the Distance (a YA fantasy graphic novel drawn from his experience as the father of an autistic daughter), Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali, and an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys with artist Shawn Martinbrough. He co-hosts the Fatman Beyond pop culture podcast with filmmaker Kevin Smith.