Biography

Potts has held creative lead positions in publishing, entertainment, marketing, interactive and education.

For most of his 13 years at Marvel Entertainment, Potts was an Executive Editor, overseeing 1/3 of Marvel's publications. Potts' duties included spearheading Epic, Marvel's imprint of diverse creator-owned titles. He became Editor-in-Chief of Marvel's General Entertainment and Epic publishing divisions.

In addition to his editing duties, Potts recruited and mentored a number of Marvel's top creators.

While at Marvel, Potts developed original and established entertainment properties. Some of these properties became cross media franchises, spawning numerous publications, games, licensed products and dramatic productions.

Among Potts' creative projects was a celebrated run as writer/layout artist on Punisher War Journal. He created Alien Legion, Marvel/Epic Comics' longest running original title, and was creator/artist on the Last of the Dragons graphic novel.

His Alien Legion screenplay was bought by Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Disney. The script is based on the Marvel/Epic Comics series Potts created.

Potts has given seminars on sequential visual storytelling at Pixar, Google, Society of Illustrators, Blizzard, Blue Sky, Parsons/New School, Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), SUNY Purchase, NYU, Syracuse University, Ithaca College, Academy of Art University, Ogilvy & Mather, Psyop, R/GA and LucasArts. He teaches at School of Visual Arts in NYC.

His book, The DC Comics Guide to Creating Comics: Inside the Art of Visual Storytelling was published by DC/Watson-Guptill (Random House).

Potts is an adjunct professor at School of Visual Arts in NYC.
- IMDb mini biography by: C. J. Potts