Thomas Martin Spurgeon was an American writer, historian, critic, and editor in the field of comics, notable for his five-year run as editor of The Comics Journal and his blog The Comics Reporter.
10 Facts About Tom Spurgeon
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Tom Spurgeon was one of three sons of Sandra "Sunny" McFarren and Wiley W Spurgeon, Jr.
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Tom Spurgeon's mother was a senior manager in the health care industry, and his father was the executive editor of the sister newspapers The Muncie Star and The Muncie Evening Press, a role that included curating the newspapers' comics pages.
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Tom Spurgeon was his class president in high school, and attended college at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where he was a lineman on the football team, and graduated with a BA in History and Politics in 1991.
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Tom Spurgeon was the managing editor, and later executive editor, of The Comics Journal, a comics trade magazine and critical journal published by Fantagraphics, from 1994 to 1999.
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Tom Spurgeon was the coauthor of The Romita Legacy.
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In 2004, with site designer Jordan Raphael, Tom Spurgeon launched The Comics Reporter.
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In 2014, Tom Spurgeon became the Executive Director of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus, an annual free four-day celebration of cartooning and graphic novels in Columbus, Ohio.
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Tom Spurgeon described himself as "a big, fat guy", standing at six feet three inches tall and weighing at times over 400 pounds.
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Tom Spurgeon died on November 13,2019, at age 50 in Columbus, Ohio.