J. David Spurlock is an award-winning author, historian, advocate for creator rights, filmmaker and associate to Frazetta, Basil Gogos, Steranko, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Frank Brunner and many more. Launching in the 1990s, Spurlock created the comics artist sketchbook boom via Vanguard with tomes produced with Al Williamson, Neal Adams, Jeffrey Jones, John Buscema, John Romita and multiple volumes on Frazetta. Spurlock’s How to Draw Chiller Monsters, for Random House, rose as high as #18 on the Bookspan best-seller list. Spurlock’s award-winning Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage has been universally lauded including by MTV and the Village Voice who proclaimed it one of The Best of 2013.

In 2012, Spurlock was appointed Director of the Estate of Hall of Fame MAD, Mars Attacks, Daredevil and Weird Science co-creator Wallace Wood. Spurlock’s speaking engagements include: 2015 San Diego Comic-Con Jack Kirby panel; 2013 WorldCon panels on Robert E. Howard, Copyright Law and, Margaret Brundage; with Stan Lee for Dragon Con TV and a live audience if 4,600; Rutgers School of Law; University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the InkWell Awards and multiple Frank Frazetta tribute events at the San Diego Comic-Con. Film and TV credits include: Frazetta Painting With Fire; STARZ network’s Comicbooks Unbound; the PBS documentary, Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle and, the Frazetta episode of Strange Inheritance.