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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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Washington D.C, The United States

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Comics & Graphic Novels

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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew an Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics.
Aguirre-Sacasa grew up liking comic books, recalling in 2003, "My mom would take us out to the 7-Eleven on River Road during the summer, and we would get Slurpees and buy comics off the spinning rack. I would read them all over and over again, and draw my own pictures and stuff."
He began writing for Marvel Comics, he explained, when "Marvel hired an editor to find new writers, and they hired her from a theatrical agency. So she started calling theaters and asking if they knew any playwrights who might be good for comic books. A couple of different theaters said she should look at me. So she called me, I sent her a couple of my plays and she said 'Great, would you like to pitch on a couple of comic books in the works?'"
His first submissions were "not what [they were] interested in for the character[s]" but eventually he was assigned an 11-page Fantastic Four story, "The True Meaning of...," for the Marvel Holiday Special 2004. He went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol. 3; The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2; and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing.
In May 2008 Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls,and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively. He adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.

In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer. ...more

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Average rating: 4.32 · 229,667 ratings · 8,056 reviews · 462 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stand: Captain Trips by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Adaptor), Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Story), Laura Martin (Illustrator), Mike Perkins (Illustrator) 4.47 avg rating — 71,703 ratings — published 2009 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stand: Soul Survivors by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Adaptor), Mike Perkins (Illustrator) 4.53 avg rating — 44,768 ratings — published 2010 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stand: American Nightmares by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Adaptor), Stephen King (Goodreads Author), Mike Perkins (Illustrator) 4.60 avg rating — 12,634 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1: The Crucible (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, #1) by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Robert Hack (Illustrator) 3.94 avg rating — 13,524 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stephen King The Stand: Captain Trips #1 (of 5) by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Stephen King (Goodreads Author), Mike Perkins (Illustrator) 4.61 avg rating — 10,487 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Writer), Francesco Francavilla (Illustrator), Jack Morelli (Letterer) 4.06 avg rating — 7,004 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stand: Hardcases by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Adaptor), Mike Perkins (Contributor), Ralph Macchio (Editor) 4.54 avg rating — 4,723 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1 3.93 avg rating — 5,291 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stand: No Man's Land by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Text), Mike Perkins (Illustrations) 4.56 avg rating — 3,843 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stand: The Night Has Come by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Adaptor), Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Story), Mike Perkins (Illustrator) 4.55 avg rating — 3,215 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

The Stand: Graphic Novels (6 books)
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Adaptor),

Stephen King (Goodreads Author) (Story),

Mike Perkins (Illustrator)

4.51 avg rating — 141,251 ratings

The Stand: Captain Trips (4 books)
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

4.48 avg rating — 82,370 ratings

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Collected Editions) (2 books)
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa,

Robert Hack (Illustrations)

3.94 avg rating — 17,182 ratings

Riverdale (3 books)
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa,

Thomas Pitilli (Illustrator)

3.57 avg rating — 3,345 ratings

Riverdale (9 books)
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Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa,

John Workman (Illustrator),

Joe Eisma (Illustrator),

Andre Symanowicz (Illustrator)

3.91 avg rating — 2,837 ratings

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“Fine, let's have the "We're-safe-in-here-it's-INSANE-for-you-to-go-out" conversation instead.”
― Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Afterlife with Archie #3: Sleepover

tags: afterlife-with-archie, issue-3

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“I'm done playing Brokeback Riverdale with you.”
― Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Afterlife With Archie #2: Dance with the Dead

tags: afterlife-with-archie, issue-2

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“imagina como es saber que algo horrible va a pasar pero no saber cuando”
― Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Riverdale #7

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