Biografia
Will Meugniot has built a multifaceted career as an artist, writer, designer, executive, producer, and director, contributing to various sectors of the entertainment industry such as comic books, animation, children's book illustration, and live-action film storyboards.
In animation, Meugniot earned the International Monitor Award for Best Director in Children's Programming for his work on Jim Benton's Spydogs series. He also received The Environmental Media Award for his role in creating Captain Planet. Additionally, seasons of both Captain Planet and The Real Ghostbusters that he produced and directed were nominated for Emmy Awards. In the realm of print, he won the 2014 New Pulp Award for Best Interior Illustrations.
His other animation producing and directing credits include X-Men, Ultimate Avengers II, Bob the Builder, Conan the Adventurer, Angelina Ballerina, Alienators, GI Joe: Valor VS Venom, Time Kid, Dinosaur Island, Dragonlance, Street Fighter, Jem, Spider-Man Unlimited, and the fan-favorite Exosquad.
As a prominent storyboard artist, Meugniot has worked on hundreds of episodes for series such as Godzilla, Jana of the Jungle, Superfriends, The Thing, Flash Gordon, Sport Billy, Blackstar, Tarzan, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Hulk, Captain Power, GI Joe, Moon Dreamers, Jem, Defenders of the Earth, Bionic Six, Catillac Cats, Cops, Silver Surfer, Swamp Thing, Denver the Last Dinosaur, Little Shop, Diabolik, X-Men Evolution, among many others. His expertise in storyboarding led him to design titles and pilot films for several series, notably G.I. Joe, Conan the Adventurer, Defenders of the Earth, Exosquad, Monster Force, Dark Stalkers, Street Fighter, Earthworm Jim, Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters, and Jem.
Best known in the comic book community as the co-creator (with Mark Evanier) of the long-running DNAgents franchise, Meugniot's other sequential fiction work includes creating, writing, and illustrating Vanity for Pacific Comics, penciling titles such as Tigra, Solomon Kane, Howard the Duck, Marvel Team-Up, and briefly ghosting the Spider-Man newspaper strip for Marvel. He has also contributed significantly to independent publishers, including AC Comics' flagship Femforce, where he created The N.E.D.O.R. Agents. His Edgar Rice Burroughs (ERB) art appears in 1970s European Tarzan & Korak comics, the online comic strip The Jungle Girl, Dark Horse's Jungle Tales of Tarzan, and most recently as both cover and interior illustrator for Tarzan on the Precipice.
