Mark Sable is a professional writer for print, stage and screen best known for his creator-owned comic books, and a writing professor.

Mark is best known for his comics work. He’s written such characters as SPIDER-MAN for Marvel Comics and BATMAN for DC. His passion however is his creator-owned work, including GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES, GROUNDED, FEARLESS and HAZED for Image Comics and UNTHINKABLE for Boom! Studios.

His most recent work includes MISKATONIC, GODKILLERS, FEAR OF A RED PLANET AND WHERE STARSHIPS GO TO DIE from Aftershock Comics, and THE DARK and DRACULA: SON OF THE DRAGONS from Comixology Originals and Dark Horse.  Comixology Originals will be publishing his graphic novel BOXED in 2023.

The feature film rights to Unthinkable and Hazed were optioned by Mandalay Entertainment and Barry Josephson. Fox and producer Howard Gordon (24, Homeland) bought the TV rights to Unthinkable in 2013. Mark was hired to create the original animated pilot Polarity for Cartoon Network and adapt Graveyard of Empires for the screen as well.

Mark also consults as a futurist. Projects and clients have included The Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare, The United States Air Force Blue Horizons program, Marine Corps University, the National Intelligence Council’s 2035 Global Trends report, the Royal Australian Navy, The Center for International Maritime Security, The Institute for Human Machine Cognition, The Sci-Arc School of Architectural Thinking and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab among others.

Mark earned a BA in English from Duke University, and MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a JD from USC Law School. He has been teaching for SVA’s MFA in Visual Narrative program, which he helped found since the Fall of 2013.