Mike Saenz

Peter B. Gillis
Born	December 3, 1959 (1959-12-03) (age 51) Chicago, Illinois
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	Shatter Iron Man: Crash Donna Matrix
Official website

Mike Saenz (b. December 3, 1959,^[1] in Chicago, Illinois) is a comic book artist and creator of the first digital comic book.^{[citation needed]} He co-created the first comic book produced entirely on the computer, Shatter,^{[citation needed]} as well as an early adult video game, MacPlaymate.

As the founder and CEO of Reactor, Inc., Saenz has been a developer and publisher of interactive entertainment on CD-ROM. Reactor produced some of the best selling CD-ROMs of its time, including Spaceship Warlock, Virtual Valerie, Virtual Valerie 2, Virtual Valerie: The Director's Cut, and Donna Matrix.

Shatter was written by Peter Gillis and illustrated on the computer by Saenz. It was initially drawn on a first-generation Macintosh using a mouse, and printed on a dot-matrix printer. It was then photographed like a piece of traditionally drawn black-and-white comic art, and the color separations were applied in the traditional manner of the period. A breakthrough for both comics and computers, Shatter attracted widespread media attention and set sales records for an independent comic.^{[citation needed]}

After a brief career as a professional comic book artist for hire, he went solo and continued incorporating comics and computers. He developed Comic Works, the first computer program for creating comics. He later went on to develop Iron Man: Crash (Marvel Comics, 1988), which was the first computer-drawn graphic novel.^{[citation needed]} In 1993, Saenz created Donna Matrix, a computer-generated graphic novel with 3-D graphics, published by Reactor Press. This was the first 3-D CGI graphic novel.^{[citation needed]}

References

Notes

1. ^ Miller, John Jackson. "Comics Industry Birthdays", Comic Buyer's Guide, June 10, 2005. Accessed December 12, 2010. WebCitation archive.

Sources consulted

• Lambiek

External links

• Official website
• A Conversation With Mike Saenz
• Sex in Computer Games Part 2: Explicit Sex Sex In Computer Games

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Name	Saenz, Mike
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Date of birth	December 3, 1959
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois
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