
As a child growing up in Bellingham, Washington and Albion, California, Erik Larsen created seveal comic books featuring versions of a character named 'Dragon.' He eventually published a fanzine, which led to his doing professional work on a comic book called Megaton for creator Gary Carlson. It was here that he introduced the Dragon, a super powered superhero, to the comic-reading masses. After a multitude of mailings, showing his work, Erik became aquainted with Jim Shooter, who was, at that point, Marvel's Editor-in-Chief. Erik eventually met Jim at a convention in Chicago and Jim was impressed enough with Erik's work that he consented to co-plot a story with him on the spot. That story was a battle between Marvel Comics characters Hulk & Thor. Although it wasn't actually published until years later, it did impress a variety of Editors enough to get Larsen some more high-profile work in the funnybook field. Erik jumped around various books in this part of his career. He did an Amazing Spider-Man fill-in story at Marvel, a few issues of DNAgents for Eclipse, and he eventually took over the art chores on DC's Doom Patrol. Soon afterwards, he left DC and moved on to the Punisher for Marvel. Five issues of that book was about as much pain as that poor Minnesota boy could stand. Erik wanted to write and when a Nova serial was given the thumbs up to run in Marvel Comics Presents with Erik as the writer/artist, he gladly left the Punisher. But it was not to be! The powers that be had other plans for Nova and Erik's yarn didn't fit in with the impending New Warriors series. Editor Terry Kavanaugh gave Larsen an Excalibur serial to draw for Marvel Comics Presents while the poor bastard waited for his big break. When ever-popular artist Todd McFarlane left his artistic duties on Amazing Spider-Man, Larsen was chosen to be his successor. That run was astoundingly well-recieved, and included popular stories like 'The Return of the Sinister Six', 'The Cosmic Spider-Man', and 'The Powerless Spider-Man'. Although he was comfortable with his position as Amazing Spider-Man penciller, he was frustrated drawing other people's stories. Larsen found that his ravenous desire to write had only gotten stronger. He left Amazing Spider-Man, quite pooped. By this time, the New Warriors was going full tilt and Erik tossed together a proposal for a Nova ongoing series. While he waited for it to get the nod, Todd McFarlane left the new Spider-Man title that he had launched. Erik was called upon once again picked up the torch - and he ran with it. Larsen created a memorable albeit brief run on that title, despite a traumatic event in his personal life - his house burned to the ground, destroying all of his childhood drawings and comic books. After this period, creator Rob Liefeld invited Larsen to help found a new comic book imprint called 'Image' at Malibu comics, alongside notorious creators Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, and Jim Valentino. Erik's flagship comic book at Image (which soon left Malibu and became the third lagest comic book publisher in the United States) was an updated version of his childhood creation — 'The Savage Dragon.' Larsen has been succeeding with his ideas ever since, through his creations Freak Force, Star, SuperPatriot and the Deadly Duo as well as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which he helped revitalize and bring to Image. As of 2004, Erik Larsen became the Publisher of Image Comics and shows no sign of slowing down.
Series
Books

Savage Dragon #227
2017

Savage Dragon #200
2014

Savage Dragon #52
1998

Savage Dragon #130
2006

Wolverine (1988-2003) #137
1999

Savage Dragon #244
2019

Savage Dragon #254
2020

Savage Dragon #215
2016

Savage Dragon #11
1994

Savage Dragon #63
1999

Savage Dragon #41
1997

Savage Dragon #70
2000

Savage Dragon #44
1997

Savage Dragon #149
2009

Savage Dragon #233
2018

Savage Dragon, Vol. 1
Baptism of Fire
1993

Incredible Hulk (1999-2007) Annual 2001
2018

Savage Dragon #228
2017

Savage dragon vol. 22 - Un drago alla casa bianca
2022

Savage Dragon
Team-Ups
1999

Aquaman (1994-) #57
1999
Savage Dragon #165
2010

Savage Dragon #167
2010

Wolverine (1988-2003) #133
1999

Savage Dragon #214
2016
Savage Dragon 192
2013

Savage Dragon #89
2001

Savage Dragon #105
2002

Savage Dragon #129
2006

Savage Dragon #242
2019

Savage Dragon #210
2015

Savage Dragon #230
2017

Savage Dragon #62
1999

Savage Dragon #92
2002

Dragon war. Savage Dragon vol. 17
2025

Savage Dragon #109
2003

Savage Dragon #252
2020

Savage Dragon #10
1993

Savage Dragon #168
2011

Savage Dragon #58
1999

Savage Dragon #219
2017

Savage Dragon #248
2020

Savage Dragon #75
2000

Savage Dragon #212
2016

Savage Dragon #65
1999

Wolverine (1988-2003) #149
2016

Savage Dragon #231
2018

Savage Dragon #234
2018

Savage Dragon #208
2015

Savage Dragon #222
2017

Incredible Hulk (1999-2007) #8
2013

Savage Dragon #32
1996

Savage Dragon #199
2014

Aquaman (1994-) #56
1999

Savage Dragon #61
1999

Savage Dragon #206
2015

Savage Dragon #203
2015

Savage Dragon #169
2011

Savage Dragon #85
2001

Savage Dragon #236
2018

Savage Dragon #83
2001

Savage Dragon #198
2014

Wolverine vs. The Marvel Universe
1992

Savage Dragon #224
2017

Savage Dragon #106
2002

Aquaman (1994-2001) #59
1999

Savage Dragon #80
2000

Savage Dragon #104
2002

Savage Dragon #77
2000

Savage Dragon #217
2016

Savage Dragon #8
1997

Savage Dragon #148
2009

Savage Dragon #250
2020

Savage Dragon #166
2010

Savage Dragon #247
2019

Savage Dragon #56
1998

Savage Dragon #249
2020

Savage Dragon #218
2016
Savage Dragon, Vol.13
Desperate Times
2021

Coleção Definitiva do Homem-Aranha, Vol. 40
A Vingança de Venom
2019

Aquaman (1994-2001) #60
1999

Twisted Savage Dragon Funnies
2011

Savage Dragon #256
2021

Savage Dragon #49
1998
Savage Dragon 190
2013

Spider-Man (1990-1998) #21
1992

Savage Dragon #138
2008

Savage Dragon #183
2012

Savage Dragon #196
2014

Savage Dragon #136
2008

Savage Dragon #27
1996

Savage Dragon #97
2002

Savage Dragon #28
1996
Savage Dragon 176
2011

Savage Dragon #64
1999

Savage Dragon #53
1998

Savage Dragon #216
2016

Savage Dragon #95
2002

Savage Dragon #90
2001

Savage Dragon #86
2001

Savage Dragon #213
2016

Savage Dragon #225
2017

Savage Dragon #48
1998

Savage Dragon #51
1998

SuperPatriot
1993

Savage Dragon #26
1996

Savage Dragon #91
2001

Savage Dragon #24
1993

Wolverine (1988-2003) #138
2017

Savage Dragon #226
2017

Savage Dragon #211
2016

Savage Dragon #145
2009

Savage Dragon #238
2018

Savage Dragon #67
1999

Savage Dragon #188
2013

Savage Dragon #253
2020

Savage Dragon #193
2014

Savage Dragon #111
2003

Savage Dragon #180
2012

Savage Dragon #50
1998

Savage Dragon #21
1995

Savage Dragon #184
2013

Savage Dragon #220
2000

Savage Dragon #232
2018

Savage Dragon #94
2002

Savage Dragon #87
2001

Savage Dragon #209
2015

Savage Dragon #60
1999

Savage Dragon #241
2019

Savage Dragon #195
2014

Savage Dragon #255
2020

Savage Dragon #194
2014

Savage Dragon #257
2021

Savage Dragon #246
2019

Savage Dragon #12
1993

Savage Dragon #3
1992

Savage Dragon, Vol. 5
Revenge
1999

Savage Dragon #78
2000

Savage Dragon #66
1999

Savage Dragon #245
2019

Savage Dragon #133
2007

Aquaman (1994-) #51
1999

Aquaman
Secret Files & Origins (1998) #1
1998

Savage Dragon #102
2002

Savage Dragon #99
2002

Savage Dragon #54
1998

Savage Dragon #101
2002

Savage Dragon #4
1993

Aquaman (1994-2001) #54
1999

Savage Dragon #251
2020

Savage Dragon #240
2018

Savage Dragon #159
2010

Savage Dragon #237
2018

Wolverine (1988-2003) #136
1999

Secret Origins
Featuring the Jla
1999

Savage Dragon #108
2003

Savage Dragon #55
1998

Savage Dragon #229
2017

Savage Dragon #68
1999
Savage Dragon #171
2011

Savage Dragon #243
2019

Savage Dragon #197
2014

Savage Dragon #135
2008

Savage Dragon #221
2017

Savage Dragon #235
2018

Coleção Definitiva do Homem-Aranha, Vol. 37
Pátria em Chamas
2019

Savage Dragon #239
2018

Savage Dragon #174
2011

Savage Dragon #204
2015

Savage Dragon #223
2017

Savage Dragon #72
2000