Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Axel Alonso

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American editor Axel Alonso.
Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Axel Alonso

Axel Alonso is an American comic book creator and former journalist, best known as the former Editor-in-Chief at Marvel Comics, a role which he held from January 2011 until November 2017. Alonso began his career as a journalist for New York's Daily News. He later worked as an editor at DC Comics from 1994 to 2000, during which he edited a number of books published under their Vertigo line, such as Doom Patrol, Animal Man, Hellblazer, Preacher and 100 Bullets. In 2000 he went to work for Marvel Comics as a Senior Editor. While there he edited Spider-Man and X-Men-related books before ascending to vice president, Executive Editor in 2010, and Editor-in-Chief in January 2011, replacing Joe Quesada. He has also worked as a writer and inker.

I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks to Schoolly D's "Saturday Night." I would give anything for a video of that.
I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.
Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it. — © Axel Alonso
Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.
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