Chris Claremont (1950- ) is a comic book writer, best known for his 16-year (1976-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most sucessful properties. Claremont's soap opera approach to the ensemble cast of X-Men set the standard for team-based comic books for decades.

During his years as X-Men writer, Claremont wrote or co-wrote many classic X-Men stories such as the Phoenix Saga, Dark Phoenix Saga, and Days of Future Past. He also co-created numerous important X-Men characters, including Rogue, Shadowcat, Phoenix, Sabretooth, Mystique, Emma Frost, Rachel Summers, Dazzler, Mister Sinister and Captain Britain. He also helped launch best-selling spin-offs such as New Mutants, Excalibur, and Wolverine. In 1991, however, he left Marvel over differences with the editorial staff.

Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Alien vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics.

Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the "Chronicles of the Shadow War" trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.

In 2000 he returned to Marvel (as part of the company's "Revolution" event) and wrote Uncanny X-Men and X-Men until he moved to X-Treme X-Men with penciller Salvador Larroca.

As of 2004, he is again writing Uncanny X-Men as well as Excalibur for Marvel Comics.

The most common criticism of his work is his dialogue - Claremont's characters tend to speak in long paragraphs that are often called forced or unrealistic, and has used a lot of omniscient narration. Some have also critized the use of frequent Domination & submission (BDSM) subtext in his plot-lines.

External links

• Bibiliographic Summary (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Chris_Claremont)

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