Mike Saenz

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Michael Saenz
Born	3 December 1959 Chicago, Illinois
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	Shatter Iron Man: Crash Donna Matrix Virtual Valerie MacPlaymate
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Mike Saenz (b. 3 December 1959,^[1] in Chicago, Illinois) is a comic book artist and software designer. He is the creator of Shatter, as well as an early adult video game, MacPlaymate.

As the founder and CEO of Reactor, Inc., Saenz developed and published interactive entertainment on CD-ROM. Reactor produced some of the best selling^{[citation needed]} 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.

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

Notes

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

References

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Name	Saenz, Michael
Alternative names
Short description	Comic creator
Date of birth	3 December 1959
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois
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