The creator of
Gargoyles and a scriptwriter for series such as
W.I.T.C.H. and
Kim Possible. He was the supervising producer for
The Spectacular Spider-Man until its cancellation, and also produced the
Young Justice cartoon, also cancelled. He also had a good run in the 1980s with his
Comic Book revival and update of
Captain Atom. His most recent project is a
Star Wars animated series titled
Star Wars: Rebels, which he's working on with Dave Filoni, former supervising director of the recently cancelled
Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Can be seen as the Western Animation equivalent of
Joss Whedon.
Has a
Twitter account
.
List of Works
Provides examples of:
- All There in the Manual: Weisman has an extensive online encyclopedia of the Gargoyles universe: http://www.s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/. It's technically owned by a user named Gorebash, Weisman just uses it.
- And in several interviews, he's hinted at having a rather thick production bible for Young Justice.
- Author Catchphrase: If someone's been reduced to just their head, expect him to be taunted "What are you going to do, bite my kneecaps off?" (Appears in Gargoyles and Spider-Man) Likewise, references to "beating up a beach" are favored when fighting sand villains (Gargoyles, Spider-Man, and WITCH).
- Canon Discontinuity: Weisman has disowned the entire Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles series except for the premiere episode, "The Journey".
- Weisman has now disowned the televised version of "The Journey" as well, since he retold the story in comicbook form and corrected a few errors.
- Cross Over: He likes to cross Gargoyles with other shows he's worked on. He wrote up a non-canon one with The Spectacular Spider-Man, and also planned one for Team Atlantis before it became a Stillborn Franchise (but he's declared it still canon in Broad Strokes).
- Deadpan Snarker: An entire section of Ask Greg is called Smart-Ass Responses.
- Executive Meddling: He does his best with it, but it just seems like everyone is determined to kill his shows. He's worked it to his advantage but most of the time the networks he's on don't know what to do with him.
- Gambit Index: If he's involved in a work, chances are one of these tropes will show up eventually. Not surprising since he did create Xanatos.
- Grey and Gray Morality: Frequently found in characters on many of his shows.
- He Also Did: In addition to his writing and producing credits in animation, he was also the ADR Director for the English dub of the 3×3 Eyes anime as well as the voice of Motoko in the English dub of Ikki Tousen.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: He seems to do this with the episode titles of most of his major works:
- His personal episode titles for Gargoyles were almost always one word long.
- Every episode of Max Steel's first season started with the letter S.
- His W.I.T.C.H. episodes were all stylized "___ Is For ____", with blank 1 being a letter of the alphabet and the second blank being a word starting with that letter.
- The Spectacular Spider-Man titles tended to reference academic concepts, with overall arc titles various "courses" such as Biology 101 to emphasize "The Education of Peter Parker" as a series theme.
- Old Shame: If he has a regret about Gargoyles (other than the third season) it's to do with how much he jerked around Brooklyn romantically.
- One of Us: Loves his Shakespeare and Whedon.
- Painful Transformation: If you're going to turn into something in a Greg Weisman show, particularly if you're the bad guy, odds are it won't be pleasant.
- Race Lift: He's very big on this, with some extremely pronounced examples in The Spectacular Spider-Man and Young Justice.
- Screwed by the Network: His shows seem to have trouble with their third seasons.
- Gargoyles third season was subject to Executive Meddling that killed the show.
- There were only two general DVD releases for Gargoyles; the third one that would've finished the (canonical) run was quietly ignored for eight years until finally becoming a Disney Movie Club exclusive.
- The comic book replacement for the third season suffered from chronic Schedule Slip and ended when Disney raised the licensing fees.
- After the lackluster first season of W.I.T.C.H., Greg Weisman was hired to head the second season. The show grew a beard and Greg had plans for more seasons. It was not to be.
- When Disney bought Marvel, Sony gave up the TV rights to Spider-Man in order to keep the movie rights from falling into Marvel Studios' hands, preempting any third season of The Spectacular Spider-Man. Kids WB ending to make way for 4kids didn't help either(Only Johnny Test survived the end of Kids WB).
- Young Justice's problematic airing schedule and lackluster toy sales made it too unprofitable compared with its high costs for animation and licensing, so Cartoon Network cancelled it.
- Shout-Out to Shakespeare: Gargoyles had a ton of these, some of which were not mere Shout Outs but plot-relevant. Spectacular Spider-Man also featured Shakespeare in Season 2's school play subplot.
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