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Born 3/2/52 in Santa Monica, California. I'm one of those people who made the long, hard struggle to Hollywood all the way from West Los Angeles. "Evanier" (pronounced ev-uh-near) is not French; it was probably made up by some Immigration Officer at Ellis Island one day who said, "Hey, here come some more Jews! Let's give them real stupid last names!" I prefer being on a first name basis with everyone if only because "Mark" is easier to spell.
My father had the worst job in the world: He worked for the Internal Revenue Service. Hated it. As a result, he urged his only kid — m.e. — to do whatever he wanted to in life, as long as he loved it. At about age eight, I decided I would love to be a professional writer and that, by God, was that. Have never had a "Plan B" since. My decision was only reinforced when The Dick Van Dyke Show debuted and I jumped to the conclusion, sadly erroneous, that all writers get to sleep with women who look like Laura Petrie.
Started reading 'n' collecting comic books shortly after I got out of the womb but didn't figure on them for a career since the business, I thought, was wholly in New York and didn't cotton to outta-towners. It turned out that was only partly true — and would become even less true as the years went by. Graduated high school in '69, became a professional writer about a week later when I sold a mess of articles to a couple of local magazines, and have never been without work since.