Saviuk's professional career began in 1977 at
DC Comics, where he illustrated such titles as
Green Lantern,
The Flash, and
Superman. Saviuk's first work for DC was a one-page story titled "The Victim!" in
House of Mystery #255 (Nov.-Dec. 1977). His first full work for the company,
Green Lantern #100 (Jan. 1978), introduced an updated version of the
Air Wave character. Saviuk drew
The Flash #275 (July 1979) wherein the title character's wife,
Iris West Allen was killed. In the early 1980s, Saviuk was the regular backup feature artist on
Action Comics, where he drew the exploits of Air Wave,
Aquaman, and the
Atom in collaboration with writer
Bob Rozakis. Rozakis stated in a 2014 interview that "I don't recall how we ended up with the three of them. It may have simply been that all three had names that began with 'A' and it was a backup in
Action Comics". Saviuk frequently drew the "Whatever Happened to...?" backup feature in
DC Comics Presents. He and writer
E. Nelson Bridwell introduced the
Global Guardians in
DC Comics Presents #46 (June 1982). ''
Sunday strip from 2004. Pencils by Saviuk, inks by
Joe Sinnott. In 1986, Saviuk moved to
Marvel Comics, where he eventually established himself as a key
Spider-Man artist with a seven-year run on
Web of Spider-Man (issues #35–116). It was the longest run of a single artist on that series. From 1994 to 1997, Saviuk worked on the series
Spider-Man Adventures (later retitled
The Adventures of Spider-Man). Beginning in 1997, Saviuk drew
The Amazing Spider-Man Sunday newspaper comic strip, After Lieber retired from the daily strip in September 2018, Saviuk took over as penciller as well and stayed on until the cancellation of the strip in March 2019. He created variant covers for
Symbiote Spider-Man #1–5 (2019). In 1997–1998, he spent a one-year stint at
Topps Comics drawing
The X-Files until the end of its run. In 2018, Tinnell adapted it for an
eponymous movie. In 2004, Alex Saviuk returned to
The Phantom, a character he had already drawn in
Defenders of the Earth in 1987, this time for European publisher
Egmont. He has drawn numerous
Fantomen (
The Phantom) comics since then. From 2018 to 2019, he pencilled and inked the first and fourth issue of the new anthology series
The Phantom Strikes. Some of the characters Saviuk has co-created include Arkiss Chummuck and Malet Dasim of the
Green Lantern Corps (with Bob Toomey), Sunburst (with
Paul Kupperberg),
Olympian (with E. Nelson Bridwell),
Tombstone (with
Gerry Conway),
Nightwatch and the
New Enforcers (both with
Terry Kavanagh). In addition to comics, Saviuk does storyboards for advertising agencies and, occasionally, film and animation studios. Saviuk lives in Florida with his wife. They have two children. ==Bibliography==