Catherine yronwoode

catherine yronwoode (who deliberately chose not to use capitals when writing her name) was born Cathherine Anna Manfredi in San Francisco in 1947. She began writing when in her teens, and developed an interest in green issues, astrology and magic. She began working as a comics editor in 1980, and in 1983 founded Eclipse Comics with her partner Dean Mullaney. During the eighties, Eclipse acquired the reprint rights to various strips from Warrior magazine from Dez Skinn, and also convinced Alan Moore to continue and conclude his unfinished Marvelman strip for them as Miracleman. Unfortunately, Eclipse ran into financial trouble after a flood destroyed most of its assets, and the company folded in the early 1990's (according to yronwoode, after Mullaney absconded with the contents of the company bank account) leaving the Miracleman series unfinished.