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David Scroggy (born December 19, 1951 Scroggy entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books: 1928–1999. Accessed Dec. 6, 2019. in Akron, Ohio) is an American retailer, columnist, editor, and executive in the field of . From 1993 to 2017, he was head of new product development at Dark Horse Comics.

Scroggy attended Harvey S. Firestone High School in Akron; classmates included (later of ) and future comics professionals and .Cooke, Jon B. A Guy Named Yoe," Comic Book Creator #20 (TwoMorrows Publishing, Aug 14, 2019).

Scroggy started out in the comics business in 1975. Having moved from to , Scroggy was hired by , organizer of San Diego Comic-Con, to work as a volunteer at the convention. With Dorf's encouragement and assistance, Scroggy began writing a column for Alan Light's trade publication The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom (later known as the Comics Buyer's Guide). This in turn got him in the door at the local San Diego retailer . Before long, Scroggy had risen to general manager of ' four San Diego shopsSanford, Jay Allen. "Two Men and their Comic Books," San Diego Reader (Aug. 19, 2004). (his official title was Wholesale Distribution Manager). For his work in the industry, Scroggy was given an at San Diego Comic-Con in 1977.

Later, when Pacific Comics expanded into publishing, Scroggy helped recruit the reclusive to publish with Pacific. In 1981 Scroggy was named Editorial Director of the comics division; he also edited 's Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers and the Pacific anthology Vanguard Illustrated during that period. As began to publish limited-edition art portfolios by comic book and fantasy artists, under the Schanes & Schanes imprint, Scroggy was involved editorially. One example was The Portfolio of Underground Art, published in 1980. "The Portfolio of Underground Art" at Amazon. The portfolio consisted of thirteen oversize signed and numbered plates; one each by a notable underground comix artist, created for the project. Scroggy selected the artists and wrote both biographies and a text booklet that accompanies the plates. Contributor included , , S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, , , and others. Scroggy edited and wrote text for The Bladerunner Sketchbook (1982), "Blade Runner Sketchbook" at ABEBooks. published by Pacific Comics under their Blue Dolphin imprint. Vanguard Illustrated was an anthology comic book that teamed a new, unpublished talent with an established one. A new writer's story would be illustrated by an established artist, and vice versa. Writers whose first professional work appeared in Vanguard include , , and . Artists included and . "Vanguard Illustrated" at the Grand Comics Database.

Scroggy left Pacific in 1984 to become organizer of the annual San Diego Comic Book Expo, "DARK HORSE'S DAVE SCROGGY ON BILL LIEBOWITZ "'Missed but Never Replaced'," ICv2 (October 28, 2004). the associated with San Diego Comic-Con. "Pictures of Shel Dorf and David Scroggy Together in 1993," tribute website (MARCH 12, 2010). During this same period, roughly from 1983 to 1992, Scroggy worked as an for creators in the comics industry. He was an editor at Dark Horse Comics in 1989, and started Dark Horse's Product Development department in 1993. Scroggy again wrote a column in Comics Buyer's Guide in the 1990s.

Scroggy was Vice President of Product Development at Dark Horse for many years, retiring in 2017. "DAVID SCROGGY, VP OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, LEAVES DARK HORSE," Dark Horse official website (06/30/2017). "Special Guests: David Scroggy," Comic-Con International: San Diego website. Accessed Dec. 6, 2019.

In 2019, Scroggy was a reference source for in the 2020 graphic novel Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, sharing his eyewitness account of the Kent State shootings over the weekend of May 2–3, 1970. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio, Abrams ComicArts (2020), pp. 260, 264.


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