# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-spurgeon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:34:20.307Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-spurgeon"
name: "Tom Spurgeon"
slug: "tom-spurgeon"
description: "Thomas Martin Spurgeon was an American writer, historian, critic, and editor in the field of comics, notable for his five-year run as editor of The Comics Journal and his blog The Comics Reporter."
tagline: "American writer (1968-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Spurgeon_by_Michael_Netzer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-12-16"
deathDate: "2019-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.85
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.405688
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spurgeon"
    title: "Tom Spurgeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spurgeon"
    title: "Tom Spurgeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spurgeon"
    title: "Tom Spurgeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Spurgeon"
    title: "Tom Spurgeon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%A6%D9%86"
    title: "ٹام سپرجیئن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7817660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump