French publisher Humanoids is well known for its bandes dessinees (BD) by European artists Moebius and Jodorowsky. Now, ahead of the company’s celebration of its 20th Anniversary in America it has named Eisner award-winning writer Waid to the newly created position of Director of Creative Development. Last week Humanoids announced John Cassaday as Chief Creative Officer (see “Humanoids Hires John Cassaday”). Both announcements were timed ahead of New York Comic Con, leading up to a major original content publishing initiative announcement at the convention.

“Mark Waid has written some of the most popular and most influential stories in the history of comics,” said Humanoids CEO and Publisher, Fabrice Giger. “To bring a writer like Waid into the fold―to both write new stories and to help us develop and refine other projects―speaks to the ambition and seriousness of our plans for the future.”

“So what are we cooking up with these two incredible creators?” Humanoids Senior Editor Fabrice Sapolsky teased. “Fans will have to wait until New York Comic Comic Con to find out, but suffice it to say that the comic book industry has never before seen anything like what we have planned with Cassaday, Waid and a jaw dropping lineup of comic book creators.”

Waid has worked with multiple publishers including high profile titles for DC Comic (The Flash, Kingdom Come), and Marvel Comic (Captain America, Fantastic Four, Daredevil), garnering multiple Eisner Awards for his work on Daredevil (see “24th Annual Eisner Award Winners). He also served as BOOM! Studios Editor-in Chief from 2007 until 2010, when he spent a short time as Chief Creative Officer (see “Waid Out as BOOM! CCO”).