Ignition Press has announced that multiple Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, showrunner, and producer Peter Murrieta is joining the new publisher’s impressive roster of creators ahead of Comic-Con International in San Diego (SDCC).
Ignition Press has previously announced creators including co-founder and Creative Director Jeremy Haun, Cullen Bunn, Si Spurrier, Leah Williams, Stephanie Williams, Jim McCann, Tim Seeley, the Miranda Brothers, Stefano Simeone, Mike Tisserand, Marika Cresta, David Baldeón, Letizia Cadonici, and Joe Eisma in their lineup. While Murrieta’s project with Ignition Press will be announced at a later date, the celebrated writer will join the publisher on their Doing Comics Differently with Ignition Press panel at the Grand 10 & 11 panel rooms in the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina (333 W Harbor Dr) on Sunday, July 27 th (11:00am PT-12:00pm PT) to give fans a taste of things to come. The publisher promises to reveal additional creators during the panel.
Peter Murrieta, Deputy Director at the Sidney Poitier New American Film School, is a multiple Emmy Award-winner known for award-winning series like Netflix’s “Mr. Iglesias” and Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place,” which notably launched the career of global superstar Selena Gomez. Murrieta is also the recipient of the Imagen Foundation’s Norman Lear Writer’s Award and was honored in the foundation’s 2024 & 2025 class of Influential Latinos in Media.
Over the last two decades, Murrieta has produced more than 300 hours of television, including hit shows “One Day at a Time” (Netflix), “Lopez” (TV Land), “Superior Donuts” (CBS), “Cristela” (ABC) and “Primo” (Amazon Freevee), which enjoys a rare 100% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. His extensive experience and commitment to creating shows that serve as star vehicles for LatinX actors that also achieve mainstream success is second to none in the industry. Murrieta, who’s Mexican American, created the acclaimed WB series “Greetings from Tucson,” a groundbreaking series that was one of the first ever to feature a diverse, bi-racial family, set in Peter’s native Arizona.
More than any other producer in Hollywood, he has developed projects that have contributed to the careers of the industry’s biggest Latino stars, including George Lopez, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, Cristela Alonzo, Mario Lopez, Justina Machado and the legendary Lupe Ontiveros, among others. Murrieta is currently developing an adaptation of the novel “Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta,” which he co-wrote with the novelist, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, in addition to his to-be-announced comic series from Ignition Press.
