Los Angeles, CA (June 26, 2025) – Ignition Press proudly announced today 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 27th (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.

“From the meeting of the author of one of my favorite novels about being a punk kid, Cut My Hair these many years ago, to the reconnecting via my Substack newsletter, I’m so excited to bring this idea and this big bold world we’re about to launch into with Jamie and Ignition. It’s going to be thrilling and fun and wild and I can’t wait for you to see it!” said Peter Murrieta. 

“It's serendipitous that we would announce our working with Peter Murrieta on the eve of SDCC, as it was nearly two decades ago at this very show that Peter and I met for the first time. He and I had been put together by Ignition Press CEO Eric Gitter and were talking about collaborating on a project that ended up not coming to fruition, but it was an interaction that I remembered fondly enough that when I had an opportunity to approach him again about doing something new, I jumped at it," added Editor-in-Chief Jamie S. Rich. “His upcoming project from Ignition Press is the kind of ambitious genre-masher that I can't help to get excited about, and for Peter to bring his unique point of view to it is that extra spice that will really make for a comic book like we've never seen before.”

About Peter Murrieta
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." 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.

About Ignition Press 
Ignition Press is the Los Angeles-based comic book and graphic novel publisher co-founded by publishing and media industry veterans Eric Gitter, Filip Sablik, Jamie S. Rich, and Jeremy Haun. The upstart creator-driven company will exclusively publish original series beginning in September 2025 including Murder Podcast and Voyeur. Ignition Press is repped by WME and attorneys Fred Goodman and Rich Marin of Marin Goodman, LLP. 

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