When Jeff Trammell landed the job of creating Marvel Studios' animated series "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" (premiering today), he stepped into the most fertile creative period for the web-slinging superhero in his 63-year history.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is the latest Marvel series to arrive on Disney+, but is the animated show set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Head writer and executive producer Jeff Trammell tells IndieWire about how the Disney+ show channels early comics with a hand-drawn animation style.

Since Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first created Spider-Man more than six decades ago, the character has been one of the most enduring superheroes in popular culture. From comics to animated series and a slew of live-action films (as well as 2018’s animated,

Spider-Man voice actor for Disney+'s new show, “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman," admits he was worried that new show would be "annoying and woke."

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is an animated remix paying tribute to the character’s 1960s comic book roots. It takes the character back to a high school setting in a modern age but an alternate universe from that in the MCU.

Marvel’s new Spider-Man animated series on Disney+, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, offers a new interpretation of the superhero. Stylistically, it is an ode to comic books’ style of drawing. It also paints an accurate depiction of New York City,