He is the Scottish comic book maestro who this week signed deals for two more superhero films to be made into Hollywood blockbusters.

But Mark Millar, who this week revealed that two more of his graphic novels, Supercrooks and American Jesus, will be made into movies, says his "dream job" is to run Creative Scotland.

Millar, from Coatbridge, known for creating Kick-Ass, Wanted, Kingsman, and working on a string of comic book successes, says he will apply for the job of chief executive of the national arts funding body should it be open from 2019.

He says running the quango is his "dream job" and has already a series of plans to transform the body, which funds arts, galleries, theatres, artists, writers, dancers, culture, film and the creative industries in Scotland.

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Millar, born 1969 and who lives and works in Glasgow, said running Creative Scotland is his "unfulfilled ambition" and will bring to the job a wealth of experience from his career in graphic novels and in Hollywood.

Janet Archer is the current chief executive of Creative Scotland, and took up the role in 2013.

She took over from Andrew Dixon, who stood down from the role after a controversial tenure that ended when 100 leading artists signed a letter condemning its decision making and philosophy.

"It's literally my dream gig," Millar said yesterday.

"Once all these franchises are up and running by themselves my dream job would be to take over Creative Scotland for three years and do it full time.

"I’d love to bring my experience in the arts and in business to a role like this and try to reshape the way people see the arts in Scotland as a whole.

"It’s a job I’d take really seriously and would need to come three years down the line after I’ve finished all my current projects, but I will absolutely apply for it when the time comes if there’s a vacancy."

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Millar said he is "100%" serious about running Creative Scotland, which was created from a merger of the old Scottish Arts Council and film body Scottish Screen.

There is now a debate, reflected in the manifesto commitments of the political parties in the Holyrood elections, over whether Scotland needs a distinct film body again.

Millar added: "I know exactly what I’d want to do with it, completely reinventing how it works.

"As for details, it’s way too early and I want to have a very firm plan when I apply for the job at the end of the decade.

"I want to cost everything and sound it all out with a lot of friends from different areas of the arts.

"I’ve worked in a lot of them myself and run a business as well as write and produce full time so it feels like it could be a natural fit. Fingers crossed. We’ll see if they’re up for it."

Millar said that we would apply for the job if the vacancy exists.

"It’s literally my dream gig," he added.

American Jesus and Supercrooks have both be acquired for film rights by Waypoint Entertainment.

Millar said Supercrooks, which is drawn by Leinil Yu, is "Ocean's 11 with super powers", a "a big, funny heist movie that feels like one of those Thunderbolt and Lightfoot kind of pictures from the 70s."

American Jesus, which is drawn by artist Peter Gross, is "basically The Omen for Christians."

He added: "It’s about a little kid in the modern world finding out he’s the returned Jesus Christ and he has to grow up and save the world.

"It’s very big and epic, chronicling what it would be like to be Jesus growing up here in the world as we understand it, the challenges he’d face when he looks at a church dripping with wealth and politicians using his name as they do the most terrible things, all building up to this grand, epic showdown in the city of Megiddo in Israel where he has to face the Antichrist."

He said that the film would be very different from his other movies and would be "quite serious and weighty."