Brian Michael Bendis

Brian Michael Bendis ˈbɛndɪs born August 18 1967 is an American comic book writer and artist Starting with crime and noir comics Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work While at Marvel Comics Bendis worked with Bill Jemas and Mark Millar as the writers on the first book of the Ultimate Marvel imprint Ultimate SpiderMan which debuted in 2000 He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004 wrote the Marvel storylines Avengers Disassembled 20042005 Secret War 20042005 House of M 2005 Secret Invasion 2008 Siege 2010 and Age of Ultron 2013 and cocreated the characters Riri Williams Miles Morales and Jessica Jones Bendis has won five Eisner Awards for both his creatorowned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books Though he has cited comic book writers such as Frank Miller and Alan Moore Bendis writing influences are less rooted in comics drawing on the work of David Mamet Richard Price and Aaron Sorkin whose dialogue Bendis said was the best in any medium In addition to writing comics Bendis has worked in television video games and film He has also taught courses on graphic novels at the University of Oregon and Portland State University In 2014 Bendis wrote Words for Pictures The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels a book about comics published by Random House Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Michael Bendis licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia