Bill Morrison (comics)

Bill Morrison (born 1959) is an American comic book artist and writer, and co-founder of Bongo Comics (along with Matt Groening and Steve and Cindy Vance). He is the Executive Editor of MAD Magazine since early 2018 (beginning with the rebooted issue #1 dated June 2018), after the retirement of 30+ year editor John Ficarra and the magazine shifting offices to Los Angeles, California after decades in Manhattan (first on Madison Avenue and then on Broadway).[1][2]

Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison at the 2009 Comic Con in San Diego
Born1959 (age 60-61)
Lincoln Park, Michigan
OccupationBongo Comics artist and writer
NationalityAmerican

Early life

Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park, Michigan, a Downriver suburb of Detroit. He attended the College for Creative Studies.

Career

At the beginning of his career in the early 1980s, Morrison worked as a technical illustrator for Artech, Inc. (Livonia, Michigan) before going to work as an illustrator for Disney, where he created promotional art for:

Subsequently, he worked as an illustrator and occasional writer for The Simpsons and created his own comic Roswell. He also served as a director for Futurama.[4]

Morrison was the creative director of Bongo Comics from 1993 to 2012.

Morrison is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America; he created the mural A Century of Values to celebrate the BSA centennial in 2010.[5]

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Yellow Submarine, The Beatles' 1968 animated feature film, Titan Comics published, on August 28, 2018, a hardcover comicbook illustrated by Morrisson.[6]

References
  1. WELCOME TO THE ALL-NEW, SOMEWHAT-FAMILIAR MAD! (April 16, 2018) MAD Magazine Blog
  2. Mad Magazine’s New Look Revealed at WonderCon 2018 (March 24, 2018) The FireWIre Blog
  3. http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/nov99/morrisonb.shtml
  4. "electrifyingtimes".
  5. "The Mural". A Century of Values. Retrieved February 6, 2009.
  6. "EXCLUSIVE: BILL MORRISON DIVES INTO TITAN COMICS' NEW THE BEATLES: YELLOW SUBMARINE GRAPHIC NOVEL". SYFYWire. Retrieved September 8, 2018.


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