Brian Michael Bendis

At 56 years old, Brian Michael Bendis physical status not available right now. We will update Brian Michael Bendis's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Comics career

Bendis, who is best known as a writer, started out as an artist, doing commissions, newspapers, and journals, as well as caricature art. He worked at The Plain Dealer as an illustrator. Even though he didn't like caricature work, it paid well and funded his interest in writing crime fiction for graphic novels. He eventually moved into both writing and drawing his illustrations before starting to create Caliber Comics-inspired Spunky Toddy.

Through Caliber, he met many of his longtime colleagues and collaborators in the comics industry, including Mike Oeming, Dave Mack, and Marc Andreyko, and launched the first in a series of independent noir fiction crime comics in 1993 and five issues of A.K.A. Goldfish with Caliber, 1994. Flaxen, a James Hudnall script, with David Mack as a mascot of the Golden Apple Comics chain in Los Angeles, was illustrated in 1995.

Jinx, Bendis' best-known early work, starring the titular bounty hunter in a crime noir version of Sergio Leone's film The Good, the Bad, and the Ungarly, appeared in 1996 and has appeared in seven issues from Caliber. The bulk of these early works depict a common universe, with Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso, Torso, and (stories from) Total Sell Out all describing characters and settings as well as tone.

He explains much of his work as "a graphic artist for over ten years" during a period of "nine years" living as a stereotypical'starving artist.'

Bendis went from Caliber to Image Comics, where Jinx and his other recent crime comics were released by Image's Shadowline arm in a trade paperback in 1996-1997. He also produced five other Jinx issues at Image.

With A.K.A., I'm impressed. Todd McFarlane, the image director of Goldfish, sought out Bendis, which resulted in his writing Sam and Twitch. Bendis approached Sam and Twitch primarily as a crime comic, although it was set in the Spawn universe. Sam and Twitch were written for twenty issues, as well as the majority of the first ten issues of Hellspawn, another Spawn spin-off title. "Add] the caretaker's resume to his resume, rather than just working under his own terms," Rich Kriener of The Comics Journal said.

Bendis co-wrote and illustrated the Eliot Ness-starring Torso with Marc Andreyko, also for Image, in 1998, and he produced three issues of Oni Comics' autobiographical Fortune and Glory.

Powers, the superhero police/noir detective series, was released by Image in the same year. Powers included Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Awards among other major comics industry accolades, including Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Awards.

Bendis' uncle David Mack started working for Joe Quesada's Marvel Knights imprint, of which Bendis was a fan. Quesada invited him to pitch Marvel Knights based on Bendis' biography on Jinx, which also included a planned but ultimately unproduced Nick Fury story.

Bill Jemas, the current Marvel Comics President, on Quesada's suggestion, recruited Bendis to write Ultimate Spider-Man, which debuted in 2000 and was targeted at the new generation of comic readers. Bendis adapted the 11-page origin story of Spider-Man from 1962's Amazing Fantasy #15 into a seven-issue story arc, with Peter Parker becoming the titular hero in the book's fifth issue, often beating those of the mainstream Marvel universe's title The Amazing Spider-Man. The Bendis-Bagley team's relationship on 111 consecutive issues made their friendship one of the longest in American comic book history and the longest run by a Marvel creative team, defeating Stan Lee and Jack Kirby on Fantastic Four. Bendis later wrote several books in the Ultimate series, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Marvel X-Men, Ultimate Origins, Ultimate Six, and the Ultimate Comics: Doomsday metaseries. Bendis' Ultimate Marvel Team-Up was sold to Marvel as Bendis' sequel to Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli created the Miles Morales character in 2011 as the current version of the Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis wrote every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man, as well as its second iteration, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man.

Quesada gave Bendis the writing assignments on Daredevil, which he took over in 2001, and he continued to contribute mainly with artist Alex Maleev. Bendis' name is one of the names used for boxers in the 2003 Darevil film as a leading Daredevil author. Bendis helped create Alias' non-Comics Code-approved adult MAX imprint, starring former Marvel superhero Jessica Jones as a private investigator. Before some of the characters were transferred to Bendis' mainstream Marvel Universe series The Pulse, several of the characters appeared in Bendis' main Marvel Universe series The Pulse. Powers Vol., a magazine published in Image, was relaunched as a result of Marvel's creator-owned imprint Icon in 2004, where it was relaunched as Powers Vol. David Mack's Kabuki, 2 in an ex-Image collection.

Bendis oversaw The Avengers' closing issues in 2004 as part of the crossover storyline "Avengers Disassembled." In the pages of The New Avengers, Bendis-helmed relaunch of one version of the eponymous team. Bendis' book The death of Avenger Hawkeye, which was tense, was among the subject's. Bendis-based artist Olivier Coipel wrote the New Avengers X-Men crossover "House of M" in 2005, which would retroactively be classified as the second act of a three-act super-event, beginning with "Avengers Disassembled" and ending in the Bendis-written 2008 storyline "Secret Invasion." Bendis also wrote the storyline "Secret War," which was published between 2004 and 2005. The series, which was not connected to the 1984 miniseries Secret Wars, served as a precursor to Secret Invasion. Bendis oversaw another Avengers revival after Marvel's 2006 "Civil War" taleline, unveiling Mighty Avengers with Frank Cho in 2007.

Bendis, "Secret Invasion" left Mighty Avengers with issue #20 and wrote Secret Invasion: Shadow Reign, a one-shot that preceded another ongoing Avengers story, Dark Avengers. Bendis and former Daredevil collaborator Maleev created the long-awaited Spider-Woman, a sequel to her appearance in the "Secret Invasion" storyline in 2009. Spider-Woman was the first comic book to be sold simultaneously on the internet as a "motion comic" and in comic shops in print form.

Bendis teamed up with Olivier Coipel on the 2009 crossover series "Siege," which brought the "Dark Reign" storyline to an end, and the "Dark Avengers" storyline came to an end, as did the "Dark Reign" storyline came to an end, as well as the original Dark Avengers. Both Avengers and New Avengers were relaunched as part of Siege, Bendis, during the "Heroic Age."

Bendis' first new creator-owned comic book in over a decade, Scarlett, his first new creator-owned comic book in over a decade, re-teaming with Maleev once more in 2010. Icon released the all-ages graphic novel Takio by Bendis and his Powers collaborator Mike Oeming in February 2011, and Icon's Brilliant with artist Bagley appeared in mid-2011. Bendis' other 2011 ventures included a new Moon Knight series with Maleev, which came as a result of issue 12. Bendis began writing Avengers Assemble in 2012, in conjunction with Marvel Studios' feature film The Avengers. Bendis wrote the first eight issues of Avengers Assemble, a series that premiered in March 2012 and included a new Zodiac version as well as the Return of the Guardians of the Galaxy, which teamed with the Avengers against Thanos.

Bendis' time on Avengers and New Avengers came to an end in 2012 with the "End Times" story. His last issue of Avengers, which was published in September 2012, was a "jam issue" with splash pages by Marvel artists such as Walt Simonson, Jim Cheung, and Leinil Yu.

Following Marvel's "Marvel NOW!"

Bendis wrote the "Age of Ultron" crossover storyline, which included an eponymous 10-issue miniseries, which was published between March and June 2013. The introduction of Neil Gaiman's character Angela into the Marvel Universe was in issue 10.

Bendis's book on comics, Words for Pictures, and Graphic Novels appeared on July 22, 2014. CBR.com published an interview in which Bendis talked about writing Graphic Novels, which was initially at Portland State University, and now at the University of Oregon, beginning with the Fall 2013 semester. He came at the request of Dark Horse Comics editor Diana Schutz, who encouraged him to teach. Scott McCloud and Will Eisner's books are among the teaching guides he uses.

Bendis revealed on Twitter that he would be working exclusively with DC Comics in November 2017. His debut in Action Comics #1000 (June 2018). In 2018, Ivan Reis starred in Bendis' The Man of Steel limited series for the first time, and he collaborated with Bendis on the relaunched Superman comic book. Following its 1,000th issue, Bendis took over writing Action Comics.

Bendis revealed on December 21, 2021, that he was composing an adult animated Legion of Super Heroes for the YouTube program HBO Max. The show is expected to be based on his appearance in the comic book series, but not on the original animated series.

Source

Awards

• 1999 Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition
• 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Series (for Powers with Michael Avon Oeming)
• 2002 Eisner Award for Best Writer (for Powers, Alias, Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man)
• 2003 Eisner Award for Best Writer (for Powers, Alias, Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man)
• 2003 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series (for Daredevil with Alex Maleev)
• 2000 Cleveland Press "Excellence in Journalism" Award
• 2000 Wizard Magazine Best Writer of the Year
• 2001 Wizard Magazine Best Writer of the Year
• 2002 Wizard Magazine Best Writer of the Year
• 2003 Wizard Magazine Best Writer of the Year
• 2002 Comics Buyer's Guide Best Writer of the Year
• 2003 Comics Buyer's Guide Best Writer of the Year
• 2004 Comics Buyer's Guide Best Writer of the Year
• 2005 E3's People's Choice Award for Activision's Ultimate Spider-Man
• 2010 Inkpot Award