Bill Morrison (comics)
Bill Morrison | |
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Bill Morrison at the 2009 Comic Con in San Diego. | |
Born |
1959 Lincoln Park, Michigan |
Occupation | Bongo Comics artist and writer |
Nationality | American |
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 was the creative director of Bongo Comics to 1993 to 2012.
Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park, Michigan, a Downriver suburb of Detroit . He attended the College for Creative Studies.
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.[1]
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:
- Lady and the Tramp
- Cinderella
- Bambi
- Peter Pan
- The Jungle Book
- Robin Hood
- The Rescuers
- The Fox and the Hound
- Oliver & Company
- The Little Mermaid (including a controversial image)
- “Roller Coaster Rabbit”
- “The Prince and the Pauper”
- The Rescuers Down Under.[2]
Then he worked as an illustrator for The Simpsons and created his own comic Roswell. He served as director for Futurama.[3]
References
- ↑ "The Mural". A Century of Values. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
- ↑ http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/nov99/morrisonb.shtml
- ↑ "electrifyingtimes".
External links
- Media related to Bill Morrison (comics) at Wikimedia Commons
- comiXology.com's podcast with Bill Morrison and Scott Shaw on the Captain Carrot and the Final Ark mini-series
- Bill Morrison's home page is at: http://www.littlegreenman.com