Brian Michael Bendis
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Brian Michael Bendis (/ˈbɛndɪs/; born August 18, 1967)[2] is an American comic book writer and artist.
Starting with
Bendis has won five
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."[4]
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.[5][6]
Early life
Brian Michael Bendis was born on August 18, 1967, in
While in high school, he submitted a "
Comics career
Caliber Comics
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Best known as a writer, Bendis started out as an artist, doing work for local magazines and newspapers, including caricature work. He worked at The Plain Dealer as an illustrator. Although he did not enjoy caricature work, it paid well and funded his interest in writing crime fiction for graphic novels.[4] He eventually moved into both writing and illustrating his work, before he began producing work for Caliber Comics, including Spunky Todd.[10]
Through Caliber, he met many of his longtime friends and collaborators within the comics industry, including
Bendis's best-known early work,
He characterizes much of this period of his professional life in terms of working as "a graphic artist for almost twelve years",[4] undergoing a period within that of "nine years" living as a stereotypical 'starving artist'.[9]
Image Comics and Oni Comics
In 1996–1997, Bendis moved from Caliber to Image Comics,[9] where Jinx and his other previous crime comics were published by Image's Shadowline arm in trade paperback. At Image, he also produced five more issues of Jinx.[13]
Impressed with A.K.A. Goldfish, Image founder
In 1998, Bendis co-wrote and illustrated the
That same year saw the debut of the superhero police/
Marvel Comics
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Around the time Bendis began Sam and Twitch, his friend David Mack began working for Joe Quesada's Marvel Knights imprint, which Bendis was a fan of. Based on Bendis' work on Jinx, Quesada invited him to pitch ideas for Marvel Knights, which included a planned, but ultimately unproduced, Nick Fury story.[9]
Marvel Comics President
Quesada offered Bendis the writing duties on
Also in 2004, Bendis oversaw the closing issues of The Avengers as part of the crossover storyline "Avengers Disassembled".[22] This led directly to the Bendis-helmed relaunch of one version of the eponymous team in the pages of The New Avengers.[23] Bendis's work on this storyline included the death of Avenger Hawkeye, which proved controversial.[10] In 2005, with artist Olivier Coipel, Bendis wrote the New Avengers / X-Men crossover, "House of M",[24] which would retroactively be considered the second act of a three-act super-event beginning with "Avengers Disassembled" and culminating in the Bendis-written 2008 storyline "Secret Invasion".[25] 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 prelude to Secret Invasion. After Marvel's 2006 "Civil War" storyline, Bendis helmed another Avengers revival, launching Mighty Avengers with Frank Cho in 2007.[26]
Post-"Secret Invasion", Bendis left Mighty Avengers with issue #20 and wrote Secret Invasion: Dark Reign, a one-shot that preceded another ongoing Avengers series, Dark Avengers.[27][28][29] In 2009, Bendis and former Daredevil collaborator Maleev launched the long-delayed Spider-Woman, following up on her role in the "Secret Invasion" storyline. Spider-Woman was the first comic book to be offered simultaneously on the Internet as a "motion comic" and in comic stores in print form.[30]
Bendis re-teamed with Olivier Coipel for the 2009 crossover series "Siege", which brought the "Dark Reign" storyline to a close, and with-it, Dark Avengers. Springboarding out of Siege, Bendis relaunched both Avengers and New Avengers as part of the "Heroic Age".
Also in 2010, Bendis launched
Bendis concluded his stint on Avengers and New Avengers in 2012 with the "End Times" arc. His final issue of Avengers, released September 2012, was a "jam issue", featuring splash pages by Marvel artists including
Following Marvel's "Marvel NOW!" relaunch of its titles, Bendis took on writing duties on All New X-Men, which saw the return of the original 1960's X-Men to the present, Uncanny X-Men,[36] whose focus shifts to Cyclops' team of X-Men going rogue after the events of "Avengers Vs. X-Men", and Guardians of the Galaxy, picking up where his Avengers Assemble run left off.
Bendis wrote the "
On July 22, 2014,
DC Comics
In November 2017, Bendis announced via Twitter that he would be working exclusively with DC Comics.[40] His DC debut was in Action Comics #1000 (June 2018).[41] Ivan Reis drew the first issue of Bendis's The Man of Steel limited series,[42] and collaborated with Bendis on the relaunched the ongoing Superman series in 2018.[43] Bendis took over writing Action Comics following its 1,000th issue.[44]
On December 21, 2021, Bendis announced that he was developing an adult animated
Work in other media
In addition to his primary work in comics, Bendis has produced written work in several other media, such as video games, TV and film.
Bendis was the co-executive producer and series-
Bendis was one of the writers on the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series, which debuted in 2012.[47]
He was credited as a developer and wrote several episodes for the TV adaptation of his comic, Powers, which starred Sharlto Copley and ran on PlayStation Network for two seasons from 2015 to 2016.[48]
Bendis's video game work includes Activision's Ultimate Spider-Man video game, which Bendis wrote.[3] He also wrote an Avengers game,[citation needed] which was never released. He was also a writer of Marvel's MMO, Marvel Heroes.[49]
His film work includes the screenplay adaptation of A.K.A. Goldfish for Miramax,[50] and the screenplay adaptation of Jinx for Universal Pictures.[3] In 2014, he wrote the plot of the Disney Infinity 2.0 video game.[51]
In 2013, he was named on IGN's list of "The Best Tweeters in Comics", in part for his frequent Twitter posts highlighting the work of other creators.[52]
Writing style
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When creating characters, Bendis says that he always begins with someone he knows and builds upon that inspiration, allowing the character to eventually evolve naturally. His depiction of
Personal life
Bendis met his wife Alisa in 1995 through the Cleveland chapter of the
Awards
- 1999 Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition[62]
- 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Series (for Powers with Michael Avon Oeming)[63]
- 2002 Eisner Award for Best Writer (for Powers, Alias, Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man)[64]
- 2003 Eisner Award for Best Writer (for Powers, Alias, Daredevil and Ultimate Spider-Man)[65]
- 2003 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series (for Daredevil with Alex Maleev)[65]
- 2000 Cleveland Press "Excellence in Journalism" Award[3]
- 2000 Wizard Magazine Best Writer of the Year[66]
- 2001 Wizard Magazine Best Writer of the Year[67]
- 2002 Wizard Magazine Best Writer of the Year[68]
- 2003 Wizard Magazine Best Writer of the Year[69]
- 2002 Comics Buyer's Guide Best Writer of the Year[70]
- 2003 Comics Buyer's Guide Best Writer of the Year[71]
- 2004 Comics Buyer's Guide Best Writer of the Year[72]
- 2005 E3's People's Choice Award for Activision's Ultimate Spider-Man[73]
- 2010 Inkpot Award[74]
Nominations
- 2001 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series (for Fortune & Glory)[63]
- 2001 Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication (for Fortune & Glory)[63]
- 2001 Eisner Award for Best Writer (for Powers, Fortune & Glory and Ultimate Spider-Man)[63]
- 2003 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story (with Alex Maleev for "Out"; Daredevil #32–37)[65]
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This is a long miniseries so I guess the technical term is maxiseries. But it's really something in between.
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External links
- Official website
- Jinxworld, Bendis's now-defunct message board
- Brian Michael Bendis at the Grand Comics Database
- Brian Michael Bendis at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Brian Michael Bendis at IMDb