Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 1 by Brian Michael Bendis

Bendis grew up in University Heights where, despite rebelling against a religious upbringing, he attended the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, a private, modern Orthodox religious school for boys. Early life īrian Michael Bendis was born on August 18, 1967, in Cleveland, Ohio to a Jewish-American family. 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. He has also taught courses on graphic novels at University of Oregon and Portland State University.

In addition to writing comics, Bendis has worked in television, video games and film. Though he has cited comic book writers such as Frank Miller and Alan Moore, Bendis's 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.' He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, wrote the Marvel storylines ' Avengers Disassembled' (2004-2005), ' Secret War' (2004–2005), ' House of M' (2005), ' Secret Invasion' (2008), ' Siege' (2010) and ' Age of Ultron' (2013), and co-created the characters Riri Williams, Miles Morales, and Jessica Jones.īendis has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books. While at Marvel Comics, Bendis worked with Bill Jemas and Mark Millar as the writer on the first book of the Ultimate Marvel imprint, Ultimate Spider-Man, which debuted in 2000. Starting with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. Brian Michael Bendis ( / ˈ b ɛ n d ɪ s/ born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist.

Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 1 by Brian Michael Bendis