Brian Michael Bendis

Brian Michael Bendis is an award winning comics creator and
one of the most successful writers working in mainstream
comics. For the last five years, Brian’s books (including
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, AVENGERS, DAREDEVIL, ULTIMATE X-MEN,
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, ALIAS, THE PULSE, POWERS) have
consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the
nationwide comic sales chart.

Brian is one of the premiere architects of Marvel comic’s
Ultimate line of comics. A line of comics specifically
created for the new generation of comics reader. He has
written every issue of Ultimate Spider-man since it’s best
selling launch, and has also written Ultimate Fantastic
Four, Ultimate X-men, Ultimate Marvel Team Up, and Ultimate Six.

Brian has won five prestigious EISNER awards, including
‘Best Writer of the year’ two years in a row.

He is creator of the JINX line of crime comics published by
image comics. This line has spawned the graphic novels
GOLDFISH, FIRE, JINX, TORSO (w/ Marc Andreyko) and TOTAL
SELL OUT.

Brian’s recent projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and
Eagle award nominated “POWERS” (w/Mike Oeming) from Marvel’s
new creator owned imprint ICON, and the Hollywood tell all
“FORTUNE AND GLORY’ from ONI press, which Entertainment
Weekly gave an “A.”

Brian is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal
Pictures with Oscar winner Charleze Theron attached to star
and produce. Powers is in active development at Sony as a
feature film, TORSO is set up with Todd McFarlane
productions, and Brian was the co-executive producer and
series pilot writer for MTV’s recent CGI animated Spider-man
show.

Brian is the recipient of the Cleveland Press ‘Excellence in
Journalism’ Award was named “Best

Writer of the Year.” by Wizard Magazine and, Comic Buyer’s
Guide for the last three consecutive years.

He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Alisa, his
gorgeous daughter Olivia and his dogs Shroeder and Buster.