Bill Morrison (comics)
Comic book artist and writer

Bill Morrison (comics)

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Comic book artist and writer
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Male
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Birth:
17 November 1965(Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, U.S.A.)
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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.

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.

Then he worked as an illustrator for The Simpsons and created his own comic Roswell. He served as director for Futurama.