| Bill Morrison | |
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 Morrison in 2009 | |
| Born | 1959 (age 64–65) Lincoln Park, Michigan, US |
| Area(s) | Writer, Artist, Editor |
Notable works | Bongo Comics MAD magazine |
Bill Morrison (born 1959) is an American comic book artist, writer, and editor. He is a co-founder of Bongo Comics (along with Matt Groening and Steve and Cindy Vance).
Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park, Michigan, a Downriver suburb of Detroit. He attended the College for Creative Studies. [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:
Subsequently, he worked as an illustrator and occasional writer for The Simpsons and created his own comic Roswell . He also served as a director for Futurama . [4]
Morrison was the creative director of Bongo Comics from 1993 to 2012.[ citation needed ]
In 1998, Morrison illustrated (although it was signed by Matt Groening) the cover artwork of The Simpsons ' The Yellow Album . His cover was a parody of the cover art for the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , replaced with characters from The Simpsons. [5] [6] In 2005, the artist and designer Kaws (commissioned by Nigo) created The Kaws Album, a "traced interpretation" of The Yellow Album. In 2019, Sotheby's auction house in Hong Kong sold The Kaws Album for 115.9 million Hong Kong dollars, or about $14.7 million U.S. dollars, a new auction record for the artist at the time. [7] [8] re-igniting a conversation about the appropriation of commercial illustrations for fine art (see Roy Lichtenstein).
Morrison is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); he created the mural A Century of Values to celebrate the BSA centennial in 2010. [9]
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Yellow Submarine , The Beatles' 1968 animated feature film, Titan Comics published, on August 28, 2018, a hardcover comicbook illustrated by Morrisson. [10]
He was the executive editor of MAD magazine from early 2018 (beginning with the rebooted issue #1 dated June 2018) to March 2019. [11] [12]
Matthew Abram Groening is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. He is best known as the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1977–2012) and the television series The Simpsons (1989–present), Futurama, and Disenchantment (2018–2023). The Simpsons is the longest-running U.S. primetime television series in history and the longest-running U.S. animated series and sitcom.
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Bongo Comics Group was a comic book publishing company founded in 1993 by Matt Groening along with Steve & Cindy Vance and Bill Morrison. It published comics related to the animated television series The Simpsons and Futurama, as well as the SpongeBob SquarePants comics, along with original material. The company was named after Bongo, a rabbit character in Groening's comic strip Life in Hell.
The Yellow Album is The Simpsons' second album of originally recorded songs, released as a follow-up to the 1990 album The Simpsons Sing the Blues. Though it was released in 1998, it had been recorded years earlier, after the success of the first album. The title is a play on the name of the Beatles' self-titled 1968 album, commonly known as "The White Album", with the skin color of the characters of The Simpsons. In addition, the cover is a parody of the Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Zongo Comics was founded and published in 1995 by Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening. Unlike its counterpart Bongo Comics, the comics published were geared towards older audiences containing adult material and did not include any adaptations of Groening's cartoons. The only two titles in the Zongo Comics range were Jimbo and Fleener.
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Simpsons Illustrated was a companion magazine to the American animated television show The Simpsons. It featured, among many other things, articles and interviews about the show, and comics based on the Simpsons universe. Simpsons Illustrated was published between 1991 and 1993 and led to the establishment of the Bongo Comics Group.
Roswell, Little Green Man was a Bongo Comics series created by Bill Morrison. It was nominated for four Eisner Awards. The series debuted in 1996 with a four-part story in the back pages of Simpsons Comics #19-22, which was followed by its own title that ran for six issues. The original Simpsons Comics serial and the first three issues of the main series were reprinted in the trade paperback collection Roswell Walks Among Us in 1997.
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