Bill Morrison (comics)

Bill Morrison
250px Bill Morrison at the 2009 Comic Con in San Diego.
Born	1959 Lincoln Park, Michigan
Occupation	Bongo Comics artist and writer
Nationality	American

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.

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• comiXology.com's podcast with Bill Morrison and Scott Shaw on the Captain Carrot and the Final Ark mini-series
• Bill Morrison's home page is at: http://www.littlegreenman.com