![]() A couple of years later my family emigrated to Canada (for the second time, no less!) and I discovered the vast array of American comics available at the time. Not long after I started watching that series I saw one of the hardcover, black and white 'Annuals' that were being published over there at the time, and soon after found a copy of an Australian reprint called Super Comics that featured a story each of Superboy, Johnny Quick and Batman. ![]() Y 'journey into comics' began with George Reeves' Superman series being shown on the BBC in England when I was about 6 years old. While living in England, prior to his family emigrating to Canada when Byrne was 8, he was first exposed to comics, saying in 2005, ![]() His father was a town planner and his mother was a homemaker. Hailed as one of the most prolific and influential comic book artists ever, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2015.īyrne was born on J in Walsall, Staffordshire, and raised in West Bromwich, also in Staffordshire, where he lived with his parents, Frank and Nelsie, and his maternal grandmother. In 2010, Byrne revived Next Men to conclude the series. He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced several Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing. In addition, he co-created the DC character Amanda Waller. ![]() Byrne was the writer and artist of the Wonder Woman series for three years, during which he created the second Wonder Girl, Cassie Sandsmark. Revisiting X-Men as a writer, Byrne co-created Bishop and Omega Red. He also co-created the Marvel characters Scott Lang and James Rhodes.ĭuring the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited, and was one of the founders of the Legend imprint at Dark Horse Comics. Byrne then returned to Marvel, introducing the Great Lakes Avengers, and wrote and drew the humorous fourth wall-breaking series The Sensational She-Hulk. ![]() Moving to DC, Byrne established the modern origin for Superman in The Man of Steel before writing and drawing two monthly titles and various miniseries for the character. While working on X-Men, he created the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight, and later wrote and drew their own series. Byrne launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four, also serving as penciler and inker, and included She-Hulk onto the team while writing a solo series for The Thing. Byrne also facilitated the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics's Superman franchise with the limited series The Man of Steel, the first issue of which featured the comics' first variant cover.Ĭoming into the comics profession as a penciller, inker, letterer, and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, for story arcs including " Dark Phoenix Saga" and " Days of Future Past", and co-creating characters such as Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat), Emma Frost, Sabretooth, Shadow King, and Rachel Summers. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes with noted work on Marvel Comics's X-Men and Fantastic Four. John Lindley Byrne ( / b ɜːr n/ born July 6, 1950) is a British-born American writer and artist of superhero comics. ![]()
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