Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and artist.
In 2014, Bendis wrote Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels, a book about comics published by Random House..
He has also taught courses on Graphic Novels at University of Oregon and Portland State University.
In addition to writing comics, Brendis has worked in television, video games and film.
He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, and has also written the Marvel event storylines Secret War (2004-2005), House of M (2005), Secret Invasion (2008), Siege (2010) and Age of Ultron (2013).
With Bill Jemas and Mark Millar, Bendis was the primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, launching Ultimate Spider-Man in 2000.
Starting with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work.
He has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books.
Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and artist
