Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis (; born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist. He has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books.

Starting with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. With Bill Jemas and Mark Millar, Bendis was the primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, launching "Ultimate Spider-Man" in 2000. 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).

Though Bendis has cited comic book writers such as Frank Miller and Alan Moore, his own writing influences are less rooted in comics, drawing on the work of David Mamet, Richard Price, and Aaron Sorkin, whose dialogue, Bendis said, was "the best in any medium."

In addition to writing comics, Brendis has worked in television, video games and film. He has also taught courses on Graphic Novels at University of Oregon and Portland State University. 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.
Q846570
American
Concept
Q1760610
comic book
Concept
Q842614
Eisner Award
MEDIA
Q173496
Marvel Comics
Concept
Q5937792
crime
Concept
Q1328330
noir
Concept
Q188784
superhero
Concept
Q4909600
Bill Jemas
PER
Q2543
Mark Millar
PER
Q1890491
Ultimate Marvel
MEDIA
Q1199721
Ultimate Spider-Man
MEDIA
Q322646
Avengers
MEDIA
Q2264980
New Avengers
MEDIA
Q2275548
Secret War
ORG
Q1072636
House of M
ORG
Q2665153
Secret Invasion
MEDIA
Q3625425
Siege
PER
Q4691911
Age of Ultron
MEDIA
Q207676
Frank Miller
PER
Q205739
Alan Moore
PER
Q269927
David Mamet
PER
Q1374243
Richard Price
PER
Q299194
Aaron Sorkin
PER
Q766145
University of Oregon
LOC
Q1771717
Portland State University
LOC
Q744182
Random House
ORG
Q720012
Brian Michael Bendis
PER
1967-08-18T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
August 18, 1967
DATE
2000-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2000
DATE
2004-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2004
DATE
2014-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2014
DATE
+2004^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2004
NUMBER
+2005^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2005
NUMBER
+2005^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2005
NUMBER
+2008^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2008
NUMBER
+2010^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2010
NUMBER
+2013^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
2013
NUMBER
date of birth
notable work
notable work
influenced by
influenced by
employer
inception