Bill Morrison (comics)


Bill Morrison is an American comic book artist and writer, and co-founder of Bongo Comics. He is the Executive Editor of MAD Magazine since early 2018, after the retirement of 30+ year editor John Ficarra and the magazine shifting offices to Los Angeles, California after decades in Manhattan.

Early life

Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park, Michigan, a Downriver suburb of Detroit. He attended the College for Creative Studies.

Career

At the beginning of his career in the early 1980s, Morrison worked as a technical illustrator for Artech, Inc. 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.
Morrison was the creative director of Bongo Comics from 1993 to 2012.
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.
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.