He decided he wanted to be a comic book industry professional when he was 13, working on his own comics, including a Punisher versus Captain America story that he revised several times.

Bendis grew up in University Heights where, despite rebelling against a religious upbringing, he attended the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, a private, modern Orthodox religious school for boys. Early life īrian Michael Bendis was born on August 18, 1967, in Cleveland, Ohio to a Jewish-American family.

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, Bendis has worked in television, video games and film. Though he has cited comic book writers such as Frank Miller and Alan Moore, Bendis's 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.' He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, wrote the Marvel storylines ' Avengers Disassembled' (2004-2005), ' Secret War' (2004–2005), ' House of M' (2005), ' Secret Invasion' (2008), ' Siege' (2010) and ' Age of Ultron' (2013), and co-created the characters Riri Williams, Miles Morales, and Jessica Jones.īendis has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books. While at Marvel Comics, Bendis worked with Bill Jemas and Mark Millar as the writer on the first book of the Ultimate Marvel imprint, Ultimate Spider-Man, which debuted in 2000. Starting with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. Vol.Brian Michael Bendis ( / ˈ b ɛ n d ɪ s/ born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist.After issue 28, the series was continued in The Pulse. The 28 issues chronicle Jessica's many cases concerning the super powered community while exploring the aspects of her past and personality that drove her to abandon her life as a superhero.

The series follows Jessica Jones, owner of Alias Investigations and former costumed superhero named Jewel. Alias is a comic book series created by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos. The first series for the Max-comics imprint series from Marvel Comics.

Alias Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis