Brian Michael BendisSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Brian is now the writer of ALL-NEW X-MEN and UNCANNY X-MEN for Marvel Entertainment, ushering in a new era for the X-Men series. Brian has also started a new series called GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. On the national sales chart, all three novels debuted at number one.

The debut of Miles Morales, the new biracial ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, reached the front page of USA Today and quickly became a hot political subject on Fox News, CNN, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, and many other outlets.

WORDS FOR PICTURES, Brian's new book from Random House, is an in-depth look at how comic books and graphic novels are made, based on the college-level Graphic Novel program he teaches at the University of Oregon and Portland State University. It quickly rose to the top of Amazon's ranking.

Brian is a member of Marvel Studios' artistic committee, which provides advice on the studio's many active film projects. THE IRON-MAN TRILOGY, CAPTAIN AMERICA 1 & 2, THOR 1 & 2, THE AVENGERS, and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY are among his credits.

He is now advising on the second wave of Marvel films, which includes ANT-MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA 3, and AVENGERS 2.

Brian spent the previous nine years writing every issue of Marvel's popular AVENGERS franchise, as well as launching the hit books AVENGERS, MIGHTY AVENGERS, and DARK AVENGERS, as well as the wildly successful "event" projects AVENGERS VERSUS X-MEN, HOUSE OF M, SECRET WAR, SECRET INVASION, AGE OF ULTRON, and SIEGE.

Brian is one of the most influential creators of Marvel's Ultimate line of comics. Since its best-selling debut in 1999, he has written every issue of ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, as well as ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, X-MEN, MARVEL TEAM-UP, ORIGIN, SIX, CATACLYSM, and the ENEMY trilogy.

SCARLET (with Alex Maleev), BRILLIANT (with Mark Bagley), the Eisner Award-winning “POWERS,” “UNITED STATES OF MURDER INC.” and “TAKIO” (w/ Mike Oeming), and the Hollywood tell-all “FORTUNE AND GLORY” are among Brian's creator-owned creations. All of these comics are part of the Marvel ICON series. He worked on the Disney XD series ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN as a writer and consultant producer.

He's presently writing and creating THE BLAST, a comedic animation pilot for FOX Sunday evenings. Brian previously served as the chief writer for Marvel and Gazillion Games' enormous multiplayer online game MARVEL UNIVERSE and is presently working on the Marvel addition to the Disney Infinity franchise.

He is the creator of the JINX criminal comics series, which is published by Image Comics. GOLDFISH, FIRE, JINX, TORSO (w/ Marc Andreyko), and TOTAL SELL OUT are all part of this collection. Brian has received five EISNER awards, including two consecutive years as "Best Writer of the Year," as well as the coveted INKPOT award for comic art quality.

Brian has won the Cleveland Press Excellence in Journalism Award three times and has been voted "Best Writer of the Year" by Wizard Magazine and Comic Buyer's Guide. He and his wife Alisa live in Portland, Oregon, with their beautiful daughters Olivia, Tabatha, and Sabrina, his handsome son London, and their pets Lucky and Max.