Bill Morrison is an American

United States

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 comic book artist

Comic Book Artist

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 and writer

Writer

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, and co-founder of Bongo Comics

Bongo Comics

Bongo Comics Group is a comic book publishing company founded in 1993 by Steve and Cindy Vance, Bill Morrison, and Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening. It publishes comics related to the animated television series The Simpsons and Futurama, along with original material...

 (along with Matt Groening

Matt Groening

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 and Steve and Cindy Vance). He currently serves as creative director

Creative Director

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 of Bongo Comics

Bongo Comics

Bongo Comics Group is a comic book publishing company founded in 1993 by Steve and Cindy Vance, Bill Morrison, and Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening. It publishes comics related to the animated television series The Simpsons and Futurama, along with original material...

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Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park, Michigan

Lincoln Park, Michigan

Lincoln Park is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It lies in an area of cities and communities known as Downriver. The population was 38,144 at the 2010 census . The settlement was organized as a village in 1921, and reorganized as a city in 1925. The area was originally home to...

, a Downriver

Downriver

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 community situated south of Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

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. He attended the College for Creative Studies

College for Creative Studies

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Morrison is an Eagle Scout

Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)

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 in the Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scouts of America

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; he created the mural A Century of Values to celebrate the BSA centennial in 2010.

At the beginning of his career in the early 1980s, Morrison worked as a technical illustrator for Artech, Inc. in Livonia, Michigan, before going to work as an illustrator for Disney. His work includes the movie poster for The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid (1989 film)

The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was originally released to theaters on November 14, 1989 and is the twenty-eighth film in...

. Then he worked as an illustrator for The Simpsons

The Simpsons

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 and created his own comic Roswell

Roswell, Little Green Man

Roswell, Little Green Man was a Bongo Comics series created by Bill Morrison. It ran from 1996 to 1999.Roswell was Bongo Comics' first title that featured characters from outside the Simpsons universe. The series followed the misadventures of an extraterrestrial who arrived at Earth via the 1947...

. He served as director for Futurama

Futurama

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External links

• comiXology.com's podcast with Bill Morrison and Scott Shaw
  Scott Shaw (artist)
  Scott Shaw is a United States cartoonist and animator, and is also an esteemed conductor of the concert band at Mary Institute and Country Day School...
  
   on the Captain Carrot
  Captain Carrot
  Captain Carrot is a fictional anthropomorphic superhero published by DC Comics. His first appearance was in a special insert in The New Teen Titans #16...
  
  and the Final Ark mini-series

Bill Morrison's home page is at: http://www.littlegreenman.com