John Byrne

John Lindley Byrne bɜːrn born July 6 1950 is a Britishborn American writer and artist of superhero comics Since the mid1970s Byrne has worked on many major superheroes with noted work on Marvel Comicss XMen and Fantastic Four Byrne also facilitated the 1986 relaunch of DC Comicss Superman franchise with the limited series The Man of Steel the first issue of which featured the comics first variant cover Coming into the comics profession as a penciller inker letterer and writer on his earliest work Byrne began coplotting the XMen comics during his tenure on them for story arcs including Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past and cocreating characters such as Kitty Pryde Shadowcat Emma Frost Sabretooth Shadow King and Rachel Summers Byrne launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four also serving as penciler and inker and included SheHulk onto the team while writing a solo series for The Thing While working on XMen he created the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight and later wrote and drew their own series Moving to DC Byrne established the modern origin for Superman in The Man of Steel before writing and drawing two monthly titles and various miniseries for the character Byrne then returned to Marvel introducing the Great Lakes Avengers and wrote and drew the humorous fourth wallbreaking series The Sensational SheHulk He also cocreated the Marvel characters Scott Lang and James Rhodes During the 1990s he produced a number of creatorowned works including Next Men and Danger Unlimited and was one of the founders of the Legend imprint at Dark Horse Comics Revisiting XMen as a writer Byrne cocreated Bishop and Omega Red Byrne was the writer and artist of the Wonder Woman series for three years creating the second Wonder Girl Cassie Sandsmark In addition he cocreated the DC character Amanda Waller He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignolas Hellboy series and produced several Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing In 2010 Byrne revived Next Men to conclude the series Hailed as one of the most prolific and influential comic book artists ever Byrne and his XMen collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2015 Description above from the Wikipedia article John Byrne licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia