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John Byrne (comics)

John Byrne
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Byrne at the 1992 San Diego Comic-Con.
Born John Lindley Byrne
(1950-07-06) July 6, 1950 (age 66)
Walsall, West Midlands, UK
Area(s) Writer, Penciller, Inker, Letterer
Notable works
X-Men
Fantastic Four
Superman
Awards Eagle Awards, Favourite Comicbook Artist, 1978, 1979
Inkpot Award, 1980
Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame (2015)
http://www.byrnerobotics.com

John Lindley Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born July 6, 1950) is an American comic-book writer and artist. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel ComicsX-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC ComicsSuperman franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as penciller, inker, letterer and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also served as penciler and inker). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.

Byrne was born in Walsall, West Midlands, and raised in West Bromwich, England, where he lived with his parents (Frank and Nelsie) and his maternal grandmother. While living there, prior to his family emigrating to Canada when Byrne was 8, he was first exposed to comics, saying in 2005,


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