Bill Morrison (comics)


Bill Morrison is an American comic book artist, writer, and editor. He is a co-founder of Bongo Comics.

Early life

Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park, Michigan, a Downriver suburb of Detroit. He attended the College for Creative Studies.

Career

At the beginning of his career in the early 1980s, Morrison worked as a technical illustrator for Artech, Inc. before going to work as an illustrator for Disney, where he created promotional art for:Lady and the TrampCinderellaBambiPeter PanThe Jungle BookRobin HoodThe RescuersThe Fox and the HoundOliver & CompanyThe Little Mermaid
Subsequently, he worked as an illustrator and occasional writer for The Simpsons and created his own comic Roswell. He also served as a director for Futurama.
Morrison was the creative director of Bongo Comics from 1993 to 2012.
In 1998, Morrison illustrated the cover artwork of The Simpsons' The Yellow Album. His cover was a parody of the cover art for the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, replaced with characters from The Simpsons. In 2005, the artist and designer Kaws created The Kaws Album, a "traced interpretation" of The Yellow Album. In 2019, Sotheby's auction house in Hong Kong sold The Kaws Album for 115.9 million Hong Kong dollars, or about $14.7 million U.S. dollars, a new auction record for the artist at the time. re-igniting a conversation about the appropriation of commercial illustrations for fine art.
Morrison is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America ; he created the mural A Century of Values to celebrate the BSA centennial in 2010.
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Yellow Submarine, The Beatles' 1968 animated feature film, Titan Comics published, on August 28, 2018, a hardcover comicbook illustrated by Morrisson.
He was the executive editor of MAD magazine from early 2018 to March 2019.
In July 2025, Bill was named as Special Ambassador for the Inkwell Awards.