Bill
Morrison started his career in Dee-troit
Michigan as a technical illustrator, but what he
really wanted to do was draw cartoons. When Bill
decided that he had drawn his last diesel fuel
pump, he moved to Southern California with his
wife and two cats. He began working immediately
in motion picture advertising which eventually
lead to the opportunity to draw and paint a
whole slew of movie posters for Walt Disney.
Included in that lengthy list are The Little
Mermaid, Bambi, Peter Pan and The Jungle
Book.
In 1990,
Bill was recruited by Twentieth Century Fox’s
licensing and merchandising department to draw
The Simpsons for nearly all of the
T-shirts, video games, posters, toy packaging,
etc. which was the fuel of 90’s Simpsonmania,
and he occasionally took time to create designs
for the TV show itself. He also contributed
greatly to Matt Groening’s publishing endeavors
with artwork for Simpsons books and calendars.
When Matt decided to start a comic book company,
Bill was hired on as art director of Bongo
Comics and drew the very first Simpsons comic
story. He received an Eisner Award for his
contribution to Simpsons Comics #1 and
has had a hand in every Bongo Comic to date,
either writing, pencilling, inking or
supervising.
In 1997,
Matt Groening went into pre-production on his
next show, Futurama. Bill helped out
with character design, and when the show began
full production, he was brought on board as art
director.
In
addition to his work on The Simpsons and
Futurama, Bill has written and drawn his
own comic book series; the four-time Eisner
Award-nominated Roswell, Little Green Man
and co-created the comic book series Heroes
Anonymous.
He has
also recently written a Captain Carrot
mini-series for DC Comics.
His
current creative obsession is Lady Robotika,
which he is co-creating with his friend and
writing partner, Jane Wiedlin.