John Byrne

John Lindley Byrne (born July 6th 1950) is a comics artist and writer born in West Bromwich, though his family emigrated to Canada when he was eight. He attributes his lifelong love of comics to DC Comics reprints and to seeing The Adventures of Superman on the BBC. He broke into comics as an artist in 1974 and has since worked for most of the major (and many of the minor) American publishers, including notable stints both writing and drawing characters including Superman, Batman, Captain America, the X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. He now lives in America.