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Judd Winick

Judd Winick at Midtown Comics East in New York City, June 24, 2004. The City of New York Events 972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces takes place "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again "
Born February 12, 1970 (1970-02-12) (age 38)
Long Island, New York
Nationality American
Area(s) Writer, Penciller, Inker

Judd Winick (born in February 12, 1970[1] on Long Island, New York) is an American comic book and comic strip writer/artist famous for his 1994 stint on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, as well for his work on such comic books as Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and Pedro and Me, his autobiographical graphic novel about his friendship with Real World castmate and AIDS educator Pedro Zamora. Events 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Events 1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating MTV ( Music Television) is an American Cable television network based in New York City. The Real World San Francisco is the third season of MTV 's popular Reality television series The Real World, which focuses on seven For the LNER Steam locomotive, see LNER Class V2 4771 Green Arrow Green Arrow ( Oliver Jones "Ollie" Queen Pedro and Me is an autobiographical Graphic novel by Judd Winick regarding his friendship with AIDS educator Pedro Zamora after the two met while An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" A Pedro Pablo Zamora (born Pedro Pablo Zamora y Díaz February 29, 1972 - November 11, 1994) was an openly Gay, Cuban

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Early life and career

Winick graduated from high school in 1988 and entered the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor's School of Art, intending to emulate his cartoonist heroes, Garry Trudeau and Berkeley Breathed. The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948) is an American Cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American Cartoonist, children's book Author / Illustrator, His comic strip, Nuts and Bolts, began running in the school’s newspaper, the Michigan Daily, in his freshman year, and he was selected to speak at graduation. UM also published a small print-run of a collection of his strips called Watching the Spin-Cycle: The Nuts & Bolts Collection. In his senior year, Universal Press Syndicate, which syndicates strips such as Doonesbury and Calvin & Hobbes, offered Winick a development contract. Universal Press Syndicate, an Andrews McMeel Universal company is the world's largest independent syndicate and provides syndication for a number of lifestyle and Doonesbury is a Comic strip by G B Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of a vast array of different characters of different ages professions Calvin and Hobbes is a Comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative In early 1993, Winick lived in an apartment in Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, with fellow writer Brad Meltzer, struggling to develop Nuts and Bolts for UPS, while working at a bookstore. Other places are also named Beacon Hill. Beacon Hill is a neighborhood of Boston Massachusetts, covering approximately one square Brad Meltzer (born April 1 1970) is an American author of several New York Times best-selling books including The Tenth However, in early June of that year, UPS decided not to renew Winick’s strip for syndication, feeling it could not compete in the current market. Winick was unable to secure syndication with another company, and was forced to move back in with his parents, doing unfulfilling T-shirt work for beer companies. A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a Shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person's Torso. Beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed Alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea [2] Winick also had Nuts & Bolts in development with the children’s television network Nickelodeon as an animated series, even turning the human characters into mice, and proposing new titles like Young Urban Mice and Rat Race, but nothing came of it. A television network is a distribution network for Television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many Television stations Nickelodeon (commonly referred to as Nick) is an American Cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel An animated cartoon is a short hand-drawn (or made with computers to look similar to something hand-drawn Film for the cinema, Television or computer [3]

The Real World: San Francisco

Winick applied to be on MTV network’s reality tv show, The Real World: San Francisco, hoping for fame and a career boost. Reality television is a genre of Television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations documents actual events and usually features ordinary The Real World San Francisco is the third season of MTV 's popular Reality television series The Real World, which focuses on seven During the casting process, the producers of the show conducted an in-person, videotaped interview with Winick. Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto Magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. When asked how he would feel about living with someone who was HIV-positive, Winick gave what he thought was an enthusiastic, politically correct answer, despite reservations. Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) is a Lentivirus (a member of the Retrovirus family that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Political correctness (adjectivally politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to Language, ideas policies or behavior Winick was accepted as a cast member on the show in January 1994. The producers revealed that one of his roommates would indeed be HIV-positive, though they did not reveal which one. [4] Winick became roommates with AIDS educator Pedro Zamora, and subsequently found out that Zamora was the housemate with HIV. Pedro Pablo Zamora (born Pedro Pablo Zamora y Díaz February 29, 1972 - November 11, 1994) was an openly Gay, Cuban Zamora educated Winick about the disease in order to ease Winick's misgivings, and the two became best friends. The two also became friends with medical student Pam Ling, with whom Winick would eventually fall in love. Pam Ling (born April 21, 1968 in Los Angeles California) is a Chinese American physician best-known as a castmate on The Real World Winick and Ling often attended Zamora’s lectures, where they became familiar with how he educated large groups about HIV and AIDS. [5]

Winick's Nuts and Bolts strip began running in the San Francisco Examiner in March of that year. The San Francisco Examiner is a US daily Newspaper. It has been published continuously in San Francisco, California, since

Winick, who is Jewish, was offended at David "Puck" Rainey's wearing of a T-shirt depicting four guns arranged in the shape of a swastika, and by Rainey's refusal to accede to Winick's request not to wear it. David "Puck" Rainey (born July 18, 1968 in San Francisco California, United States) appeared on The Real World San Francisco The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika sa स्वस्तिक Hindu IS CORRECT if 'ि' is positioned incorrectly see -->) is [6]

After filming of the season ended, Winick and Ling moved to Los Angeles to continue their relationship.

By August 1994, Zamora's health began to decline. After being hospitalized, he asked Winick to substitute for him at a national AIDS education lecture. When Zamora died on November 11, 1994, Winick and Ling were at his bedside. Events 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Winick would continue Zamora's educational work for some time after that. [7]

Comics

Winick designed illustrations for The Complete Idiot's Guide to... series of books, and has done over 300 of them, including that series’ computer-oriented line. An illustration is a visualization such as a Drawing, Painting, Photograph or other work of Art that stresses subject more than The Complete Idiot's Guide are Reference books that provide a very basic understanding of seemingly difficult topics A collection of the computer-related titles' cartoons was published in 1997 as Terminal Madness, The Complete Idiot's Guide Computer Cartoon Collection. [3]

While working on Pedro and Me, Winick also began working on comic books, beginning with a one-page Frumpy the Clown cartoon in Oni Press’ anthology series, Oni Double Feature #4, in 1998, before going on to do longer stories, like the two-part Road Trip, which was published in issues #9 and 10 of the same book. Oni Press is an American independent Comic book publisher based in Portland Oregon. ANThology is the first Major label album by Alien Ant Farm released on March 6, 2001 in the USA and March 19 Road Trip received the comic book industry’s highest honor, the Eisner Award, for Best Sequential Story. The Will Eisner Comic Industry Award is a prize given for creative achievement in American Comic books It is named in honor of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner

Winick followed up with a three-issue miniseries, The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius, about a cynical, profane grade school whiz kid, who invents a myriad of futuristic devices that no one other than his best friend knows about. A miniseries (also mini-series) in a serial Storytelling medium is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes The Adventures of Barry Ween Boy Genius is a Comic book series created written and illustrated by Judd Winick. This article is about the stereotypical character For a number of specific historical uses see Whiz Kids. Barry Ween was published by Image Comics from March through May of 1999, with two subsequent miniseries published by Oni Press, which also published trade paperback collections of all three miniseries. Image Comics is an American Comic book publisher It was founded in 1992 by seven high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their In Comics, a trade paperback ( TPB or simply trade) refers to a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format Barry Ween was also optioned by Platinum Studios to be adapted into an animated series, but to date, nothing has come of this.

Winick’s graphic novel, Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned, was published in September 2000. It was awarded six American Library Association awards, was nominated for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country. The American Library Association ( ALA) is a group based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD) is a Non-profit organization of LGBT Activism that is "dedicated to promoting and Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American Writer, Artist and Film director best known for his dark Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and Armistead Jones Maupin Jr (born) is an American Writer best known for his Tales of the City series of Novels based in San Francisco In formal education a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their content offered at a School or University. Among its other awards are:

Winick’s work in mainstream superhero comics has received attention for storylines in which he explores gay or AIDS-oriented themes. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do In his first regular writing assignment on a monthly superhero book, DC Comics' Green Lantern, Winick wrote a storyline in which Terry Berg, an assistant of the title character, emerged as a gay character in Green Lantern #137 (June 2001) and in Green Lantern #154 (November 2001) the story entitled "Hate Crime" gained media recognition when Terry was brutally beaten in a homophobic attack. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Terry Berg is a Fictional character in the DC Comics universe who first appeared in Green Lantern (vol BenPhelpsJPG|thumb|right|Westboro Baptist Church picket signs with Ben Phelps grandson of Fred Phelps Winick was interviewed on Phil Donahue's show on MSNBC for that storyline on August 15, 2002,[9] and received two more GLAAD awards for his Green Lantern work. Phillip John "Phil" Donahue (born December 21, 1935 in Cleveland Ohio) is an American media personality and Writer, best known as MSNBC is a 24-hour cable television news channel based in the United States and available in Canada. Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

In 2003, Judd Winick left Green Lantern for another DC book, Green Arrow, beginning with issue #26 of that title (July 2003). He gained more media recognition for Green Arrow #43 (December 2004) in which he revealed that Green Arrow's 17-year-old ward, a former runaway-turned prostitute named Mia Dearden, was HIV-positive. Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. Mia Dearden is a DC Comics Superhero, the second character to take the mantle of Green Arrow 's Sidekick Speedy. In issue #45 (February 2005), Winick had Dearden take on the identity of Speedy, the second such Green Arrow sidekick to bear that name, making her the most prominent HIV-positive superhero to star in an ongoing comic book, a decision for which Winick was interviewed on CNN. Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner [10]

Winick’s other comic book work includes Batman, The Outsiders, and Marvel's Exiles. Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created The Outsiders are fictional characters a DC Comics Superhero team Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc This article is about the Marvel Comics series for other uses in comics see Exiles (comics The Exiles are a group of Fictional characters Winick was also responsible for bringing Jason Todd, the second character known as Batman’s sidekick Robin, back from the dead, and making him the new Red Hood, the second such Batman villain by that name. Jason Todd is a Fictional character appearing in Comic books published by DC Comics. Robin (also referred to as The Boy Wonder) is the name of several Fictional characters appearing in Comic books published by DC Comics, originally Red Hood is the alias used by several Fictional characters usually Antagonists for Batman in the DC Universe. Winick also wrote a five-issue miniseries for DC’s Vertigo imprint called Blood & Water, about a young man with terminal illness whose two friends reveal to him that they are vampires, and that they wish to save his life by turning him into a vampire himself. Vertigo is an Imprint of the American Comic-book publisher DC Comics. Blood & Water was a 2003 five-issue horror Comic book Limited series written by Judd Winick and illustrated by Tomm Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living Between September 2005 and March 2006, Winick wrote the four-issue Captain Marvel/Superman limited series, Superman/Shazam: First Thunder with art by Josh Middleton. Captain Marvel is a fictional Comic book Superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Joshua Middleton (sometimes credited as Josh Middleton) is a Comic book artist currently signed exclusive to DC Comics. Currently, Winick is continuing his work with the Marvel Family in a 12-issue limited series called The Trials Of Shazam! which is illustrated by Howard Porter. The Marvel Family is a group of Fictional characters a team of Superheroes in the Fawcett Comics and DC Comics universes A limited series is a term originated by Marvel Comics referring to a Comic book series with a set number of issues Captain Marvel Jr (Freddy Freeman is a Fictional character, a Superhero derived from the Fawcett Comics character Captain Marvel, later purchased Howard Porter is an American Comic book artist from southern Connecticut. The series is intended to re-imagine the Shazam! mythos, the characters, and their roles in the DC Universe. He is currently the writer of Green Arrow and Black Canary and Titans. In Greek mythology, the Titans ( Greek: Tītā́n; plural Tītânes) were a race of powerful Deities that ruled during the legendary In November 2007, DC also released a Teen Titans East special (a prequel for Titans), which was also scripted by Winick.

Television work

Winick created an animated TV show named The Life and Times of Juniper Lee in 2005, which had three seasons on the Cartoon Network. The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, also known as Juniper Lee, was an American Animated television series, created by Judd Winick and

Personal life

Winick proposed to Ling in March 2000, wearing a gorilla suit. They married in a civil ceremony on August 26, 2001. A civil ceremony is a non-religious legal Marriage ceremony performed by a government official or functionary Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. [11] Writer Armistead Maupin spoke at their ceremony. Armistead Jones Maupin Jr (born) is an American Writer best known for his Tales of the City series of Novels based in San Francisco They had a child in May 2005.

References

  1. ^ Judd Winick at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Pedro and Me; Pages 16 - 18.
  3. ^ a b Biography page at Winick's official site
  4. ^ Pedro and Me; Pages 19 - 30.
  5. ^ Pedro and Me; Pages 61 – 72; 73; 84 - 89; 96 -102; 111 - 112.
  6. ^ The Real World Diaries; 1996; Page 137
  7. ^ Pedro and Me; Pages 119 -137.
  8. ^ Pedro and Me. frumpy. com. Retrieved on 2007-04-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
  9. ^ Melby, Nathan; "Gay comics characters get media attention: Green Lantern writer Winick focuses on hate crimes, while Marvel’s Rawhide Kid is called out"; cbgextra.com
  10. ^ Transcripts: CNN Live Saturday. CNN (2004-10-23). "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Events 4004 BC - Creation of the world begins according to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher 42 BC - Retrieved on 2007-04-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
  11. ^ Debra A. Klein (2001-09-09). Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Weddings: vows; Pamela Ling and Judd Winick. New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-04-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 467 - Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

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