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John Byrne

1950 - Today

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John Lindley Byrne (; born July 6, 1950) is a British-born American comic book writer and artist of superhero comics. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes; with noted work on Marvel Comics's X-Men and Fantastic Four. Byrne also facilitated the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics's Superman franchise with the limited series The Man of Steel, the first issue of which featured the comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as a penciller, inker, letterer, and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, for story arcs including "Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past", and co-creating characters such as Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, Sabretooth, Shadow King, and Rachel Summers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Byrne is the 150th most popular comic artist (up from 170th in 2019), the 5,299th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,285th in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, John Byrne ranks 150 out of 226. Before him are Makoto Yukimura, Dave Gibbons, Raymond Briggs, Guy Delisle, Alex Raymond, and Lynn Okamoto. After him are Željko Pahek, David Beauchard, Norihiro Yagi, Harvey Kurtzman, Eduardo Risso, and Neal Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, John Byrne ranks 586. Before him are Lansana Kouyaté, Gerd Zewe, Mac Wilkins, Victoria Tennant, Philippe Delerm, and Dietmar Danner. After him are Christina Hoff Sommers, John Patrick Shanley, Tom Vilsack, Volker Fischer, Gillian Armstrong, and Markie Post.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Byrne ranks 5,301 out of 8,785. Before him are Leeroy Thornhill (1968), Muriel Pavlow (1921), Eleanor Bron (1938), Bunny Austin (1906), Thomas Traherne (1636), and Scott Speedman (1975). After him are Joseph Pickford (1736), Bukayo Saka (2001), Frederick Merriman (1873), Aston Webb (1849), Alan Mowbray (1896), and George Ezra (1993).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United Kingdom

Among comic artists born in United Kingdom, John Byrne ranks 7. Before him are Alan Moore (1953), Quentin Blake (1932), David Lloyd (1950), Jamie Hewlett (1968), Dave Gibbons (1949), and Raymond Briggs (1934). After him are Ronald Searle (1920), Mark Millar (1969), Garth Ennis (1970), Warren Ellis (1968), and Dave McKean (1963).

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