Kurt Busiek
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Kurt Busiek (born September 16, 1960) is a comic book writer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in various towns in the Boston area, including Lexington, where he befriended another future comic book writer, Scott McCloud.
Career
Busiek has worked on a number of different titles in his career, starting in 1982 with a Green Lantern #162 backup story. These include Arrowsmith, The Avengers, Icon, Iron Man, The Liberty Project, Ninjak, The Power Company, Red Tornado, Shockrockets, Superman: Secret Identity, Thunderbolts, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, JLA, and (perhaps most notably) the Marvels mini-series followed by Homage Comics Kurt Busiek's Astro City. As a fan, he offered the theory that the Phoenix was a separate being who had impersonated Jean Grey and therefor Jean had not died, which the editorial team later used into the comics.
In 1997, Busiek began a celebrated stint as writer of Avengers alongside artist George Pérez. Perez departed from the series in 2000, but Busiek continued as writer for two more years, collaborating with artists Alan Davis, Kieron Dwyer and others. Busiek's tenure culminated with the Kang Dynasty storyline. In 2003, Busiek re-teamed with Perez to create the JLA/Avengers limited series.
In 2003, Busiek began a new Conan series for Dark Horse Comics but has since moved on. In December 2005 Busiek signed a two-year exclusive contract with DC Comics. During DC's Infinite Crisis event, he teamed with Geoff Johns on a One Year Later 8-part story arc (called Up, Up and Away) that encompassed both Superman titles. As well, he began writing the DC title Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis and wrote from issues 40-49. Busiek is currently the writer of Superman, but will soon be replaced by James Robinson. DC has announced that Busiek would be writing a new weekly called Trinity, starring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. The weekly will feature a 12 page main story by Busiek, with art by Mark Bagley, and a 10 page backup story co-written by Busiek and Fabian Nicieza, with art from various arts like Tom Derenick and Scott McDaniel.
Work on some of Kurt's more challenging, less mainstream projects, most notably Astro City, has been repeatedly delayed by a series of severe sinus problems brought about by mercury poisoning.