1. Judd Winick first gained fame for his stint on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco in 1994, before finding success as a comic book creator with Pedro and Me, an autobiographical graphic novel about his friendship with The Real World castmate and AIDS educator Pedro Zamora.
Judd Winick wrote the prequel miniseries Red Hood: The Lost Days, which detailed the exact nature of Todd's resurrection, as well as the animated film Batman: Under the Red Hood, which adapted his original story to screen.
Judd Winick was born February 12,1970, to a Jewish family, and grew up in Dix Hills, New York.
Judd Winick cites Bloom County: Loose Tails by Berke Breathed as the first collection of that strip that changed his life, one which prompted him to spend the next ten years "horribly aping" Breathed's style.
Judd 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, including Breathed and Garry Trudeau.
Judd Winick was unable to secure syndication with another company, and was forced to move back in with his parents by the middle of 1993, doing unfulfilling T-shirt work for beer companies.
Judd Winick applied to be on MTV network's reality TV show, The Real World: San Francisco, hoping for fame and a career boost.
Judd Winick was accepted as a cast member on the show in January 1994.
Judd Winick, who is Jewish, was offended at Rainey's decision to wear a T-shirt depicting four guns arranged in the shape of a swastika, and by Rainey's refusal to accede to Judd Winick's request not to wear it.
Judd Winick would continue Zamora's educational work for some time after that.
Judd 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.
Judd Winick was interviewed on Phil Donahue's show on MSNBC for that storyline on August 15,2002, and received two more GLAAD awards for his Green Lantern work.
Judd Winick was 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.
That same year, Judd Winick created an animated TV show named The Life and Times of Juniper Lee in 2005, which ran for three seasons on the Cartoon Network.
Judd Winick co-wrote the 26-issue biweekly Justice League: Generation Lost with Keith Giffen, a title which alternated with Brightest Day.
Judd Winick responded that it was DC that desired this tone.
Judd Winick was the head writer on The Awesomes, an animated superhero comedy series created by Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker for Hulu.
Not having age-appropriate material for him, Judd Winick gave him Jeff Smith's Bone, which both father and son enjoyed, and decided to create an all-ages story that his son could read.
In Pedro, the 2008 film dramatizing Pedro Zamora's life, Judd Winick is portrayed by Hale Appleman.
Judd Winick is mentioned in Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
Judd Winick proposed to her with a cartoon he made for the occasion, and which he presented to her while wearing a gorilla suit.