29 Facts About Walt Simonson

Walter Simonson was born on September 2,1946 and is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for a run on Marvel Comics' Thor from 1983 to 1987, during which he created the character Beta Ray Bill.

Walt Simonson is known for the creator-owned work Star Slammers, which he inaugurated in 1972 as a Rhode Island School of Design thesis.

Walt Simonson has worked on other Marvel titles such as X-Factor and Fantastic Four, on DC Comics books including Detective Comics, Manhunter, Metal Men and Orion, and on licensed properties such as Star Wars, Alien, Battlestar Galactica and Robocop vs Terminator.

Walt Simonson is married to comics writer Louise Simonson, with whom he collaborated as penciller on X-Factor from 1986 to 1989.

Walter Simonson was born September 2,1946, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and lived there for two and a half years.

Walt Simonson studied geology at Amherst College, with the intent of becoming an expert on dinosaurs.

In 1964 or 1965, Walt Simonson discovered Marvel Comics, in particular that company's version of Thor.

Walt Simonson came to be heavily influenced by the artists who worked for Marvel, such as Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Gil Kane, as well as British artist Jim Holdaway and European artists such as Moebius, Jean-Claude Mezieres, Antonio Hernandez Palacios and Sergio Toppi.

In 1967, while in college, Walt Simonson began writing his own epic story starring Lee and Kirby's version of the character, featuring Surtur and the Odinsword.

Walt Simonson struck up a conversation with the artists, who looked at his portfolio.

Walt Simonson walked out of Infantino's office with jobs from each one of them.

At one point Walt Simonson lived in the same Queens apartment building as artists Allen Milgrom, Howard Chaykin and Bernie Wrightson.

Such short back-up war stories comprised most of Walt Simonson's early published work.

Walt Simonson did a number of illustrations for the Harry N Abrams, Inc edition of The Hobbit, and at least one unrelated print of a samurai warrior that was purchased by Harvard University's Fogg Museum, and included in its annual undergraduate-use loan program.

Walt Simonson had his first run on Thor at this time, working only as the series' artist alongside writer Len Wein.

Walt Simonson had a lot of great ideas, and he took Thor in a totally new direction.

Walt Simonson was to have drawn a Daredevil story written by Frank Miller but it was never completed and remains unpublished.

In 1994 Walt Simonson continued the adventures of the Star Slammers in a limited series as one of the founders of Malibu Comics' short-lived Bravura label.

Walt Simonson continued to work for DC in 2006 writing Hawkgirl, with pencillers Howard Chaykin, Joe Bennett, and Renato Arlem.

Walt Simonson wrote the Demon and Catwoman serial in Wednesday Comics in 2009.

In 2011, Walt Simonson had a cameo role in the live-action Thor film, appearing as one of the guests at a large Asgardian banquet.

Walt Simonson serves on the Disbursement Committee of the comic-book industry charity The Hero Initiative.

Walt Simonson collaborated with his wife for a short story in Rocketeer Adventures vol.

In July 2014 IDW Publishing published the first issue of Walt Simonson's creator-owned series Ragnarok, which depicts a version of Thor unrelated to the Marvel version of the deity.

In 2021, Walt Simonson revisited his run as an artist on X-Factor by providing covers and artwork for a two-issue X-Factor story in X-Men Legends, written by his wife Louise Simonson who had scripted his issues for the original series.

Walt Simonson's contribution was a story featuring the Star Slammers, his first time returning to that property since the 1990s.

Walt Simonson creates using the Marvel method, plotting out his storylines on a grid and then doing detailed plots for each issue.

Walt Simonson inked his own work with a Hunt 102 crow quill pen.

Comics creators who have been influenced by Walt Simonson's work include Arthur Adams and Todd McFarlane.