John Lindley Byrne (/bɜrn/; born July 6, 1950) is a British-born American comic-book writer and artist. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major American superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics’ X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.
He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honors List for his services to Literature and to the Theater.
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Lives an hour north of Inverness in Scotland, with Tilda Swinton and their two children, twins Xavier and Honor Byrne.
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Children with Tilda Swinton, are twins Xavier and Honor.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Slab Boys
1997
Screenplay
1993
TV Series writer - 1 episode
X-Men
TV Series character: President Robert Edward Kelly - 1 episode, 1993 characters: Dominikos Ioannis Petrakis/Avalanche & St. John Allerdyce/Pyro - 1 episode, 1993
$700,000
