Bill Pearson
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Bill Pearson (born July 27, 1938, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota) is an American comic book writer, artist, editor and letterer.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Pearson was an editor at Charlton Comics, and he scripted for numerous publishers, including Tower Comics, King Comics (Flash Gordon), Gold Key (Popeye), Charlton, Eclipse, Gladstone and Warren Publications. His work as an inker included Ocean's Popeye and a Spider-Man spoof. For over two decades he lettered for almost every comics publisher, from 1975 to 1995, and he was the first art director at Another Rainbow.
As a close associate of Wally Wood, he made many contributions to projects at the Wally Wood Studio. When Wood launched his alternative comics magazine, witzend in 1966, Pearson was an associate editor, and after the fourth issue, Wood turned witzend over to Pearson with an agreement that at least four more issues would appear. However, Pearson edited and published witzend for many years, continuing it into the 1980s. One entire issue focused on W.C. Fields, and a special theme issue, Good Girls, filled page after page with Good Girl Art.
It was while he was still an assistant on witzend in the mid-1960s that he became involved in the creation of Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents team for Tower Comics. In addition to scripting a half-dozen NoMan tales for T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and an equal number of Undersea Agent adventures, he did ghostwriting on Wood's Dynamo scripts. In 2003-2005, these stories were collected into hardback books as part of DC Comics' five-volume T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archive series.
Pearson has edited several books of Wood's comics for Eros, an imprint of Fantagraphics Books. These include Cannon (1991), Sally Forth (1993-1995) and Naughty Knotty Wood (1998). In 2002, he published his drawings, inked by Wood, in three portfolios -- Fancy Animals, Human Beans and Naked Aliens. Each portfolio has 12 plates in an illustrated envelope, and each was published in a limited edition of 500 copies.
