He has also taught courses on graphic novels at University of Oregon and Portland State University. In addition to writing comics, Bendis has worked in television, video games and film. Though he has cited comic book writers such as Frank Miller and Alan Moore, Bendis's writing influences are less rooted in comics, drawing on the work of David Mamet, Richard Price, and Aaron Sorkin, whose dialogue, Bendis said, was "the best in any medium." He relaunched the Avengers franchise with New Avengers in 2004, wrote the Marvel storylines " Avengers Disassembled" (2004-2005), " Secret War" (2004–2005), " House of M" (2005), " Secret Invasion" (2008), " Siege" (2010) and " Age of Ultron" (2013), and co-created the characters Riri Williams, Miles Morales, and Jessica Jones.īendis has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books. While at Marvel Comics, Bendis worked with Bill Jemas and Mark Millar as the writer on the first book of the Ultimate Marvel imprint, Ultimate Spider-Man, which debuted in 2000. Starting with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. Brian Michael Bendis ( / ˈ b ɛ n d ɪ s/ born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist.
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It is shown that there are many and varying problems the lexi-cographer has to deal with and take cognisance of when compiling a translation dictionary. This article focuses on the problems, and advantages and disadvantages of the bilin-gual dictionary from both the lexicographer's and the translator's point of view, with specific refer-ence to bilingual Zulu dictionaries. I want to focus on Romani women writers since their voices need to be heard not only outside of Romani communities, but also within. We not only need to resist and confront the literary tradition, but also listen to voices of Romani people themselves to realize that there is no one homogeneous lifestyle and forms of struggles that these groups face. Romani people are depicted either as liars, thieves, fortune tellers or as having a romanticized nomadic life-style. Unfortunately, most of these presentations are misrepresentations. 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