Judd Winick is an American cartoonist, comic book writer and screenwriter, as well as a former reality television personality. He 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. Winick wrote lengthy runs on DC Comics' Green Lantern and Green Arrow series, created The Life and Times of Juniper Lee animated TV series for Cartoon Network, which ran for three seasons, and since 2015 has been the writer and cartoonist on his New York Times best selling graphic novel series HILO.