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 and created The Life and Times of Juniper Lee animated TV series for Cartoon Network, which ran for three seasons.
Winick in San Francisco, March 2023
Winick (upper left) in 1994 with (left to right): Rachel Campos, Alex Escarno, Cory Murphy and his then-girlfriend (now wife) Pam Ling
Winick at Midtown Comics Grand Central in New York City, June 24, 2004
Winick at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con
The Real World: San Francisco
The Real World: San Francisco is the third season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. It is the second season of The Real World to be filmed in the Pacific States region of the United States, specifically in California after The Real World: Los Angeles.
The initial cast of The Real World: San Francisco
Alex Escarno with Pam, Judd, Rachel and Cory at Mercy Hospital in Miami on November 11, 1994, a few hours before Pedro died.