- Evan Dorkin
Evan Dorkin is an American comics artist and writer. His most well-known works are the comic books "Milk and Cheese" and "Dork". His comics often poke fun at fandom, even while making it clear that Dorkin is a fan himself. As well as his comics work, Dorkin has also written for animation including (with his wife Sarah Dyer, also a comics writer/artist) "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast". He also wrote and produced an animated television pilot, … - Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 - February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of the medium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nickname is "The King". - Will Eisner
William Erwin Eisner (March 6 1917 - January 3 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. - Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957, is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his generation. - Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and a leading popular scholar of comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium. - Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell (born August 10 1955) is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of "From Hell" (written by Alan Moore), Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical "Alec" stories, and "Bacchus" (aka "Deadface"), a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day. His graphic novel "The Fate of the Artist", … - Gene Colan
Gene Colan (born September 1, 1926, the Bronx, New York City, New York) is an American comic book artist who sometimes worked under the name Adam Austin. Best known as one of the signature artists of the Marvel Comics superhero "Daredevil", its cult-hit series "Howard the Duck", and Marvel's "Tomb of Dracula", considered one of comics' classic horror series, he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005 - Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, "Maus." - Alex Ross
Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross is an American comic book painter, illustrator and plotter, acclaimed for the photorealism of his work. Ross is known for his love of the vintage looks of classic characters and the more mythic elements of the superheroes. In the past ten years, Ross has done much work for the industry’s two largest and most historically important publishing houses, Marvel and DC Comics, but Ross is also the co-creator of "Astro City", … - Paul Pope
Paul Pope is a United States alternative comic book artist. Influenced by Ray Bradbury and William S. Burroughs, Pope's stories evoke poignant, under-explored aspects of youth culture. Pope describes his own influences (listed in his book "P-City Parade") as Daniel Torres, Bruno Premiani, Jack Kirby, Alex Toth, Tony Salmons, Hugo Pratt, Silvio Cadelo, Vittorio Giardino, and Hergé. Pope introduced "THB" in 1995, the same year he began work for Kodansha, … - Jim Lee
Jim Lee (born august 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic book artist, writer, creator and publisher. After graduating from Yale, he decided to give comic book drawing a shot and was met with succes. Jim Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration, and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the latter 20th and early 21st century. - Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, best-known for a series of comics called the "Acme Novelty Library", and a graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth." Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in Oak Park, Illinois as of 2006. Ware's art is eclectic in its influences, and largely reflects his love of early-20th century American aesthetics in both cartooning and graphic design, … - James Kochalka
James Kochalka is an American cartoonist and rock musician who was born May 26th, 1967 and grew up in Springfield, Vermont. He currently lives in Burlington, Vermont. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and holds an MFA in painting. His first published comics work was around 1994. - Neal Adams
Neal Adams (born June 6, 1941, Governors Island, Manhattan, New York City) is an American comic book and commercial artist best known for his highly naturalistic style of illustration. He has helped create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Batman, Green Arrow, and others. Adams has named artists Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, and Mort Drucker as his influences. Other influences include Jack Kirby, Stan Drake, and Jim Steranko - Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949) is a British writer and artist of comics. - Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola (born in Berkeley, California on September 16, 1960) is a American comic book artist and writer. He has also worked for animation projects such as "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, "The Amazing Screw-On Head". - John Byrne
John Lindley Byrne is a British-born naturalised American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero. His best-known work has been on Marvel Comics' "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ "Superman" franchise. During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works including "Next Men" and "Danger Unlimited". - Steve Ditko
Stephen Ditko (born 2 November 1927) is a renowned American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. He was inducted into the comics industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990. - Bryan Lee O'Malley
Bryan Lee O'Malley (born 21 February 1979) is a Canadian cartoonist. His first original graphic novel was "Lost at Sea" (2003), and he is currently working on (and best-known for) the six-volume "Scott Pilgrim" series (2004 to present). All of his graphic novels thus far have been published by Portland, Oregon-based Oni Press. He is also a songwriter and musician (as Kupek and formerly in several short-lived Toronto bands). - Jeff Parker
Jeff Parker is a Portland, Oregon-based writer and comic book artist. He's best known as the creator of the graphic novel "The Interman" and as a writer for Marvel Comics. He is a member of Mercury Studio. His work as a writer includes the miniseries "Agents of Atlas", "Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four", and "Marvel Adventures The Avengers". Parker's earliest work in comics was "Solitaire", published by Malibu Comics. - Bryan Talbot
Bryan Talbot (born February 24, 1952, Wigan, Lancashire) is a British comic book artist and writer. He is probably best known as the creator of "The Adventures of Luther Arkwright" and its recent sequel "Heart of Empire". - Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins (born 1938) is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Her first comics were printed in the East Village Other. She later joined the staff of a feminist underground newspaper "It Ain't Me, Babe", with whom she produced the first all-woman comic book titled "It Ain't Me Babe". - Kazu Kibuishi
Kazu Kibuishi (born 1978 in Tokyo, Japan) is an American graphic novel author and illustrator. He is best known for being the creator and editor of the comic anthology "Flight" and for creating the webcomic Copper. The webcomic artist and noted critic Scott McCloud has said that some of Kazu Kibuishi's work is so beautifully drawn that "it hurts my hands when I look at it". - Joe Kubert
Joe Kubert (born September 18 1926, Poland) is an American comic book artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics features Sgt. Rock and Hawkman. His sons, Andy Kubert and Adam Kubert, have themselves become successful comic-book artists. Kubert's other creations include the comic books "Tor", "Son of Sinbad", and "Viking Prince", and (with writer Robin Moore), … - Becky Cloonan
Becky Cloonan (born 23 June 1980 in Pisa, Italy) is an American comic book creator known for her manga-influenced artwork. She created minicomics and was part of the Meathaus collective before collaborating with Brian Wood on "Channel Zero: Jennie One" in 2003. Since then, her profile (and workload) has steadily risen; her best-known work to date has been the 12-issue comics series "Demo" (2004), also with Wood. - Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith (born 1960 in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series "Bone". He has also worked for Character Builders Animation as an Art Director. He currently resides in Columbus, Ohio. Smith was born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he displayed an interest in cartoons dating back to as early as kindergarten. - Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (October_3, 1924, Brooklyn, New York - February_21, 1993) was a U.S. cartoonist and magazine editor. In 1952, he was the founding editor of the comic book "Mad." Kurtzman was equally well known for the long-running "Little Annie Fanny" stories in "Playboy" (1962-88), parodying the very attitudes that "Playboy" promoted. Because "Mad" had a considerable impact on popular culture, … - Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. He currently lives in France. Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, … - Alex Toth
Alex Toth, pronounced with a long “o,” was an acclaimed professional cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth’s work began in the American comic book industry, but is best known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included "Super Friends", "Space Ghost", "The Herculoids", and "Birdman". Toth’s work has been resurrected in the late-night, … - Derek Kirk Kim
Derek Kirk Kim is a cartoonist living in the San Francisco Bay area of California. He won both major industry awards in 2004, the Eisner and the Harvey, for his debut graphic novel "Same Difference and Other Stories," which was originally serialized on his website Lowbright (formerly known as "Small Stories"). He also won the Ignatz award for promising new talent, in 2003, for the same graphic novel. Derek Kirk Kim was born in 1974 in Kumi, South Korea, … - Darwyn Cooke
Darwyn Cooke (b. 1962, Toronto, Canada) is an Eisner Award winning comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator, best known for his work on the comic books "Catwoman", "DC: The New Frontier" and "Will Eisner's The Spirit". - Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 - August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nick names "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". - Will
Willy Maltaite known by the pseudonym Will, was a comics creator and comics artist in the Franco-Belgian tradition. In the genre known in francophone countries as bande dessinée, Will is considered one of "the Gang of 4" (which also included André Franquin, Morris, and Jijé), and a founding member of the Marcinelle school.<small> </small> Over a long association with the comics magazine "Le Journal de Spirou" starting in 1947, Will created, … - Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker (born November 17,1966) is an American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as "Batman", "Daredevil", "Captain America", "Iron Fist", "Catwoman", "Gotham Central", "Sleeper", "Uncanny X-Men" and "X-Men: Deadly Genesis", and for helping to revive the crime comics genre. - Joe Quesada
Joseph "Joe" Quesada (born December 1 1962), colloquially known as Joe Q, is the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and a comic book writer and artist. - Bill Sienkiewicz
Boleslav (William) Felix Robert Sienkiewicz (sin-KEV-itch), usually referred to simply as Bill Sienkiewicz, was born May 3, 1958 in Blakely, Pennsylvania, United States. He is a visual artist probably best known for his unique and recognizable work on various comic books, notably Marvel Comics' "Elektra: Assassin". He attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts in Newark, New Jersey. - Howard Chaykin
Howard Victor Chaykin (born 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material. Chaykin's main influences are the mid-20th century book illustrators Robert Fawcett, Al Parker, and others, along with a love for jazz which is often reflected in his work. - Todd McFarlane
Todd McFarlane (born March 16, 1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, toy manufacturer/designer, and media entrepreneur. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, McFarlane became a comic book superstar due to his work on Marvel Comics' Spider-Man franchise. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero Spawn from his high school portfolio and updating him for the 1990s. - Dave Sim
David Victor Sim (born May 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the 6,000 page graphic novel "Cerebus the Aardvark". - Gil Kane
Eli Katz (born April 6, 1926, Riga, Latvia; died January 31, 2000, Florida, United States), who worked under the name Gil Kane and in a few instances Scott Edwards, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s.
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