- Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is a self-described "pen/pencil operator" and programmer best known for creating the webcomic "xkcd". Formerly a roboticist for NASA, in 2006 Munroe's contract was not renewed at NASA and he began to write "xkcd" full-time, supported by the sale of related merchandise. He is also the creator of the websites BestThing, The Funniest, The Fairest, and The Cutest, …
- Jeph Jacques
Jeph Jacques writes and illustrates the webcomics "Questionable Content" and "IndieTits". He was born in Rockville, Maryland, graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in music, and lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts with his girlfriend (and business manager) Cristi. Jacques is a self-described hipster. "Questionable Content" (QC) is a comedic slice-of-life webcomic that Jacques started on August 1, 2003.
- 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.
- Tim Buckley
Timothy William Buckley (b. April 3 1981) is the webcomic artist responsible for the "Ctrl+Alt+Del" webcomic. Buckley's webcomic was started in September 2002, and launched on October 23 2002. At that time he knew almost nothing about webcomics, and it was merely a project for his portfolio. Though the art was unshaded and basic in the beginning, the webcomic has evolved and its popularity has grown. By 2003, Buckley was attending comic conventions as a guest.
- J. D. Frazer
J. D. Frazer (born 1965), pen name Illiad, is the artist and writer of the webcomic "User Friendly". The strip debuted in November, 1997, and is considered to be one of the first major webcomics. It is about a group of characters who work for a fictional Internet Service Provider, and the comic's readership consists mainly of programmers, self-styled geeks, and other technophiles.
- David Morgan-Mar
David Morgan-Mar (aka DangerMouse) is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Sydney, Australia, best known online for two webcomics, "Irregular Webcomic!" and "Infinity on 30 Credits a Day", and for creating several humorous esoteric programming languages. He is also the author of several GURPS roleplaying sourcebooks for Steve Jackson Games, as well as a regular contributor to "Pyramid" magazine. He works as an optical engineer at Canon.
- Chris Onstad
Christopher Onstad (born June 14, 1975) is a writer, cartoonist, and artist known best for his creation Achewood, a regularly-updated webcomic. He was born in California, where he attended Stanford University. There, Onstad edited for the Stanford Chaparral humor magazine. Onstad has published ten books: Seven anthologies of Achewood comics, a humorous cook book featuring recipes purported to be invented by the strip's characters, …
- Ryan North
Ryan M. North (born October 20, 1980) is a Canadian writer and computer programmer who is the creator and author of "Dinosaur Comics", and co-creator of "Whispered Apologies" and "Happy Dog the Happy Dog". North grew up in Ottawa, Ontario where he studied computer science (minor in film) at Carleton University before moving to Toronto for his Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, …
- T Campbell
T Campbell is the writer of many webcomics, including "Fans (webcomic), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and Penny & Aggie ". He is also the editor of Graphic Smash and Clickwheel. His articles for Comixpedia led to a book, "The History of Webcomics", and he writes another series for Tokyopop. He is the co-creator of Oh No Robot, a webcomics search engine.
- Eric Burns
Eric Alfred Burns (born January 27, 1968) is an American critic, writer, poet, columnist and Role Playing Game developer who lives in New Hampshire. He is best known as the creator and one of the principal writers of the popular culture and webcomic commentary website Websnark and as the writer of the webcomic Gossamer Commons.
- Scott Ramsoomair
Scott Ramsoomair (b. 1981-03-24) is the author of the popular webcomic "VG Cats". He has also worked as the illustrator of the webcomic "Digital Purgatory". He lives in Ontario, Canada. Ramsoomair is also the author of "Adventure Log", an official "Final Fantasy XI" webcomic with Square Enix.
- Jerry Holkins
Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins (born February 6, 1976), is the writer of the popular webcomic "Penny Arcade". Holkins goes by the pseudonym "Tycho Brahe" online. This is also the name of one of the two main characters of "Penny Arcade", who is a cartoonized self-insertion of Holkins. However, as the character of Tycho was not originally meant to represent Holkins, …
- Jennifer Diane Reitz
Jennifer Diane Reitz (born 1959 in Baker, Oregon) is an American writer, webcomic author, and computer programmer, known for creating webcomics such as "Unicorn Jelly", "Pastel Defender Heliotrope" and "To Save Her", and computer games such as "Boppin'". Reitz has created computer games and anime-style comics since 1981. Additionally, she writes game reviews and she co-founded a family company called Accursed Toys.
- David Rees
David Thomas Rees (born June 22, 1972) is a cartoonist whose best-known work combines bland clip art with outrageous "trash talk" to incongruous effect. The comic strips, often overtly political, have achieved wide popularity, while baffling or disgusting some readers. Rees grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he was an avid reader of "Rex Morgan, M.D." comics. He is a graduate of Oberlin College, for whose student magazine he drew some comic strips.
- Lea Hernandez
Lea Hernandez (born 11 March 1964) is an American comic book and webcomic creator who usually draws in a japanese-influenced style. She is the co-creator of "Killer Princesses" with Gail Simone (published by Oni Press), and the creator of "Rumble Girls" (published by Image Comics). She has also worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics with, for example, "Marvel Mangaverse: Punisher" and "Transmetropolitan".
- Christopher B. Wright
Christopher B. Wright is the creator of the webcomics "Help Desk" and "Kernel Panic". Born 1971-07-02 in the Commonwealth of Virginia, he is a Technical writer by profession. For a brief period of time he served as Editor in chief of "OS/2 eZine". Wright began publishing "Help Desk" on 1996-03-31 as a regular feature of "OS/2 eZine". In 2000 he moved it to the ubersoft.net domain and began publishing it independently.
- David Willis
David Willis is a well-known figure in the webcomics industry. His various creations enjoy no small amount of fandom, due in part to his focus on character development. A common element of David Willis' work deals with the "Transformers" (he is now an administrator of a "Transformers" wiki) as well as humor. Often angst and gags will fill the same strip quite fluidly.
- Pete Abrams
Pete Abrams (born August 4, 1970) is the writer and illustrator of the online comic strip "Sluggy Freelance". Pete Abrams went to Joe Kubert School of Graphic Design but was unable to get a job in the comics industry after school. Instead he got a job as a web designer for a marketing firm, and started "Sluggy Freelance" as a creative outlet.
- Mike Krahulik
Mike Krahulik (born September 25 1977) is the artist who draws the popular webcomic "Penny Arcade". He goes by the online moniker "John(athan) Gabriel" or "Gabe". He does not physically resemble his comic strip counterpart, as the character was not originally meant to represent him.
- Tatsuya Ishida
Tatsuya Ishida is the author of the webcomic "Sinfest". He was also a penciller for Dark Horse Comics, where he worked on comic books of the licensed properties G.I. Joe and Godzilla. Very little is known about him. He remains an enigmatic personality who makes no regular commentary other than the "Notes from the Resistance" feature on the front page of the "Sinfest" website, which can sometimes cryptically reference real life events.
- Chris Crosby
Christopher Charles Crosby (born September 15, 1977) is the co-founder of Keenspot along with Darren Bleuel. He draws and writes the webcomic "Superosity" and writes for "Sore Thumbs", which Owen Gieni illustrates. He currently resides in Cresbard, SD.
- Mitch Clem
Mitch Clem (b. September 15, 1982) is an American cartoonist best known for his web comics "Nothing Nice To Say" and "San Antonio Rock City".
- Brian Clevinger
Brian Clevinger (born May 7, 1978) is the author of the webcomic "8-Bit Theater" and the novel "Nuklear Age". He is currently writing his second novel, a sequel to "Nuklear Age" known as "Atomik Age", as well as pursuing other writing projects. He is known primarily as a humorist who tends to write jokes with long setups, many "call backs" or running gags, and who delights in playing jokes on the audience itself.
- Fred Gallagher
Fred Gallagher (born 1969) is an American illustrator who has become a full-time web cartoonist. He is best known as the artist and co-creator of "Megatokyo" (Gallagher now has full ownership of the property). He also goes by the name of Piro, the main character of "Megatokyo", whom he has stated is an idealized version of himself when he was in college. He does not physically resemble his comic strip counterpart.
- Christopher Baldwin
Christopher Baldwin (born February 25,1973) is an American illustrator and author of several webcomics, the most significant being "Bruno", a look at the life of an introspective young woman set in the real world. Christopher was born in Montague, Massachusetts and spent his childhood in Greenfield, Massachusetts. By his own account he had drawn over 30 comic books by 1991. After leaving college early in 1994, he took on various freelance jobs, …
- Kc Green
Kenneth C. Green (born February 1987) is an American cartoonist who has created many popular web-comics such as Droop, Anger Pauly, and Horribleville.
- Bleedman
Vinson Ngo, is a Filipino who is better known under the pen name Bleedman. He is the author and artist of the webcomics "PowerPuff Girls Doujinshi", "Grim Tales From Down Below", and "King of Fighters Doujinshi 2001". Additionally, he is partnered with David Stanworth, author of "Snafu Comics" and "TIN The Incompetent Ninja". As of November 2006, Bleedman's deviantART site was the most viewed page in the entire site, …
- Joey Manley
Joey Manley is best known as the founder and publisher of the webcomics site Modern Tales, as well as numerous other web-specific entertainment properties. These properties include the subscription webcomics sites Serializer, Girlamatic, and Graphic Smash, and the webcomics hosting service Webcomics Nation. His first notable website was the Webby-winning freespeech.org, which he helped start in 1995. He is also the author of one novel, "The Death of Donna-May Dean", …
- Shawn Handyside
Shawn Handyside (b. January 3rd, 1979) is the author of the webcomic "Staccato" and also the administrator of the webcomic community/portal Inksandwich. He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.
- Joe Zabel
Joe Zabel is a comic book artist living in Cleveland Heights. He is best known for his work on "American Splendor" by fellow Clevelander Harvey Pekar, much of which was done in collaboration with artist Gary Dumm. Zabel has also published his own series of mystery comics. More recently, he has turned away from printed comics and begun making online digital comic strips.
- Dorothy Gambrell
Dorothy Gambrell is a cartoonist who writes and draws the online comic strips "Cat and Girl", "The New Adventures of Death", and "The Ralph Bunche" in addition to the miscellany blog "Very Small Array". While not the most well-known of webcomic authors, her work has been regularly referenced by the most successful artists of the genre, including Mitch Clem ("Nothing Nice to Say") and Zack Miller ("Joe and Monkey").
- D. C. Simpson
David Craig Simpson, generally known as D. C. Simpson, is the creator of the webcomic "Ozy and Millie" and the political cartoon "I Drew This". D. C. Simpson is a graduate of The Evergreen State College, was once a reporter for a weekly newspaper, and did a stint for a year as a graduate student in communication at Washington State University.
- Kristofer Straub
Kristofer Straub is the creator of webcomics "Checkerboard Nightmare", "Starslip Crisis", "Time Friends", "Origin Story" and co-founder of webcomics collective Blank Label Comics. He also co-developed "Blamimation" animations for Scott Kurtz' comic strip PvP, and is the voice of Brent Sienna therein. In December 2006, Straub was named co-writer and co-producer on PvP: The Series, a series of animated shorts featuring the PvP characters.
- Steven Frank
Steven Frank is a Macintosh developer and the author of the popular webcomic "Spamusement!" Frank is a co-founder of the software company Panic. He is thought of by his fans as having a stylish haircut and a pipe, from one of his Spamusement strips, Want to go on a cruise on us stevenf?. His family and friends, however, know him to be the wizard painted on the side of the van in Impress the Females
- Jeffrey Rowland
Jeffrey J. Rowland (born May 22, 1974) is the author and artist responsible for "Wigu" and "Overcompensating", two popular webcomics. Originally from Locust Grove, Oklahoma, Rowland now lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts where he continues to work on the two projects, while running TopatoCo, a company he uses to sell merchandise based on his comics. Jeffrey Rowland's comics are part of the Dumbrella network, …
- Brad Guigar
Brad Guigar is an American cartoonist who is best known for his daily webcomic "Greystone Inn" and its sequel "Evil Inc."
- Steve Purcell
Steve Purcell is an American illustrator and writer best known as the creator of comic book characters Sam & Max, of the Freelance Police - a dog and rabbit crime-fighting duo.
- John Allison
John Allison (born 1976) is the writer and artist of the webcomics "Bobbins" and "Scary Go Round". He is a member of the Dumbrella comics collective, and currently resides in Greater Manchester.
- Cayetano Garza
Cayetano 'Cat' Garza is a comic artist, cartoonist, illustrator, and musician in the United States. He is best known for his experiments with webcomics. Garza has been published in various anthologies and publications. He is considered by Scott McCloud, author of "Understanding Comics", as a pioneer in the area of web design and interface for online comics. Garza is featured in McCloud's sequel to "Understanding Comics", "Reinventing Comics", …
- K. Sandra Fuhr
K. Sandra Fuhr is the author of several webcomics: "This Is Home", "Boy Meets Boy", "Friendly Hostility", and "5ideways". Among these comics, "Boy Meets Boy" has been her most notable. It earned nominations for the 2001 and 2002 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards "Best Romantic Comic" award and won in 2003. "Boy Meets Boy" ended in January 2004 and was replaced with "Friendly Hostility".