- Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" and "From Hell". He has also written a novel, "Voice of the Fire", and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD. As a comics writer, … - Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman was born on November 10, 1960 in Portchester, England. He is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. As of 2002, he lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. ... After being rejected many times by publishers, Gaiman pursued journalism as a means to learn about the world and make connections that he hoped would later assist him in getting published. - Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. He is best-known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings. - Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1921) is an American writer, editor, was the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist. Though no longer officially connected to the company, save for the title of "Chairman Emeritus", Stan Lee remains a visible face in the industry. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he introduced complex, … - Warren Ellis
Warren Girade Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comics, novels, and television, well known for his sarcastic personality and sociocultural commentaries, both through his online presence and his writing. He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England. - 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". - 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. - Geoff Johns
Geoff Johns (born 25 January 1973 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American comic book writer, best known for his work for DC Comics. - 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. - Peter David
Peter Allen David (often abbreviated PAD) (born September 23, 1956) is an American writer, best known for his work in comic books and "Star Trek" novels. David often jokingly describes his occupation as "writer of stuff". David is noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its mingling of real world issues with humor and references to popular culture. He also uses metafiction frequently, usually to humorous effect, … - Will Eisner
William Erwin Eisner (March 6 1917 - January 3 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. - Greg Rucka
Gregory Rucka (born November 29, 1969) is an American writer of novels and comic books. He is married to fellow comic writer Jen Van Meter. His writing career began with his Atticus Kodiak series. Kodiak is a bodyguard whose jobs are rarely as uncomplicated as they at first appear. The series to date consists of: "Keeper", "Finder", "Smoker", "Shooting at Midnight", and "Critical Space". - John Rogers
John Rogers is a scriptwriter, comedian, film producer, and comic book writer. Although born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he attended McGill University in Montreal and is better known publicly as a Canadian writer. As a comedian, Rogers was nominated three times for Gemini Awards. Rogers wrote the first draft of the script for the live-action movie "Transformers", scheduled for 2007. He is also working on the "Fatal Frame" film adaptation. - Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987. - 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". - Mark Evanier
Mark Stephen Evanier (born 2 March 1952) is an American writer. Evanier chose to be a writer after witnessing the misery his father felt from working for the Internal Revenue Service and contrasting that with the portrayal of a writer's life on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". He made his first professional sale in 1969 and almost immediately was taken on as an assistant to the legendary Jack Kirby. - Mark Waid
Mark Waid (born March 21 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer. - Garth Ennis
Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970 in Holywood, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the DC/Vertigo series "Preacher", co-created with artist Steve Dillon. His work is characterised by extreme violence, black humour and profanity, but also by an interest in male friendship and an amused disdain for organised religion. Frequent artistic collaborators include Steve Dillon, Glenn Fabry and John McCrea. - Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has also won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics; for over the last seven years, Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic sales chart. Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, … - Mark Millar
Mark Millar (born December 24 1969) is a Scottish comic book writer born in Coatbridge. A resident of Glasgow, Scotland, his most known works include "The Authority", "Ultimate X-Men", "Marvel Knights Spider-Man", "The Ultimates", and "Civil War" - 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. - Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell (born July 18 1967) is a British writer best known for his work in television drama as well as "Doctor Who" fiction, and as the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield. As well as "Doctor Who", other television dramas for which he has written include "Robin Hood", "Casualty", "Holby City" and "Coronation Street". - Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek (born September 16, 1960) is a comic book writer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in various towns in the Boston area, including Lexington, where he befriended another future comic book writer, Scott McCloud. - 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". - Andy Diggle
Andy Diggle is a British comic book writer and former editor of "2000 AD". His most recent works include "The Losers", "Swamp Thing", "Adam Strange" and "Silent Dragon". As editor, Diggle is often credited (most frequently by David Bishop, who originally employed him) as having spearheaded a return to the old skool values of "2000 AD". He is currently working on "Batman Confidential". - Roy Thomas
Roy Thomas is a comic book writer and editor, and Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E. Howard's character and helped launch a sword and sorcery trend in comics. - Gail Simone
Gail Simone is an American writer of comic books. Best known for DC's "Birds of Prey", she is the writer of "Welcome to Tranquility", "All-New Atom" and will soon become the writer of "Wonder Woman". Simone is also the writer of DC's 2005 "Villains United" limited series (part of the lead-in to "Infinite Crisis"), and its spin-off, the limited series "Secret Six". - Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan (born 1976, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer best known for the series "Y: The Last Man", "Ex Machina", "Runaways", and "Pride of Baghdad". - Nat Gertler
Nat Gertler is a writer who has written books about computers and comics, including "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel" (co-authored with Steve Lieber). He has also written comics, prose fiction, television episodes, and at least one video game script. Gertler founded the About Comics publishing company. Gertler is the self-published creator of the comics mini-series "The Factor", about a superhero who is never actually seen in the comic. - Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949) is a British writer and artist of comics. - Matt Fraction
Matt Fraction (born Matthew Fritchman on December 1, 1975, Chicago Heights, IL) is an American comic book writer, and co-founder of Artbomb and Savant. He wrote two columns for Comic Book Resources: Poplife and The Basement Tapes, the latter with Joe Casey. Fraction currently resides in Kansas City, MO, with his wife, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick. - Michael Turner
Michael Turner (born April 21 1971) is a comic book artist born in Crossville, Tennessee and primarily known for his work on "Witchblade" and "Fathom". Michael is also the president of his own entertainment company Aspen MLT. - Alan Grant
Alan Grant is a Scottish comic book writer born in 1949. He lives with his wife Sue in Moniaive in Scotland and is best known for writing "Judge Dredd" in 2000 AD' - 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. - Jeph Loeb
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an American comic book writer, screen and television writer as well as television and motion picture producer. A three-time Eisner Award Winner and five-time Wizard Award Winner, Loeb has found tremendous success at both Marvel and DC where he has written stories with such diverse characters as the X-Men and Superman as well as Batman and Spider-Man. - Leah Moore
Leah Moore (born February 4, 1978, in Northampton) is an English writer. She is the daughter of Alan Moore and wife of John Reppion and she has worked with both on the comic "Albion". She has also written for other comics and publications including "Tom Strong" and "The End Is Nigh". Leah and John have co-writing credits on "Wild Girl", a 6 part comic for Wildstorm, … - Marv Wolfman
Marvin A. "Marv" Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on "Tomb of Dracula" and creating "Blade" for Marvel Comics, and "The New Teen Titans" for DC Comics. Wolfman was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. - Dan Abnett
Dan Abnett is a British writer, mainly of comic books and gaming fiction. Primarily Abnett has worked for "2000 AD" and Marvel Comics (including their UK imprint) since the early 1990s, although he has also contributed to DC Comics titles. His Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles. As one of the more prolific 2000AD writers, … - 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. - John Reppion
John Reppion (born 1978, in Liverpool, England) is a British writer. He is married to Leah Moore, the daughter of Alan Moore, and he has worked with both on the comic "Albion". He has also written for other publications including an article on The Childe of Hale for the "Fortean Times" and various articles for "The End Is Nigh". He and Leah have co-writing credits on "Wild Girl", …
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