- 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.
- 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, …
- Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film actor, director, and Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter. He became known in the late 1990s, after his involvement in the film "Good Will Hunting", and has since become a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films.
- Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award- and SAG Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actress, and producer. She first became known for her role as Sydney Bristow on "Alias", a CIA agent.
- Evel Knievel
Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. (born October 17, 1938 in Butte, Montana) is a motorcycle daredevil who has been a household name since the late 1960s. Evel Knievel's highly publicized motorcycle jumps, including his attempt to jump over the Snake River Canyon, claim four of the top 20 most-watched Wide World of Sports events of all time.
- Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is an Irish actor who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood films including "Daredevil", "Miami Vice", "Minority Report", "Phone Booth" and "S.W.A.T."
- 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.
- Mark Steven Johnson
Mark Steven Johnson, (born October 30, 1964 in Hastings, Minnesota) is a film director and writer. He attended California State University, Long Beach. He has directed and co-written the two comic book based films "Daredevil" and "Ghost Rider". His early writing credits are for the film Grumpy Old Men and its sequel "Grumpier Old Men". He is often given credit for writing the screen play for the Marvel film "Elektra", …
- 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
- Alex Maleev
Alex Maleev is a comic book illustrator of Bulgarian descent best known for the Marvel Comics' series "Daredevil" Vol. 2, collaborating with writer Brian Michael Bendis. Maleev has a distinct drawing style of dark, grainy imagery, which gives his work the 16mm-camera look of old-fashioned documentary. In 2006, Maleev finished his run with Bendis in "Daredevil" and planned a collaboration with the writer on a new ongoing "Spider-Woman" series.
- Klaus Janson
Klaus Janson (born 1952, Coburg) is an American comic book artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics. While he is best-known as an inker, Janson has frequently worked as a penciller and colorist. Janson immigrated from Germany as a young boy and grew up in Connecticut, where in his teens he met and began working as an assistant to Dick Giordano. He first came to prominence as the inker over Sal Buscema's pencils on "The Defenders" in the mid-1970s, …
- Michael Lark
Michael Lark is an American comics artist. Lark has provided pencils for DC Comics' "Batman", "Terminal City", "Gotham Central" and "Legend of the Hawkman". His work for Marvel Comics includes "The Pulse" and "Captain America". As of February 2006, Lark is the regular penciller of Marvel's "Daredevil".
- Steve Gerber
Stephen Ross Gerber (born 20 September, 1947, St. Louis, Missouri, United States) is an American comic book writer best known as the creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck. Other major works include "Man-Thing", "Omega the Unknown", "The Phantom Zone", "Void Indigo", "Shanna the She-Devil", "Tales of the Zombie", "Marvel Spotlight: Son of Satan", "Defenders", "Foolkiller", …
- Steve-O
Steve-O (born Stephen Gilchrist Glover on June 13, 1974 in Wimbledon, London, UK to an American father and a Canadian mother) is a daredevil performer and television personality. He is best known as one of the performers on the TV series "Jackass".
- Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20, 1893 - March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and director, most famous for his silent comedies. Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era. Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best known for his "Glasses Character", a resourceful, …
- Jimmy Palmiotti
James "Jimmy" Palmiotti is an Italian American writer and artist of various comics, games and film. He has extensive inking and writing credits and has often inked the work of his friend and collaborator Joe Quesada, notably on "Ash" (which they co-created, along with "Painkiller Jane") and "Daredevil" (esp. the 'Guardian Devil' arc penned by Kevin Smith).
- Marie Severin
Marie Severin (born 21 August, 1929 in Oceanside, New York) is an American comic book artist and colorist. In the latter capacity for the celebrated EC Comics in the 1950s, she would sometimes give especially gruesome panels a single color in order to tone-down otherwise graphic scenes of gore (Geissman 2005: 239). After the Collapse of EC, Severin went to work for Marvel Comics in the early 1960s, where she remained until the mid-1990s, …
- David Lapham
David Lapham is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer, artist, and cartoonist, best known for his work on his groundbreaking independent comic book "Stray Bullets". He started his career in 1990 as a penciller at Valiant Comics where he was discovered by editor Jim Shooter. He went on to join Shooter at Defiant Comics where they co-created "Warriors of Plasm" in 1993.
- Marko Djurdjevic
Marko Djurdjevic is an illustrator and comic book cover artist. He has illustrated covers for Marvel Comics on titles such as "Daredevil", "Blade", "X-Men First Class", "Thunderbolts" and the limited series "Mystic Arcana". His wife, Jelena Djurdjevic, is scheduled to start illustrating covers for Marvel as well.
- Bill Everett
William "Bill" Everett, also known as William Blake (He was both named after and a direct descendant of William Blake) and Everett Blake (born May 18, 1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts; died February 27, 1973) was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics.
- Johnny Knoxville
Johnny Knoxville (born Philip John Clapp on March 11, 1971 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American comic actor and daredevil. Knoxville has been featured in a number of films, but is best known as the co-creator and principal star of the MTV series "Jackass" and its subsequent films.
- Ariel Olivetti
Ariel Olivetti (born November 15 1967 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine artist and penciller best known for his work on American comic book titles such as "Daredevil", "X-Man", "Space Ghost" and "Punisher War Journal". Olivetti studied Graphic Design in college and first had his work published in the Argentine magazine "Fierro". He created El Cazador de Aventuras, a popular adult comic in 1992.
- Lee Weeks
Lee Weeks is an American comic book artist and penciller. Weeks made his debut in the 1980s. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on "Daredevil" Vol. 1 series (1990 - 1992), where he pencilled the "Last Rites" storyline. It featured the fall of the Kingpin and is a sequel of sorts to Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's "Born Again." Other titles he has contributed to include "Justice" (1988 - 1989), …
- Michael Gaydos
Michael Gaydos is an American comic book penciler instrumental in offering his indy take on Joe Quesada-edited Marvel Comics. He is most famous for his cult favorite collaboration with Brian Michael Bendis on "Alias" and the last storyline of its follow up, "The Pulse". He has also illustrated Marvel's mini-series such as "Powerless" and "Daredevil Redemption", as well as drawing a "Devlin Waugh" story for "2000 AD".
- Cary Nord
Cary Nord is an artist noted for his work in comic books. He started his career with superhero comics, eventually becoming a regular artist for Marvel's "Daredevil" series. He continued work on various Marvel and DC titles and is currently the artist for the new "Conan the Barbarian" series (written by Kurt Busiek) at Dark Horse.
- Al Williamson
Al Williamson is an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator of partly Colombian descent. He was born in New York City but grew up in Bogotá, Colombia, returning to New York in his teens. In 1952, at the age of 21, Williamson began working for EC Comics which became the publisher of "Mad Magazine". For a while he worked in a studio with Frank Frazetta, Roy G. Krenkel, …
- Danny Fingeroth
Danny Fingeroth is an American comic book writer and editor, better known for a long stint as Group Editor of the Spider-Man books at Marvel Comics. He also wrote "Darkhawk", writing all 50 issues of the book between 1991 and 1995. Before that, he had a long stint on "Dazzler", wrote the "Deadly Foes of Spider-Man" and "Lethal Foes of Spider-Man" mini-series, the Howard The Duck movie adaptation comic and various issues of several Marvel titles, …
- David Hine
David Hine is an English comic book writer and artist. He has been working in comics since the late 1980s. For "Crisis" he drew the series "Sticky Fingers" (written by Myra Hancock) in 1989, and wrote and drew a number of short pieces in 1990 and 1991. For "2000 AD" he drew "Tao De Moto" in 1991 (again written by Hancock) and wrote and drew the futuristic police series "Mambo" from 1994 to 1996.
- David Mazzucchelli
David Mazzucchelli is an American comic book artist and illustrator. His early work was in superhero comics for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, although he later embarked on a series of acclaimed alternative comics projects. Mazzucchelli received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and started working in comics in the early 1980s. He started at Marvel Comics where, after a few various issues, he became the regular artist on Daredevil.
- Ann Nocenti
Ann Nocenti is an American journalist, writer and editor known for her work on comic books and magazines. For Marvel Comics, she edited "New Mutants" and "The Uncanny X-Men", making her comics writing debut on a brief run of "Spider-Woman" (issues #47-50) and wrote a long run of "Daredevil v1", issues 236-291 from 1986 to 1991 and directly following Frank Miller's definitive Born Again storyline.
- Scott Terra
Scott Terra (born in June 25, 1987 in Connecticut) is an American actor most recognized for his role as young Matthew Murdock in the 2003 film "Daredevil". Terra also played as Sam Finney in "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star".
- Bob Brown
Bob Brown (died 1977) was an American comic book artist with an extensive career from the early 1940s through the 1970s. With writers Edmond Hamilton and Gardner Fox, Brown created the DC Comics hero Space Ranger, drawing the character's complete run from his deubt in the try-out comic "Showcase" #15 (Aug 1958) through "Mystery in Space #103 (July 1965). Brown's work appeared in DC's "Action Comics", "The Brave and the Bold", …
- Ralph Macchio
Ralph Macchio is an American comic book editor and writer. He is commonly associated with the Spider-Man comics. He began his association with Marvel Comics in the 1970s and from early on was associated with the "Dazzler" comic between 1981 and 1982. From 1984 through 1995, Macchio was the editor for "Daredevil". He also wrote script for the comic book version of "The Sword of Solomon Kane". Macchio is not related to the actor Ralph Macchio, …
- Scott McDaniel
Scott McDaniel is a comics artist who has drawn numerous books, including Marvel Comics' "Fall from Grace" storyline for the "Daredevil" series. Notable artwork for DC Comics include "Nightwing", "Richard Dragon", and most recently "Green Arrow".
- Ande Parks
Ande Parks (born October 1, 1964) is a professional American comic book artist, known for his work as an inker and writer in the industry. His greatest notoriety has come from his stint with fellow artist Phil Hester on DC Comics’ Green Arrow series from 2001-2004 and writing the graphic novels "Union Station" and "Capote in Kansas". He grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City and currently lives in Baldwin, Kansas with his wife and two children.
- Matt Hollingsworth
Matt Hollingsworth (born December 17, 1968 in Lakewood, California) is a comic book colorist. Hollingsworth graduated from the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in 1991 and began getting regular work from Marvel Comics and DC Comics. In 1993, he was hired to the Dark Horse Comics staff as head of the painted art department. After a year, he returned to freelance work and helped launch the award-winning "Preacher" from DC's Vertigo imprint.
- Stone
Stone was the favoured pupil of Stick, the blind former mentor of costumed crime-fighter Daredevil and Elektra Natchios. He is a member of the Chaste and is a highly trained martial artist and assissts his sensei against the Hand. Like the other members of the Chaste, Stone is deeply advanced in the art of chi-manipulation. An offshoot of this is his ability to render himself invulnerable to physical harm - but only if he sees it coming.
- Claw
Claw is a supporting character in the Daredevil comics. He has appeared in numerous issues as a member of the good ninja cell the Chaste. He is a highly trained ninja and has devoted his life to the teachings of his mentor Stick. This has brought him into conflict with the ninja cell known as the Hand. He has assisted his master in various battles with the Hand and continues to be an active member of the Chaste.
- Roger McKenzie
Roger McKenzie is an American comic book writer. Titles he has contributed to include "Battlestar Galactica" (Marvel Comics; 1979), "Captain America" (Marvel Comics; 1979 - 1980), "Daredevil" (Marvel Comics; 1978 - 1982) and "Creepy" (Warren Publishing; 1976 - 1985). During his stint on "Daredevil" he collaborated with artist Frank Miller and scripted many of the stories from Miller's plots.
- Karl Wallenda
Karl Wallenda (January 21, 1905 - March 22, 1978) was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net. Karl was born in Magdeburg, Germany. The Great Wallendas were noted throughout Europe for their four-man pyramid and cycling on the high wire. The act moved to the United States in 1928 and began an association with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus.