- 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. - 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. - 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", … - 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. - 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". - 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. - Bryan Singer
Bryan Singer (born September 17 1965) is an American film director. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on "The Usual Suspects", and is especially popular among fans of the sci-fi and comic book genres, for his work on the first two "X-Men" films and "Superman Returns". - 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" - 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". - 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, … - 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Steve Niles
Steve Niles is an American comic book author. He is credited among other contemporary writers as bringing horror comics back to prominence, authoring such works as "30 Days of Night", its sequel, "Dark Days" (IDW Publishing), and "Criminal Macabre" (Dark Horse Comics) with frequent artist collaborator Ben Templesmith. Niles' start in the comics industry began with the formation of his self publishing company, Arcane Comix. - 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". - 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. - 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. - 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 - 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". - 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. - 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. - Rich Johnston
Rich Johnston (born 21st November 1972, in Gloucester, England) is an online columnist who writes about the comic book industry. Johnston grew up in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, and later attended the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne where he studied Politics. Johnston is based in Soho, London, and works as an advertising copywriter. He currently lives in Kingston Vale, London, with his wife, Janice Hodgson, and their young daughter, Eve Johnston. - Mark Waid
Mark Waid (born March 21 1962 in Hueytown, Alabama) is an American comic book writer. - 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. - 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". - Frank Cho
Frank Cho, born Duk Hyun Cho, is an American comic strip and comic book creator, writer and illustrator, best known for his series "Liberty Meadows". - 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), … - J. Michael Straczynski
Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is also a playwright, journalist and author of a well-regarded tome on scriptwriting. He was the creator, executive producer and head writer for the science fiction TV series "Babylon 5" and its spin-off "Crusade". Straczynski wrote 91 out of the 110 "Babylon 5" episodes, … - Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer. He is best known for his work on Image Comics' series "The Walking Dead" and "Invincible", and Marvel Comics' "Marvel Zombies" miniseries. Kirkman's first comic book work was self published, through the publisher Funk-O-Tron. This series was "Battle Pope" (2000) produced with artist Tony Moore, an intentionally offensive super-hero parody. - Chris Claremont
Chris Claremont (born November 30, 1950 in London, England, United Kingdom) is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1976-1991) stint on "Uncanny X-Men," during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties. - Tim Sale
Tim Sale (born 1956 in Ithaca, New York) is an American Eisner Award winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with Jeph Loeb. - Mike Wieringo
Michael "Mike" Wieringo (born June 24, 1963 in Vicenza, Italy) is an American comic book artist. He first came to prominence in the comic book industry for his work on DC Comics' "The Flash" with writer Mark Waid in the early 1990s. After his short run on the "the Flash" Wieringo briefly worked on another DC title, this time "Robin" with writer Chuck Dixon, before leaving DC for Marvel Comics. - 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". - John Romita Jr.
John Salvatore Romita, Jr. (August 17, 1956, New York City) is an American comic book artist best known for his extensive work for Marvel Comics from the 1970s to the 2000s. He is often referred to as JRJR (abbreviation of John Romita, Jr.) - Sean Phillips
Sean Phillips is a British comic book artist, inker, and penciller. He is best known in the American comic industry for his work on DC Comics' "Sleeper", "WildC.A.T.s", "Batman" and "Hellblazer". Much of Phillips' British work has yet to be collected in book form, … - 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. - Kyle Baker
Kyle Baker (born 1965 in Queens, New York City, United States) is an American writer and illustrator of comic books as well as an animator. He is also an award-winning publisher of two anthologies, "Cartoonist" and "Cartoonist Vol. 2: Now with More Bakers".
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