- James Jean
James Jean is an award winning artist and illustrator living in Los Angeles. He was born in Taiwan in 1979, raised in New Jersey, and educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Upon graduating in 2001, he quickly became an acclaimed cover artist for DC Comics, garnering three consecutive Eisner awards, two Harvey awards, two gold medals and a silver from the Society of Illustrators of LA, and a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators of NY. - Steven Heller
Steven Heller, (b. 1950), American art director, journalist, critic, author and editor who specializes on graphic design. Steven Heller is author and co-author of many works on the history of illustration, typography and many subjects related to graphic design. Over 80 titles and a vast number of magazine articles attest to his productive and thoughtful output. He has written articles for "Affiche, Baseline, Creation, Design, Design Issues, Eye, Graphis, How, I.D., … - Maxfield Parrish
Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 - March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator - Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is a graphic designer, best known for his "Bob Dylan" poster, the I Love New York logo, and the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968. - Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 - March 16, 1898) was an influential English illustrator, and author, best known for his erotic illustrations. - 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 - Walter Crane
Walter Crane (August 15, 1845 - March 14, 1915) was an English artist. Born in Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. - Tomer Hanuka
Award-winning illustrator and cartoonist Tomer Hanuka was born in Israel. At age twenty-two, after completing three years of mandatory Army service, he moved to New York City. Following his graduation from the School of Visual Arts he quickly became a regular contributor to many national magazines. His clients include Time Magazine, The New Yorker, Spin, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, MTV, and Saatchi & Saatchi. - Jeff Soto
Jeff Soto (born June 3, 1975 in Fullerton, California) is a visual artist currently working in Riverside, California. He is married to wife Jennifer and has a daughter named Shannon Daisy. Soto graduated with Distinction from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2002. He has become established as an artist involved in the Pop-Surrealism movement (See also Lowbrow) He has shown his paintings and installations throughout the United States and internationally. - Dock
Hayden Scott-Baron is an English professional illustrator and graphic designer. In 2001 he joined up with other comic creators Laura Watton, Sam Brown/Subi and Foxy in founding one of the largest UK Manga Studios, Sweatdrop Studios. Dock has written several 'how-to' books on the topic of drawing manga, including 'Digital Manga Techniques' and 'Manga Clip Art'. Dock currently lives in Cambridge, UK, and regularly attends UK animé conventions, representing Sweatdrop Studios. - Gary Taxali
Gary Taxali is an artist/illustrator living in Canada. Aside from his gallery shows and illustration work, Gary also devotes a portion of his time traveling through lecturing and teaching at various arts organizations and schools such as The Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. He is a Founding Member of The Illustrators' Partnership of America. - Andi Watson
Andrew "Andi" Watson (1969 -) is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels "Breakfast After Noon", "Slow News Day" and his current series "Love Fights". Andi Watson was born and raised in Yorkshire to working class parents. He studied foundation art at Dewsbury college followed by a graphic design / illustration course at Liverpool Polytechnic (now Liverpool John Moores University). He currently lives in Stoke-on-Trent. - Stefan G. Bucher
Stefan G. Bucher (born 1973) is a writer, graphic designer and illustrator. Starting his career in the United States as an art director at Portland, Oregon advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy, he went on to design numerous CD packages including "Brand New Day: The Remixes" for Sting, the soundtrack for the motion picture The Matrix with Keanu Reeves. - Bernie Wrightson
Bernie "Berni" Wrightson (born October 27, 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American artist known for his horror illustrations and comic books. He received training in art from reading comics, particularly those of EC, as well as through a correspondence course from the Famous Artists School. In 1966, Wrightson began working for "The Baltimore Sun" newspaper as an illustrator. - Tom Friedman
Tom Friedman (born 1965) American conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugar cubes in intricate geometric arrangements. Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Washington University there, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic illustration in 1988. He pursued graduate coursework at the University of Illinois at Chicago receiving a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture in 1990. - Rebecca Guay
Rebecca Guay is an artist specializing in watercolor painting and illustration. She is mostly known for her work commissioned by Magic: The Gathering, White Wolf, and DC Vertigo comics, though she has also done work for World of Warcraft TCG, … - Susie Ghahremani
Susie Ghahremani (born May 31, 1980 in Evanston, Illinois) is a painter and performs as an indie pop musician under the moniker Snoozer. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002 with a BFA in Illustration. In 2000, she launched a line of arts and crafts under company name boygirlparty. - Gil Elvgren
Gil Elvgren (March 15, 1914-February 29, 1980) born as "Gilette Elvgren" was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Elvgren lived in various locations, and was active from the 1930s to 1970s. Today he is best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow. Elvgren was one of the most important pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century. In addition, he was a classical American illustrator. - Michael Lau
Michael Lau, is an artist from Hong Kong who is known for his illustration and designer toy figures. Lau is widely credited as the founder of the urban vinyl style within the designer toy movement. His work has had a significant effect on toy manufacturers, as well as street culture, including artists and musicians, throughout the world. His style is particularly influential to Asian and American hip-hop and skateboarding culture. Lau has won several awards for his work, … - Richard Sala
Richard Sala is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator with a unique expressionistic style whose books often combine elements of mystery, horror and whimsy. His books include "Hypnotic Tales" (1992), "Black Cat Crossing" (1993), "The Ghastly Ones" (1995), "The Chuckling Whatsit" (1997), "Peculia" (2002), "Maniac Killer Strikes Again!" (2003), "Peculia and the Groon Grove Vampires" (2005), … - Shannon Wheeler
Shannon Wheeler is the creator of the comic strip "Too Much Coffee Man". Shannon Wheeler is the recipient of multiple awards including the Hatch Broadcasting Award (for a Converse tennis shoe commercial) and an Eisner Award (frequently called the Oscar of comics). He started cartooning in the late 80's while studying architecture at UC Berkeley. He has worked in animation and illustration. Shannon also published a humor magazine for a number of years. - Lauren Child
Lauren Child (born in 1967 in Marlborough, Wiltshire) is an English author and illustrator. She is best known for writing the Charlie and Lola books. She has also written Clarice Bean novels, the new one Don't Look Now is on sale - Vlad Kolarov
Vlad Kolarov is an Bulgarian-born Canadian cartoonist, humorous illustrator, designer and animator. He was born in Rousse, Bulgaria and became one of the "Wind of Change" generation cartoonists, after the collapse of communism in his native country. Vlad was hired by the largest Bulgarian newspaper publisher "168 hours" and created the first Bulgarian comic strips: "Birdie" and "Phil the Cat", which appeared in the "24 Hours" daily. - Childe Hassam
Frederick Childe Hassam (b. October 17 1859, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts - d. August 27 1935, East Hampton, New York) was an American Impressionist painter. - Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray (born December 28, 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel "Lanark", published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years. It is now regarded as a classic, and was described by "The Guardian" as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction." His novel "Poor Things" (1992) won the Whitbread Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize. - Dav Pilkey
David "Dav" Pilkey (b. March 4 1966), is a popular children's author and artist. Pilkey was born in Toronto, Ontario. In elementary school, he was diagnosed as suffering from AD/HD. In high school, Pilkey was insulted and teased by teachers about his artwork and sense of humor. After entering Kent State University, Pilkey's cartoon scribblings in his notebook caught the attention of a professor, who then encouraged Pilkey to illustrate children's books. - Arnulf Rainer
Arnulf Rainer, (born 8 December 1929 in Baden, Austria), is an Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art. In his early years, Rainer was influenced by the Surrealism. In 1950, he founded the "Hundsgruppe" ("dog group") together with Ernst Fuchs, Arik Brauer and Josef Mikl. After 1954, Rainers style evolved towards "Destruction of Forms", with blackenings, overpaintings and maskings of illustrations and photographs, … - Mary Quant
Mary Quant OBE FCSD (born February 11 1934 in Kent, England) is an English fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born to Welsh parents, Quant studied illustration at Goldsmiths College before taking a job with a couture milliner. She is also famed for her work on pop art in fashion. - Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 - August 1, 1911) was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects. His most famous work, "The Quest of the Holy Grail", resides in the Boston Public Library. Abbey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniain 1852. - Curtis Jobling
Curtis Jobling is a British illustrator and animator, born in Blackpool, England but lives in Warrington. He is best known for his role as production designer of children's TV hit, "Bob The Builder", where he visualised all of that programme's inimitable characters and sets. Jobling is also an author and illustrator of children's books, notably "Frankenstein's Cat", a muddled up feline, now also in production for an animated show. - Adriana de Barros
Adriana de Barros is a Portuguese and Canadian illustrator, web designer, and poet. Since 1999, de Barros has created innovating visual poems that combine various disciplines—writing, designing and drawing, sound editing, and filmmaking (through the use of new media, Flash software). Her visual poems have been screened in American festivals Flashbang! and Flashbang 4 (2001 and 2002), The.ME.Project. (2002; showcased in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, … - Mordicai Gerstein
Mordicai Gerstein is an American artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing children's books. In 2004, Gerstein received the Caldecott Award for his book "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers". Written in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, the book tells the story of Philippe Petit's August 7, 1974 unauthorized high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Gerstein lives in Westhampton, Massachusetts. - Bob Fingerman
Bob Fingerman is an American comic book writer/artist born in Queens, New York. Best known for his comic series "Minimum Wage" (Fantagraphics Books), Fingerman’s contributions to the world of comic books have been many and varied. In 1984, while still a student at New York’s School of Visual Arts, … - Howard Porter
Howard Porter is a comic book artist from southern Connecticut. He graduated from Paier College of Art in Connecticut where he majored in illustration. One of his teachers there was Frank McLaughlin. McLaughlin also worked as a comic book inker and he began to give Porter work assisting him in his inking jobs which led Porter to assist other inkers and eventually find work for himself in the industry. - Frederic Dorr Steele
Frederic Dorr Steele is an American illustrator best known for his work on the Sherlock Holmes stories. Steele, a descendant of William Bradford (1590-1657), was born on 6 August 1873 at Eagle Mills, Marquette, Michigan and studied at the National Academy of Design and elsewhere in New York City. He worked for "The Illustrated American" 1896-7 then moved into freelance illustration. - Otto Messmer
Otto Messmer (August 16 1892 - October 28 1983) was an American animator, best known for his work on the "Felix the Cat" cartoons and comic strip produced by the Pat Sullivan studio. The extent of Messmer's role in the creation and popularity of Felix is a matter of ongoing dispute, particularly as he only laid his claim to the character after the death of Sullivan, who until that time had received the credit. - Randy Glasbergen
Randy Glasbergen is an American cartoonist and humorous illustrator. His cartoons has been published by "The Wall Street Journal", "Reader's Digest", "Cosmopolitan", Hallmark Cards, and are available through the Internet. He is currently the creator of the comic strip "The Better Half", a daily cartoon for King Features Syndicate, which he started working on in 1982. - Laurie Keller
Laurie Keller is an American children's book author and illustrator. She has authored four books for Henry Holt & Co. Books for Young Readers, and produced illustrations for two others. Keller grew up in Muskegon, Michigan. After graduating high school, she took education classes at a local community college and studied dance until a friend brought her to see a show at the Kendall College of Art and Design, which re-sparked her interest, … - Joe Hahn
Joe Hahn, often credited as Mr. Hahn, is a director and musician best known as the turntablist for the American band Linkin Park. Hahn joined Linkin Park (then called Xero) in 1996 as the band's DJ. Since then, he has directed music videos for most singles of his band, with the exceptions of "One Step Closer", "Crawling" and "Faint". He is referenced to as Mr. Hahn at the beginning of "Cure for the Itch" from "Hybrid Theory". - Rowena Morrill
Rowena A. Morrill (born 1945) is well known in the world of science-fiction and fantasy illustration. During a career that has spanned over 20 years, her paintings have appeared on hundreds of book covers, on calendars, portfolios, trading cards and in magazines such as Playboy and Omni. Books of her own work have included "The Fantastic Art of Rowena", "Imagine" (in France), "Imagination" (in Germany), and "The Art of Rowena".
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