- 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.
- 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, …
- 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".
- Michael Poe
Michael Poe is a webcomic artist most well-known for his three webcomics (in order) "Babylon Jones", "Exploitation Now", and "Errant Story". He majored in art at the Savanna College of Art and Design, but, infamously, slept through most of his classes, and is known for complaining that he learned more from drawing his friends' Dungeons and Dragons characters than from his actual professors.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Roger Langridge
Roger Langridge is a New Zealand-born comics writer/artist/letterer, currently living in Britain. He originally came to public prominence most notably with the "Judge Dredd Megazine" series "The Straitjacket Fits" (written by David Bishop), a surreal, hallucinatory, convention-bending strip set in an insane asylum with a cast of characters who by the end had realised that they were in a comic strip and had burst out from the edge of the frame.
- 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.
- Natalie Dee
Natalie Dee, a resident of Columbus, Ohio, publishes a webcomic, NatalieDee.com, and writes a weekly advice column titled "Ask Natalie," which ran in the Columbus Alive from July 2005-January 2006 and now appears in her blog. Her husband Drew also publishes a webcomic, called "toothpaste for dinner". Together, the two write the collaborative webcomic Married to the Sea. Natalie Dee (a pseudonym) was born in Ohio in 1979.
- 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.
- 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, …
- David Malki
David Malki ! is a full-time movie trailer editor and the creator and author of Wondermark, a webcomic. As well as working for Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount Studios, and many others, he volunteers as a search-and-rescue pilot for the Civil Air Patrol. He also runs a prop gun rental business out of his home in Los Angeles, called Deathmonkey Armourers.
- 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").
- James Turner
James Turner is a British cartoonist best known as the creator of the webcomic Beaver and Steve.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Amy Kim Ganter
Amy Kim Ganter (b. 1980 in Binghamton, New York) is the Rising Stars of Manga award-winning author of Tokyopop's "Sorcerers & Secretaries". She won the third-place prize of $1,000 and a trophy for her story "The Hopeless Romantic and the Hapless Girl" in the fourth Rising Stars of Manga contest. She is also the creator of the webcomic "Reman Mythology", a contributor to the "Flight" series of comics anthologies, …
- Drew Weing
Drew Weing is an American comic book and webcomic creator who is perhaps best known for his infinite canvas webcomic "Pup" on Serializer. In their review of serializer.net, The Comics Journal wrote: "Pup" is a real charmer, a beautifully drawn and colored (his evocations of light and shadow are often stunning), funny and honest-to-God webcomic, It's far and away the best feature on Serializer.net." The New York Times has called "Pup", …
- John Kovalic
USA TODAY called John Kovalic a "Hot Pick." His creations include the hit comic book DORK TOWER, as well as DR. BLINK: SUPERHERO SHRINK, SNAPDRAGONS, and many other features. His work has appeared everywhere from THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST and ROLLING STONE to DRAGON MAGAZINE. John is co-founder, co-owner and Art Director of OUT OF THE BOX GAMES (producers of the multi-million-selling, multi-award-winning APPLES TO APPLES among many other best-selling games).
- 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.
- 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.
- Drew
Drew is the creator of the webcomic "toothpaste for dinner" and co-creator of "Married to the Sea", alongside wife, Natalie Dee. He was a research chemist, holding several patents, although he now works on the webcomic full time, and is a resident of Columbus, Ohio. Drew recently revealed himself to be the entity behind the electronic musician KOMPRESSOR (previously only known by the alias "Andreas K.").
- Patrick Farley
Patrick Farley is a freelance illustrator and Web page designer working out of Portland, Oregon. He is also the creator of numerous comics at e-sheep.com or Electric Sheep Comix. Scott McCloud cites him in "Reinventing Comics" as an early pioneer of the webcomics movement. He is the author of a semi-autobiographical webcomics graphic novel "The Guy I Almost Was" and of several other Web based comics or stories, listed below.
- Tom Hart
Tom Hart is an American comics creator best known for his "Hutch Owen" series of comics. "Hutch Owen" was originally self-published by Hart (funded with money from a 1993 Xeric grant) through Canadian publisher Black Eye Productions. Later editions, as well as later books in the series, have been published by Top Shelf Productions.
- Chris Muir
Chris Muir (born 1958) is a U.S. cartoonist who draws the daily web comic "Day by Day". The strip has a decidedly conservative slant and often makes references to political weblogs. Prior to that, he drew a single-panel comic called "Altered States" for about 5 years for Florida Today (a Gannett newspaper). Muir cites the work of several other cartoonists as inspiration, including Gary Larson and Garry Trudeau.
- R. K. Milholland
Randal Keith Milholland, better known as R. K. Milholland is the author of several webcomics: "Something Positive", "New Gold Dreams", and most recently "Midnight Macabre".
- Svetlana Chmakova
Svetlana Chmakova (born 1979 in Russia) is a comic creator. She is best known for her "Dramacon" Original English Language (OEL) manga published by TOKYOPOP, the 2-page "The Adventures of CG" for "CosmoGIRL!" magazine and the webcomic "Chasing Rainbows" for Girlamatic. Though born in Russia, she emigrated to Canada, where she graduated from the Sheridan College Classical Animation program, in 2002.
- Shaenon K. Garrity
Shaenon K. Garrity (born 4 May 1978) is a webcomics writer and artist, best known as the creator of "Narbonic". She is one of the most prominent cartoonists in the Modern Tales network of commercial webcomic sites and became the site's editor on August 1, 2006.
- Nitrozac
Nitrozac is the nickname from the co-creator of the The Joy of Tech and After Y2K webcomics, and along with Snaggy, runs the Geek Culture website and Forum community. Her real name is Liza Schmalcel, and she is a Canadian.
- Jonathan Rosenberg
Jonathan Rosenberg (November 27,1973-) is the webcomic artist responsible for "Goats" and "megaGAMERZ 3133T". Rosenberg has been producing webcomics since 1997, making him one of the original webcomic artists. Because he was living in Manhattan at the time, Rosenberg's early work also tended to occur predominantly in this location. Later works branched off into real and imagined locations vastly disjointed from his previous comics.
- Beefy
Keith A. Moore (born December 15, 1985), is a Nerdcore rapper, Flash animator, and webcomic artist from Pasco, Washington better known by the stage name Beefy. In 2005, Moore produced two independent EPs, "The Whitesican EP" and "nerd". He created animated music videos for the songs "Whitesican" and "David's Sister" (both from "The Whitesican EP"), which gave him notoriety after they appeared on Albino Blacksheep.
- Richard Stevens
Richard Stevens III (also known as rstevens) is the co-founder of the Dumbrella comic network, and currently writes and illustrates the webcomic, Diesel Sweeties.
- Vera Brosgol
Vera Brosgol (born August 1984 in Russia) is a cartoonist and a graduate in Classical Animation of Sheridan College in Canada. She lives in Portland, Oregon and is best known for her work in the Flight Anthology and her webcomic "Return to Sender". She works for Laika Entertainment House where she does storyboards and concept art for their animation productions.
- Bill Holbrook
Bill Holbrook is a prolific American comic strip & webcomic writer and artist. Holbrook draws three strips: * "On the Fastrack "(see Info about "On the Fastrack"). * "Safe Havens", syndicated nationally in the USA (see Info about "Safe Havens"). * "Kevin and Kell", originally an online-only strip but now also published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- 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.