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x Stan Lee Shawn McManus' caricature of Stan Lee The Amazing Spider-Man Spider-Man
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider...
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos Iron Man
Journey into Mystery Doctor Strange
Ultimate Spider-Man Daredevil
Spider-Man: Chapter One Sentinel
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x Steve Ditko The Amazing Spider-Man  
Stephen J. Ditko (born 2 November 1927) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. He was inducted into the comics industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990,...
Spider-Man: Chapter One
New Avengers/Transformers
x Len Wein The House of Secrets #92 (July 1971), introducing  Swamp Thing. Cover art by Bernie Wrightson New Avengers/Transformers Wolverine
Len Wein [IPA: Wiːn] (born June 12, 1948, in New York City) is an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men ...
x John Romita, Sr. The Amazing Spider-Man #50. Cover art by Romita and Mike Esposito New Avengers/Transformers Wolverine
John Romita, Sr. (often known as simply John Romita) (born January 24, 1930) is an Italian-American comic-book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002. Romita...
Punisher
x Herb Trimpe The Incredible Hulk #181 (Nov. 1974): Wolverine's first full appearance. Cover art by  Trimpe New Avengers/Transformers Wolverine
Herbert W. "Herb" Trimpe (b. May 26, 1939, Peekskill, New York) is an American comic book artist and occasional writer, best known for his work on The Incredible Hulk and as the first artist to draw for publication the character Wolverine, who later...
x Gerry Conway Asm121   Punisher
Gerard F. "Gerry" Conway (September 10, 1952 - ) is an American writer of comic books and television shows. He is best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher (with artist Ross Andru) and scripting the death of the character...
x Ross Andru Amazingspider136 The War that Time Forgot Punisher
Ross Andru (June 15, 1927 – November 9, 1993) was an American comic book artist and editor. He is best known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man and Wonder Woman and for co-creating the Metal Men (with writer Robert Kanigher in Showcase # 37 in...
x Frank Miller Frank Miller Batman: The Dark Knight Returns  
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics. He recently directed the film...
Hard Boiled
Martha Washington
Sin City
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear
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x Sara Ryan   Flytrap  
Sara Ryan (born 1971) is an American writer and librarian living in Oregon. Ryan was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989. Her first novel, Empress of the World, was published in 2001 and is an ALA Best...
x Jack Kirby Jack Kirby (1982) (cropped) Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos Captain America
Jacob Kurtzberg (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994), better known by the pen name Jack Kirby, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s. He...
Fantastic Four: The End Sentinel
Classic X-Men Nick Fury
The OMAC Project Odin
Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers Thor
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x Hergé Georges Remi The Adventures of Tintin Tintin and Snowy
Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 - 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Hergé" (French pronunciation: [ɛʀʒe]) is the French pronunciation of "RG", his initials reversed. His best known and most...
x Neil Gaiman NeilGaimanNov04 Sandman William Shakespeare
Neil Richard Gaiman (pronounced /ˈɡeɪmən/) (born 10 November 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust,...
The Books of Magic, Volume 1 Calliope
Miracleman Richard Madoc
Death: The High Cost of Living Oberon
Death: The Time of Your Life Titania
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x Warren Ellis Warren Ellis Transmetropolitan Spider Jerusalem
Warren Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is an English author of comics, novels, and television, well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and his writing, which covers transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology,...
Fell
Desolation Jones
Global Frequency
DV8
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x Dave Sim Cerebus the Aardvark Cerebus the Aardvark
David Victor Sim (born May 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of Cerebus the Aardvark. Dave Sim was born in Hamilton and moved to Kitchener, Ontario with his family when he was two....
x Brian K. Vaughan Brian K Vaughan Runaways Chase Stein
Brian Keller Vaughan (born 1976, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book and television writer. He is best known for the comic book series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, and Pride of Baghdad, and as one of the principal writers of the...
Ex Machina Nico Minoru
Y: The Last Man Karolina Dean
Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers Alex Wilder
Gertrude Yorkes
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x Scott McCloud Scott McCloud Zot!  
Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium. McCloud was born in Boston, Massachusetts and spent most of his childhood in Lexington, Massachusetts. He...
x Bob Kane Batman Batman
Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn, October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was a Jewish American comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future Spirit creator Will...
Batman/Hellboy/Starman Martha Wayne
Mr. Freeze
x Allan Heinberg   Young Avengers  
Allan Heinberg (b. June 29, 1967) is an American film screenwriter, who wrote Young Avengers for Marvel Comics, and has been a writer and producer on The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and currently Grey's...
Kinetic
Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers
x Jim Cheung Cover art from Young Avengers #2 Young Avengers  
Jim Cheung (born 1972) is a British comic book artist. He is currently exclusive with Marvel Comics, and his best known work has been on the ongoing series Young Avengers with writer Allan Heinberg. He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's ...
x Robert Kirkman   Brit  
Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible and Marvel Zombies. Kirkman's first comic book work was self published, through the publisher Funk-O-Tron. This series was Battle Pope (2000)...
The Walking Dead
x John Ostrander   Wasteland  
John Ostrander (born April 20, 1949) is an American writer of comic books. Originally an actor in a Chicago theatre company, he moved into writing comics in 1983. His first published works were stories about the character "Sargon, Mistress of War",...
x Del Close del1.jpg Wasteland  
Del Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999), is considered one of the premier influences on modern improvisational theater. An actor, improviser, writer, and teacher, Close had a prolific career, appearing in a number of films and television shows. He...
x Jeph Loeb Jeph Loeb 2007 Batman: The Long Halloween Alberto Falcone
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III is an Emmy and WGA nominated American film and television writer, producer and award-winning comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series Smallville and Lost, writer for the films Commando and Teen Wolf and...
x Tim Sale 8 Batman: The Long Halloween Alberto Falcone
Tim Sale (born 1956) is an American Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb. Tim Sale was born on May 1, 1956 in Ithaca, New York, but spent most of his early life in Seattle,...
x David Mazzucchelli   Carmine Falcone
David Mazzucchelli (born September 21, 1960) 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....
x Tony Harris Tony harris Ex Machina Jack Knight
Tony Harris (born 1969) is an American comic book artist. He is most famous for Starman, winner of the 1997 Eisner for best serialized story, Iron Man, and currently Ex Machina, winner of the 2005 Eisner for best new series. His art studio, Jolly...
War Heroes
Batman/Hellboy/Starman
x Ben Edlund   The Tick The Tick
Ben Edlund (born 1968 in Pembroke, Massachusetts) is a comic book artist and writer and television screenwriter. He is best known as the creator of the satirical superhero character The Tick. Edlund was born and raised in Pembroke. He attended...
x Jerry Robinson   Martha Wayne
Jerry Robinson (born January 1, 1922 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American comic book artist best known for his work on DC Comics' Batman line of comics during the 1940s. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004. Jerry Robinson was...
x Jerry Siegel Superman Lois Lane
Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996), who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S. Fine, was the American co-creator of Superman (along with Joe Shuster), the first of the great comic book...
x Joe Shuster Action1 Superman Lois Lane
Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10, 1914 - July 30, 1992) was an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, first published in Action Comics #1 (March 1938). Shuster was involved in a...
x Mort Weisinger Adventure Comics #296   Green Arrow
Mortimer Weisinger (April 25, 1915 - May 7, 1978) was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books. He also co-created such features as Aquaman,...
Johnny Quick
Aquaman
x George Papp     Green Arrow
George Papp (1916 – 1989) was a U.S. cartoonist and comic book artist. Best known as one of the principal artists on the long-running Superboy feature for DC Comics, Papp also co-created the Green Arrow character with Mort Weisinger and co-created...
x Paul Norris     Aquaman
Paul Leroy Norris (April 26, 1914 – November 5, 2007) was an American comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics superhero Aquaman, and for a 35-year run as artist of the newspaper comic strip Brick Bradford. Paul Norris was born in...
x Larry Lieber The Amazing Spider-Man daily strip from 2004. Art by Larry Lieber (pencils) and Alex Saviuk (inks). New Avengers/Transformers Thor
Larry D. Lieber (born October 26, 1931, New York City, New York) is an American comic book artist and writer, and the younger brother of Marvel Comics' writer, editor and publisher Stan Lee. Lieber is best known for scripting the first appearances...
Iron Man
x Sam Kieth Zero Girl trade paperback cover The Maxx Julie Winters
Sam Kieth (born January 11, 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and film director, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl. Kieth first came to prominence in 1983 as the inker of Matt Wagner's Mage, his brushwork adding...
Zero Girl Amy Smootster
Epicurus the Sage The Maxx
Batman: Secrets
The Dreaming
x John Broome     Hal Jordan
John Broome (1913 – March 1999), who additionally used the pseudonyms John Osgood and Edgar Ray Meritt, was an American comic book writer for DC Comics. Broome began his career as a writer of a dozen published science-fiction stories. He switched to...
Abin Sur
Elongated Man
Sue Dibny
Barry Allen
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x Gil Kane Showcase #22 (Oct. 1959), the first appearance of the modern Green Lantern. Cover art by Gil Kane   Hal Jordan
Eli Katz (April 6, 1926, Riga, Latvia – January 31, 2000, Miami, Florida, United States) who worked under the name Gil Kane and in a few instances Scott Edwards, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics...
Abin Sur
Jean Loring
Krona
x Bill Finger   Batman Alan Scott
William "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914 – January 18, 1974) was a Jewish-American comic strip and comic book writer best known as the uncredited co-creator, with Bob Kane, of the DC Comics character Batman, as well as the co-architect of the series'...
Calendar Man
x Martin Nodell Marvel Tales #93 (Aug. 1949). Cover art by Nodell   Alan Scott
Martin Nodell (November 15, 1915–December 9, 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name "Mart Dellon." Born in...
x Neal Adams StrangeAdv207   John Stewart
Neal Adams (born June 12, 1941, Governors Island, Manhattan, New York City) is an American comic book and commercial artist best known helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman and Green...
x Dennis O'Neil   John Stewart
Dennis O'Neil (often credited as Denny O'Neil) is a comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of books until his retirement. His best-known works...
x Alex Ross Alex Ross Project Superpowers  
Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross is an American liberal, comic book painter, illustrator and plotter, acclaimed for the photorealism of his work. Ross is praised for his realistic, human depictions of classic comic book characters. From the late 1990s,...
Justice
Uncle Sam
x Jim Krueger Justice 1 Project Superpowers  
Jim Krueger is a comic book writer, novelist and filmmaker. He graduated Marquette University with a degree in Journalism. He won two Addy Awards during his first year as a copywriter. A year later he became a creative director at Marvel Comics and...
Justice
x Mark Millar The Cover of 2000AD #843 featuring Big Dave Wanted Ultimate Thor
Mark Millar (born December 24, 1972) is an award-winning Scottish comic book writer born in Coatbridge. Now a resident of Glasgow, Millar has been the highest selling British comic-book writer working in America this decade. His best known works...
War Heroes
Marvel Zombies
x William Moulton Marston     Wonder Woman
Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947) was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor, and comic book author who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne, (who...
x Rob Liefeld Robliefeldpic Cable & Deadpool Supreme
Rob Liefeld (born October 3, 1967, in Anaheim, California) is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher. A prominent artist in the 1990s, he has since become a controversial figure in the medium. In the early 1990s, self-taught...
x Pia Guerra Pia Guerra at the Vancouver Comicon, March 2006 Y: The Last Man  
Pia Guerra is an award winning Canadian comic book artist best known for her work as co-creator and lead penciller on the Vertigo title Y: The Last Man. Although she has been working on various independent titles since the mid-1990's, Y: The Last...
x Bill Willingham   Fables  
Bill Willingham (born December 1956 in Fort Belvoir, Virginia) is an American writer and artist of comics. Willingham got his start in the late 1970s to early 1980s as a staff artist for TSR, Inc., where he illustrated a number of their role-playing...
Jack of Fables
Pantheon
x Brian Michael Bendis Bendis Ultimate Spider-Man  
Brian Michael Bendis (born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most...
Alias
Torso
New Avengers
Mighty Avengers
x Garth Ennis Preacher Jesse Custer
Garth Ennis (born 16 January 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, and his successful revival of Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise....
The Boys
The Pro
The Punisher: Born
Just a Pilgrim
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x Steve Dillon   Preacher Jesse Custer
Steve Dillon is a British comic book artist. He is particularly known for his run on DC Comics Hellblazer and Preacher. Steve Dillon first realised his potential as a serious comic book artist during the production of a school comic book called "Sci...
Skreemer
x Dave Gibbons Screenshot of Beneath a Steel Sky, backgrounds courtesy of Dave Gibbons Martha Washington Isamot Kol
Dave Gibbons (born April 14, 1949) is a British comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has...
Watchmen
Green Lantern Corps: Recharge
Give Me Liberty
The Dome: Ground Zero
x Geof Darrow The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot    
Geofrey "Geof" Darrow (October 21, 1955) is a comic artist and designer born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. He is known for having an extremely high level of detail in his work. He was a student at Hanna-Barbera cartoon studios after studying...
x Simon Bisley SimonBisley Bad Boy  
Simon Bisley (born 4 March 1962) is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. His style, reliant on paints and airbrushing as well as inks, was strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta and Bill...
x Lynn Varley   Batman: The Dark Knight Returns  
Lynn Varley is an award-winning colorist, notable for her collaborations with her former husband, comic book writer/artist Frank Miller, whom she divorced in 2005. She provided the coloring for Miller's Ronin (1984), an experimental six-issue series...
x Klaus Janson   Batman: The Dark Knight Returns  
Klaus Janson (born January 23, 1952) is an American comic book artist, working regularly for Marvel Comics and DC Comics and sporadically for independent companies. While he is best-known as an inker, Janson has frequently worked as a penciller and...
x John Romita, Jr. John Romita Jr Daredevil: The Man Without Fear  
John Salvatore Romita, Jr. (born August 17, 1956) 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 (the abbreviation of John Romita, Jr.) John Romita...
Firestar Comics
x Howard Chaykin Chaykin at Dragon Con 2005 American Flagg!  
Howard Victor Chaykin (born October 7, 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material. Chaykin’s main influences are the mid-20th Century book...
Black Kiss
Twilight
Cyberella
American Century
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x Mike Grell Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters  
Mike Grell (born 1947) is a comic book writer and artist. Grell studied at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, the Chicago Academy of Fine Art, and took the Famous Artists School correspondence course in cartooning. His entry into the comics...
x J. G. Jones 52batwoman Wanted Noh-Varr
J. G. Jones is an American comic book artist. Jones is best known for his work as cover artist on various comic book series, including a stint on Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man (Vertigo Comics), and, for DC Comics, the six-issue limited series...
Final Crisis