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Stan Lee Shawn McManus' caricature of Stan Lee Topic The Amazing Spider-Man Sentinel
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, 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-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He...
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Steve Ditko Topic The Amazing Spider-Man  
Steve Ditko (born 2 November 1927) is an 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. Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the son of Ukrainian immigrants. Ditko grew up the son of a Depression-era mill-worker, with a sister named either Rita or Annamarie, and a younger brother, Pat. (U.S. Census records of 1930 indicate that both his parents, Stephen and...
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Len Wein The House of Secrets #92 (July 1971), introducing  Swamp Thing. Cover art by Bernie Wrightson Topic   Wolverine
Len Wein (born June 12, 1948) 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. He was born in New York City, New York. Wein's first professional comics story was "Eye of the Beholder" in DC's Teen Titans #18 (Dec. 1968), where with co-writer and fellow future-pro Marv Wolfman he introduced the male character Starfire who was eventually renamed Red Star. Late...
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John Romita, Sr. The Amazing Spider-Man #50. Cover art by Romita and Mike Esposito Topic   Wolverine
John Romita, Sr. (better 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 is the father of John Romita, Jr., also a comic-book artist. John Romita graduated from the School of Industrial Art in 1947. He broke into comics on the seminal series Famous Funnies. "Steven Douglas up there was a benefactor to all young...
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Herb Trimpe The Incredible Hulk #181 (Nov. 1974): Wolverine's first full appearance. Cover art by  Trimpe Topic   Wolverine
Herbert "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 hit character Wolverine. Herb Trimpe was raised in Peekskill, New York, where he graduated from Lakeland High School. Trimpe commuted to New York City for three years to attend School of Visual Arts. There, Trimpe recalled in 2002, instructor and longtime comics artist Tom Gill...
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Gerry Conway The Amazing Spider-Man #121: "The Night Gwen Stacy Died". Cover art by John Romita Sr. Topic   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 Gwen Stacy during his long run on The Amazing Spider-Man. He is also known for co-creating the DC Comics superhero Firestorm (with artist Al Milgrom), and for scripting the first major, modern-day intercompany crossover, Superman vs. the Amazing...
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Ross Andru Cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #136 pencilled by Andru Topic   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 1962) and the Punisher (with writer Gerry Conway in The Amazing Spider-Man #129 in 1974). His most frequent collaborator was inker Mike Esposito, as the two worked together on various projects over a span of four decades. Working with Esposito, Andru...
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Frank Miller Frank Miller Topic 300  
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. Setting out to become an artist, he eventually received his first published work in The Twilight Zone for Gold Key Comics in 1978. This was followed by various pencilling work for anthology titles from DC Comics and...
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Sara Ryan   Topic Flytrap  
Sara Ryan (b. 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 Book for Young Adults. A sequel, The Rules for Hearts, was published in 2007. She also writes graphic novels and is a member of the Periscope Studio. Openly bisexual, she is married to the cartoonist Steve Lieber.
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Jack Kirby Jack Kirby (1982) (cropped) Topic Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos Sentinel
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg, August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer and editor. Widely recognized as one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in comics, Kirby was the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of the medium. His most common nickname is "The King," and Kirby was inducted...
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Hergé Topic   Tintin and Snowy
Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Hergé" is the French pronunciation of "R.G.", his initials reversed. His best-known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, which left the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure, Tintin and Alph-art, unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe. He was...
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Neil Gaiman NeilGaimanNov04 Film director Sandman William Shakespeare
Neil Richard Gaiman (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novel, comic, and film. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust and American Gods. He lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, in an "Addams Family house". He is married to Mary T. McGrath and has two daughters, Holly and Maddy, and a son, Michael. Gaiman's family is of Polish Jew origins; after emigrating from the Netherlands in...
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Warren Ellis Warren Ellis Topic Transmetropolitan Spider Jerusalem
Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comic, novel, and television, well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and his writing, which covers extropian and transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology, cryonics, uploading, and human enhancement). He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea, England. Ellis was born in Essex in February 1968, about seventeen months before Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon on July 20 1969; he reports that the...
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Dave Sim Topic 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 the 6,000 page graphic novel Cerebus the Aardvark. Dave Sim was born in Hamilton and moved to Kitchener, Ontario with his family when he was two. His father Ken–a native of Glasgow, Scotland–was a factory supervisor at Budd Automotive and his mother an elementary school secretary. He has an older sister named Sheila. He was interested in comics from an early age...
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Brian K. Vaughan Brian K Vaughan Topic Runaways Chase Stein
Brian Keller 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. As an undergraduate film student at New York University, Vaughan took part in Marvel's Stan-hattan Project, a class for fledgling comic book writers that also helped Joe Kelly break into comic books. Vaughan's first credit was Cable #43 (May 1997). Vaughan has written most of the major DC and Marvel characters, including...
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Scott McCloud   Topic 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. He created the light-hearted science fiction/superhero comic book series Zot! in 1984, in part as a reaction to the increasingly grim direction that superhero comics were taking in the 1980s. His other print comics include Destroy!! (a deliberately over-the-top, over-sized single-issue comic book, intended as...
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Bob Kane Topic Batman Batman
Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn, October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an 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 The Spirit creator Will Eisner, Robert Kahn graduated from De Witt Clinton High School and legally changed his name to Bob Kane at age 18. Kane studied art at Cooper Union, before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in 1934." He entered the comics field...
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Allan Heinberg   Topic Young Avengers  
Allan Heinberg (b. 29 June 1967) is an American film scriptwriter, who currently writes 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 Anatomy. Heinberg's Young Avengers was a sales success for Marvel, though faced criticism early on due to complaints that the book was an attempt to manufacture their own version of DC Comic's successful teen series "Teen Titans". The series...
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Jim Cheung Cover art from Young Avengers #2 Topic 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 "Young Guns", a group of artists that, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller". Other "Young Guns" include Olivier Coipel, David Finch, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov and Steve McNiven...
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Robert Kirkman   Topic Brit  
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, as well as the controversial Battle Pope 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. While pitching a new series that would be titled Science Dog...
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John Ostrander   Topic Wasteland  
John Ostrander (born April 20, 1949) is an American writer of comic book. 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", who appeared the First Comics series Warp, based on a series of plays by that same Chicago theatre company. He is co-creator of the character GrimJack with Timothy Truman, who originally appeared in a back up story in the First Comics title,...
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Del Close del1.jpg Topic Wasteland  
Del Close (March 9, 1934 – March 4, 1999), along with Keith Johnstone and Viola Spolin, 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 was a co-author of the book Truth in Comedy along with partner Charna Halpern, which outlines techniques now common to longform improvisational theater and describes the overall structure of “Harold”...
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Jeph Loeb Jeph Loeb 2007 Topic   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 is a Co-Executive Producer on the NBC hit show Heroes, and was formerly a producer/writer on the TV series Smallville and Lost. A four-time Eisner Award winner and five-time Wizard Fan Awards winner (see below), Loeb's comic book career includes work on many major characters, including Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Hulk, Captain America, Cable, Iron Man,...
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