This is a list of American comics creators. Although comics

Comics

Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

 have different formats, this list covers creators of comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

s, graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

s and comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

s, along with early innovators. The list presents authors with the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 as their country of origin, although they may have published or now be resident in other countries. For other countries, see List of comic creators.

Comic strip creators

• Ahern, Gene
  Gene Ahern
  Eugene Leslie Ahern was a cartoonist best known for his bombastic Major Hoople, a pompous character who appeared in the long-run syndicated gag panel Our Boarding House...
  
  , creator of Our Boarding House
  Our Boarding House
  Our Boarding House was a long-running, American gag-panel comic strip created by Gene Ahern in 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs...
  
  , Room and Board
  Room and Board (comic strip)
  Room and Board was a comic strip by Gene Ahern which was syndicated from 1936 to 1953, following Ahern's memorable Our Boarding House which he drew from 1921 to 1936.-Related strips:...
  
  , The Squirrel Cage and The Nut Bros.
• Walter Berndt
  Walter Berndt
  Walter Berndt was a cartoonist known for his long-run comic strip, Smitty, which he drew for 50 years....
  
  , creator of Smitty
  Smitty
  Varick D. Bennet, better known as Smitty, is a American rapper and hip-hop ghostwriter from Little Haiti, a neighborhood in Miami, Florida.-Biography:...
  
  
• Wally Bishop
  Wally Bishop
  Wallace Bond Bishop , better known as Wally Bishop, was an American cartoonist who drew his syndicated Muggs and Skeeter comic strip for 49 years....
  
  , creator of Muggs and Skeeter
• Byrnes, Gene
  Gene Byrnes
  Eugene Francis Byrnes created the long running comic strip Reg'lar Fellers, which he signed Gene Byrnes...
  
  , creator of Reg'lar Fellers
  Reg'lar Fellers
  Reg'lar Fellers was a long-run newspaper comic strip adapted into a feature film, a radio series on NBC and an animated cartoon. Created by Gene Byrnes , the comic strip offered a humorous look at a gang of suburban children...
  
  
• Caniff, Milton
  Milton Caniff
  Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.-Biography:...
  
  , creator of Terry and the Pirates
  Terry and the Pirates (comic strip)
  Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. Captain Joseph Patterson, editor for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, had admired Caniff’s work on the children's adventure strip Dickie Dare and hired him to create the new adventure strip,...
  
   and Steve Canyon
  Steve Canyon
  Steve Canyon was a long-running American adventure comic strip by writer-artist Milton Caniff. Launched shortly after Caniff retired from his previous strip, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ran from January 13, 1947 until June 4, 1988, shortly after Caniff's death...
  
  
• Capp, Al
  Al Capp
  Alfred Gerald Caplin , better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam...
  
  , creator of Li'l Abner
  Li'l Abner
  Li'l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. Written and drawn by Al Capp , the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through...
  
  
• Crane, Roy
  Roy Crane
  Royston Campbell Crane , who signed his work Roy Crane, was an influential American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establishing the conventions and artistic approach of that genre. Comics historian...
  
  , creator of Captain Easy
  Captain Easy
  Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune was an action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933...
  
   and Wash Tubbs
  Wash Tubbs
  Wash Tubbs was a comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to January 10, 1988.Initially titled Washington Tubbs II, it originally was a gag-a-day strip which focused on the mundane misadventures of the title character, a bespectacled bumbler who ran a store. However, Crane soon...
  
  
• Davis, Jim
  Jim Davis (cartoonist)
  James Robert Davis is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strip Garfield, which he signs as Jim Davis. He has also worked on other strips: Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, U.S. Acres and a strip about Mr...
  
  , creator of Garfield
  Garfield
  Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield ; his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie...
  
  
• Falk, Lee
  Lee Falk
  Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross , was an American writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the popular comic strip superheroes The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician, who at the height of their popularity attracted over a hundred million readers every day...
  
  , creator of The Phantom
  The Phantom
  The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...
  
   and Mandrake the Magician
  Mandrake the Magician
  Mandrake the Magician is a syndicated newspaper comic strip, created by Lee Falk , which began June 11, 1934. Phil Davis soon took over as the strip's illustrator, while Falk continued to script. The strip was distributed by King Features Syndicate.Davis worked on the strip until his death in 1964,...
  
  
• Griffith, Bill, creator of Zippy
  Zippy the Pinhead
  Zippy is an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith. The character of Zippy the Pinhead initially appeared in underground publications during the 1970s...
  
  
• Groening, Matt
  Matt Groening
  Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama....
  
  , creator of Life in Hell
  Life in Hell
  Life in Hell is a weekly comic strip by Matt Groening. The strip features anthropomorphic rabbits and a pair of gay lovers. Groening uses these characters to explore a wide range of topics about love, sex, work, and death...
  
  
• Guindon, Dick
  Dick Guindon
  Richard "Dick" Gordon Guindon is an American cartoonist best known for his gag panel, Guindon. Guindon's cartoons have appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune, The Realist and the Detroit Free Press...
  
  , creator of The Carp Chronicles and Guindon
• Hamlin, V. T.
  V. T. Hamlin
  Vincent Trout Hamlin , who preferred the name V. T. Hamlin, created the popular, long-run comic strip Alley Oop, syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association....
  
  , creator of Alley Oop
  Alley Oop
  Alley Oop is a syndicated comic strip, created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. T. Hamlin, who wrote and drew the popular and influential strip through four decades for Newspaper Enterprise Association...
  
  
• Herriman, George
  George Herriman
  George Joseph Herriman was an American cartoonist, best known for his classic comic strip Krazy Kat.-Early life:...
  
  , creator of Krazy Kat
  Krazy Kat
  Krazy Kat is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George Herriman, published daily in newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run...
  
  
• Soil Hess
  Sol Hess (writer)
  Sol Hess was a comic strip writer best known for creating the long-run strip The Nebbs with artist Wallace Carlson....
  
  , creator with Wallace Carlson
  Wallace Carlson
  Wallace A. Carlson was a pioneering American animator and comic strip artist based in Chicago. Known to his friends as Wally Carlson, he usually signed his work as Wallace Carlson.-Biography:...
  
   of The Nebbs
• Hollander, Nicole
  Nicole Hollander
  Nicole Hollander is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily comic strip Sylvia is syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services and also can be seen on her blog, BadGirl Chats....
  
  , creator of Sylvia
• Kelly, Walt
  Walt Kelly
  Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr. , or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip, Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio and Fantasia. Kelly resigned in 1941 at the age of 28 to work at Post-Hall Syndicate,...
  
  , creator of Pogo
• Links, Marty
  Marty Links
  Marty Links was an American cartoonist best known for her syndicated comic strip Emmy Lou.-Biography:Born Martha Arguello in Oakland, California, she moved with her family to San Francisco, where she grew up...
  
  , creator of Emmy Lou
• Lynch, David
  David Lynch
  David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
  
  , creator of The Angriest Dog in the World
  The Angriest Dog in the World
  The Angriest Dog in the World is a comic strip created by film director David Lynch. The strip was conceived by Lynch in 1973 during a period when he was experiencing feelings of great anger. First published in the LA Reader, the strip ran from 1983 until 1992.The strip is introduced with a small...
  
  
• Lynde, Stan
  Stan Lynde
  Stan Lynde is an American comic artist, painter and novelist. Born in Billings, Montana, he was raised on a sheep ranch near Lodge Grass. He attended the University of Montana in Missoula and now lives in Helena....
  
  , creator of Rick O'Shay
  Rick O'Shay
  Rick O'Shay is a Western comic strip created by Stan Lynde in 1958. It was distributed worldwide through the Chicago Tribune Syndicate until publication ended in 1981.-Characters and story:...
  
   and Latigo
  Latigo
  Latigo was a comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Stan Lynde, who also created the Rick O'Shay comic strip. After a dispute over the ownership of Rick O'Shay with the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, Lynde left and went to Field Enterprises to launch Latigo.The daily Latigo daily strip began 25...
  
  
• Mosley, Zack
  Zack Mosley
  Zack Terrell Mosley was an American comic strip artist best known for the aviation adventures in his long-running The Adventures of Smilin' Jack which ran in more than 300 newspapers from 1933 to 1973....
  
  , creator of The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
  The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
  The Adventures of Smilin' Jack was an aviation comic strip that first appeared October 1, 1933 in the Chicago Tribune and ended April 1, 1973....
  
  
• Piccolo, Rina
  Rina Piccolo
  Rina Piccolo is a Canadian cartoonist, best known for her comic strip Tina's Groove, distributed by King Features Syndicate since 2002. She has been a professional cartoonist for more than two decades and recently gained recognition as an author of short stories.Born and raised in Toronto, Piccolo...
  
  , creator of Tina's Groove
  Tina's Groove
  Tina's Groove is a comic strip by Rina Piccolo which has been distributed by King Features Syndicate since 2002.-Characters and story:Single, attractive and self-aware, Tina works as a waitress at Pepper's Restaurant. Tina's best friend is matchmaker Suzanne...
  
  
• Post, Howard
  Howard Post
  Howard Post , aka Howie Post, was an American animator, cartoonist and comic strip and comic book writer-artist....
  
  , creator of The Dropouts
• Raymond, Alex
  Alex Raymond
  Alexander Gillespie "Alex" Raymond was an American cartoonist, best known for creating Flash Gordon for King Features in 1934...
  
  , creator of Flash Gordon
  Flash Gordon
  Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. Also inspired by these series were comics such as Dash...
  
  
• Schulz, Charles M.
  Charles M. Schulz
  Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.-Early life and education:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul...
  
  , creator of Peanuts
  Peanuts
  Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...
  
  
• Terry, Hilda, creator of Teena
  Teena
  Teena is a cartoon panel series and comic strip about a teenage girl, created by Hilda Terry. It ran from 1944 to 1966, distributed by King Features Syndicate....
  
  
• Voight, Charles
  Charles Voight
  Charles A. Voight was an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip Betty.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Voight was 14 when he dropped out of school and became an art staffer at the New York World. During this period, he also did advertising art.-Comic strips:In 1908, he drew his first comic...
  
  , creator of Betty
• Watterson, Bill
  Bill Watterson
  William Boyd Watterson II , known as Bill Watterson, is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes...
  
  , creator of Calvin and Hobbes
  Calvin and Hobbes
  Calvin and Hobbes is a syndicated daily comic strip that was written and illustrated by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, and syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. It follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his...
  
  

Mainstream

• Abel, Jessica
  Jessica Abel
  Jessica Abel is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of such works as Life Sucks, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Soundtrack, La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Radio: An Illustrated Guide , and the omnibus series Artbabe.Abel has stated that her major work is not...
  
  
• Adams, Art
  Art Adams
  Arthur "Art" Adams is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot...
  
  
• Adams, Neal
  Neal Adams
  Neal Adams is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates; and as a creators-rights advocate who...
  
  
• Adkins, Dan
  Dan Adkins
  Dan Adkins is an American illustrator who worked mainly for comic books and science-fiction magazines.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Allred, Mike
• Almond, Bob
  Bob Almond
  Bob Almond is an American comic book inker whose credits include the Marvel Comics publications Warlock and the Infinity Watch, Black Panther and Annihilation: Conquest: Quasar.-Early life:...
  
  
• Anderson, Brent
  Brent Anderson
  Brent Anderson is an American comic book artist known for his work on X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills and the comic book series Astro City.- Early life :...
  
  
• Anderson, Murphy
  Murphy Anderson
  Murphy Anderson is an American comic book artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who has worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the 1930s-'40s Golden Age of Comic Books...
  
  
• Aragones, Sergio
  Sergio Aragonés
  Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer....
  
  
• Austin, Terry
• Ayers, Dick
  Dick Ayers
  Richard "Dick" Ayers is an American comic book artist and cartoonist best known for his work as one of Jack Kirby's inkers during the late-1950s and 1960s period known as the Silver Age of Comics, including on some of the earliest issues of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four, and as the signature...
  
  
• Azzarello, Brian
  Brian Azzarello
  Brian Azzarello is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo.-Career:...
  
  
• Bagley, Mark
  Mark Bagley
  Mark Bagley is an American comic book artist. He has worked for Marvel Comics and DC Comics on such titles as The Amazing Spider-Man, Thunderbolts, New Warriors, and Ultimate Spider-Man.- Early life and career :...
  
  
• Bassford, Richard
  Richard Bassford
  Richard Bassford is an American illustrator who has worked in both advertising and comic books.- Biography :Raised in the New York City borough of Queens from age three, he lived successively in the neighborhoods of Maspeth, Corona and Whitestone until his marriage in 1961, when he moved to Flushing...
  
  
• Bendis, Brian Michael
  Brian Michael Bendis
  Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, with his books selling consistently highly for over a...
  
  
• Beranek, Christian
  Christian Beranek
  Christian Beranek is an American graphic novelist, actor, musician and film/tv producer.-Biography:Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Beranek currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and runs Lead Pipe Entertainment. His graphic novel credits include Dracula vs. King Arthur and Silent Forest...
  
  
• Berger, Karen
  Karen Berger
  Karen Berger is an American comic book editor. She is best known as the Executive Editor of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.-Biography:...
  
  , Vertigo
  Vertigo Records
  Vertigo Records today is a UK-based record label operated by Universal Music UK.-History:Vertigo Records was the name Philips Records chose in the late 1960s for its record sub-label to counter the progressive labels of its rivals EMI with Harvest Records and Decca Records with Deram...
  
   editor
• Boyle, Troy
  Troy Boyle
  Troy Boyle is an American comic book artist and writer. Boyle is best known for his gritty revenge fantasy, The Return of Happy the Clown, written by Gary Francis...
  
  
• Breyfogle, Norm
  Norm Breyfogle
  Norman Keith "Norm" Breyfogle is an American comic book artist, fine artist, illustrator, and writer. He was involved with the character of Batman consistently from 1987-1995. Breyfogle has worked on many different characters for most comic book publishers at one time or another...
  
  
• Brennan, T. Casey
  T. Casey Brennan
  Terrance Casey Brennan is an American comic book writer.During the 1970s, he wrote for Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror-comics anthologies Creepy and Eerie, and Vampirella...
  
  
• Brunner, Frank
  Frank Brunner
  Frank Brunner is an American comic book artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s.-Comics:...
  
  
• Buscema, Sal
  Sal Buscema
  Silvio "Sal" Buscema is an American comic book artist, primarily for Marvel Comics, where he enjoyed a ten-year run as artist of The Incredible Hulk...
  
  , brother of John Buscema
• Busiek, Kurt
  Kurt Busiek
  Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer notable for his work on the Marvels limited series, his own title Astro City, and his four-year run on Avengers.-Early life:...
  
  
• Byrne, John
• Cannon, Max
  Max Cannon
  Max Cannon is author and creator of the independent comic strip Red Meat.Cannon began producing the strip in 1989 for the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the student newspaper of the University of Arizona . The strip was later picked up by the Tucson Weekly, and it now appears in over 75 alternative weeklies...
  
  
• Cardy, Nick
  Nick Cardy
  Nick Cardy , a.k.a. Nick Cardi, is an American comic book artist best known for his DC Comics work on Aquaman, the Teen Titans and other major characters....
  
  
• Cariello, Sergio
  Sergio Cariello
  Sergio Cariello is a Brazilian-American comic book artist. He has done work for many major comic publishers through his career, including Marvel Comics and DC Comics, as well as popular independent companies like CrossGen Comics and Dynamite Entertainment.-Career:Sergio Cariello knew he wanted to...
  
  
• Carrabotta, Vic
  Vic Carrabotta
  Vic Carrabotta is an American comic book artist and advertising art director whose career stretches to the early 1950s...
  
  
• Chang, Bernard
  Bernard Chang
  Bernard Chang is an Asian American artist/designer best known for his work in the comic book industry and entertainment design.-Career:...
  
  
• Charest, Travis
  Travis Charest
  Travis Charest is a Canadian comic book penciller, inker and painter, known for his work on such books as Darkstars, WildC.A.T.s, Grifter/Shi, WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age and The Metabarons...
  
  
• Cirocco, Frank
• Clowes, Daniel
  Daniel Clowes
  Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books....
  
  
• Colan, Gene
  Gene Colan
  Eugene Jules "Gene" Colan was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series, Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror series...
  
  
• Conway, Gerry
  Gerry Conway
  Gerard F. "Gerry" Conway is an American writer of comic books and television shows. He is known for co-creating the Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher and scripting the death of the character Gwen Stacy during his long run on The Amazing Spider-Man...
  
  
• Corben, Richard
  Richard Corben
  Richard Corben is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine...
  
  
• Cuti, Nicola
• Darrow, Geofrey
  Geof Darrow
  Geofrey "Geof" Darrow is a comic artist known for his work on books such as Hard Boiled and Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, which was adapted into an animated TV series of the same name.-Character design and Moebius collaborations:...
  
  
• David, Peter
  Peter David
  Peter Allen David , often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies and video games...
  
  
• Davis, Jack
  Jack Davis (cartoonist)
  Jack Davis is an American cartoonist and illustrator, known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories...
  
  
• DeMatteis, J.M.
• Deporter, Vince
• Ditko, Steve
  Steve Ditko
  Stephen J. "Steve" Ditko is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange....
  
  
• Dominguez, Richard
  Richard Dominguez
  Richard Dominguez is an American comic book artist and freelance storyboard illustrator. Best known for creating the popular series El Gato Negro, Dominguez publishes his comics through his imprint and art studio, Azteca Productions...
  
  
• Doran, Colleen
  Colleen Doran
  Colleen Doran is an American writer/artist, film conceptual artist, and cartoonist. She has illustrated hundreds of comics, graphic novels, books and magazines, and dozens of stories and articles, including works written by Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, J...
  
  
• Dringenberg, Mike
  Mike Dringenberg
  Mike Dringenberg is a German/American comic book artist best known for his work on DC/Vertigo's Sandman series with writer Neil Gaiman after original artist Sam Kieth's departure.-Biography:Dringenberg was born in Laon, France...
  
  
• Emberlin, Randy
  Randy Emberlin
  Randy Emberlin is a comic book artist. He is best known for his ink work on the Spider-Man comic books. Per the bio on his website, he currently lives in Portland, OR. He has spent the past 30 years working in a variety of creative fields...
  
  
• Englehart, Steve
  Steve Englehart
  Steve Englehart is an American novelist. In his earlier career he was a comic book writer best known for his work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics, particularly in the 1970s...
  
  
• Evanier, Mark
  Mark Evanier
  Mark Stephen Evanier is an American comic book and television writer, particularly known for his humor work. He is also known for his columns and blogs, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of...
  
  
• Feldstein, Al
  Al Feldstein
  Albert B. Feldstein is an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. Since retiring from Mad, Feldstein has concentrated on American paintings of Western wildlife...
  
  
• Fincher, Charles
  Charles Fincher
  Charles Pugsley Fincher is an American cartoonist and lawyer. His cartoons and comics focus on the law.-Education:...
  
  
• Flamini, Anthony
  Anthony Flamini
  Anthony Flamini is an American freelance comic book writer.-Comics Work:Writer*All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #1-12...
  
  
• Forte, John
  John Forte
  John Forte was an American comic-book artist, active from the early 1940s on, best known as one of the primary pencilers of DC Comics' early Legion of Super-Heroes stories....
  
  
• Frenz, Ron
  Ron Frenz
  Ronald Wade Frenz is an American comic book artist known for his work for Marvel Comics. He is well-known for his 1980s work on Amazing Spider-Man, and more recently, for his work on Spider-Girl...
  
  
• Friedrich, Gary
  Gary Friedrich
  Gary Friedrich . is an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' Sgt...
  
  , no relation to Mike Friedrich
• Friedrich, Mike
  Mike Friedrich
  Mike Friedrich is an American comic book writer and publisher best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics, and for publishing the anthology series Star*Reach, one of the first independent comics...
  
  , no relation to Gary Friedrich
• Giella, Joe
  Joe Giella
  Joe Giella is an American comic book artist best known as a DC Comics inker during the late 1950s and 1960s period historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Giffen, Keith
  Keith Giffen
  Keith Ian Giffen is an American comic book illustrator and writer.-Biography:Giffen was born in Queens, New York City....
  
  
• Gillis, Peter B.
  Peter B. Gillis
  Peter B. Gillis is an American comic book writer best known for his work at Marvel Comics and First Comics in the mid-1980s, including the series Strikeforce: Morituri, and the digitally drawn comic series Shatter.-Biography:...
  
  
• Goldberg Stan
  Stan Goldberg
  Stan Goldberg is an American comic book artist best known for his work as a flagship artist of Archie Comics and as a Marvel Comics' 1960s colorist, who helped design the original color schemes of Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and other major characters.-Career:Stan Goldberg began work in the...
  
  
• Golden, Michael
• Grell, Mike
  Mike Grell
  Mike Grell is a comic book writer and artist, known for his work on books such as Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Jon Sable Freelance.-Early life:...
  
  
• Hama, Larry
  Larry Hama
  Larry Hama is an American comic book writer, artist, actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s....
  
  
• Hamner, Cully
  Cully Hamner
  Cully Hamner is an American comic book artist and writer.-Career:Since his 1992 debut on Green Lantern: Mosaic, Hamner has worked for nearly every major American comic book publisher, and is chiefly known for such titles as the aforementioned Green Lantern: Mosaic, Blue Beetle, and Red...
  
  
• Marc Hansen
• Harris, Jack C.
• Harris, Tony
  Tony Harris (cartoonist)
  Tony Harris is an American comic book artist, known for his work as series such as Starman, Iron Man, and Ex Machina. He has been nominated for five Eisner Awards for his work.-Career:...
  
  
• Hoberg, Rick
  Rick Hoberg
  Rick Hoberg is an award-winning American comic book artist and animator.-Newspaper Strips:Hoberg began his career in the mid-1970s, working in newspaper strips, assisting Russ Manning on Tarzan and Star Wars , and Fred Kida on the daily Spider-Man strip .-Comic books:Between 1977 and 1979, Hoberg...
  
  
• Howell, Richard
• Hudnall, James D.
  James D. Hudnall
  James David Hudnall is an American writer who began his career in the comic book field in 1986 with the series Espers, published by Eclipse Comics. He later worked for Marvel and DC on such titles as Alpha Flight, Strikeforce: Morituri, and his own creation Interface, which was a sequel to Espers...
  
  
• Igle,Jamal
  Jamal Igle
  Jamal Yaseem Igle is an American comic book artist, editor, art director and animation storyboard artist.-Career:...
  
  
• Infantino, Carmine
  Carmine Infantino
  Carmine Infantino Carmine Infantino Carmine Infantino (born May 24, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York is an American comic book artist and editor who was a major force in the Silver Age of Comic Books...
  
  , DC Comics
  DC Comics
  DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
  
   artist, later executive
• Isabella, Tony
  Tony Isabella
  Tony Isabella is an American comic book writer, editor, artist and critic, known as the creator and writer of Marvel Comics' Black Goliath, DC Comics' first major African American superhero, Black Lightning, and as a columnist and critic for the Comics Buyer's Guide.-Marvel Comics:Before he joined...
  
  
• Jones, Bruce
  Bruce Jones (comics)
  Bruce Jones, whose pen names include Philip Roland and Bruce Elliot, is an American comic book writer, novelist, illustrator, and screenwriter whose work included writing Marvel Comics' The Incredible Hulk from 2001-2005.-Early career:...
  
  
• Jones, Kelley
  Kelley Jones
  Kelley Jones is an American comic book artist best known for his runs on Batman with writer Doug Moench and on Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jones, Russ
  Russ Jones
  Russ Jones is a Canadian novelist, illustrator, and magazine editor, active in the publishing and entertainment industries over a half-century, best known as the creator of the magazine Creepy for Warren Publishing...
  
  
• Johns, Geoff
  Geoff Johns
  Geoff Johns is an American comic book writer, best known for his work for DC Comics, where he has been Chief Creative Officer since February 2010, in particular for characters such as Green Lantern, The Flash and Superman...
  
  
• Jurgens, Dan
  Dan Jurgens
  Dan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles Adventures of Superman and Superman , particularly during The Death of Superman storyline...
  
  
• Justiniano
  Justiniano
  Justiniano ) is an American comic book artist.His recent work includes the Doctor Fate feature in the 8-issue Countdown spin-off Countdown to Mystery mini-series from DC Comics....
  
  
• Kaluta, Mike
  Michael William Kaluta
  Michael William Kaluta, sometimes credited as Mike Kaluta or Michael Wm. Kaluta , is an American comic book artist and writer.-Early life:Born in Guatemala to U.S...
  
  
• Kamen, Jack
  Jack Kamen
  Jack Kamen was an illustrator from Brooklyn, New York. His first professional job was as an assistant to a sculptor working for the Texas Centennial. He studied sculpture with Agop Agopoff and was a student of Harvey Dunn, George Brandt Bridgman and William C. McNulty...
  
  
• Kesel, Barbara
  Barbara Kesel
  Barbara Randall Kesel is an American writer and editor of comic books; her bibliography includes work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Crossgen, Image Comics and Dark Horse Comics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kesel, Karl
  Karl Kesel
  Karl Kesel is an American comics writer and inker whose works have primarily been under contract for DC Comics...
  
  
• Kieth, Sam
  Sam Kieth
  Sam Kieth is a New York Times best-selling American comic book writer and illustrator, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl.-Comics career:...
  
  
• Klein, Todd
  Todd Klein
  Todd Klein is an American comic book letterer, logo designer, and occasional writer, primarily for DC Comics.- Early career:Todd Klein broke into comics in the summer of 1977, hired by DC Comics as a staff production worker...
  
  
• Kolins, Scott
  Scott Kolins
  Scott Kolins is an American illustrator, writer and creator for multiple different superhero and science fiction comic books. His main credits are as a penciler but he is an established inker as well as colorist and has some credits as a writer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Kristiansen, Teddy
  Teddy Kristiansen
  Teddy Kristiansen is a Danish comic book artist. The artistic style he uses for comic books is unique and seems to touch upon the German expressionist painters of the late 19th century. Teddy Kristiansen is a natural at illustrating mystery, horror, and dark, suspense-filled comics. Among his...
  
  
• Kubert, Joe
  Joe Kubert
  Joe Kubert is an American comic book artist who went on to found The Kubert School. He is best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman...
  
  
• Larsen, Erik
  Erik Larsen
  Erik J. Larsen is an American comic book writer, artist and publisher. He is best known for his work on Savage Dragon, as one of the founders of Image Comics, and for his work on Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.-Early life:...
  
  
• Law, Rick
  Rick Law
  Rick Law is an American entertainment illustrator and producer. His clients have included Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures and MTV, among others....
  
  
• Layton, Bob
  Bob Layton
  Bob Layton is an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, who has worked for Marvel Comics, Valiant Comics, DC Comics, Future Comics, and other publishers.-Early life:...
  
  
• Lazarus, Leon
  Leon Lazarus
  Leon Lazarus was an American writer-editor for publisher Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company, as well as for Goodman's Timely and Atlas comic book companies, the two predecessors of Marvel Comics...
  
  
• Lee, Jae
  Jae Lee
  Jae Lee is an American comic book artist best known for his work on Inhumans and The Sentry, both with Paul Jenkins.-Career:Lee first rose to prominence in the industry for his work on Marvel's Namor the Sub-Mariner, Inhumans , and The Sentry, as well as his creator-owned character Hellshock at...
  
  
• Lee, Jim
  Jim Lee
  Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, writer, editor and publisher. He first broke into the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as Alpha Flight and Punisher War Journal, before gaining a great deal of popularity on The Uncanny X-Men...
  
  
• Lee, Stan
  Stan Lee
  Stan Lee is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics....
  
  
• Levitz, Paul
  Paul Levitz
  Paul Levitz is an American comic book writer, editor and executive. The president of DC Comics from 2002–2009, he has worked for the company for over 35 years in a wide variety of roles...
  
  
• Liefeld, Rob
  Rob Liefeld
  Rob Liefeld 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....
  
  
• Lilly, Mike
  Mike Lilly
  Mike Lilly is a comic book artist who freelances for major comic-book publishers on such titles as Annihilation Conquest Quasar, Vampirella, Nightwing, Batman, Detective Comics, Marvel Knights, Punisher, Catwoman, Green Lantern, X-Men Unlimited, and Dungeons & Dragons.-Career:In 2005 Lilly and...
  
  
• Little, Jason
  Jason Little (cartoonist)
  Jason Palmer Little is an American cartoonist.He grew up in Binghamton, New York, studied photography at Oberlin College, and now lives in Brooklyn with writer Myla Goldberg and their two daughters....
  
  
• Lovece, Frank
  Frank Lovece
  Frank Lovece is an American journalist, author, comedy performer and comic book writer. He was additionally one of the first professional Web journalists, becoming an editor of a Silicon Alley start-up in 1996....
  
  
• Mack, David
  David W. Mack
  David W. Mack is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for his creator-owned series Kabuki. Mack is known for his unique painted and collage-like work...
  
  
• Maggin, Elliot S!
  Elliot S! Maggin
  Elliot S. Maggin, also spelled Elliot S! Maggin , is an American writer of comic books, film, television and novels. He was a main writer for DC Comics during the Bronze and early Modern ages of comics in the 1970s and 1980s...
  
  
• Mantlo, Bill
  Bill Mantlo
  Bill Mantlo is an American comic-book writer, primarily at Marvel Comics, best known for his work on two licensed toy properties whose adventures occurred in the Marvel Universe: the Eagle Award-winning Micronauts and the long-running Rom. An attorney, he also worked as a public defender...
  
  ,
• Marcos, Pablo
  Pablo Marcos
  Pablo Marcos Ortega, known professionally as Pablo Marcos is a comic book artist and commercial illustrator best known as one of his home country's leading cartoonists and for his work on such popular American comics characters as Batman and Conan the Barbarian, particularly during the 1970s...
  
  
• Martin, Mark
  Mark Martin (cartoonist)
  Mark Martin is an American cartoonist known for lighthearted humor and satire.-Career:Martin's first major work in the 1980s was Gnatrat, a parody of Batman, featuring a rat who dresses as a gnat to fight crime...
  
  
• Matt, Joe
  Joe Matt
  Joe Matt is an American cartoonist. He started drawing comics in 1987 and is best known for his autobiographical work, Peepshow. In addition to his cartooning career, he is known for his large collection of vintage Gasoline Alley comic strips. Matt lived in Canada from 1988 to 2002...
  
  
• Mavrides, Paul
  Paul Mavrides
  Paul Mavrides is an American artist, best known for his critique-laden comics, cartoons, paintings, graphics, performances and writings that encompass a disturbing yet humorous catalog of the social ills and shortcomings of human civilization...
  
  
• Mayerik, Val
  Val Mayerik
  Val Mayerik is an American comic-book and commercial artist, best known as co-creator of Marvel Comics' satiric character Howard the Duck.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• McDonnell, Luke
• McFarlane, Todd
  Todd McFarlane
  Todd McFarlane is a Canadian cartoonist, writer, toy designer and entrepreneur, best known for his work in comic books, such as the fantasy series Spawn....
  
  
• McGregor, Don
  Don McGregor
  Donald Francis McGregor is an American comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics, and the author of one of the first graphic novels.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• McLeod, Bob
• McManus, Shawn
  Shawn McManus
  Shawn McManus is an American artist who has worked extensively over three decades for DC Comics and other companies, notably for DC's Vertigo imprint, including the current Fables.-Swamp Thing:...
  
  
• Michelinie, David
  David Michelinie
  -Biography:Some of his earliest work is for DC Comics's House of Secrets and a run on Swamp Thing , following Len Wein and preceding Gerry Conway, illustrated by Nestor Redondo. Michelinie did a run on Aquaman in Adventure Comics which led to the revival of the Sea King's own title in 1977...
  
  
• Mignola, Mike
  Mike Mignola
  Michael Joseph "Mike" Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer who created the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On Head.-Career:Mignola...
  
  
• Milgrom, Al
  Al Milgrom
  Allen "Al" Milgrom is an American comic book writer, penciller, inker and editor, primarily for Marvel Comics. He is known for his 10-year run as editor of Marvel Fanfare; his long involvement as writer, penciler, and inker on Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man; his four-year tenure as West...
  
  
• Miller, Frank
  Frank Miller (comics)
  Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
  
  
• Miyazawa, Takeshi
  Takeshi Miyazawa
  Takeshi Miyazawa is a comic book artist who was born in Canada and attended Queen's University in Ontario to study art. His art style incorporates a manga sensibility.-Bibliography:Incomplete comic book checklist:...
  
  
• Moeller, Christopher
  Christopher Moeller
  Christopher Moeller is a writer and painter, specializing in fully painted graphic novels. Moeller's signature creation is the Iron Empires science-fiction universe, comprising two fully painted graphic novels Faith Conquers and Sheva's War, a short story in Dark Horse Presents, and a second in...
  
  
• Moldoff, Sheldon
  Sheldon Moldoff
  Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff is an American comic book artist best known his early work on the DC Comics characters Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and as one of Bob Kane's primary "ghost artists" on the superhero Batman. He co-created the Batman supervillains Poison Ivy, Mr...
  
  
• Morales, Rags
  Rags Morales
  Ralph "Rags" Morales is an American comic book artist known for his work on DC Comics' Identity Crisis, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Batman Confidential, and Hawkman, Turok Dinosaur Hunter for Valiant Comics and Magic the Gathering: Dakkon Blackblade #1 from Armada/Acclaim Comics.Morales is the...
  
  
• Motter, Dean
  Dean Motter
  Dean Motter is an illustrator, designer and writer who worked for many years in Toronto, Canada, New York City, and Atlanta. Motter is best known as the creator and designer of Mister X, one of the most influential "new-wave" comics of the 1980s....
  
  
• Netzer, Michael
• O'Neil, Dennis
  Dennis O'Neil
  Dennis J. "Denny" O'Neil is an American 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....
  
  
• Okamoto, Mike
  Mike Okamoto
  Mike Okamoto is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator best known for co-creating Marvel Comics' Atomic Age; as a "good girl art" cartoonist; and as the five-time International Network of Golf Illustrator of the Year.-Early life and career:Born and raised in Detroit Michigan,...
  
  
• Ordway, Jerry
  Jerry Ordway
  Jeremiah "Jerry" Ordway is an American writer, penciller, inker and painter of comic books.He is known for his inking work on a wide variety of DC Comics titles, including the continuity-redefining classic Crisis on Infinite Earths , his long run working on the Superman titles from 1986–1993, and...
  
  
• Ostrander, John
  John Ostrander
  John Ostrander is an American writer of comic books. He is best known for his work on Suicide Squad, Grimjack and Star Wars: Legacy, series he helped create.-Career:...
  
  
• Potts, Carl
  Carl Potts
  Carl Potts is an American comic-book writer, artist, and editor best known for creating the series Alien Legion for the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics.-Early life:...
  
  
• Palmer, Tom
  Tom Palmer (comics)
  -Biography:Although Palmer has done a small amount of pencilling work , the vast majority of his artistic output since the 1960s has been as a comic book inker...
  
  
• Patton, Chuck
  Chuck Patton
  Francis Chuck Patton is an African American comic book artist and animator. He is best known in comics circles for his work on DC Comics' Justice League of America in the 1980s, specifically for the period in which the team relocated to Detroit, Michigan, and was staffed with new, multicultural...
  
  
• Palmiotti Jimmy
  Jimmy Palmiotti
  James "Jimmy" Palmiotti is an American writer and inker of comic books, who also does writing for games, television and film.-Early life:Palmiotti is a graduate of the High School of Art and Design in New York City.-Career:...
  
  
• Pérez, George
  George Pérez
  George Pérez is a Puerto Rican-American writer and illustrator of comic books, known for his work on various titles, including Avengers, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman.-Biography:...
  
  
• Perlin, Don
  Don Perlin
  Don Perlin is an American comic book artist and occasional writer best known for Marvel Comics' Werewolf by Night, The Defenders, and Ghost Rider...
  
  
• Ploog, Mike
  Mike Ploog
  Michael G. Ploog is an American storyboard and comic book artist, and a visual designer for movies....
  
  
• Portacio, Whilce
  Whilce Portacio
  William "Whilce" Portacio is a Filipino-American comic book writer and artist. Noted for his work on such titles as The Punisher, X-Factor, and the Uncanny X-Men. Portacio was also one of the seven co-founders of Image Comics, though he did not become a partner in the company.-Early life:Portacio...
  
  
• Potter, Greg
  Greg Potter
  Greg Potter is an American former comic book writer best known for co-creating the DC Comics series Jemm, Son of Saturn with artist Gene Colan.-Biography:...
  
  
• Pulido, Brian
  Brian Pulido
  Brian Pulido is a creator, writer and producer of comic books and films.-Early life:Growing up in Long Branch, New Jersey, Pulido first developed an interest in the horror genre after the release of Night of the Living Dead when he was a child.-Comic book career:Pulido has created, written or...
  
  
• Purcell, Steve
  Steve Purcell
  Steve Ross Purcell is an American cartoonist, animator and game designer. He is most widely known as the creator of Sam & Max, an independent comic book series about a pair of anthropomorphic animal vigilantes and private investigators, for which Purcell received an Eisner Award in 2007...
  
  
• Quesada, Joe
  Joe Quesada
  Joseph "Joe" Quesada is an American comic book editor, writer and artist. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books, such as Ninjak and Solar, Man of the Atom...
  
  , 2000s editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics
  Marvel Comics
  Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
  
  
• Race, Janice
  Janice Race
  -Biography:A native of The Bronx, Race was employed by DC Comics in the 1980s and had worked as a textbook editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich before entering the comics industry. She served as an Associate Editor for Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway as well as an editor in her own right...
  
  
• Reese, Ralph
  Ralph Reese
  Ralph Reese is an American artist who has illustrated for books, magazines, trading cards, comic books and comic strips, including a year drawing the Flash Gordon strip for King Features...
  
  
• Robinson, Jerry
  Jerry Robinson
  Jerry Robinson 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.-Career:...
  
  
• Rosa, Don
  Don Rosa
  Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other characters created by Carl Barks for Disney comics, such as The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.-Early life:Don Rosa's grandfather,...
  
  
• Ross, Alex
  Alex Ross
  Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross is an American comic book painter, illustrator, and plotter. He is praised for his realistic, human depictions of classic comic book characters. Since the 1990s he has done work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an...
  
  
• Rucka, Greg
  Greg Rucka
  Gregory "Greg" Rucka is an American comic book writer and novelist, known for his work on such comics as Action Comics, Batwoman: Detective Comics, and the miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for DC Comics, and for novels such as his Queen & Country series.-Career:Rucka's writing career...
  
  
• Russell, P. Craig
  P. Craig Russell
  Philip Craig Russell , also known as P. Craig Russell, is an American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator. His work has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards...
  
  
• Sakai, Stan
  Stan Sakai
  is a third-generation Japanese American Cartoonist comic book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo. -Biography:...
  
  
• Severin, John
  John Severin
  John Powers Severin is an American comic book artist noted for his distinctive work with EC Comics, primarily on the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat; for Marvel Comics, primarily on its war and Western comics; and for the satiric magazine Cracked...
  
  , brother of Marie Severin
• Severin, Marie
  Marie Severin
  Marie Severin is an American comic book artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics....
  
  , sister of John Severin
• Sherman, Jim
  James Sherman (comics)
  James Sherman is an artist known for his work in American comic books, movies and logos.-Career:In comics he is known for his pencil work on Legion of Super-Heroes in the late 1970s, when he took over as regular artist following Mike Grell. His run, which ended halfway during the multiple issue...
  
  
• Shooter, Jim
  Jim Shooter
  James Shooter is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books. Although he started professionally in the medium at the extraordinarily young age of 14, he is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comics' ninth...
  
  , 1980s Marvel Comics editor-in-chief
• Simon, Joe
  Joe Simon
  Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon is an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.With his...
  
  
• Sinnott, Joe
  Joe Sinnott
  Joe Sinnott is an American comic book artist. Working primarily as an inker, Sinnott is best-known for his long stint on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, from 1965 to 1981 , initially over the pencils of industry legend Jack Kirby...
  
  
• Sienkiewicz, Bill
  Bill Sienkiewicz
  Boleslav Felix Robert "Bill" Sienkiewicz [pronounced sin-KEV-itch] is an Eisner Award-winning American artist and writer best known for his comic book work, primarily for Marvel Comics' The New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin...
  
  
• Simonson, Louise
  Louise Simonson
  Louise Simonson, born Mary Louise Alexander , is an American comic book writer and editor. She is best known for her work on comic book titles such as Power Pack, X-Factor, New Mutants, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Steel...
  
  
• Simonson, Walt
  Walt Simonson
  Walter "Walt" Simonson is an American comic book writer and artist. After studying geology at Amherst College, he transferred to the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 1972. His thesis project there was The Star Slammers, which was published as a black and white promotional comic book...
  
  
• Silvestri, Marc
  Marc Silvestri
  Marc Silvestri is an American comic book artist, creator and publisher. He currently acts as the CEO for Top Cow Productions.-Early life:Marc Silvestri was born in Palm Beach, Florida.-Career:...
  
  
• Slifer, Roger
  Roger Slifer
  Roger Slifer is a writer of comic books, animation, and video games, well-known for a run on Omega Men in the 1980s.-Biography:Slifer started out in comics as an editor at Marvel Comics where he also wrote a number of comic books....
  
  
• Slott, Dan
  Dan Slott
  Dan Slott is an American comic book writer best known for The Amazing Spider-Man, Arkham Asylum: Living Hell and She-Hulk. He is the current writer of the twice monthly The Amazing Spider-Man.-Early writing:...
  
  
• Stanley, John
• Staton, Joe
  Joe Staton
  Joe Staton is an American illustrator and writer of comic books.-Career:Staton started his work with Charlton Comics in 1971 and gained notability as the artist of the super-hero book E-Man...
  
  
• Stelfreeze, Brian
  Brian Stelfreeze
  Brian Stelfreeze is an American comic book artist. Stelfreeze, an accomplished painter, penciller, inker and colorist, has worked for nearly every major American comic book publisher and is one of the original members of Atlanta's Gaijin Studios, a prominent breeding ground for some of comics' most...
  
  
• Steranko, Jim
  Jim Steranko
  James F. Steranko is an American graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator....
  
  
• Stern, Roger
  Roger Stern
  Roger Stern is an American comic book author and novelist.-Early career:In the early 1970s, Stern and Bob Layton published the fanzine CPL , one of the first platforms for the work of John Byrne...
  
  
• Straczynski, J. Michael
  J. Michael Straczynski
  Joseph Michael Straczynski , known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is a playwright, a former journalist,...
  
  
• Thomas, Roy
  Roy Thomas
  Roy William Thomas, Jr. is an American 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...
  
  
• Mark Andrew Smith
  Mark Andrew Smith
  Mark Andrew Smith is an award-winning American comic book author and graphic novelist.-Biography:In 2004 Smith caught the attention of Image Comics Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Dan Hipp's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy...
  
  
• Smith, Paul
  Paul Smith (comics)
  Paul Smith is an American comic book artist.-Early life:Smith was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but only lived there three days. His father was a U.S. Naval aviator, and the family moved several times during his childhood...
  
  
• Totleben, John
  John Totleben
  John Totleben is an American illustrator working mostly in comics.-Biography:After studying art at a vocational high school in Erie, Totleben attended The Kubert School for one year...
  
  
• Trimpe, Herb
  Herb Trimpe
  Herbert W. "Herb" Trimpe Herbert W. "Herb" Trimpe Herbert W. "Herb" Trimpe (b. May 26, 1939, 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 became a breakout...
  
  
• Truman, Tim
  Timothy Truman
  Timothy Truman is an American writer, artist and musician. He is best known for his stories and Wild West-style comic book art, and in particular, for his work on Grimjack , Scout, and the reinvention of Jonah Hex, with Joe R. Lansdale...
  
  
• Tyler, Carol
  Carol Tyler
  Carol Tyler aka C. Tyler is an award-winning American painter, educator, comedian, and Eisner nominated cartoonist known for her autobiographical stories.-Background:...
  
  
• Vachss, Andrew
  Andrew Vachss
  Andrew Henry Vachss is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths...
  
  
• Valentino, Jim
  Jim Valentino
  Jim Valentino is an American writer, penciler, editor and publisher of comic books.-1970s - 1992:Valentino began his career in the late 1970s creating small press and mostly autobiographical comics. The early-mid 1980s saw normalman which first appeared as a back-up story in Aardvark-Vanaheim's...
  
  
• Vaughan, Brian K.
  Brian K. Vaughan
  Brian Keller Vaughan 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 was one of the principal writers of the television series Lost, during seasons three through five...
  
  
• Vess, Charles
  Charles Vess
  Charles Vess is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. His illustrations are strongly influenced by the work of artists and illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Alphonse Mucha...
  
  
• Waid, Mark
  Mark Waid
  Mark Waid is an American comic book writer. He is well known for his eight-year run as writer of the DC Comics' title The Flash, as well as his scripting of the limited series Kingdom Come and Superman: Birthright, and his work on Marvel Comics' Captain America...
  
  
• Wein, Len
  Len Wein
  Len Wein 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...
  
  
• Weiss, Alan
  Alan Weiss (comics)
  Alan Weiss is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work on Warlock, Avengers, Captain America, Daredevil, Sub-Mariner and Spider-Man...
  
  
• Weiss, Morris
• Willingham, Bill
  Bill Willingham
  Bill Willingham is an American writer and artist of comics.-Career: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 game products...
  
  
• Wolfman, Marv
  Marv Wolfman
  Marvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.-1960s:...
  
  
• Warren, Adam
  Adam Warren
  Adam Warren is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his adaptation of the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book, and for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style...
  
  
• Wrightson, Bernie
  Bernie Wrightson
  Bernie "Berni" Wrightson is an American artist known for his horror illustrations and comic books.-Biography:...
  
  
• Way, Gerard
  Gerard Way
  Gerard Arthur Way is an American musician and comic book writer who has served as lead vocalist and co-founder of the band My Chemical Romance since its formation in 2001...
  
  

Independent and underground

• Adams, Eric
  Eric Adams (artist)
  Eric Adams is an illustrator, writer, cartoonist and graphic designer. Best known in comics as the creator of the series Lackluster World, which was nominated for the 2004 Howard E. Day Prize, the 2008 and 2010 Space Prize, and is the winner of the 2010 Champion City Award for Best Limited Series...
  
   creator of Lackluster World
• Bagge, Peter
  Peter Bagge
  Peter Bagge is an American cartoonist. He is the creator of Buddy Bradley, Hate, Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, and Sweatshop, Apocalypse Nerd and Other Lives. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth...
  
  , creator of Hate
• Barr, Donna
  Donna Barr
  Donna Barr is an American comic book author and cartoonist.She was born in Everett, Washington, the second child in a family of six siblings....
  
  , creator of Stinz and The Desert Peach
• Bechdel, Alison
  Alison Bechdel
  Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her graphic memoir Fun Home.-Early life:...
  
  , creator of Dykes to Watch Out For
  Dykes to Watch out For
  Dykes to Watch Out For was a comic strip by Alison Bechdel. The strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit...
  
  
• Bonnet, Francis
  Francis Bonnet (cartoonist)
  Francis August Bonnet , is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Suburban Fairy Tales. Other comics that he has worked on include Made to Malfunction and Crunchy....
  
   creator of Suburban Fairy Tales
• Jeffrey Brown
  Jeffrey Brown
  Jeffrey Brown is a comic book writer and artist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.-Biography:After growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 25-year-old Jeffrey Brown moved to Chicago in 2000 to pursue an MFA at the School of the Art Institute. By the time he finished his studies, he had abandoned...
  
   creator of 'Clumsy', 'Unlikely', Incredible Change-Bots' and more. http://jeffreybrowncomics.blogspot.com/
• Ross Campbell
  Ross Campbell (comics)
  -Biography:He is the creator of The Abandoned, Mountain Girl, Shadoweyes, Wet Moon, and Water Baby.He drew the story "The Hollows" for the first issue of the DC/Vertigo comic House of Mystery written by Bill Willingham....
  
   — Creator Wet Moon]] Ross Campbell (comics)
  Ross Campbell (comics)
  -Biography:He is the creator of The Abandoned, Mountain Girl, Shadoweyes, Wet Moon, and Water Baby.He drew the story "The Hollows" for the first issue of the DC/Vertigo comic House of Mystery written by Bill Willingham....
  
  
• Burns, Charles
  Charles Burns (cartoonist)
  Charles Burns is an American cartoonist, illustrator and film director.-Life:Burns is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, painter Susan Moore, and their two daughters Ava and Rae-Rae.His father was an oceanographer for...
  
  , creator of El Borbah and Black Hole
  Black Hole (comics)
  Black Hole was a twelve-issue comic book limited series written and illustrated by Charles Burns and published first by Kitchen Sink Press and then Fantagraphics...
  
  
• Burden, Bob
  Bob Burden
  Bob Burden is an American comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of Flaming Carrot Comics and the Mystery Men.-Early life:Burden grew up in the industrial rust belt of the Northeast United States...
  
  , creator, Flaming Carrot
• Chamberlain, Kody
  Kody Chamberlain
  Kody Chamberlain is an American comic book artist. He was born in Thibodaux, Louisiana and relocated to Lafayette, Louisiana in 1993.-Biography:...
  
  , artist on "30 Days of Night
  30 Days of Night
  30 Days of Night is a three-issue horror comic book mini-series written by Steve Niles, illustrated by Ben Templesmith, and published by IDW Publishing in 2002. All three parties co-own the property....
  
  " and "Digital Webbing
  Digital Webbing
  Digital Webbing is an American comic book publishing company founded by Ed Dukeshire.-History:Digital Webbing's core publication, Digital Webbing Presents, begun in 2001, is a 32- to 56-page anthology title featuring stories from new creators generally culled from Digital Webbing's website community...
  
  "
• Crumb, Robert
  Robert Crumb
  Robert Dennis Crumb —known as Robert Crumb and R. Crumb—is an American artist, illustrator, and musician recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream.Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded...
  
  
• Josh Dahl - Writer of 'Rapid City']] http://www.championcitycomics.com/
• Dame Darcy
  Dame Darcy
  Dame Darcy is an alternative cartoonist. Her comic book, Meatcake, has been published by Fantagraphics since 1993. Darcy has also released several graphic novels, Frightful Fairytales, Dame Darcy's Meatcake Compilation, The Illustrated Jane Eyre, Dollerium , Comic Book Tattoo, and Gasoline .-...
  
  , creator of Meatcake
  Meatcake
  Meatcake, or meatloaf cake, is a cake or other dessert look-alike that is made with meat in a meatloaf style, and not a pastry.The term is used in a sketch by comedian George Carlin, in which he describes finding an unidentifiable item in the refrigerator. "Could be meat, could be cake.... It...
  
  
• Deitch, Kim
  Kim Deitch
  -Sources:* at Lambiek's Comiclopedia-External links:* Ford, Jeffrey. *Heller, Steven. **...
  
  
• DiMassa, Diane
  Diane DiMassa
  Diane DiMassa is an American feminist author and cartoonist. Her works include comics, illustrations, and a graphic novel. She is best known for the character Hothead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist.- Hothead Paisan :...
  
   creator of Hothead Paisan
  Hothead Paisan
  Hothead Paisan is an alternative comic written and drawn by Diane DiMassa. Subtitled "Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist", it features the eponymous title character wreaking violent vengeance on male oppressors...
  
  
• Kevin Eastman
  Kevin Eastman
  Kevin Brooks Eastman is an American comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Eastman is also the current owner, editor and publisher of the magazine Heavy Metal.-Early life:Eastman was born on May 30, 1962 in Springvale, Maine...
  
   co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu and named after four Renaissance artists...
  
  
• Espinosa, Rod, creator of Neotopia and The Courageous Princess
  The Courageous Princess
  The Courageous Princess is a comic book written and drawn by Rod Espinosa, published by Antarctic Press. The story consists of fairy tale lands, princes, and princesses. The books had been discontinued for a fewyears, but now Rod is continuing his work on the series...
  
  
• Fleener, Mary
  Mary Fleener
  Mary Fleener is an American alternative comics artist, writer and musician from Los Angeles. Fleener's drawing style, which she calls cubismo, derives from the cubist aesthetic and other artistic traditions...
  
  
• Flenniken, Shary
  Shary Flenniken
  Shary Flenniken is an American editor-writer-illustrator and underground cartoonist. After joining the burgeoning underground comics movement in the early 1970s, she became a prominent contributor to National Lampoon and was one of the editors of the magazine for two years...
  
  , creator of Trots and Bonnie
• Foster, Brad W.
  Brad W. Foster
  Brad W. Foster is an American illustrator, cartoonist, writer and publisher. He is a fixture at the Hugo Awards, where he holds the record for most awards for "Best Fan Artist." As of 2011, since 1984 he has been nominated 23 times, and won 8...
  
  , creator of Mechthings and co-creator of The Adventures of Olivia
• Gallaher, David, creator and writer of the comic version of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
  Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama of "the transcribed adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account — America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator." The show aired on CBS Radio from January 14, 1949 to September 30, 1962...
  
  
• Gloeckner, Phoebe
  Phoebe Gloeckner
  Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist.-Background:Gloeckner was born in 1960 in Philadelphia, and spent most of her later childhood and young adult life in San Francisco, where her family moved in the early 1970s...
  
  , author of A Child's Life and The Diary of a Teenage Girl
• Green, Justin, creator of Binky Brown
  Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
  Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is a 44-page autobiographical comic book from 1972 by American cartoonist Justin Green. It was the first long autobiographical work to appear in underground comics, and was extremely personal, detailing Green's childhood struggle with a disorder which in...
  
  
• Gregory, Roberta
  Roberta Gregory
  Roberta Gregory is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her character Bitchy Bitch from her Fantagraphics Books series Naughty Bits.Gregory's father was Disney comics artist Bob Gregory...
  
  , creator of Naughty Bits
  Naughty Bits
  Naughty Bits is a comic book series written and illustrated by Roberta Gregory, and published by Fantagraphics Books. The series ran from March 1991 to July 2004, totalling 40 issues. The main character is Bitchy Bitch. The raw drawings depict everyday life of a desperate/ aggressive woman, in a...
  
  
• Hernandez, Gilbert "Beto"
  Gilbert Hernandez
  Gilberto Hernández, born February 1, 1957, in Oxnard, California, usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also known by the nickname Beto , is an American comics writer/artist...
  
  , co-creator of Love and Rockets
  Love and Rockets (comics)
  Love and Rockets is a black and white comic book series by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez, sometimes cited jointly as Los Bros Hernandez. Their brother Mario Hernandez is an occasional contributor...
  
  
• Hernandez, Jaime
  Jaime Hernandez
  Jaime Hernandez is the co-creator of the black & white independent comic book Love and Rockets .-Early life:...
  
  , co-creator of Love and Rockets
  Love and Rockets (comics)
  Love and Rockets is a black and white comic book series by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez, sometimes cited jointly as Los Bros Hernandez. Their brother Mario Hernandez is an occasional contributor...
  
  
• Hernandez, Javier, creator of El Muerto
  El Muerto
  El Muerto , also known as El Muerto: The Aztec Zombie, is a fictional character and comic book superhero created by American comics creator Javier Hernandez and published through his own imprint Los Comex...
  
  
• Hernandez, Mario
  Mario Hernandez
  Mario Hernandez is an American writer, artist, and sometime publisher of comics. Along with his younger brothers Gilbert and Jaime he co-created the acclaimed independent comic book Love and Rockets.- Biography :...
  
  , co-creator of Love and Rockets
  Love and Rockets (comics)
  Love and Rockets is a black and white comic book series by Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez, sometimes cited jointly as Los Bros Hernandez. Their brother Mario Hernandez is an occasional contributor...
  
  
• Kirby, Robert
  Robert Kirby
  Robert Kirby was a British born arranger of string sections for rock and folk music. He is best known for his work on the Nick Drake albums, Five Leaves Left and Bryter Layter, but has also worked with Elton John, Ralph McTell, Strawbs, Paul Weller and Elvis Costello.-At Cambridge:Patrick...
  
  , creator of Curbside
• Kominsky-Crumb, Aline
  Aline Kominsky-Crumb
  Aline Kominsky-Crumb is an American underground comics artist best known as the wife of cartoonist R. Crumb....
  
  , creator of The Bunch
• Peter Laird
  Peter Laird
  Peter Alan Laird is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for co-creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with writer and artist Kevin Eastman.-Early life and career:...
  
   co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu and named after four Renaissance artists...
  
  
• Linsner, Joseph Michael
  Joseph Michael Linsner
  Joseph Michael Linsner is an American comic book writer-artist-colorist best known for his mature-audiences supernatural character Dawn, who first appeared in Cry for Dawn #1 , self-published by his Cry for Dawn Productions....
  
  , creator of Dawn
  Dawn (comics)
  Dawn is a fictional character created by comic book artist Joseph Michael Linsner. She first appeared on the cover of Cry for Dawn #1 before featuring in her own one shot Drama from the new publisher Sirius Entertainment and then the miniseries Dawn: Lucifer's Halo, Dawn: Return of the Goddess,...
  
  
• Lipski, Bob
  Bob Lipski
  Robert Peter Lipski is a former Major League Baseball catcher. Originally signed by the Philadelphia Phillies in , he was drafted from them by the Cleveland Indians in the rule 5 draft. He played in just two games for them in , going hitless in one at bat, before being returned to the Phillies,...
  
  , creator, Uptown Girl
• Luby, Joe, Sir Clegis
• Madden, Matt
  Matt Madden
  Matt Madden is a U.S. comic book writer and artist. He is best known for original alternative comics, for his coloring work in traditional comics, and for the experimental work 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style, which is based on the idea of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style...
  
  
• McCloud, Scott
  Scott McCloud
  Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium...
  
  , creator of Zot!
  Zot!
  Zot! is a comic book created by Scott McCloud in 1984 and published by Eclipse Comics until 1990 as a lighthearted alternative to the darker and more violent comics that predominated the industry during that period. There were a total of 36 issues, with the first ten in color and the remainder in...
  
  
• McNeil, Carla Speed
  Carla Speed McNeil
  Carla Speed McNeil born in Hammond, Louisiana, is an American sci-fi writer, cartoonist, and illustrator of comics, best known for the science fiction comic book series Finder.-Career:...
  
  , creator of Finder
• Mhan, Pop
  Pop Mhan
  -Biography:Pop Mhan was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and immigrated to the United States at the age of three. He joined Wildstorm Productions in San Diego and studied sequential art under Jim Lee...
  
  , creator of Blank and co-creator of Spyboy
• Moore, Richard, creator of Far West and Boneyard
• Moore, Terry
  Terry Moore (comics)
  Terry Moore is a comic book author, graphic novelist and illustrator.He created the popular series Strangers in Paradise, and was involved in the founding of Homage Comics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Neufeld, Josh
  Josh Neufeld
  Josh Neufeld is an alternative cartoonist known for his nonfiction comics on subjects like Hurricane Katrina, international travel, and finance, as well as his collaborations with writers like Harvey Pekar and Brooke Gladstone...
  
  , artist for American Splendor
  American Splendor
  American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by the late Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the most recent in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals...
  
   and creator of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
  A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
  A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is a non-fiction graphic novel by cartoonist Josh Neufeld. It tells the stories of a handful of real-life New Orleans residents and their experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina. A.D. was a New York Times best-seller and was nominated for a 2010 Eisner...
  
  
• O'Neill, Dan
  Dan O'Neill
  Dan O'Neill is an American underground cartoonist, creator of the syndicated comic strip Odd Bodkins and founder of the underground comics collective the Air Pirates.-Odd Bodkins:...
  
  , founder, the Air Pirates
  Air Pirates
  The Air Pirates were a group of cartoonists who created two issues of an underground comic called Air Pirates Funnies in 1971, leading to a famous lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company...
  
  
• O'Neill, William
  William O'Neill
  William O'Neill or Bill O'Neill may refer to:*Bill O'Neill , baseball player*Bill O'Neill , professional ten-pin bowler*Bill O'Neill , News Corporation executive...
  
  , co-creator, Violent Messiahs
  Violent Messiahs
  Violent Messiahs is an American comic book series created by Joshua Dysart and William O'Neill and published by Image Comics. The comic takes place in a fictional city known as Rankor Island, and focused on the Rankor PD's attempts to bring in Rankor's vigilantes. The most prominent characters are Lt...
  
  , Chassis
  Chassis
  A chassis consists of an internal framework that supports a man-made object. It is analogous to an animal's skeleton. An example of a chassis is the underpart of a motor vehicle, consisting of the frame with the wheels and machinery.- Vehicles :In the case of vehicles, the term chassis means the...
  
  
• Schrag, Ariel
  Ariel Schrag
  Ariel Schrag is an American cartoonist and television writer who achieved critical recognition at an unusually early age for her autobiographical comics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Seda, Dori
  Dori Seda
  Dorthea Antonette "Dori" Seda was an artist best known for her underground comix work of the 1980s. Her comics combined exaggerated fantasy and ribald humor with documentation of her life in the Mission District of San Francisco, California.- Biography :Seda was originally a painter and ceramics...
  
  , 1980s underground satirist
• Seeley, Tim
  Tim Seeley
  Tim Seeley is a comic book artist and writer known for his work on books such as G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe vs. Transformers and New Exiles.-Career:Seeley has illustrated a variety of comics, including Kore, G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe vs...
  
  , creator, HACK/slash
  HACK/slash
  Hack/Slash is an ongoing comic books series, launched from several one shots of the same name, published by Image Comics ....
  
  , Loaded Bible
  Loaded Bible
  Loaded Bible is a series of one-shot comic books written by Tim Seeley, with art by Nate Bellegarde, the first of which, Jesus vs. Vampires, was published in February 2006 by Image Comics.-Publication history:...
  
  , Lovebunny & Mr. Hell
• Ottney, Ryan Scott
  Ryan Scott Ottney
  Ryan Scott Ottney is an American writer and journalist from New Boston, Ohio.Ryan's first published comic book work was The Legend of Isis from Alias Enterprises and Blue Water Productions . Also The Prometheus Effect and Bikini Bandits ...
  
  , writer, The Legend of Isis, Bikini Bandits
• Pekar, Harvey
  Harvey Pekar
  Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.Pekar described American Splendor as "an...
  
  , creator, American Splendor
  American Splendor
  American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by the late Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the most recent in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals...
  
  
• Perry, Fred
  Fred Perry (comics)
  Fred Perry is an American comic book artist, currently working at Antarctic Press.He is well known as author and artist of Japanese-styled comics. The series he is best known for is Gold Digger, a long-running comic anthology...
  
  , creator, Gold Digger and Legacy
• Pini, Wendy, creator, Elfquest
  Elfquest
  Elfquest is a cult hit comic book property created by Wendy and Richard Pini in 1978. It is a fantasy story about a community of elves and other fictional species who struggle to survive and coexist on a primitive Earth-like planet with two moons. Several published volumes of prose fiction also...
  
  
• Rice, Doug, creator of Dynamo Joe
  Dynamo Joe
  Dynamo Joe was a comic book series published by First Comics from 1986–1988. Created, plotted and drawn by Doug Rice, it was scripted first by John Ostrander then by Phil Foglio...
  
  
• Roberson, John Linton
  John Linton Roberson
  John Linton Roberson , also known as JLRoberson, is an American writer, illustrator, and cartoonist.-Biography:His father was Lt. John Linton Roberson III, who served under Col...
  
  , creator of Vitriol and Vladrushka.
• Robbins, Trina
  Trina Robbins
  Trina Robbins is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Both as a cartoonist and historian, Robbins has long been involved in creating outlets for...
  
  , artist/writer, Wonder Woman
  Wonder Woman
  Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....
  
   and underground comics
• Rodriguez, Spain
  Spain Rodriguez
  Manuel Rodriguez , better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, is an American underground cartoonist who created the character Trashman. His experiences on the road with the biker gang, the Road Vultures, provided inspiration for his work, as did his left-wing politics.-Biography:Born in Buffalo, New...
  
  
• Sanchez, Claudio
  Claudio Sanchez
  Claudio Paul Sanchez is an American writer and musician best known for being the lead singer and guitarist for the alternative/progressive rock group Coheed and Cambria. He is also the creator of the comic book series, The Amory Wars and Kill Audio, co-written with wife Chondra Echert...
  
   Writer The Armory Wars
• Sala, Richard
  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.-Biography:...
  
  , creator of Peculia
• Shelton, Gilbert
  Gilbert Shelton
  Gilbert Shelton is an American cartoonist and underground comix artist. He is the creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog, Philbert Desanex, Not Quite Dead, and the cover art to The Grateful Dead's 1978 album Shakedown Street.He graduated from Lamar High...
  
  , creator, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
  Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
  The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are a trio of underground comic strip characters created by the U.S. artist Gilbert Shelton. The Freak Brothers first appeared in The Rag, an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas, beginning in May 1968; and were regularly reprinted in underground papers...
  
  
• Shipman, Gary
  Gary Shipman
  Gary Lee Shipman is an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is father to three children.-Biography:Shipman, with wife Rhoda Shipman, created the independently produced comic book series Pakkins' Land, both plotting out the stories together and Gary scripting, lettering, penciling, and...
  
  , creator, Pakkins' Land
  Pakkins' Land
  Pakkins' Land is an epic all-ages fantasy story created by husband and wife team, Gary and Rhoda Shipman. Originating as a critically hailed comic book series, the story was written by the pair with Gary Shipman illustrating the series....
  
  
• Shipman, Rhoda
  Rhoda Shipman
  Rhoda Shipman is an American comic book writer and mother to three children.-Biography:Shipman, with husband Gary Shipman, created the independently produced comic book series Pakkins' Land, writing and editing the series...
  
  , co-writer, Pakkins' Land
  Pakkins' Land
  Pakkins' Land is an epic all-ages fantasy story created by husband and wife team, Gary and Rhoda Shipman. Originating as a critically hailed comic book series, the story was written by the pair with Gary Shipman illustrating the series....
  
  
• Smith, Jeff
  Jeff Smith (cartoonist)
  Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series Bone. His current series, RASL, focuses on an art thief who hops through dimensional barriers, hiding out on various parallel worlds.-Early life and education:Jeff Smith was born in McKees...
  
  , creator, Bone
  Bone (comics)
  Bone is an independently published graphic novel series originally serialized in 55 irregularly released issues from 1991 to 2004. Bone was drawn and written by Jeff Smith....
  
  
• Smylie, Mark
  Mark Smylie
  Mark Smylie is a comics creator, writer and illustrator. He is best known for his Artesia epic fantasy comic series.Born in Florida in 1967, he studied political science, philosophy, art history, and English lit at Columbia University for four years. Besides Artesia, Smylie has also done numerous...
  
  , creator Artesia
  Artesia (comics)
  Artesia is an epic fantasy comic book series authored and illustrated by Mark Smylie. Artesia is also the name of the heroine of the cycle. Smylie has described her as a "Pagan Joan of Arc", to use a popular reference, while noting that the closest historical model is the Irish Queen Medb...
  
  
• Spiegelman, Art
  Art Spiegelman
  Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...
  
  , creator of Pulitzer Prize winning Maus
  Maus
  Maus: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman, is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek's life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek's later life in the Rego Park neighborhood of...
  
  
• Tomine, Adrian
  Adrian Tomine
  Adrian Tomine , a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his periodical illustrations in The New Yorker.- Biography :...
  
  , creator of Optic Nerve
  Optic Nerve (comic)
  Optic Nerve is a comic book series by cartoonist Adrian Tomine. Originally self-published by Tomine in 1991 as a series of mini-comics , the series has been published by Drawn and Quarterly since 1995.Tomine's style and subject matter are restrained and realistic. Many are set in Northern California...
  
  
• Vasquez, Jhonen
  Jhonen Vasquez
  Jhonen Vasquez , also known as Chancre Scolex or simply Mr. Scolex, is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and music video director...
  
  , creator, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee
• Veitch, Rick
  Rick Veitch
  Richard "Rick" Veitch is an American comic book artist and writer who has worked in mainstream, underground, and alternative comics.-Early career:...
  
  
• Wagner, Matt
  Matt Wagner
  Matt Wagner is an American comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel.-Career:...
  
  , creator of Mage
  Mage (comics)
  Mage is an American superhero comic book written and illustrated by Matt Wagner. Three volumes, each of 15 issues are planned; , two have been published.-Publication history:...
  
   and Grendel
  Grendel (comics)
  Grendel is a long-running series of comic books originally created by American author Matt Wagner. First published by Comico, Wagner has now moved his character to Dark Horse. Originally a noir comic in the style of European titles such as Diabolik, it has evolved into, in Wagner's words, a study...
  
  
• Ware, Chris
  Chris Ware
  Franklin Christenson Ware , is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, widely known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in the Chicago area, Illinois...
  
  , creator of The Acme Novelty Library and Jimmy Corrigan
• Waller, Reed
  Reed Waller
  Reed Waller is an American comic book artist best known for his work on Omaha the Cat Dancer, together with Kate Worley.-Omaha the Cat Dancer:...
  
  , creator of Omaha the Cat Dancer
  Omaha the Cat Dancer
  "Omaha" the Cat Dancer is an erotic comic strip created by artist Reed Waller and writer Kate Worley. Set in the fictional Mipple City, Minnesota in a universe populated by anthropomorphic funny animal characters, the strip is a soap opera which focuses on Omaha, a feline exotic dancer, and her...
  
  
• White, Mack
  Mack White
  For the Louisiana politician, see Mack "Bodi" White.Mack White is a comics writer and artist who lives in Austin, Texas.-Biography:...
  
  
• Welz, Larry
  Larry Welz
  Larry Welz is an American cartoonist and commercial artist, and the creator of Cherry Poptart . He is a noteworthy early contributor to the underground comics movement based in the San Francisco area in the late 1960s and early 1970s.In 1969 his work was published in Yellow Dog, a tabloid comic...
  
  , creator of Cherry
  Cherry (comics)
  Cherry is an adult comic book with a protagonist of the same name, written and drawn by Larry Welz.-History:First published in 1982 the comic series was originally called Cherry Poptart, but the title was changed to Cherry beginning with Issue #3 following litigation or threats of litigation by...
  
  
• Woodring, Jim
  Jim Woodring
  Jim Woodring is a Seattle-based cartoonist, comic book author, artist and toy designer. He also produces fine art works in a variety of other media, including painting and charcoal....
  
  , creator of Frank
• Yune, Tommy
  Tommy Yune
  Tommy Yune is a Korean comic book author who became known for his manga-style work on Speed Racer, which was followed by a comic industry revival of classic anime shows such as Transformers, Battle of the Planets and Robotech...
  
  , creator of Buster the Amazing Bear
  Buster the Amazing Bear
  Buster the Amazing Bear is a comic book series created by Tommy Yune in 1993 about a baby bear cub who is genetically altered in a laboratory accident and transforms into an anthropomorphic superhero....
  
  , writer/artist of Speed Racer

Webcomics

• Onstad, Chris, creator of Achewood
  Achewood
  Achewood is a webcomic created by Chris Onstad in 2001. It portrays the lives of a group of anthropomorphic stuffed toys, robots, and pets. Many of the characters live together in the home of their owner, Chris, at the fictional address of 62 Achewood Court. Another address used in the strip is 11...
  
  
• A. Kaviraj-Artist  'Dr Death vs the Vampire' 'Dr Death vs the Zombie' http://www.championcitycomics.com/
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• Ackerman, Forrest J
  Forrest J Ackerman
  Forrest J Ackerman was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan...
  
  , co-creator of Vampirella
  Vampirella
  Vampirella is a fictional character, a comic book vampire heroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and costume designer Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 . Writer-editor Archie Goodwin later developed the character from horror-story hostess, in...
  
  , editor and principal writer of the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland
  Famous Monsters of Filmland
  Famous Monsters of Filmland is a genre-specific film magazine started in 1958 by publisher James Warren and editor Forrest J Ackerman.-Magazine history :...
  
  
• Abel, Jack
  Jack Abel
  Jack Abel a.k.a. Gary Michaels was an American comic book artist best known as an inker for leading publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was DC's primary inker on the Superman titles in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and inked penciler Herb Trimpe's introduction of the popular superhero...
  
  , DC and Marvel Comics inker
• Alascia, Vince
  Vince Alascia
  Vincent Alascia , also known as Nicholas Alascia, was an American comic book artist known for his work on Captain America during the Golden Age of comics, and for his 23-year run as inker on a single creative team, with penciler Charles Nicholas Wojtkowski and writer Joe Gill at Charlton Comics...
  
   Timely Comics
  Timely Comics
  Timely Comics, an imprint of Timely Publications, was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics....
  
   and Charlton Comics
  Charlton Comics
  Charlton Comics was an American comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1985, having begun under a different name in 1944. It was based in Derby, Connecticut...
  
   artist
• Andru, Ross
  Ross Andru
  Ross Andru was an American comic book artist and editor. He is best known for his work on Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Flash and Metal Men....
  
  , penciller best-known as John Romita Sr.'s successor on The Amazing Spider-Man
  The Amazing Spider-Man
  The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. Being the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously until it was...
  
  
• Aparo, Jim
  Jim Aparo
  James N. "Jim" Aparo was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960s and 1970s DC Comics work, including on the characters Batman, Aquaman and the Spectre....
  
  , DC Comics
  DC Comics
  DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
  
   artist best known for 1970s Batman
  Batman
  Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
  
  
• Arnold, Everett A. "Busy", publisher, Quality Comics
  Quality Comics
  Quality Comics was an American comic book publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call the Golden Age of comic books....
  
  
• Atkinson, Ruth
  Ruth Atkinson
  Ruth Atkinson Ford née Ruth Atkinson and a.k.a. R. Atkinson Ruth Atkinson Ford née Ruth Atkinson and a.k.a. R. Atkinson Ruth Atkinson Ford née Ruth Atkinson and a.k.a. R. Atkinson (June 2, 1918 - June 1, 1997 was an American cartoonist and pioneering female comic book artist who helped create the...
  
  
• Avison, Al
  Al Avison
  Alfred Avison is an American comic book artist known for his work on the Marvel Comics characters Captain America and the Whizzer during the 1930-1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of comic books....
  
  , Golden Age
  Golden Age of Comic Books
  The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s or early 1950s...
  
   Captain America
  Captain America
  Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...
  
   artist
• Barks, Carl
  Carl Barks
  Carl Barks was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , The Junior Woodchucks , Gyro Gearloose , Cornelius Coot , Flintheart Glomgold , John D...
  
  , longtime writer and artist of Donald Duck
  Donald Duck
  Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most...
  
   and Scrooge McDuck
  Scrooge McDuck
  Scrooge McDuck is a cartoon character created in 1947 by Carl Barks and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Scrooge is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a red or blue frock coat, top hat, pince-nez glasses, and spats...
  
   comics
• Beck, C. C.
  C. C. Beck
  Charles Clarence Beck was an American cartoonist and comic book artist, best known for his work on Captain Marvel at Fawcett Comics and DC Comics....
  
  , creator of the original Captain Marvel
  Captain Marvel (DC Comics)
  Captain Marvel is a fictional comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character first appeared in Whiz Comics #2...
  
  
• Biro, Charles
  Charles Biro
  Charles Biro was an American comic book creator and cartoonist. He is today chiefly known for creating the comic book characters Airboy and Steel Sterling, and for his 16-year run on the acclaimed 1940s series Daredevil Comics for Lev Gleason Publications.-Biography:Charles Biro studied art at...
  
  , 1911-1972, creator of Steel Sterling. Best known for work with publisher Lev Gleason Comic House
• Boring, Wayne
  Wayne Boring
  Wayne Boring was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman from the late 1940s to 1950s. He occasionally used the pseudonym Jack Harmon....
  
  , artist best known as Superman
  Superman
  Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
  
  's primary artist in late 1940s to 1950s
• Burgos, Carl
  Carl Burgos
  Carl Burgos was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for creating the original Human Torch in Marvel Comics #1 Carl Burgos (né Max Finkelstein, April 18, 1916, New York City, New York; died March 1984) was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for creating...
  
  , Golden Age
  Golden Age of Comic Books
  The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s or early 1950s...
  
  , creator of the Human Torch
  Human Torch (Golden Age)
  The Human Torch, also known as Jim Hammond, is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics-owned superhero. Created by writer-artist Carl Burgos, he first appeared in Marvel Comics #1 , published by Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics....
  
  
• Buscema, John
  John Buscema
  John Buscema, born Giovanni Natale Buscema , was an American comic-book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate...
  
  , longtime artist for Marvel Comics
  Marvel Comics
  Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
  
  
• Cockrum, Dave
  Dave Cockrum
  David Emmett Cockrum was an American comic book artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus...
  
  , co-creator of the "new X-Men
  X-Men
  The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...
  
  "
• Louis Cazeneuve
  Louis Cazeneuve
  Luis "Louis" Cazeneuve was an Argentine-born American comic-book artist best-known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Red Raven and for his prolific work on the DC Comics characters Aquaman, Shining Knight, the Boy Commandos and others during the 1940s period fans and historians call the...
  
  , Golden Age Aquaman
  Aquaman
  Aquaman is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, the character debuted in More Fun Comics #73 . Initially a backup feature in DC's anthology titles, Aquaman later starred in several volumes of a solo title...
  
   artist
• Cole, Jack
  Jack Cole (artist)
  Jack Ralph Cole was an American comic book artist and Playboy magazine cartoonist best known for creating the comedic superhero Plastic Man....
  
  , creator of Plastic Man
  Plastic Man
  Plastic Man is a fictional comic-book superhero originally published by Quality Comics and later acquired by DC Comics. Created by writer-artist Jack Cole, he first appeared in Police Comics #1 ....
  
  
• Colletta, Vince
  Vince Colletta
  Vincent Joseph Colletta was an American comic book artist and art director best known as one of industry legend Jack Kirby's frequent inkers during the 1950s-1960s period called the Silver Age of comic books...
  
  , inker noted for work on Jack Kirby's The Mighty Thor
  Thor (Marvel Comics)
  Thor is a fictional superhero who appears in publications published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Journey into Mystery #83 and was created by editor-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and penciller Jack Kirby....
  
  
• Craig, Johnny
• Crandall, Reed
  Reed Crandall
  Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s.Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.-Early...
  
  
• DeCarlo, Dan
  Dan DeCarlo
  Daniel S. DeCarlo was an American cartoonist best known as the artist who developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s, modernizing the characters to their contemporary appearance and establishing the publisher's house style...
  
  , longtime Archie Comics
  Archie Comics
  Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...
  
   writer-artist, created Josie and the Pussycats
  Josie and the Pussycats (comic)
  Josie and the Pussycats is a teen-humor comic book about a fictional rock band, created by Dan DeCarlo and published by Archie Comics. It was published from 1963 until 1982; since then, a number of one-shot issues have appeared without regularity...
  
  
• Dillin, Dick
  Dick Dillin
  Richard Allen "Dick" Dillin was an American comic book artist best known for an extraordinarily long 12-year run as the penciler of the DC Comics superhero-team series Justice League of America. He drew 115 issues from 1968 up until his death, bridging the venerable title's Mike Sekowsky and...
  
  , longtime artist of Justice League of America
  Justice League
  The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics....
  
  
• Drake, Arnold
  Arnold Drake
  Arnold Drake was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others....
  
  , co-creator of The Guardians of the Galaxy; co-created It Rhymes with Lust
  It Rhymes with Lust
  It Rhymes with Lust is a book, originally published in 1950, considered one of the most notable precursors of the graphic novel. Called a "picture novel" on the cover and published by the comic book and magazine company St...
  
  
• DuBois, Gaylord
  Gaylord DuBois
  Gaylord McIlvaine Du Bois , or DuBois In his lifetime he wrote well over 3000 comic book stories and comic strips as well as Big Little Books and juvenile adventure...
  
  , creator of Brothers of the Spear
  Brothers of the Spear
  Brothers of the Spear was a long-running backup feature in the Tarzan comic book series created by Western Publishing and published first through Dell Comics and then through Gold Key Comics...
  
  , longtime writer of Tarzan
  Tarzan
  Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...
  
  , Roy Rogers
  Roy Rogers
  Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye , was an American singer and cowboy actor, one of the most heavily marketed and merchandised stars of his era, as well as being the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants franchised chain...
  
  , Turok
  Turok
  Turok is a fictional American comic book character initially in comics from Western Publishing published through licensee Dell Comics. He first appeared in Four Color Comics #596 , then graduated to his own title, Turok, Son of Stone...
  
  , Space Family Robinson
  Space Family Robinson
  Space Family Robinson was an original science-fiction comic book series published by Gold Key Comics. It predates the Lost in Space TV series....
  
   and more
• Eisner, Will
  Will Eisner
  William Erwin "Will" Eisner was an American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an...
  
  , creator of The Spirit
  The Spirit
  The Spirit is a crime-fighting fictional character created by writer-artist Will Eisner. He first appeared June 2, 1940 in "The Spirit Section", the colloquial name given to a 16-page Sunday supplement, distributed to 20 newspapers by the Register and Tribune Syndicate and reaching five million...
  
  , writer, educator
• Elder, Bill
• Evans, George, illustrator for EC
• Everett, Bill
  Bill Everett
  William Blake "Bill" Everett, also known as William Blake and Everett Blake was a comic book writer-artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner and co-creating Daredevil for Marvel Comics...
  
  , creator of Namor the Sub-Mariner
  Namor the Sub-Mariner
  Namor the Sub-Mariner is a fictional comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe, and one of the first superheroes, debuting in Spring 1939. The character was created by writer-artist Bill Everett for Funnies Inc., one of the first "packagers" in the early days of comic books that supplied...
  
  
• Fine, Lou
  Lou Fine
  Louis Kenneth Fine was an American comic book artist known for his work during the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, where his quality draftsmanship became an influential model to a generation of fellow comics artists....
  
  , Golden Age
  Golden Age of Comic Books
  The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s or early 1950s...
  
   great; creator, Black Condor
• Finger, Bill
  Bill Finger
  William "Bill" Finger was an 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' development...
  
   Co Creater of Batman
  Batman
  Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
  
  
• Fisher, Seth
  Seth Fisher
  Seth Fisher was an American comic book artist and penciller.-Career:Seth Fisher first gained attention for his work on DC Comics' Green Lantern: Willworld, and was nominated for an Eisner Award for "Best Penciller/Inker" for Flash: Time Flies and Vertigo Pop! Tokyo.In 2005, Fisher pencilled the...
  
   artist best known for his work at Vertigo (DC Comics), and Marvel Comics
• Fox, Gardner
  Gardner Fox
  Gardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer best known for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic-book historians estimate that he wrote over 4,000 comics stories....
  
  , longtime writer of the Justice Society of America
  Justice Society of America
  The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics superhero group, the first team of superheroes in comic book history. Conceived by editor Sheldon Mayer and writer Gardner Fox, the JSA first appeared in All Star Comics #3 ....
  
  , Justice League of America
  Justice League
  The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional superhero team that appears in comic books published by DC Comics....
  
  , and many others
• Frazetta, Frank
  Frank Frazetta
  Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media...
  
  
• Gerber, Steve
  Steve Gerber
  Stephen Ross "Steve" Gerber was an American comic book writer best known as co-creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck....
  
  , creator of Howard the Duck
  Howard the Duck
  Howard the Duck is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, "funny...
  
  
• Giacoia, Frank
  Frank Giacoia
  Frank Giacoia was an American comic book artist known primarily as an inker. He sometimes worked under the name Frank Ray, and to a lesser extent Phil Zupa, and the single moniker Espoia .-Early life and career:Frank Giacoia studied at Manhattan's School of...
  
  , aka Frank Ray, Silver Age
  Silver Age of Comic Books
  The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
  
   inker, known for work on Jack Kirby's Captain America
  Captain America
  Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...
  
  
• Goodwin, Archie
  Archie Goodwin (comics)
  Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is best known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work...
  
  
• Graham, Billy
  Billy Graham (comics)
  Billy Graham was an African-American comic-book artist best known for his work on the Marvel Comics series Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, and Jungle Action feature, "Black Panther", considered the first modern black superhero....
  
  
• Grainger, Sam
  Sam Grainger
  Samuel E. Grainger was an American comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker during the 1960s and 1970s periods fans and historians call, respectively, the Silver Age and the Bronze Age of Comic Books...
  
  
• Grant, Vernon
  Vernon Grant
  Vernon Ethelbert Grant was a cartoonist who did graphic novels, and is also known for his digest-sized comic book series, The Love Rangers...
  
  , creator of The Love Rangers
• Gustavson, Paul
  Paul Gustavson
  Paul Gustavson née Karl Paul Gustafson was an American-immigrant comic-book writer and artist. His most notable creations during the Golden Age of Comic Books were The Human Bomb for Quality Comics, and the Angel, who debuted in Marvel Comics #1 , the first publication of Marvel Comics forerunner...
  
  , Golden Age
  Golden Age of Comic Books
  The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s or early 1950s...
  
   creator of The Angel
• Harris, Lee
  Lee Harris
  Lee Harris is an American author and essayist who writes for Policy Review and Tech Central Station who lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.-Books by Lee Harris:*The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West Basic Books...
  
  , Harris Levey
  Harris Levey
  Harris Levey , whose pseudonyms included Lee Harris, Leland Harris, and Harris Levy, was a comic book artist for DC Comics primarily in the 1940s...
  
  , DC Comics illustrator, creator of Air Wave
  Air Wave
  Air Wave is the name of three fictional superheroes in the DC Comics universe. The first two were active in the Golden Age of Comic Books...
  
  
• Hartley, Al
  Al Hartley
  Henry Allan Hartley , known professionally as Al Hartley, was an American comic book writer-artist known for his work on Archie Comics, Atlas Comics , and many Christian comics...
  
  
• Heck, Don
  Don Heck
  Don Heck was an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books.-Early life and career:Born in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, New...
  
  
• Iger, Jerry
  Jerry Iger
  Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger was an American cartoonist. With business partner Will Eisner he co-founder of Eisner & Iger, a comic book packager that produced comics on demand for new publishers during the late-1930s and 1940s period known to fans and historians as the Golden Age of Comic...
  
  
• Ingels, Graham
  Graham Ingels
  Graham Ingels was a comic book and magazine illustrator best known for his work in EC Comics during the 1950s, notably on The Haunt of Fear and Tales from the Crypt, horror titles written and edited by Al Feldstein, and The Vault of Horror, written and edited by Feldstein and Johnny Craig...
  
  
• Kane, Bob
  Bob Kane
  Bob Kane was an American comic book artist and writer, credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman...
  
  , creator of Batman
  Batman
  Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...
  
  
• Kane, Gil
  Gil Kane
  Eli Katz who worked under the name Gil Kane and in one instance Scott Edward, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and character.Kane co-created the modern-day versions of the superheroes Green Lantern and the Atom for DC Comics, and...
  
  , artist of Green Lantern
  Green Lantern
  The Green Lantern is the shared primary alias of several fictional characters, superheroes appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. The first Green Lantern was created by writer Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell in All-American Comics #16 .Each Green Lantern possesses a power ring and...
  
  , The Atom
  Atom (comics)
  The Atom is a name shared by several fictional comic book superheroes from the DC Comics universe.There have been five characters who have shared the Atom codename. The original Golden Age Atom, Al Pratt, was created by Ben Flinton and Bill O'Connor and first appeared in All-American Publications'...
  
  , The Amazing Spider-Man
  The Amazing Spider-Man
  The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the adventures of the fictional superhero Spider-Man. Being the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously until it was...
  
   and other Silver Age
  Silver Age of Comic Books
  The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
  
   characters; early innovator in graphic novels
• Keller, Jack
  Jack Keller (comics)
  Jack R. Keller was an American comic book artist best known for his 1950s and '60s work on the Marvel Comics Western character Kid Colt, and for his later hot rod and racecar series at Charlton Comics.-Early life and career:...
  
  , longtime Kid Colt
  Kid Colt
  Kid Colt is the name of two fictional characters in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first is a cowboy whose adventures have taken place in numerous western themed comic book series published by Marvel...
  
   artist
• Kirby, Jack
  Jack Kirby
  Jack Kirby , born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium....
  
  , co-creator of Captain America
  Captain America
  Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...
  
  , co-creator of Marvel Comics
  Marvel Comics
  Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
  
   characters including the Fantastic Four
  Fantastic Four
  The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...
  
  , the Hulk
  Hulk (comics)
  The Hulk is a fictional character, a superhero in the . Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1 ....
  
   and the X-Men
  X-Men
  The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...
  
  
• Klein, George
  George Klein (comics)
  George D. Klein was an American comic book artist and cartoonist whose career stretched from the 1930s and 1940s' Golden Age of comic books...
  
  , Silver Age
  Silver Age of Comic Books
  The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
  
   inker
• Krigstein, Bernie
  Bernard Krigstein
  Bernard Krigstein , was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics. He was known as Bernie Krigstein, and his artwork usually displayed the signature B...
  
  
• Kurtzman, Harvey
  Harvey Kurtzman
  Harvey Kurtzman was an American cartoonist and the editor of several comic books and magazines. Kurtzman often signed his name H. Kurtz, followed by a stick figure Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924, Brooklyn, New York – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and the editor of several comic...
  
  
• Kweskin, Sam
  Sam Kweskin
  Irving Sam Kweskin , who sometimes worked under the name Irv Wesley, was an American advertising and comic book artist.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Leav, Mort
  Mort Leav
  Mortimer Leav is an American artist best known as co-creator of the influential comic-book character the Heap, and for his advertising art, which included some of the earliest TV commercial storyboards — among them, for Procter & Gamble's venerable Charmin bathroom-tissue character, the...
  
  
• LeRose, Bob
  Bob LeRose
  Robert K. "Bob" LeRose was an American advertising artist and a comic book colorist for DC Comics, who provided the color for hundreds of stories featuring Batman, Superman, and other major characters.-Early life and career:Raised in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, New York City, Bob...
  
  
• Maneely, Joe
  Joe Maneely
  Joseph "Joe" Maneely is an American comic book artist best known for his work at Marvel Comics' 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics, where he co-created the Marvel characters the Black Knight, the Ringo Kid, the Yellow Claw, and Jimmy Woo.An exquisite draftsman whose delicate yet solid, fine-line...
  
  , 1950s Atlas
  Marvel Comics
  Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
  
   artist best known for comics The Black Knight
  Black Knight (Sir Percy)
  Sir Percy of Scandia, also known as the original Black Knight, is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. He was a medieval knight created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Joe Maneely.- Publication history :...
  
  , Yellow Claw
  Yellow Claw
  The Yellow Claw is a fictional comic book supervillain in comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Al Feldstein and artist Joe Maneely, the character first appeared in Yellow Claw #1 , published by Atlas Comics, the 1950s predecessor of Marvel.-Publication history:While the...
  
  , and The Ringo Kid
  Ringo Kid
  The Ringo Kid is a fictional Western hero in the Marvel Comics' universe, whose comic book series was originally released by the company's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics...
  
  
• Manning, Russ
  Russ Manning
  Russell Manning was an American comic book artist who created the series Magnus, Robot Fighter and illustrated such newspaper comic strips as Tarzan and Star Wars...
  
  
• Mayer, Sheldon
  Sheldon Mayer
  Sheldon Mayer was an American comic book writer, artist and editor. One of the earliest employees of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Publications, Mayer produced almost all of his comics work for the company that would become known as DC Comics.He is credited with rescuing the...
  
  , Golden Age
  Golden Age of Comic Books
  The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s or early 1950s...
  
   artist for DC Comics
  DC Comics
  DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
  
  , creator of Sugar & Spike
• Meskin, Morton
• Mooney, Jim
  Jim Mooney
  James Noel "Jim" Mooney was an American comic book artist best known as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, and as the signature artist of DC Comics' Supergirl, both during what comics historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books...
  
  , Supergirl
  Supergirl
  Supergirl is a female counterpart to the DC Comics Superman. As his cousin, she shares his super powers and vulnerability to Kryptonite. She was created by writer Otto Binder and designed by artist Al Plastino in 1959. She first appeared in the Action Comics comic book series and later branched out...
  
  
• Morisi, Pete
  Pete Morisi
  Peter A. Morisi , who sometimes went by the pseudonym PAM, is an American comic book writer and artist who also spent much of his professional life as a New York City Police Department officer. He is best known as creator of the 1960s Charlton Comics series Peter Cannon .....
  
  
• Morrow, Gray
  Gray Morrow
  Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow was an American illustrator of paperback books and comics.-Biography:Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Morrow is best known as art director of Spider-Man between 1967 and 1970 and as illustrator of the syndicated Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Prince Valiant comic...
  
  
• Mortimer, Win
  Win Mortimer
  James Winslow "Win" Mortimer was a comic book and comic strip artist best known as one of the major illustrators of the DC Comics superhero Superman...
  
  
• Novick, Irv
  Irv Novick
  Irv Novick was an American comic book artist who worked almost continuously from 1939 until the late 1990s.-Biography:...
  
  
• O'Neill, Rose
  Rose O'Neill
  Rose Cecil O'Neill was an illustrator who created a popular period comic called Kewpie.-Early life:...
  
  , Creator of 1909 Kewpie Comics
• Orlando, Joe
  Joe Orlando
  Joseph Orlando was a prolific illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades...
  
  
• Purcell, Howard
  Howard Purcell
  Howard Purcell was an American comic-book artist and writer active from the 1940s Golden Age of comics through the 1960s Silver Age....
  
  
• Reinman, Paul
  Paul Reinman
  Paul J. Reinman was an American comic book artist best known as one of industry legend's Jack Kirby's frequent inkers during what comics fans and historians call the Silver Age of comic books...
  
  , 1950s penciler and Silver Age
  Silver Age of Comic Books
  The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
  
   inker best known for Jack Kirby work, including The Incredible Hulk #1
• Robison, Alex
  Alex Robinson
  Alex Robinson is an award-winning American comic book writer and artist.-Early life:Alex Robinson grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York, and graduated from Yorktown High School in 1987...
  
  
• Rogers, Marshall
  Marshall Rogers
  Marshall Rogers was an American comic-book artist best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics in the 1970s, particularly as one of the illustrators of Batman and Silver Surfer...
  
  
• Roussos, George
  George Roussos
  George Roussos , also known under the pseudonym George Bell, was an American comic book artist best known as one of Jack Kirby's Silver Age inkers, including on landmark early issues of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four.-Early life and career:George Roussos was born in Washington, D.C., the son of...
  
  , aka George Bell, Marvel Comics
  Marvel Comics
  Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
  
   inker best known for early issues of Jack Kirby's The Fantastic Four
• Rule, Christopher
  Christopher Rule
  Christopher Rule was an American comic book artist active from the 1940s through at least 1960, and best known as the first regular Marvel Comics inker for comics artist Jack Kirby during the period fans and historians call the Silver Age of Comic Books.-Early life and career:After driving an...
  
  
• Schomburg, Alex
  Alex Schomburg
  Alex Schomburg was a prolific American commercial and comic book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.-Biography:...
  
  
• Schulz, Charles M.
  Charles M. Schulz
  Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.-Early life and education:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul...
  
  
• Schwartz, Julius
  Julius Schwartz
  Julius "Julie" Schwartz was a comic book and pulp magazine editor, and a science fiction agent and prominent fan. He was born in the Bronx, New York...
  
  , editor for DC Comics
  DC Comics
  DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
  
   often credited with launching the Silver Age of Comic Books
  Silver Age of Comic Books
  The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
  
  
• Segar, E.C., creator of Thimble Theatre and Popeye
  Popeye
  Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929...
  
  
• Sekowsky, Mike
  Mike Sekowsky
  Michael Sekowsky was a Jewish American comic book artist best known as the exclusive penciler for DC Comics' Justice League of America during most of the 1960s, and as the regular writer and artist on Wonder Woman during the late 1960s and early 1970s.-Early life and career:Mike Sekowsky began...
  
  
• Shores, Syd
  Syd Shores
  Sydney Shores was an American comic book artist known for his work on Captain America both during the 1940s, in what fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books, and during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books....
  
  , Golden Age
  Golden Age of Comic Books
  The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s or early 1950s...
  
   Captain America
  Captain America
  Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...
  
   artist; active through 1970s
• Slesinger, Stephen
  Stephen Slesinger
  Stephen Slesinger , was an American radio/television/film producer, creator of comic strip characters and the father of the licensing industry...
  
  , best known as the creator of Red Ryder
  Red Ryder
  Red Ryder was a popular long-running Western comic strip created by Stephen Slesinger and artist Fred Harman. Beginning Sunday, November 6, 1938, Red Ryder was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association, expanding over the following decade to 750 newspapers, translations into ten languages and...
  
   and King of the Royal Mounted
  King of the Royal Mounted
  King of the Royal Mounted is a fictional series featuring the character Dave King, created by Stephen Slesinger in 1936. Slesinger licensed popular Western writer Zane Grey's byline and marketed the character as Zane Grey's King of the Royal Mounted....
  
  
• Smith, Sidney
  Sidney Smith (The Gumps)
  For the British expert on the Yoruba people of Nigeria, see Professor Robert Sidney Smith.Robert Sidney Smith , known as Sidney Smith, was the creator of the influential comic strip, The Gumps, based on an idea by Captain Joseph M. Patterson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.He was born...
  
  , creator of The Gumps
  The Gumps
  The Gumps, a popular comic strip about a middle-class family, was created by Sidney Smith in 1917, launching a 42-year run in newspapers from February 12, 1917 until October 17, 1959....
  
  
• Stone, Chic
  Chic Stone
  Charles Eber "Chic" Stone was an American comic book artist best known as one of Jack Kirby's Silver Age inkers, including on a landmark run of Fantastic Four.-Biography:...
  
  , Silver Age
  Silver Age of Comic Books
  The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
  
   inker best known for work with Jack Kirby
• Sutton, Tom
  Tom Sutton
  Tom Sutton was an American comic book artist who sometimes used the pseudonyms Sean Todd and Dementia...
  
  
• Sprang, Dick
  Dick Sprang
  Richard W. "Dick" Sprang was an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his work on the superhero Batman during the period fans and historians call Golden Age of Comic Books. Sprang was responsible for the 1948 redesign of the Batmobile and the original design of the Riddler, who...
  
   co Creater Of the Riddler
  Riddler
  The Riddler is a fictional character, a comic book character and supervillain published by DC Comics, and an enemy of Batman. Created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, the character first appeared in Detective Comics #140 ....
  
   and long time batman artist.
• Swan, Curt
  Curt Swan
  Douglas Curtis Swan was an American comic book artist. The artist most associated with Superman during the period fans and historians call the Silver Age of comic books, Swan produced hundreds of covers and stories from the 1950s through the 1980s.-Early life and career:Curt Swan, whose Swedish...
  
  , best known as Superman
  Superman
  Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
  
  's primary 1960s artist
• Tartaglione, John
  John Tartaglione
  John Tartaglione , a.k.a. '"John Tartag." and other pseudonyms, was an American comic book artist best known as a 1950s romance-comics artist; a Marvel Comics inker during the Silver Age of comic books; and the illustrator of the Marvel biographies The Life of Pope John Paul II, and Mother Teresa...
  
  
• Toth, Alex
  Alex Toth
  Alexander Toth was an American professional cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but is known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Space Ghost, The...
  
  
• Tuska, George
  George Tuska
  George Tuska , who early in his career used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson, was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series Crime Does Not Pay, for and his 1960s work illustrating...
  
  
• Weisinger, Mort
  Mort Weisinger
  Mortimer Weisinger 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...
  
  , Silver Age
  Silver Age of Comic Books
  The Silver Age of Comic Books was a period of artistic advancement and commercial success in mainstream American comic books, predominantly those in the superhero genre. Following the Golden Age of Comic Books and an interregnum in the early to mid-1950s, the Silver Age is considered to cover the...
  
   editor of the Superman
  Superman
  Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
  
   titles
• Ogden Whitney
  Ogden Whitney
  Ogden Whitney was an American comic-book artist and sometime writer active from the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of comics through the 1960s Silver Age. He is best known as co-creator of the aviator hero the Skyman and of the superpowered novelty character Herbie Popnecker and his alter ego, the satiric...
  
  
• Williamson, Al
  Al Williamson
  Alfonso "Al" Williamson was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western and science-fiction/fantasy...
  
  
• Wood, Wally
  Wally Wood
  Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. He was one of Mads founding cartoonists in 1952. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he...
  
  , best known for his EC Comics
  EC Comics
  Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books specializing in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series...
  
   work
• Wright, Gregory
  Gregory Wright (comics)
  Gregory Wright is an American comic book editor, writer, and colorist known for his work on such Marvel Comics characters as Spider-Man, the Defenders, the Fantastic Four, Deathlok, and Silver Sable, and such DC Comics characters as Superman and Batman.- Biography :Wright grew up in New Castle,...
  
  

Flash cartoon creators

• Navarro, Kenn
  Kenn Navarro
  Kenn Navarro is a Filipino American animator known for creating the popular internet cartoon Happy Tree Friends. He did a one-time role as a green derby-hated man from the Dick Figures episode "Kitty Amazing".-Happy Tree Friends:...
  
  , creator of Happy Tree Friends
  Happy Tree Friends
  Happy Tree Friends is an American Flash cartoon and made by Mondo Mini Shows, created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum Rhode Montijo Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff. The show has become a popular Internet phenomenon and it's since debut and has also won a cult following.As indicated on the official...
  
  
• Steve Duquette
  Steve Duquette
  Steve Duquette is an American cartoonist who has worked on several advertising campaigns. He received the National Cartoonist Society Commercial Award in 1990.-External links:* *...