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Argentina
- Alack Sinner by Carlos SampayoCarlos SampayoCarlos Sampayo is a writer best known for his work in comics, particularly in collaboration with artist José Muñoz...
(author) and José Antonio MuñozJosé Antonio MuñozJosé Antonio Muñoz or simply Muñoz is an Argentine artist. He is most notable for his influential black-and-white artwork...
(artist) - Bárbara by Ricardo BarreiroRicardo BarreiroRicardo Barreiro was an Argentine comic book writer.-Biography:Barreiro was born in the barrio of Palermo in Buenos Aires. At a very early age he published articles and short stories on the underground magazine Sancho. His first comic book as writer was SlotBar, with art by Francisco Solano Lopez...
(author) and Juan ZanottoJuan ZanottoJuan Zanotto was an Italian-born Argentine comic book artist who worked both in Europe and Argentina.-Biography:...
(artist) - El EternautaEl EternautaEl Eternauta is a science fiction comic created by Argentine comic strip writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld with artwork by Francisco Solano López. It was first published in Hora Cero Semanal from 1957 to 1959....
by Héctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán Oesterheld , also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field....
(author) and Solano López (artist) - Ernie PikeErnie PikeErnie Pike is a comics series written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and originally drawn by Hugo Pratt, featuring a World War II and Korean War reporter. It was first published in the magazine "Hora Cero" in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1957. The reporter, loosely based on the real reporter Ernie...
by Héctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán Oesterheld , also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field....
(author) and Hugo PrattHugo PrattHugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese...
(artist) - LúpinLúpinRevista Lúpin was a monthly comic book from Argentina by Guillermo Guerrero and Héctor Mario Sidoli. It first appeared Feb. 1, 1966. It features the air adventures of its pilot hero Lúpin, as well as other strips with regular characters, usually with a technical or scientific bent...
by Guillermo Guerrero and Héctor Mario Sidoli - MafaldaMafaldaMafalda is a comic strip written and drawn by Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his pen name Quino. The strip features a 6-year-old girl named Mafalda, who is deeply concerned about humanity and world peace and rebels against the current state of the world...
by QuinoQuinoJoaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his pen name Quino is an Argentine cartoonist. His comic strip Mafalda is very popular in Latin America and many parts of Europe.-Early life and work:... - Nippur de LagashNippur de LagashNippur de Lagash is an Argentine historic comic series set on the XXIII century BC , about a fictional homonym warrior of Sumer, created by comic scriptwriter Robin Wood and illustrated by Lucho Olivera...
by Robin WoodRobin Wood (comics)-Biography:Of Paraguayan-Australian origins, Wood spent his childhood between Paraguay and Argentina with his mother, before leaving to do various jobs, such as dishwasher, truck driver, salesman, wood chopper, journalist and factory worker in those two countries as well as in Brazil...
(author) and various artists. - Mort CinderMort CinderMort Cinder is an Argentine comic book horror-science fiction series featuring an eponymous character, created in 1962 by the writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and artist Alberto Breccia...
by Héctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán Oesterheld , also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field....
(author) and Alberto BrecciaAlberto BrecciaAlberto Breccia was an Uruguay-born Argentine comics artist and writer.-Biography:Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Breccia moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina when he was three years old...
(artist) - PatoruzuPatoruzúPatoruzú is a comic character created in 1928 by Dante Quinterno and is considered the most popular hero of Argentine comics. Patoruzú is a wealthy Tehuelche cacique with great state properties in Patagonia, and is possessed of both superhuman physical strength and a charitable yet naive heart...
by Dante QuinternoDante QuinternoDante Quinterno was an Argentine comics artist, famous for being the creator of the Patoruzú, Isidoro Cañones and Patoruzito characters.... - El Cazador de AventurasEl Cazador de AventurasCazador is an Argentine comic that was published since 1992, during different time periods. It is famous for initiating a new age of adult comics in Argentina. It was written and drawn by Ariel Olivetti, Jorge Lucas, Mauro Cascioli and Claudio Ramirez...
by Jorge LucasJorge LucasJorge Lucas is an Uruguayan/Argentinan comic book artist and penciller. He was born in Salto, Uruguay, where he lived till the age of 10, then moved to Argentina and acquired the Argentinan nationality.-Biography:... - El Caballero Rojo by Tony Torres and Mariano Navarro
- Animal Urbano by Edu Molina
- Mikilo by Rafael Curci
Australia
- Brainmaster
- Captain Atom
- Cyberswine
- Cyclone!Cyclone!Cyclone! was an Australian superhero anthology comic book originally published in 1985.The title featured four ongoing stories:* The Dark Nebula a cosmic superhero by Tad Pietrzykowski...
- Dark Nebula
- Dee Vee (1997)
- The Example (2005)
- Fire Fang (1982)
- Greener Pastures
- Ginger Meggs Annual
- Hairbutt the HippoHairbutt the HippoHairbutt the Hippo is an Australian comic book series by Jason Paulos. It was published by Rat Race Comix, that stars an anthropomorphic hippopotamus named Hairbutt, who works as a private detective. Along with Paulos, Bodine Amerikah wrote several Hairbutt the Hippo stories while Paulos...
(1989) - Ink Spots
- The Kookaburra
- The Mask
- Niteside and the Rock
- The Panther
- Phantastique
- Pizza Man
- Platinum GritPlatinum GritPlatinum Grit is an Australian self-published comic book/online comic. The series is noted for sexy drawings of girls, surreal offbeat humor and tightly-written scripts. The series was created by writer/illustrator Trudy Cooper and co-writer Danny Murphy...
(1993) - The Raven
- Reverie
- The Scorpion
- Vampire!
- VixenVixen (comics)Vixen is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine published by DC Comics universe. She debuted in Action Comics #521 , and was created by Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner.-Publication history:...
(1977) - Zero Assassin
Belgium (stripverhaal, strip; bande dessinée, BD)
- Agent 212Agent 212Agent 212 is the name of a humorous Belgian comic about a large police officer. The comic series is written by Raoul Cauvin, and drawn by Daniel Kox, and has been published in the Spirou/Robbedoes magazine since 1975. Dupuis has also published 26 comic books in French and Dutch featuring the...
by Raoul CauvinRaoul CauvinRaoul Cauvin is a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.-Biography:Raoul Cauvin was born in Antoing, Belgium in 1938. He studied lithography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, but upon leaving school found that there no jobs available for lithographers...
(author) and Daniël Kox (artist) - Alpha by Youri Jigounov (artist) & P. Renard (author), later by Mythic (author)
- Apocalypse Mania by Philippe Aymond (artist) and Laurent-Frédéric Bollée (author)
- Bernard PrinceBernard PrinceBernard Prince is a Franco-Belgian comics series, featuring an eponymous character and his sailor-adventurer companions. The series was created by Belgian cartoonists Greg and Hermann for the comics magazine Tintin, first appearing on January 4, 1966....
by Greg (author) and HermannHermann HuppenHermann Huppen is a Belgian comic book artist. He is better known under his pen-name Hermann. He is most famous for his post-apocalyptic comic Jeremiah which was made into a television series.-Biography:...
(artist) - Blagues CoquinesBlagues CoquinesBlagues Coquines is a Belgian series of erotic comic books, published by Joker Editions.The books consist of several one-page-long funny strips, each showing women in erotic situations, usually nude or almost nude. These strips are written and drawn by various European artists. , 18 books have...
- Blake and MortimerBlake and MortimerBlake and Mortimer is a Belgian comics series created by the Belgian writer and comics artist Edgar P. Jacobs. It was one of the first series to appear in the Belgian comics magazine Tintin in 1946, and was subsequently published in book form by Les Editions du Lombard.The main protagonists of the...
by Edgar Pierre JacobsEdgar Pierre JacobsEdgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, , better known under his pen name Edgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book creator , born in Brussels, Belgium... - Bobo by Paul DeliègePaul DeliègePaul Deliège was a Belgian artist and writer of comics, and was married with two children.-Biography:Deliège was born in Olne. He started in the daily Le Soir with Père Bricole et Félicien et les Romanis. In 1959, he got into éditions Dupuis where he launched les aventures de Théophile et...
- Boule et BillBoule et BillBoule et Bill is a popular comic, created in 1959 by the Belgian writer-artist Jean Roba in collaboration with Maurice Rosy. In 2003 the artistic responsibility of the series was passed on to Roba's former assistant Laurent Verron...
by Jean RobaJean RobaJean Roba was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.-Biography:... - Bruno BrazilBruno BrazilBruno Brazil is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Greg, under the pseudonym Louis Albert, and drawn by William Vance. It was initially serialised in the comics magazine Tintin, first appearing on January 17, 1967...
by William VanceWilliam VanceWilliam Vance, the pen name of William van Cutsem, born 8 September 1935, is a Belgian comics artist widely known throughout a long career for his distinctive style and work in Franco-Belgian comics.- Biography :...
and Louis Albert (Greg) - Buck DannyBuck DannyBuck Danny is a Franco-Belgian comics series about a military flying ace and his two sidekicks serving in the United States Navy or the United States Air Force. The series is noted for its realism both in the drawings and the descriptions of air force procedures as part of the storyline. In...
by Jean-Michel CharlierJean-Michel CharlierJean-Michel Charlier was a Belgian script writer best known as a writer of realistic European comics. He was a co-founder of the famed European comics magazine Pilote.-Biography:...
and Victor HubinonVictor HubinonVictor Hubinon was a Belgian comic-book artist, best known for the series Buck Danny and Redbeard.-Biography:... - Les Cités ObscuresLes Cités ObscuresLes Cités obscures is a graphic novel series set on a Counter-Earth, started by the Belgian comics artist François Schuiten and his friend, writer Benoît Peeters in the early 1980s...
by Benoit PeetersBenoît PeetersBenoît Peeters is a comics writer, novelist, and critic. He has lived in Belgium since 1978.His best-known work is Les Cités Obscures, an imaginary world which mingles a Borgesian metaphysical surrealism with the detailed architectural vistas of the series' artist, François Schuiten...
(author) and François SchuitenFrançois SchuitenBaron François Schuiten is a Belgian comic book artist. He is best known for drawing the series Les Cités Obscures.-Biography:François Schuiten was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1956....
(artist) - Colonel Clifton, by Raymond MacherotRaymond MacherotRaymond Macherot was a Belgian cartoonist. Although not nearly as famous as fellow Belgian cartoonists such as Hergé or André Franquin, Macherot's work, both as artist and writer, remains highly regarded among critics and collectors.-The Tintin years:Raymond Macherot was born in Verviers, Belgium...
, later by Jo-El AzaraJoseph LoeckxJoseph Franz Hedwig Loeckx is a Belgian comic book artist. He works under the pseudonym of Jo-El Azara. Important series he has worked on include Clifton and Taka Takata.-Biography:...
, then by TurkPhilippe LiégeoisPhilippe Liégeois is a Belgian comic book artist, born on 8 July 1947. He is best known by his penname Turk. He is the co-author of numerous comic books, including Colonel Clifton, Léonard and Robin Dubois...
& De GrootBob de GrootBob de Groot was born on 26 October 1941 in Brussels, to Dutch and French parents and is a Belgian comics artist and writer.-Biography:While still a young art student de Groot got his first comics experience as an assistant to Maurice Tillieux on Félix. He began creating shorter work for the comics...
, then by Bédu, and currently by RodrigueMichel RodrigueMichel Rodrigue, aka Rodrigue, is Franco-Belgian comics artist. He started his most successful series in 1999, Doggyguard, with Bob de Groot as scenarist. In 2002 Rodrigue also took over the Colonel Clifton series over from scenarist Bédu... - Chlorophylle,by DupaDupaLuc Dupanloup, more famous under his pen name Dupa, was a Belgian comics artist best known as the creator of Cubitus which later was turned into an animated series called Wowser...
, Raymond MacherotRaymond MacherotRaymond Macherot was a Belgian cartoonist. Although not nearly as famous as fellow Belgian cartoonists such as Hergé or André Franquin, Macherot's work, both as artist and writer, remains highly regarded among critics and collectors.-The Tintin years:Raymond Macherot was born in Verviers, Belgium... - Comanche by Greg (author) and HermannHermann HuppenHermann Huppen is a Belgian comic book artist. He is better known under his pen-name Hermann. He is most famous for his post-apocalyptic comic Jeremiah which was made into a television series.-Biography:...
(artist) - CubitusCubitusCubitus is a Franco-Belgian comics series, and the basis for the Wowser cartoon series appearing in the United States. Cubitus was created by the cartoonist Dupa, and features Cubitus, a large anthropomorphic dog, who lives with his owner Semaphore...
by DupaDupaLuc Dupanloup, more famous under his pen name Dupa, was a Belgian comics artist best known as the creator of Cubitus which later was turned into an animated series called Wowser... - Dallas BarrDallas BarrDallas Barr is a comic book series by Belgian artist Marvano adapted from American science fiction author Joe Haldeman's 1989 novel Buying Time. The protagonist, Dallas Barr, is 132 years old...
by HaldemanJoe HaldemanJoe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...
(author) and Marvano (artist) - Djinn by Jean DufauxJean DufauxJean Dufaux is a Belgian comic book writer. Initially beginning his professional career as a journalist for "CINÉ-PRESSE", Dufaux started writing comic books in the 1980s...
(author) & Ana MirallèsAna MirallesAna Miralles is a Spanish comic books artist, known particularly for her treatment of erotic subjects....
(artist) - Double Masque by Jean DufauxJean DufauxJean Dufaux is a Belgian comic book writer. Initially beginning his professional career as a journalist for "CINÉ-PRESSE", Dufaux started writing comic books in the 1980s...
(author) & JamarJamarJamar is a given name or surname, and may refer to:Given name*Jamar Adcock*Jamar Beasley*Jamar Butler*Jamar Davis*Jamar Fletcher*Jamar Nesbit*Jamar WilliamsPeople surnamed Jamar*Mark Jamar*Jeff JamarOther*Lord Jamar...
(artist) - Les Eternels by Yann (author) & Felix Meynet (artist)
- Gaston LagaffeGaston LagaffeGaston is a comic strip created in 1957 by the Belgian cartoonist André Franquin in the comic strip magazine, Spirou. The series focuses on the every-day life of Gaston Lagaffe, a lazy and accident-prone office junior...
by André FranquinAndré FranquinAndré Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series' golden age.-Franquin's beginnings:Franquin was... - Giacomo C. by Jean DufauxJean DufauxJean Dufaux is a Belgian comic book writer. Initially beginning his professional career as a journalist for "CINÉ-PRESSE", Dufaux started writing comic books in the 1980s...
(author) & Griffo (artist) - Gil JourdanGil JourdanGil Jourdan is a Belgian detective comic strip created by Maurice Tillieux. It is considered a great combination of mystery, adventure and humour, and a masterpiece of European comics.-Origin and Premise:...
by Maurice TillieuxMaurice TillieuxMaurice Tillieux was a Belgian writer and comic artist. He is regarded by many as a major figure of post-war Belgian comics.-Early life:...
(author and artist) & Gos (artist) - India Dreams by Maryse Charles (author) & Jean-François Charles (artist)
- Insiders by Bartoll & GarretaGarretaGarreta is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea....
- I.R.$. by Bernard Vrancken (artist) & Stephen DesbergStephen DesbergStephen Desberg is a Belgian writer of comics. In 2010, he was the 10th bestselling author of comics in France, with 412,000 copies of all his comics together sold that year.-Biography:...
(author) - Jeremiah by HermannHermann HuppenHermann Huppen is a Belgian comic book artist. He is better known under his pen-name Hermann. He is most famous for his post-apocalyptic comic Jeremiah which was made into a television series.-Biography:...
(artist) - The Adventures of Jo, Zette and JockoJo, Zette and JockoThe Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko is a comic book series created by Hergé, the Belgian writer-artist who was best known for The Adventures of Tintin...
by HergéHergéGeorges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also... - Johan and PeewitJohan and PeewitJohan and Peewit is a Belgian comics series created by Peyo. Since its initial appearance in 1947 it has been published in 13 albums that appeared before the death of Peyo in 1992. Thereafter, a team of comic book creators from Studio Peyo continued to publish the stories.The series is set in...
by PeyoPeyoPierre Culliford , known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.-Biography:... - JommekeJommekeJommeke is the name of a Flemish comic book series and of its main character. It deals with the adventures of Jommeke, a boy of about 11 years old and his friends. The creator of Jommeke was Jef Nys.-History:...
by Jef NysJef NysJozef "Jef" Nys was a Belgian comic book creator. He was best known for his comic strip Jommeke.-Biography:... - Jugurtha by Jean-Luc Vernal (author) and HermannHermann HuppenHermann Huppen is a Belgian comic book artist. He is better known under his pen-name Hermann. He is most famous for his post-apocalyptic comic Jeremiah which was made into a television series.-Biography:...
(artist) - KiekeboeKiekeboeDe Kiekeboes is a comic strip series created by Belgian artist Merho in 1977. The series appears in Dutch. It is first published in the newspapers Gazet van Antwerpen and Het Belang van Limburg and then published as comic books by Standaard Uitgeverij...
by MerhoMerhoMerho , the pseudonym of Robert Merhottein, is a Belgian comic-book writer and artist, best known for creating the comic strip Kiekeboe.-Early life:... - Largo WinchLargo WinchLargo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis.The principal character is Largo Winch whose birth name is Largo Winczlav. Other important characters include Nerio Winch , senior Group W executives John D. Sullivan and Dwight E...
by Philippe FrancqPhilippe FrancqPhilippe Francq is a Belgian comic book artist, best known for the series Largo Winch.-Biography:Philippe Francq was born in Etterbeek in 1961. He was since his youth an ardent comic reader, who grew up with the comics from Tintin magazine from the 1950s...
(artist) & Jean van HammeJean Van HammeJean Van Hamme is a Belgian novelist and comic book writer. He has written scripts for a number of Belgian/French comic series, including Histoire sans héros, Thorgal, XIII and Largo Winch.-Early years:...
(author) - Léonard by TurkPhilippe LiégeoisPhilippe Liégeois is a Belgian comic book artist, born on 8 July 1947. He is best known by his penname Turk. He is the co-author of numerous comic books, including Colonel Clifton, Léonard and Robin Dubois...
& De GrootBob de GrootBob de Groot was born on 26 October 1941 in Brussels, to Dutch and French parents and is a Belgian comics artist and writer.-Biography:While still a young art student de Groot got his first comics experience as an assistant to Maurice Tillieux on Félix. He began creating shorter work for the comics... - Lucky LukeLucky LukeLucky Luke is a Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist, Maurice De Bevere better known as Morris, the original artist, and was for one period written by René Goscinny...
by MorrisMorris (comics)Maurice De Bevere , better known as Morris, was a Belgian cartoonist and the creator of Lucky Luke. His pen name is an alternate spelling of his first name.-Biography:... - Les Maîtres de l'Orge by Francis Vallès (artist) & Jean van HammeJean Van HammeJean Van Hamme is a Belgian novelist and comic book writer. He has written scripts for a number of Belgian/French comic series, including Histoire sans héros, Thorgal, XIII and Largo Winch.-Early years:...
(author) - MarsupilamiMarsupilamiMarsupilami is a fictional comic book species created by André Franquin, first published on 31 January 1952 in the magazine Spirou. Since then it appeared regularly in the popular Belgian comic book series Spirou et Fantasio until Franquin stopped working on the series in 1968 and the character...
by André FranquinAndré FranquinAndré Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series' golden age.-Franquin's beginnings:Franquin was... - MélusineMélusine (comics)Mélusine is a Belgian comic strip created by artist Clarke and writer Gilson and features short, humorous stories that centre around the life of a young witch who lives as an au pair in a castle and studies at a witches’ school .The strip first appeared in Spirou magazine in 1992...
by Clarke (artist) & GilsonFrançois GilsonFrançois Gilson is a Belgian comics author. Signing his work simply as Gilson, he is best known for Mélusine.-Biography:...
(author) - Modeste et PomponModeste et PomponModeste et Pompon is a Belgian comic series consisting mainly of humorous one-page short stories about a temperamental young man and his girlfriend...
by André FranquinAndré FranquinAndré Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series' golden age.-Franquin's beginnings:Franquin was... - MurenaMurenaMurena is a name used by a Roman plebeian family from Lanuvium belonging to the gens Licinia. It is supposed to be derived from the fondness of a family member for lampreys ....
by Jean DufauxJean DufauxJean Dufaux is a Belgian comic book writer. Initially beginning his professional career as a journalist for "CINÉ-PRESSE", Dufaux started writing comic books in the 1980s...
(author) & Philippe Delaby (artist) - NatachaNatacha (comics)Natacha is a Franco-Belgian comics series, created by François Walthéry and Gos. Drawn by Walthéry, its stories have been written by several authors including Gos, Peyo, Maurice Tillieux, Raoul Cauvin and Marc Wasterlain. It was first published in the comics magazine Spirou on February 26, 1970...
by François WalthéryFrançois WalthéryFrançois Walthéry is a Belgian comics artist, best known for his series featuring an adventurous flight attendant, Natacha.-Biography:... - Nero by Marc SleenMarc SleenMarcel Honoree Nestor, Knight Neels , known with his pseudonym Marc Sleen, is a Flemish/Belgian comics artist and cartoonist. He is mostly known for his comic The adventures of Nero and co.-Biography:...
- Niklos Koda by Jean DufauxJean DufauxJean Dufaux is a Belgian comic book writer. Initially beginning his professional career as a journalist for "CINÉ-PRESSE", Dufaux started writing comic books in the 1980s...
(author) & Olivier Grenson (artist) - Le Petit SpirouLe Petit SpirouLe Petit Spirou is a popular Belgian comic strip created by Tome and Janry in 1987. The series developed from La jeunesse de Spirou , a Spirou et Fantasio album in which Tome and Janry set to imagine Spirou's youth...
by TomePhilippe VandeveldePhilippe Vandevelde, working under the pseudonym Tome , is a comic strip script writer. He is known for collaborations with Janry on Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou, and with Luc Warnant and later Bruno Gazzotti on Soda...
& Janry - Quick & FlupkeQuick & FlupkeQuick & Flupke is a comic book series by Hergé about two street urchins in Brussels named Quick and Flupke...
(Quick et Flupke) by HergéHergéGeorges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also... - Le Rayon ULe Rayon ULe Rayon U is a comic book written and drawn by the Belgian comics creator Edgar P. Jacobs in 1943.-Publication history:...
(The U Ray) by Edgar Pierre JacobsEdgar Pierre JacobsEdgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, , better known under his pen name Edgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book creator , born in Brussels, Belgium... - Redbeard by Victor HubinonVictor HubinonVictor Hubinon was a Belgian comic-book artist, best known for the series Buck Danny and Redbeard.-Biography:...
- De Rode RidderDe Rode RidderDe Rode Ridder is a Belgian Flemish comic book series set in medieval Europe. It stars the titular character Johan, the Red Knight, easily recognizable by his red tunic. It appeared six days a week in the newspaper De Standaard and a few other ones.-Summary of the story:The series are...
(Red Knight) by Willy VandersteenWilly VandersteenWilly Vandersteen was a Belgian creator of comic books. In a career spanning 50 years, he created a large studio and published more than 1,000 comic albums in over 25 series, selling more than 200 million copies worldwide.... - Le ScorpionLe ScorpionThe Scorpion is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Stephen Desberg, illustrated by Enrico Marini and published by Dargaud in French and Cinebook in English.- Summary :...
by Enrico MariniEnrico MariniEnrico Marini is an Italian comics artist.Famous works include Gipsy with writer Thierry Smolderen and Le Scorpion with writer Stephen Desberg.-Biography:...
(artist) & Stephen DesbergStephen DesbergStephen Desberg is a Belgian writer of comics. In 2010, he was the 10th bestselling author of comics in France, with 412,000 copies of all his comics together sold that year.-Biography:...
(author) - Le Scrameustache by Gos (artist) & Walt (author)
- The SmurfsThe Smurfs (comics)The Smurfs are a Belgian comic series, created by cartoonist Peyo . The fictional characters of the Smurfs first appeared in Johan and Peewit in 1958, and the first independent Smurf comics appeared in 1959. Twenty-nine Smurf comic albums have been created, 16 of them by Peyo...
(Les Schtroumpfs) by PeyoPeyoPierre Culliford , known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.-Biography:... - Sibyilline by Raymond MacherotRaymond MacherotRaymond Macherot was a Belgian cartoonist. Although not nearly as famous as fellow Belgian cartoonists such as Hergé or André Franquin, Macherot's work, both as artist and writer, remains highly regarded among critics and collectors.-The Tintin years:Raymond Macherot was born in Verviers, Belgium...
- Soda by Philippe Tome (author), Luc Warnant (artist) and Bruno Gazzotti (artist).
- Suske en WiskeSpike and SuzySpike and Suzy, the British title for Suske en Wiske in Dutch, is a comics series created by the Belgian comics author Willy Vandersteen. The strip is known as Bob et Bobette in French and Willy and Wanda in the U.S. It was first published in De Nieuwe Standaard in 1945 and soon became popular...
(also called Spike and Suzy, Bob & Bobette or Willy and Wanda) by Willy VandersteenWilly VandersteenWilly Vandersteen was a Belgian creator of comic books. In a career spanning 50 years, he created a large studio and published more than 1,000 comic albums in over 25 series, selling more than 200 million copies worldwide.... - Spirou et FantasioSpirou et FantasioSpirou et Fantasio is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comic strips. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European humorous adventure comics like Tintin and Asterix...
by (in chronological order) Rob-Vel, JijéJijéJijé was a Belgian comics artist, best known for being a seminal artist on the Spirou et Fantasio strip and the creator of one of the first major European western strips, Jerry Spring.-Biography:Born Joseph Gillain in Gedinne, Namur, he completed various art studies Jijé (13 January 1914 – 20...
, André FranquinAndré FranquinAndré Franquin was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as the series' golden age.-Franquin's beginnings:Franquin was...
, Pierre FournierPierre FournierPierre Fournier was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound....
, Raoul CauvinRaoul CauvinRaoul Cauvin is a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.-Biography:Raoul Cauvin was born in Antoing, Belgium in 1938. He studied lithography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, but upon leaving school found that there no jobs available for lithographers...
(author) and Nic Broca (artist), Yves ChalandYves ChalandYves Chaland was a French cartoonist.During the 1980s, together with Ted Benoît, Serge Clerc and Floc'h, he relaunched the Ligne claire style in French comics.-Biography:Chaland published his first strips in the fanzine Biblipop when he...
, TomePhilippe VandeveldePhilippe Vandevelde, working under the pseudonym Tome , is a comic strip script writer. He is known for collaborations with Janry on Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou, and with Luc Warnant and later Bruno Gazzotti on Soda...
and Janry, and MorvanJean-David MorvanJean-David Morvan is a French comics author.Jean-David Morvan studied arts at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. Morvan first tried being a comics artist, but soon realised that his true strength is storytelling, and so now he is best known as a comics writer...
(author) and Munuera (artist) (currently) - Steven StrongSteven StrongBenoît Brisefer is a Belgian comic strip created in 1960 by Peyo about a little boy whose peaceful, innocent appearance, charm and good manners covers his possession of superhuman strength similar to that of Asterix. Since Peyo's death it has been continued by other artists and writers...
(Benoit Brisefer) by PeyoPeyoPierre Culliford , known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.-Biography:... - ThorgalThorgalThorgal is a critically acclaimed Belgian comic book series by the Belgian writer Jean Van Hamme and the Polish graphic artist Grzegorz Rosiński. It first appeared in serial form in the "Tintin" magazine in 1977, and has been published in hardcover volumes by Le Lombard from 1980 on...
by Jean van HammeJean Van HammeJean Van Hamme is a Belgian novelist and comic book writer. He has written scripts for a number of Belgian/French comic series, including Histoire sans héros, Thorgal, XIII and Largo Winch.-Early years:...
(author) and Grzegorz RosinskiGrzegorz RosinskiGrzegorz Rosiński is a Polish comic book artist. He is best known for the series Thorgal.-Early life:Grzegorz Rosiński was born in Stalowa Wola in 1941...
(artist) - TintinThe Adventures of TintinThe Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
by HergéHergéGeorges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also... - Les Tours de Bois-MauryLes Tours de Bois-MauryLes Tours de Bois-Maury is a series of graphic novels that begun in 1984 by Belgian comic book creator Hermann.-Plot:Set in 11th century Europe, the series concerns the efforts of the wandering noble Sir Aymar de Bois-Maury, knight, to reclaim his ancestral home, Bois-Maury...
by HermannHermann HuppenHermann Huppen is a Belgian comic book artist. He is better known under his pen-name Hermann. He is most famous for his post-apocalyptic comic Jeremiah which was made into a television series.-Biography:... - Les Tuniques BleuesLes Tuniques BleuesLes Tuniques Bleues is a Belgian series of bandes dessinées , first featured in Spirou and later published by Dupuis. Created by Louis Salverius, the series was taken up by artist Willy Lambillotte and writer Raoul Cauvin. It follows two United States cavalrymen through a series of battles and...
by Raoul CauvinRaoul CauvinRaoul Cauvin is a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.-Biography:Raoul Cauvin was born in Antoing, Belgium in 1938. He studied lithography at the Institut Saint-Luc in Tournai, but upon leaving school found that there no jobs available for lithographers...
(author) and LambilLambilLambil is a Belgian comic-book artist, best known for the series Les Tuniques Bleues, which has been published in English as "The Blue Tunics" and "The Bluecoats".-Biography:Willy Lambillotte was born in Tamines, Belgium in 1936...
(artist) - La vengeance du comte Skarbek by Grzegorz RosinskiGrzegorz RosinskiGrzegorz Rosiński is a Polish comic book artist. He is best known for the series Thorgal.-Early life:Grzegorz Rosiński was born in Stalowa Wola in 1941...
(artist) & Yves SenteYves SenteYves Sente is a Belgian comic book editor and author. He is known as writer for Blake and Mortimer and Thorgal.-Biography:Yves Sente was born in Uccle near Brussels in 1964...
(author) - Le Vieux Nick et Barbe-Noir by Marcel Remacle
- XIII by Jean van HammeJean Van HammeJean Van Hamme is a Belgian novelist and comic book writer. He has written scripts for a number of Belgian/French comic series, including Histoire sans héros, Thorgal, XIII and Largo Winch.-Early years:...
(author) and William VanceWilliam VanceWilliam Vance, the pen name of William van Cutsem, born 8 September 1935, is a Belgian comics artist widely known throughout a long career for his distinctive style and work in Franco-Belgian comics.- Biography :...
(artist) - YakariYakariYakari is a Franco-Belgian comic book series, aimed at a younger audience, written by Job and illustrated by Derib....
by Job (author) & DeribDeribDerib is a Swiss francophone comics creator, one of the most famous in Europe, who started his professional career at Peyo's studio...
(artist) - Yoko TsunoYoko TsunoYoko Tsuno is a comic book series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup published by Dupuis and in Spirou since its debut in 1970. Through twenty-five volumes, the series tell the adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female electrical engineer of Japanese origin surrounded by her close friends, Vic...
by Roger LeloupRoger LeloupRoger Leloup is a Belgian comic strip artist, novelist, and a former collaborator of Hergé. He is most famous for the Yoko Tsuno comic series.- Biography :... - Zig et PuceZig et PuceZig et Puce is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Alain Saint-Ogan in 1925 that became popular and influential over a long period. After ending production, it was revived by Greg for a second successful publication run.-Synopsis :...
by Greg, creation by Alain Saint-OganAlain Saint-OganAlain Saint-Ogan was a French comics author and artist.-Biography:In 1925, he created the well-known comic strip Zig et Puce , which initially appeared in the Dimanche Illustré , the weekly youth supplement of the French daily newspaper, l'Excelsior.His other comic...
Brazil (gibi, história em quadrinhos)
- 10 Pãezinhos by Fábio MoonFábio MoonFábio Moon is a Brazilian comic book artist best known for his work on Casanova. He is the twin brother of fellow comic book artist Gabriel Bá.-Career:...
& Gabriel BáGabriel BáGabriel Bá is a Brazilian comic book artist best known for his work on The Umbrella Academy and Casanova... - Jimmy FiveJimmy FiveJimmy Five is one of Monica's Gang main characters. He was created in 1960, and currently has his own printed comic strips, called Cebolinha, which were first released in 1973...
(Cebolinha) by Maurício de SousaMauricio de SousaMauricio de Sousa is a Brazilian cartoonist who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books.... - Chiclete com Banana by Arnaldo Angeli FilhoAngeli (cartoonist)Arnaldo Angeli Filho, more commonly known as Angeli, born August 31, 1956 in São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most well-known Brazilian cartoonists....
- Piratas do Tietê by Laerte CoutinhoLaerte CoutinhoLaerte Coutinho is a Brazilian cartoonist, known for drawing comic strips for newspapers. He has also written scripts for TV shows.-Biography:He studied communication and music at ECA-USP, but has not graduated in these courses....
- Geraldão by Glauco Villas-Boas
- Níquel NáuseaNíquel NáuseaNíquel Náusea is the name of a comic strip created by Brazilian Fernando Gonsales and of a character who appears in it. The character is a rat who thinks up crazy plans for getting food, and expresses an ironic view of humanity.The spirit of the strip is sarcastic, and sometimes nonsensical...
by Fernando Gonsales - Transubstanciação by Lourenço MutarelliLourenço MutarelliLourenço Mutarelli is a Brazilian comic book artist who became well regarded in the Brazilian underground comics scene in the late 1980s and 1990s....
- Monica's GangMonica's GangMonica's Gang is a popular Brazilian comic book series. The series was created by Mauricio de Sousa, who signs his work as "Mauricio". Plots are centered on the adventures of a group of seven-year-old friends in the fictional neighborhood of "Limoeiro" in São Paulo...
(Turma da Mônica) by Maurício de SousaMauricio de SousaMauricio de Sousa is a Brazilian cartoonist who has created over 200 characters for his popular series of children's comic books....
Canada
- ArbaletAndré PijetAndré Pijet is an international editorial cartoonist. His satirical and humorous works have been published in Poland, Greece, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, the United States and Canada. In Quebec, he made a name for himself with a which he produced for a major Montreal daily...
by André PijetAndré PijetAndré Pijet is an international editorial cartoonist. His satirical and humorous works have been published in Poland, Greece, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, the United States and Canada. In Quebec, he made a name for himself with a which he produced for a major Montreal daily... - Captain CanuckCaptain CanuckCaptain Canuck is a fictional Canadian comic book superhero. Created by writer Ron Leishman and artist/co-writer Richard Comely, the original Captain Canuck first appeared in Captain Canuck #1 ....
- Cerebus the AardvarkCerebus the AardvarkCerebus the Aardvark, or simply Cerebus , is an independent comic book, written and illustrated by Canadian artist Dave Sim, with backgrounds by fellow Canadian Gerhard. Cerebus ran for 300 issues from December 1977 to 2004, and was over 6000 pages long, the longest-running original...
by Dave SimDave SimDavid Victor Sim is an award-winning Canadian comic book writer and artist.A pioneer of self-published comics and creators' rights, Sim is best known as the creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, a comic book published from 1977 to 2004, which chronicles its main character in a 6,000-page self-contained...
with Gerhard - Dirty Plotte
- Drawn and QuarterlyDrawn and QuarterlyDrawn and Quarterly is a Canadian comic book publishing company, headed by Chris Oliveros, and based in Montreal, Quebec. Its focus is on graphic novels and underground or alternative comics. Drawn and Quarterly was also the title of the company's flagship quarterly anthology during the 1990s...
- Les Cantons – Rondel et Baton à la conquête du Saladier d'argentAndré PijetAndré Pijet is an international editorial cartoonist. His satirical and humorous works have been published in Poland, Greece, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, the United States and Canada. In Quebec, he made a name for himself with a which he produced for a major Montreal daily...
by André PijetAndré PijetAndré Pijet is an international editorial cartoonist. His satirical and humorous works have been published in Poland, Greece, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, the United States and Canada. In Quebec, he made a name for himself with a which he produced for a major Montreal daily... - Le Tour du Québec en BDLe Tour du Québec en BDLe Tour du Québec en BD is a collection of graphic novels written by Jean-François Gaudet and drawn by Hugues Poirier, with some contributions from other artists...
- Lethargic LadLethargic LadLethargic Lad is a protagonist in the comic strip of the same name, created by Greg Hyland sometime in the late 1980s. The character is notable for being very slow and inactive. Lethargic Lad does not speak, though he sometimes mutters "Umm...".-Comics:...
- Louis Riel
- New Triumph
- Night Life
- NorthguardNorthguardNorthguard is a Canadian superhero created in 1984 by Mark Shainblum and Gabriel Morrissette.Developed during the mid-1980s burst of small- and medium-press comics publishing by Canadians, Northguard was one of several serious efforts at developing a made-in-Canada superhero series for modern...
- PeepshowPeepshow (comic book)Peepshow is the title of a 1992 comic book collection and an ongoing autobiographical comic book by American cartoonist Joe Matt, both published by Drawn and Quarterly...
- PalookavillePalookaville (comics)Palookaville is a comic book written and drawn by cartoonist Gregory Gallant, better known as Seth, and published by Drawn & Quarterly. The first issue appeared in April 1991 and it has been irregularly published ever since...
- Scott PilgrimScott PilgrimScott Pilgrim is a graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley. It consists of six digest size black-and-white volumes, released between August 2004 and July 2010, by Portland-based independent comic book publisher Oni Press. It was later republished by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins...
by Bryan Lee O'MalleyBryan Lee O'MalleyBryan Lee O'Malley is a Canadian cartoonist. He is best known for the Scott Pilgrim series, but is also a musician using the alias Kupek.-Career:... - Thieves & Kings by Mark Oakley
- To Be AnnouncedTo be announcedTo be announced, To be confirmed, and To be determined are placeholder terms used very broadly to indicate that although something is scheduled or anticipated to happen, a particular aspect of that thing remains to be arranged...
- The True North
- The True North II
- Underwater
- Yummy FurYummy Fur (comic)Yummy Fur was an award-winning and highly influential alternative minicomic and comic book series written and drawn by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown from 1983 until 1994...
Colombia
- Mojicón by Adolfo Samper
- Copetin by Ernesto Franco
- Tukano by Jorge Peña
- Calarcá by Carlos Garzón
- Dina by Bernardo Rincón (comics)|
Finland (sarjakuvat)
- Kramppeja ja Nyrjähdyksiä
- MoominMoominThe Moomins are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts in Finland. They are a family of trolls who are white and roundish, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses...
by Tove JanssonTove JanssonTove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.- Biography :...
and Lars JanssonLars JanssonLars Jansson was a Finnish author and cartoonist. A native of Helsinki, Jansson was the son of the sculptor, Viktor Jansson, and the illustrator, Signe Hammarsten-Jansson. His siblings included an older sister, writer Tove Jansson, and an older brother, Per Olof Jansson... - MämmiläMämmiläMämmilä is a full-page comic strip by Finnish cartoonist Tarmo Koivisto and co-written by Hannu Virtanen.Mämmilä is a fictional small country municipality, supposedly in the Häme region, and was originally modeled on the municipality of Orivesi...
by Tarmo KoivistoTarmo KoivistoTarmo Koivisto is a Finnish comics artist and writer, cartoonist, and graphic artist. He is best known for his ongoing comic strip Mämmilä. Koivisto is also known by his artist name Tape.-Biography:... - Praedor by Petri HiltunenPetri HiltunenPetri Hiltunen is a Finnish cartoonist and illustrator. Hiltunen has produced work in a variety of genres, but is most notable for his fantasy and horror work. He has won the prestigious Puupäähattu award in 2002, which is regarded as the highest honour for Finnish comic artists...
- PunaniskaPunaniskaPunaniska was a Finnish comic strip drawn by Harri "Wallu" Vaalio and written by Rauli "Rallu" Nordberg in the 1990s....
by Harri "Wallu" Vaalio - Viivi & WagnerViivi & WagnerViivi & Wagner is a somewhat absurdist Finnish newspaper comic strip drawn by Jussi "Juba" Tuomola.The titular main characters are Viivi, a Finnish woman in her twenties, and Wagner, a mature male pig. Wagner is fully anthropomorphic and sentient, yet still considers himself a pig instead of a human...
by Jussi "Juba" TuomolaJussi TuomolaJussi Tuomola, pen name Juba is a Finnish cartoonist.Tuomola is best known for his ongoing comic strip Viivi & Wagner, about the relationship of a woman and a pig. He has also worked on the Punaniska and Myrkky comics and the Finnish version of MAD Magazine...
France (bande dessinée, BD, bédés)
- 120 Rue de la Gare and Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac by Léo MaletLéo Malet-Biography:Leo Malet was born in Montpellier. He had little formal education and began work as a cabaret singer at "La Vache Enragee" in Montmartre, Paris in 1925....
(author) and Jacques TardiJacques TardiJacques Tardi is a French comics artist, born 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. He is often credited solely as Tardi.-Biography:After graduating from the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started writing comics in 1969, at the...
(artist) - Adèle Blanc-Sec by Jacques TardiJacques TardiJacques Tardi is a French comics artist, born 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. He is often credited solely as Tardi.-Biography:After graduating from the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started writing comics in 1969, at the...
- Agatha ChristieAgatha ChristieDame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
by François Rivière (author) and Jean-François MiniacJean-François MiniacJean-François Miniac, better known under his pen name Solidor, is a French comic book creator . He was born in Paris and lives in France....
(artist) - Anibal Cinq by Alejandro JodorowskyAlejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
, Manuel Moro and Georges BessGeorges BessGeorges Bess is a comics artist and comic book creator, best known for his collaborations with Alejandro Jodorowsky.-Biography:... - Asterix and ObelixAsterixAsterix or The Adventures of Asterix is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on October 29, 1959...
by René GoscinnyRené GoscinnyRené Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...
(author) and Albert UderzoAlbert UderzoAlbert Uderzo is a French comic book artist, and scriptwriter. He is best known for his work on the Astérix series, but also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration with René Goscinny.-Early life:...
(artist and author) - Blueberry by Jean-Michel CharlierJean-Michel CharlierJean-Michel Charlier was a Belgian script writer best known as a writer of realistic European comics. He was a co-founder of the famed European comics magazine Pilote.-Biography:...
(author) and Jean GiraudJean GiraudJean Henri Gaston Giraud is a French comics artist. Giraud has earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Moebius, and to a lesser extent Gir, the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed signature at the bottom of the artist's paintings, for instance the...
(artist) - CastakaMetabaronsThe Metabarons or The Saga of The Meta-Barons is a science fantasy comic series relating the history of a dynasty of perfect warriors known as the Metabarons. The Metabarons series was written by creator Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Argentinian artist Juan Gimenez...
written by Alejandro JodorowskyAlejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
, artwork by Das Pastoras - La Caste des Méta-BaronsMetabaronsThe Metabarons or The Saga of The Meta-Barons is a science fantasy comic series relating the history of a dynasty of perfect warriors known as the Metabarons. The Metabarons series was written by creator Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Argentinian artist Juan Gimenez...
written by Alejandro JodorowskyAlejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
, artwork by Juan GimenezJuan GimenezJuan Antonio Giménez López is an Argentine comic book artist.-Biography:Giménez López was born in Mendoza, Argentina... - DungeonDungeon (comics)Dungeon is a series of satirical fantasy comic books created by Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, with contributions from numerous other artists and writers...
written by Lewis TrondheimLewis TrondheimLewis Trondheim , born 11 December 1964, is an extremely prolific French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons...
and Joann SfarJoann SfarJoann Sfar is a French comics artist, comic book creator and film director.-Life and career:Sfar was born in Nice. He is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by...
, drawn by Lewis TrondheimLewis TrondheimLewis Trondheim , born 11 December 1964, is an extremely prolific French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons...
, Joann SfarJoann SfarJoann Sfar is a French comics artist, comic book creator and film director.-Life and career:Sfar was born in Nice. He is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by...
, Christopher Blain, Manu Larcenet, Phillipe Bercovici, AndréasAndreas (comics)Andreas, pen name for Andreas Martens, born January 3, 1951 in Weißenfels , studied at the St. Luc comics school in Belgium, assisting Eddy Paape on Udolfo, before relocating to France...
, Blanquet, BouletBoulet (comics)Gilles Roussel, also known as Boulet, is a French comic book creator and cartoonist born February 1, 1975 in Meaux, France. He was among the first French cartoonist to become famous by publishing a comic strip weblog, starting in July 2004.-Biography:... - Fanfoué des Pnottas by Félix Meynet
- FranticoLe blog de FranticoLe blog de Frantico is a supposedly autobiographical Franco-Belgian webcomic and comic book. It is drawn by Frantico, thought to be the nom de plume of a famous author...
by FranticoLe blog de FranticoLe blog de Frantico is a supposedly autobiographical Franco-Belgian webcomic and comic book. It is drawn by Frantico, thought to be the nom de plume of a famous author... - L'Incal by Alejandro JodorowskyAlejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
and Jean GiraudJean GiraudJean Henri Gaston Giraud is a French comics artist. Giraud has earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Moebius, and to a lesser extent Gir, the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed signature at the bottom of the artist's paintings, for instance the... - IznogoudIznogoudIznogoud |French]] accent) is a French comics series featuring an eponymous character, created by the comics writer René Goscinny and comics artist Jean Tabary...
by René GoscinnyRené GoscinnyRené Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...
(author) and Jean TabaryJean Tabary-Biography:Tabary was born in Stockholm and made his comics debut with Richard et Charlie published in the comics magazine Vaillant on November 5, 1956...
(artist and author) - Juan Solo by Alejandro JodorowskyAlejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
and Georges BessGeorges BessGeorges Bess is a comics artist and comic book creator, best known for his collaborations with Alejandro Jodorowsky.-Biography:... - Lone SloaneLone SloaneLone Sloane is a science fiction comics character created in 1966 by the French cartoonist Philippe Druillet.-Publication history:Lone Sloane's first episode was that of Druillet's very debut, Mystère des Abîmes, published in 1966. The following stories were published on the French magazine Pilote...
by Philippe DruilletPhilippe DruilletPhilippe Druillet is a French comics artist and creator, and an innovator in visual design.-Biography:Druillet was born in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France but spent his youth in Spain, returning to France in 1952 after the death of his father... - The spiffy adventures of McConeyThe spiffy adventures of McConeyThe spiffy adventures of McConey is a Franco-Belgian comic series by the popular French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim.The series mixes satire and fantasy...
(original title: Lapinot) by Lewis TrondheimLewis TrondheimLewis Trondheim , born 11 December 1964, is an extremely prolific French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animated cartoons... - Michel VaillantMichel VaillantMichel Vaillant is the title of a Belgian comics series created in 1957 by French cartoonist Jean Graton and published originally by Le Lombard. Later, Graton published the albums by himself when he founded Graton éditeur in 1982...
by Jean GratonJean GratonJean Graton is a comic book author and cartoonist of French nationality. Graton created the famous character Michel Vaillant and the eponymous series in 1957.-Biography:...
, later by Philippe Graton - Monsieur Jean by Charles Dupuy and Philippe BerberianDupuy and BerberianPhilippe Dupuy and Charles Berberian are French cartoonists most famous for their series of Franco-Belgian comics albums featuring the character Monsieur Jean....
- Oumpah-pahOumpah-pahOumpah-pah le Peau-Rouge is a comics series created by comics artist Albert Uderzo and comics author René Goscinny, best known as the creators of Asterix the Gaul. The series first appeared in the weekly Journal de Tintin in 1958 though it remained serialised for a relatively short time...
by René GoscinnyRené GoscinnyRené Goscinny was a French comics editor and writer, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the comic series Lucky Luke with Morris and Iznogoud with Jean Tabary.-Early life:Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family...
(author) and Albert UderzoAlbert UderzoAlbert Uderzo is a French comic book artist, and scriptwriter. He is best known for his work on the Astérix series, but also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration with René Goscinny.-Early life:...
(artist) - PyrénéePyrénéePyrénée is a 1998 French feral child graphic novel by Regis Loisel and Philippe Sternis, about a girl who is brought up in the mountains of the French Pyrenees by a bear....
by Régis LoiselRégis LoiselRégis Loisel is a French comics writer and artist, best known for the long running series La Quête de l'oiseau du temps, written by Serge Le Tendre.He worked with Walt Disney Studios on the animated films Atlantis and Mulan....
(author) and Philippe SternisPhilippe SternisPhilippe Sternis is a French comics artist and writer.His work is mainly targeted for a children and teenage audience...
(artist) - Rahan by Roger Lécureux (author) and André Chéret (artist)
- Roach Killer by B. Legrand (author) and Jacques TardiJacques TardiJacques Tardi is a French comics artist, born 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. He is often credited solely as Tardi.-Biography:After graduating from the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, he started writing comics in 1969, at the...
(artist) - TiteufTiteufTiteuf is a magazine series created by Zep which was adapted into an animated TV series, and appears in the dedicated comics magazine Tchô!.-Publication history:...
by ZepZepZep is the pseudonym of Philippe Chappuis, a comics creator from Switzerland, known for his series Titeuf, a popular character in French-speaking countries, and Tchô!, the associated comics magazine.-Biography:... - Valérian and Laureline by Pierre ChristinPierre Christin- Biography :Christin was born at Saint-Mandé in 1938.After graduating from the Sorbonne, Christin pursued graduate studies in political science at SciencesPo and became a professor of French literature at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His first comics story, Le Rhum du Punch, illustrated...
(author) and Jean-Claude MézièresJean-Claude MézièresJean-Claude Mézières is a French comic strip artist and illustrator. Born and raised in Paris, he was introduced to drawing by his older brother and influenced by comics artists such as Hergé, Andre Franquin and Morris and later by Jijé and Jack Davis...
(artist) - Zig et PuceZig et PuceZig et Puce is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Alain Saint-Ogan in 1925 that became popular and influential over a long period. After ending production, it was revived by Greg for a second successful publication run.-Synopsis :...
by Alain Saint-OganAlain Saint-OganAlain Saint-Ogan was a French comics author and artist.-Biography:In 1925, he created the well-known comic strip Zig et Puce , which initially appeared in the Dimanche Illustré , the weekly youth supplement of the French daily newspaper, l'Excelsior.His other comic...
, later revived by Greg
Germany (Comic)
- Fix und FoxiFix and FoxiFix und Foxi, created by the comic book editor Rolf Kauka, is the most successful and best known German comic series. The weekly magazine, taking its name from the two fox protagonists, was published for more than 40 years between 1953 and 1994...
created by Rolf KaukaRolf KaukaRolf Kauka was a comic artist, most famous for the series Fix and Foxi.... - Das kleine Arschloch by Walter MoersWalter MoersWalter Moers is one of the best-known and commercially most successful German comic creators and authors.-Life and work:...
- MosaikMosaikMosaik is a German comic book. First published in December 1955, it is the longest-running German monthly comic book and the only one originating in East Germany that still exists. Mosaik also appeared in other countries and other languages...
created by Hannes HegenHannes HegenHannes Hegen is a German illustrator and caricaturist and is most famous for creating the East German comic book Mosaik and its original protagonists, the Digedags.He studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig... - Nick KnattertonNick KnattertonNick Knatterton is a German comic strip character, drawn by Manfred Schmidt from 1950 to 1959. The name is alluding to Nick Carter and Nat Pinkerton...
created by Manfred SchmidtManfred SchmidtManfred Schmidt may refer to:* Manfred Schmid , Austrian luger* Manfred G. Schmidt , German professor of political science* Manfred Schmidt , German author and cartoonist... - Sigurd by Hansrudi Wäscher
- Various gay comics by Ralf KönigRalf KönigRalf König is one of the best known and most commercially successful German comic book creators. His books have been translated into many languages...
- WernerWerner (comics)Werner is a fictional character, appearing in a number of German comic books and animated films. He was created by Brösel . Werner is the most successful German comic character of all time with over 10 million books sold and over 13 million film admissions...
by Brösel
India
- Amar Chitra KathaAmar Chitra KathaAmar Chitra Katha Stories") is one of India's largest selling comic book series, with more than 90 million copies sold in 20 Indian languages. Founded in 1967, the imprint has more than 400 titles that retell stories from the great Indian epics, mythology, history, folklore, and fables in a comic...
by India Book HouseIndia Book HouseIndia Book House Pvt. Limited is an importer, distributor and publisher of books and magazines in India.Formed in 1952, India Book House published paperback editions of children's authors such as Enid Blyton and Frederick Forsyth, as well as magazines such as Tintin and Asterix, often in Indian... - Batul The GreatBatul The GreatBatul, Bantul, or Batul the Great ,or Bantul the Great , is a popular Bengali comic strip character created by Narayan Debnath. It first appeared and still appears in a children's magazine called Shuktara and is widely read, not only by children but by adults as well...
- BillooBillooBilloo is a popular Indian comic character created by Pran Kumar Sharma. It is published by Diamond Comics. The character was created in 1973....
- Bombaby the Screen GoddessBombaby the Screen GoddessBombaby the Screen Goddess is a fictional character published in a comic book of the same name written by Antony Mazzotta and published by Slave Labor Graphics...
published by Slave Labour Graphics - Chacha ChaudharyChacha ChaudharyChacha Chaudhary is a popular Indian comic book character, created by cartoonist Pran. The comic comes in ten Indian languages including Hindi and English and has sold almost ten million copies. Chacha Chaudhary has also been made into a television series with Raghuvir Yadav playing...
by Pran, published by Diamond ComicsDiamond ComicsDiamond Comics Pvt. Ltd. is the largest comic book distributor and publisher in India.-Overview:Diamond Comics is responsible for popular Indian comics characters such as Chacha Chaudhary. Diamond Comics has been publishing many foreign characters comics such as Phantom, Superman, Batman,... - ChandamamaChandamamaChandamama in Kannada and Telugu means moon. It may refer to:* Chandamama, an Indian monthly magazine focused on kids and youngsters* Chandamama , a Malayalam film starring Kunchacko Boban...
- the oldest Indian comic - CorridorCorridor (graphic novel)Corridor is an Indian graphic novel, written and illustrated by Sarnath Banerjee, set in contemporary Delhi. A shop owner by the name of Jehangir Rangoonwalla interacts with other residents of Delhi that all visit his shop.-Plot summary:...
by Sarnath BanerjeeSarnath BanerjeeSarnath Banerjee is an Indian graphic novelist, artist, and film maker.-Biography:Banerjee was born in Calcutta and lives and works in Delhi, India. He studied image and communication at Goldsmiths College, University of London.... - Detective MoochwalaDetective MoochwalaDetective Moochwala is an eponymous Indian magazine comic strip created by the well-known Indian cartoonist Ajit Ninan. The strip chronicles the adventures of Moochwala, a fictional detective, and his dog Pooch who solve several crimes armed with high tech equipment and a little...
created by Ajit NinanAjit NinanAjit Ninan is a well-known Indian political cartoonist, best known for drawing the Centrestage series of cartoons in India Today magazine and Ninan's World in the Times of India.... - Gardhab DasGardhab DasGardhab Das created by cartoonists brothers Neelabh and Jayanto Banerjee was a comic section run in the Indian youth magazine Target. The main character Gardhab Das had a donkey face and was always depicted wearing a kurta and pajamas. His main trait was his singing or lack of it. He was a...
created by Neelabh and Jayanto - Handa BhondaHanda BhondaHanda Bhonda , also referred to as Hada Bhoda is a Bangla comic-strip creation of Narayan Debnath which originally was serialized for the children's monthly magazine Shuktara. The comics have appeared in book form...
- Indrajal ComicsIndrajal ComicsIndrajal Comics was a series launched by the publisher of The Times of India, Bennet, Coleman & Co in March 1964. The first 32 issues contained Lee Falk's The Phantom stories, but thereafter, the title alternated between various King Features characters, including Lee Falk's Mandrake, Alex...
by The Times of IndiaThe Times of IndiaThe Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspaper in the world, across all formats . It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd...
. - KrishnaKrishnaKrishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...
by India Book HouseIndia Book HouseIndia Book House Pvt. Limited is an importer, distributor and publisher of books and magazines in India.Formed in 1952, India Book House published paperback editions of children's authors such as Enid Blyton and Frederick Forsyth, as well as magazines such as Tintin and Asterix, often in Indian... - LotpotLotpotLotpot is a Hindi comic magazine published by Mayapuri Group of publications. 'Lotpot' title was registered by Mr.A.P.Bajaj in 1969 and first issue came out in same year and has been published without a break since then. Initially it was a fortnightly magazine which later on switched to weekly...
by Mayapuri Group - Madhu MuskanMadhu MuskanMadhu Muskan was a weekly comic magazine from the publisher of the popular film magazine 'Mayapuri', which had a circulation of up to 1,00,000 in the late 1970s....
by Mayapuri Group - MahabharataMahabharataThe Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India and Nepal, the other being the Ramayana. The epic is part of itihasa....
by India Book HouseIndia Book HouseIndia Book House Pvt. Limited is an importer, distributor and publisher of books and magazines in India.Formed in 1952, India Book House published paperback editions of children's authors such as Enid Blyton and Frederick Forsyth, as well as magazines such as Tintin and Asterix, often in Indian... - Nonte PhonteNonte PhonteNonte Phonte , also spelled as Nonte Fonte, is a Bangla comic-strip creation of Narayan Debnath which originally was serialized for the children's monthly magazine Kishore Bharati...
- RamayanaRamayanaThe Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon , considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata...
by India Book HouseIndia Book HouseIndia Book House Pvt. Limited is an importer, distributor and publisher of books and magazines in India.Formed in 1952, India Book House published paperback editions of children's authors such as Enid Blyton and Frederick Forsyth, as well as magazines such as Tintin and Asterix, often in Indian... - Spider-Man: IndiaSpider-Man: IndiaSpider-Man: India is a comic book originally published in India by Gotham Entertainment Group in 2004, retelling the story of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man in an Indian setting. It ran for four issues, which were later also published in the United States in 2005 and collected into a trade paperback...
published by Gotham Entertainment GroupGotham Entertainment GroupGotham Entertainment Group LLC is a US based company established in 1997 to establish a leadership position in the Indian comic magazine and children's book market... - The book of Pi by Electron Studio
- TinkleTinkleTinkle is an Indian monthly magazine, published mainly in India. Originally owned by the India Book House, the Tinkle brand was acquired by ACK Media in 2007. The Magazine contains comics, stories, puzzles, quizzes, contests and other features targeted at school children, although its readership...
by India Book House - Tiranga published by Raj ComicsRaj ComicsRaj Comics is an Indian comic book line published by a division of Raja Pocket Books.Raj Comics' best-known characters include Nagraj, Super Commando Dhruva, Doga, Parmanu, Shakti, Bhokal and Super Indian.-History:...
- VimanaramaVimanaramaVimanarama is a three-issue comic book mini-series written by Grant Morrison, with art by Philip Bond, and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.-Synopsis:...
by Vertigo
Raj Comics
Raj Comics
Raj Comics is an Indian comic book line published by a division of Raja Pocket Books.Raj Comics' best-known characters include Nagraj, Super Commando Dhruva, Doga, Parmanu, Shakti, Bhokal and Super Indian.-History:...
- Bankelal
- Bheriya
- Bhokal
- DogaDoga (comics)Doga is a hero character appearing in Raj Comics, published and distributed across India. Created by Tarun kumar Wahi, Sanjay Gupta & artist Manu in the year 1992, Doga is the first and the only antihero character in Raj Comics...
- Gamraj
- Nagraj one of the most popular indigenous comic books
- ParmanuParmanuParmanu is a fictional Indian superhero published by Raj Comics.-Fictional character background:Vinay was a highschool student when he saw some criminals kill his classmate during exams. He took an oath to revenge her death. He found the revolver that was used as the murder weapon. The killer was...
- ShaktiShaktiShakti from Sanskrit shak - "to be able," meaning sacred force or empowerment, is the primordial cosmic energy and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe in Hinduism. Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes...
- Super Commando DhruvaSuper Commando DhruvaSuper Commando Dhruva is a fictional superhero in comic books published by Raj Comics. The character first appeared in "Pratishodh Ki Jwala" and was created by writer and artist Anupam Sinha...
Virgin Comic's Shakti line
Italy (fumetto)
- Alan Ford by Max BunkerMax BunkerMax Bunker, pseudonym of Luciano Secchi is an Italian comic book author.Secchi was born in Milan. His career started with a western style comic book Maschera Nera , in 1962, and went on to enjoy success with Kriminal and Satanik in collaboration with Magnus...
(author) and MagnusRoberto RaviolaMagnus, pseudonym of Roberto Raviola, was an Italian comic book artist, regarded as one of the foremost cartoonists of all time in his country.-Biography:Born in Bologna in 1939, Raviola lived there for his whole life....
(artist) - CalaveraCalavera (comics)Calavera is an Italian adult comic book featuring a female character with razor claws named Francisca Calavera. It was created by writer Enrico Teodorani and artist Joe Vigil, published in Italy by E.F. edizioni, and in the U.S. by Carnal Comics as Calavera: Beautiful, Bloody & Bare.Calavera is a...
by Enrico Teodorani and Joe Vigil - Il Gioco ("Click") by Milo ManaraMilo ManaraMaurilio Manara – known professionally as Milo Manara – is an Italian comic book writer and artist, best known for his erotic approach to the medium.-Career:...
- Cocco BillCocco BillCocco Bill is an Italian comics character by Benito Jacovitti. He is the star of a parody Western comic set in hypothetical places in the Far West. He is a hot-tempered gunslinger who drinks chamomile tea. Occasionally mocked for this, Bill responds with violence...
by Benito JacovittiBenito JacovittiBenito Jacovitti was an Italian comic artist.Benito Jacovitti was born in Termoli, Molise in the southern part of the country. He was still a kid when he started drawing on the pavement of the village's streets. The son of a railwayman, Benito entered Macerata's art school at age 11, graduating to...
, - Corto MalteseCorto MalteseCorto Maltese is a comics series featuring an eponymous character, a complex sailor-adventurer. It was created by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt in 1967...
by Hugo PrattHugo PrattHugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese... - DiabolikDiabolikDiabolik is a fictional character, an anti-hero featured in Italian comics. He was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962. His stories appear in monthly black and white digest-sized booklets. The character was inspired by several previous characters from Italian and French pulp...
by Angela e Luciana Giussani - DjustineDjustineDjustine is an Italian comic book series written by Enrico Teodorani.The Djustine character was created from a fusion of Sergio Corbucci's film character Django, and the Marquis de Sade's titular "Justine".- Publication history :...
by Enrico Teodorani - DruunaDruunaDruuna is an erotic science fiction and fantasy comic book character created by Italian cartoonist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri. Most of Druuna's adventures revolve around a post-apocalyptic future, and the plot is often a vehicle for varied scenes of hardcore pornography and softcore sexual imagery...
by Serpieri - Dylan DogDylan DogDylan Dog is an Italian horror comics series featuring an eponymous character created by Tiziano Sclavi for the publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore...
by Tiziano SclaviTiziano SclaviTiziano Sclavi is an Italian comic book author, journalist and writer of several novels. Sclavi is most famous as creator of the comic book Dylan Dog in 1986, for Italian publishing house Sergio Bonelli Editore... - Fort WheelingFort WheelingFort Wheeling, or simply Wheeling, is the title of a comics series set in colonial North America, by Italian comics creator Hugo Pratt.-Publication history:Wheeling first appeared in the Argentine comics magazine Misterix in 1962...
by Hugo PrattHugo PrattHugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese... - Giuseppe BergmanGiuseppe BergmanGiuseppe Bergman is the Candide-like protagonist of the works of Italian cartoonist Milo Manara. The anti-heroic Italian youth stars in four graphic novels which are an ironic deconstruction of adventure stories and comic books as a medium....
by Milo ManaraMilo ManaraMaurilio Manara – known professionally as Milo Manara – is an Italian comic book writer and artist, best known for his erotic approach to the medium.-Career:... - Jesuit JoeJesuit JoeJesuit Joe is a mysterious character who appears in the eponymous story of Italian comics creator Hugo Pratt. This graphic novel was initially serialised in Pilote, before it was released as hardcover albums in 1980, in France entitled Jésuite Joe, and in Italy, entitled L'uomo del grande nord,...
by Hugo PrattHugo PrattHugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese... - Julia by Giancarlo Berardi (writer)
- Ken Parker by Giancarlo Berardi (writer) and Ivo Milazzo (artist)
- KriminalKriminalKriminal is an Italian comics series featuring an eponymous fictional character, created in 1964 by Magnus and Max Bunker, the authors of Alan Ford, Maxmagnus and Satanik.-Characters:...
by Max BunkerMax BunkerMax Bunker, pseudonym of Luciano Secchi is an Italian comic book author.Secchi was born in Milan. His career started with a western style comic book Maschera Nera , in 1962, and went on to enjoy success with Kriminal and Satanik in collaboration with Magnus...
and MagnusRoberto RaviolaMagnus, pseudonym of Roberto Raviola, was an Italian comic book artist, regarded as one of the foremost cartoonists of all time in his country.-Biography:Born in Bologna in 1939, Raviola lived there for his whole life.... - Magico VentoMagico VentoMagico Vento is the character of an Italian comics book/western with the same name, issued monthly by Sergio Bonelli Editore. Magico Vento's true name is Ned Ellis, a former member of US Army who had become an Indian shaman...
by Gianfranco Manfredi (writer) - Martin MystèreMartin MystèreMartin Mystère is an Italian comic book. Created by writer Alfredo Castelli and drawn by Giancarlo Alessandrini, it was first published in Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore in 1982....
by Alfredo CastelliAlfredo CastelliAlfredo Castelli is an Italian comic book author and writer.-Biography:Born in Milan, Castelli began his comic book career at an early age, creating the strip Scheletrino, a humor series for Italian comic book Diabolik, when he was only 16 years old.In 1966, with Paolo Sala, he created Comics Club...
(author) and Giancarlo AlessandriniGiancarlo Alessandrini-Biography:Born in Iesi, Alessandrini graduated from Ancona's Art Institute and begins drawing comics professionally in 1972 for Il Corriere dei Ragazzi with the story Il Cifrario del Maggiore Martin written by Mino Milani...
(artist) - Milady nel 3000 by MagnusRoberto RaviolaMagnus, pseudonym of Roberto Raviola, was an Italian comic book artist, regarded as one of the foremost cartoonists of all time in his country.-Biography:Born in Bologna in 1939, Raviola lived there for his whole life....
- Morgan by Hugo PrattHugo PrattHugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese...
- RanXeroxRanXeroxRanxerox is a science fiction graphic novel series by Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore, two Italian artists who had worked on such magazines as Cannibale and Frigidaire...
by Tanino LiberatoreTanino LiberatoreGaetano Liberatore , better known as Tanino Liberatore, is an Italian comics author and illustrator. His best known fictional character is RanXerox.- Life and work :...
and Stefano TamburiniStefano TamburiniStefano Tamburini was an Italian graphic artist, author and publisher.Born in Rome, he founded the magazines Combinazioni , Cannibale and Frigidaire... - Rat-ManRat-Man (comics)Rat-Man is an Italian comic about an inept superhero of the same name, created by Leonardo Ortolani in 1989. Although it was initially meant to be a satire of other superheroes, most prominently Batman, it has since evolved into an independent comic sporting a complex, evolving continuity...
by Leo Ortolani - SatanikSatanikSatanik is an Italian noir comic book created in December 1964 by Max Bunker and Magnus , also the authors of the popular series Kriminal and Alan Ford.-Synopsis:...
by Max BunkerMax BunkerMax Bunker, pseudonym of Luciano Secchi is an Italian comic book author.Secchi was born in Milan. His career started with a western style comic book Maschera Nera , in 1962, and went on to enjoy success with Kriminal and Satanik in collaboration with Magnus...
and MagnusRoberto RaviolaMagnus, pseudonym of Roberto Raviola, was an Italian comic book artist, regarded as one of the foremost cartoonists of all time in his country.-Biography:Born in Bologna in 1939, Raviola lived there for his whole life.... - Lo SconosciutoLo SconosciutoLo Sconosciuto is an Italian comics series created in 1975 by Roberto Raviola, better known his pseudonym Magnus. It has been translated into English as The Specialist....
("The Specialist") by MagnusRoberto RaviolaMagnus, pseudonym of Roberto Raviola, was an Italian comic book artist, regarded as one of the foremost cartoonists of all time in his country.-Biography:Born in Bologna in 1939, Raviola lived there for his whole life.... - The Scorpions of the Desert (Gli scorpioni del deserto) by Hugo PrattHugo PrattHugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese...
- Sergeant KirkSergeant KirkSergeant Kirk, El Sargento Kirk or Sgt. Kirk, is the title and main character of a western comics series by Italian comic book creator Hugo Pratt and Argentine author Héctor Germán Oesterheld.-Publication history:...
by Hugo PrattHugo PrattHugo Eugenio Pratt was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese... - Tex WillerTex WillerTex Willer is the main fictional character of the Italian comics series Tex, created by writer Gian Luigi Bonelli and illustrator Aurelio Galleppini, and first published in Italy on 30 September 1948. It is among the most popular characters of Italian comics, with translations to numerous ...
by G.L.Bonelli (author) and Aurelio GalleppiniAurelio GalleppiniAurelio Galleppini , better known with his nickname Galep, was an Italian comics artist and illustrator....
(artist) - La BiondaLa BiondaLa Bionda is a musical duo formed by brothers Carmelo and Michelangelo La Bionda, who are considered the inventors of Italian disco music.-Biography:The grew up in Milan....
(The Blonde) by Franco SaudelliFranco SaudelliFranco Saudelli is an Italian comics artist, mostly known for his erotic stories.-Biography:Franco Saudelli was born in Latina , but moved soon to Rome.... - Valentina by Guido CrepaxGuido CrepaxGuido Crepax was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character Valentina, created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the sixties. The Valentina series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the psychedelic, dreamlike storylines,...
- Wheela by Enrico Teodorani
- W.I.T.C.H.W.I.T.C.H.W.I.T.C.H. is an Italian fantasy/Magical girl comic series created by Elisabetta Gnone, Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa. It tells the story of five teenage girls who are chosen to be the new Guardians of Kandrakar, protectors of the center of the universe from people and creatures who wish...
by Elisabetta GnoneElisabetta GnoneElisabetta Gnone is an Italian writer. In April 2001, she co-created the Italian comic/magazine W.I.T.C.H. with Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa. The publication was later made into the television series of the same name... - ZagorZagorZagor is an Italian comic book created by editor and writer Sergio Bonelli and artist Gallieno Ferri. Zagor was first published In Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore in 1961.-Character:...
by Sergio BonelliSergio BonelliSergio Bonelli was an Italian comic book author and publisher.Sergio Bonelli was born in Milan, the son of Gian Luigi Bonelli, the creator of Tex Willer and many other Italian comic strips. In order to distinguish himself from his father, he usually wrote his scripts under the pen name Guido Nolitta...
Mexico (historieta or monitos)
- Los Agachados by RiusRiusEduardo del Río is a famous Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer born in Zamora, Michoacán....
- El CerdotadoCerdotadoThe Mexican comic character El Cerdotado was created in Monterrey, Mexico, by Leopoldo Jasso...
by Leopoldo Jasso - La familia Burrón by Gabriel VargasGabriel VargasGabriel Bernal Vargas was a Mexican painter, artist and cartoonist, whose comic strip La Familia Burrón was created in 1937. This cartoon has been described as one of the most important in Mexican popular culture...
- KalimánKalimánKaliman is the name of a Mexican comic book hero very famous across Latin America. He was created by Rafael Cutberto Navarro and Modesto Vázquez González. The Kaliman comic depicts the adventures of Kaliman and his young companion Solín, an Egyptian boy who is descended from Pharaohs...
- KarmatronKarmatronKarmatrón y los Transformables is a comic book created in 1986 by Oscar González Loyo, and published first at CEPSA...
by Oscar Gonzalez LoyoOscar González LoyoOscar González Loyo, born April 11, 1959 in Mexico City; is a comic book artist, author of Karmatrón y Los Transformables. He is also founder and CEO of ¡Ka-Boom! Estudio... - Los Supermachos by RiusRiusEduardo del Río is a famous Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer born in Zamora, Michoacán....
- UltrapatoUltrapatoUltrapato is a fictional character, a superhero starring a five issues miniseries comic created by Mexican cartoonist Edgar Delgado and published in México in 1994.-Publication history:...
by Edgar Delgado
The Netherlands (stripverhaal)
- Agent 327Agent 327Agent 327 is a playful Dutch action/comedy comic series by artist Martin Lodewijk from 1966 onward, with a hiatus between 1983 and 2000. Featuring the eponymous Agent 327 as a James Bond/Maxwell Smart-like Dutch secret agent who fights for "Righteousness and World Peace", his looks are based on the...
by Martin LodewijkMartin LodewijkMartinus Spyridon Johannes Lodewijk is a Dutch comics writer and cartoonist, and advertising adviser.Martin Lodewijk was born in Rotterdam. He dropped out of high school in 1957, and started drawing cartoons, notably of spacecraft and pirates... - Dirk-Jan by Mark ReteraMark ReteraMark Retera is a comic strip writer and artist.He studied cognitive science at the current Radboud University Nijmegen before turning full-time artist.He is the author of DirkJan and also draws caricatures for the Dutch weekly "Panorama".*...
- Eric De Noorman by Hans G. Kresse
- De Familie Doorzon by Gerrit de JagerGerrit de JagerGerrit de Jager is a Dutch comic-artist, creator of series like De familie Doorzon, Liefde en geluk, Zusje and Roel en zijn Beestenboel....
- De Generaal by Peter de SmetPeter de SmetPeter de Smet was a Dutch comic-strip artist.He was the author of De Generaal . From the 1960s onwards he worked as an artist in advertising. An early version of De Generaal was sold to Tintin magazine but never published...
- Gilles de Geus by Hanco Kolk & Peter de Wit
- Heinz by Eddie De Jong en René Windig
- Jan, Jans en de Kinderen by Jan KruisJan KruisJan Kruis is a Dutch comics artist.He began creating comics as a child. Later he worked for the Dutch comics pioneer Marten Toonder....
- SigmundSigmund (comics)Doctor Sigmund is a Dutch comics character created by Peter de Wit for daily newspaper De Volkskrant, one of the last broadsheets in the Netherlands. His name derives from Sigmund Freud....
by Peter De Wit - StormStorm (Don Lawrence)Storm is a soft science fiction/fantasy comic book series originally drawn by Don Lawrence. The series is primarily available in Dutch, although all the books are translated in English and German, and some in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Croatian, Serbian,...
by Don LawrenceDon LawrenceDonald Southam Lawrence was a British comic book artist and author.Lawrence is best known for his comic strips The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire in the British weeklies Ranger and Look and Learn and the Storm series, first published in the Dutch weekly Eppo...
(artist) - Tom PussTom PussTom Puss is a fictional anthropomorphic cat and one of the two main characters, the other being Oliver B. Bumble Tom Puss (Tom Poes in Dutch language) is a fictional anthropomorphic cat and one of the two main characters, the other being Oliver B. Bumble Tom Puss (Tom Poes in Dutch language) is a...
(Tom Poes) by Marten ToonderMarten ToonderMarten Toonder was a Dutch comic creator, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence in the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions....
Norway (tegneserier)
- MM (comic strip)M is a Norwegian comic strip, written by Mads Eriksen. it is published in daily newspapers such as Dagbladet, as well as in its own monthly magazine M. Previously published as a guest strip in Pondus magazine, it established its own dedicated magazine near the end of 2006...
by Mads EriksenMads EriksenMads Eriksen is a Norwegian cartoonist, best known for the comic strips M and Gnom.-Biography:Eriksen was born in Malvik. His career in comics began in 2000, when his first comic strip, Gnom, was accepted into Smult, a magazine dedicated to promoting promising Norwegian cartoonists... - NemiNemi (comic strip)Nemi is a Norwegian comic strip, written and drawn by Lise Myhre. It made its first appearance in 1997 under the title Den svarte siden...
by Lise MyhreLise MyhreLise Myhre is a Norwegian cartoonist. Her most famous cartoon is Nemi.After a short study of graphical design at the Santa Monica College of Art in California, Lise Myhre started her career as an artist, earning money illustrating CD covers and t-shirts... - PondusPondusPondus is a comic strip created by the Norwegian cartoonist Frode Øverli. Since its start in 1994, it has become one of the most successful comic strips in Scandinavia...
by Frode ØverliFrode ØverliFrode Øverli is a Norwegian comic strip cartoonist, considered one of the most successful in Scandinavia.- Biography :...
Poland (komiks)
- Awantury i wybryki małej małpki Fiki-Miki by Kornel MakuszyńskiKornel MakuszynskiKornel Makuszyński was a Polish writer of children's and youth literature.-Life:Makuszyński attended the Jan Długosz gymnasium in Lviv . While in school he wrote occasional poetry , and had his first poem published in 1902 in the newspaper Słowo Polskie , for which he soon became a theatrical critic...
(author) and Marian Walentynowicz (artist) - Biblia by Jerzy Wróblewski
- Binio Bill by Jerzy Wróblewski
- Biocosmosis by Edvin Volinski (author) and Nikodem Cabała (artist)
- Dziesięciu z wielkiej ziemi by Jerzy Wróblewski
- Funky KovalFunky KovalFunky Koval is a 3-part Polish science fiction/detective story/political fiction genre comic book published in People's Republic of Poland in the 1980s. It gained a cult following and is still recognized as one of the best Polish comics.-History:...
by Maciej ParowskiMaciej ParowskiMaciej Parowski is a Polish publicist, essayist, writer and translator. Critic of science-fiction, chief editor of Nowa Fantastyka from 1992-2003, editor of several science-fiction series and anthologies. Chief editor of Czas Fantastyki...
, Jacek Rodek (authors), and Boguslaw Polch (artist) - Gail by Piotr KowalskiPiotr KowalskiPiotr Kowalski was an artist, sculptor, and architect. He was born 2 March, 1927, in Poland, and died 7 January 2004 in Paris.Piotr Kowalski worked in non-traditional materials including electronic and mechanical devices, neon, large earth works, explosions and other natural phenomena including...
- JanosikJanosikJanosik can refer to:* Janosik , a Polish movie* Janosik , a Polish TV series* Janosik. Prawdziwa historia, a Polish historical filmJanošik:* Janošik, a village in Serbia Jánošík:...
by Tadeusz Kwiatkowski and prof. Jerzy Skarzynski (artist) - Kajtek i Koko and Kajko i KokoszKajko i KokoszKajko i Kokosz is a notable comic book series by Janusz Christa, published in Poland between 1970's and 1980s. It is based around a story of two Slavic warriors named Kajko and Kokosz, loosely resembling both Asterix and Obelix, as well as two personalities from Christa's earlier series on Kajtek...
by Janusz ChristaJanusz ChristaJanusz Christa was a Polish author of comic books, creator of the comic book series Kajtek i Koko and his perhaps most famous, Kajko i Kokosz series. He debuted in 1957 and many of his works have been printed in the Wieczór Wybrzeza and Świat Młodych magazines... - Kapitan Kloss by Andrzej Zbych and Mieczyslaw Wisniewski
- Kapitan ŻbikKapitan ZbikKapitan Żbik is a Polish comic book series published in years 1967-1982. Title hero, Jan Żbik is a Milicja Obywatelska captain.There were 53 comics about Żbik released. A sequel, entitled Komisarz Żbik , was started in 2006...
created by Władysław Krupka - Na co dybie w wielorybie czubek nosa Eskimosa by Tadeusz Baranowski
- Pilot smiglowca by Witold Jarkowski (author) and Grzegorz RosinskiGrzegorz RosinskiGrzegorz Rosiński is a Polish comic book artist. He is best known for the series Thorgal.-Early life:Grzegorz Rosiński was born in Stalowa Wola in 1941...
(artist) - Przygody Kleksa by Szarlota PawelSzarlota PawelEugenia Szarlota Pawel-Kroll is a Polish comic book artist, creator of the popular series about 'Kleks'.-References:...
- Przygody Koziołka Matołka by Kornel MakuszyńskiKornel MakuszynskiKornel Makuszyński was a Polish writer of children's and youth literature.-Life:Makuszyński attended the Jan Długosz gymnasium in Lviv . While in school he wrote occasional poetry , and had his first poem published in 1902 in the newspaper Słowo Polskie , for which he soon became a theatrical critic...
(author) and Marian Walentynowicz (artist) - Straine by Krzysztof Tkaczyk and Bartosz Minkiewicz
- Tajemnica złotej maczety by Jerzy Wróblewski
- Tytus, Romek i A'tomekTytus, Romek i A'TomekTytus, Romek i A'Tomek is the longest-published and one of the most popular Polish comic book series, created by Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski in 1957 and concluded in 2009. It centers around Romek and A'Tomek, two boy scouts, and Tytus de Zoo, a chimpanzee with the ability of human speech...
by Henryk Chmielewski - Walenty Pompka na wojnie by Ryszard Kiersnowski (author) and Marian Walentynowicz (artist)
- Wick i Wacek by Wacław Drozdowski
Serbia
- Cat Claw
- KobraKobra (comic book)Kobra was a Serbian comic book series from 1979, about a young stunt man who possessed extraordinary martial arts abilities, and his adventures around the world. The comic was created by Branislav Kerac....
- Tarzan (Serbian Version)
- Billy the Spit
- TechnotiseTechnotiseTechnotise is a Serbian comic book created by Aleksa Gajić and Darko Grkinić. It was promoted in an unusual way for Serbian comics, by the main character being featured in the music video Bombona?, for which Gajić composed the music...
- Generation TeslaGeneration TeslaGeneration Tesla was a Serbian comic book series from 1995 about a superhero team of the same name, published by "Luxor comic" in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The comic represented one of the biggest attempts to revive the comic scene in Serbia during the 1990s, after the breakup of Yugoslavia...
- Faktor 4
Spain (historieta, cómic or tebeo)
- 13, Rue del Percebe13, Rue del Percebe13, Rue del Percebe is a Spanish comic book created by Francisco Ibáñez that debuted in the pages of Tío Vivo magazine on March 6, 1961 and quickly became highly popular....
by Francisco IbañezFrancisco IbáñezFrancisco Ibañez may refer to:*Francisco Ibáñez de Peralta , Spanish Royal Governor of Chile*Francisco Ibáñez Talavera , Spanish comic book artist and writer*Francisco Ibáñez Campos , Chilean footballer... - 7, Rebolling Street by Francisco IbañezFrancisco IbáñezFrancisco Ibañez may refer to:*Francisco Ibáñez de Peralta , Spanish Royal Governor of Chile*Francisco Ibáñez Talavera , Spanish comic book artist and writer*Francisco Ibáñez Campos , Chilean footballer...
- Anacleto, agente secreto by Manuel Vázquez
- BogeyBogey (comics)Bogey is a Spanish crime comics and science fiction series set in a futuristic world, written by Antonio Segura and drawn by Leopoldo Sánchez, featuring the central character Bogey Nicolson, a private detective. It was first self-published by the artist Sánchez in 1981 and later in the Spanish...
by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
(story) and Leopoldo Sanchez (artist) - El botones Sacarino by Francisco Ibañez
- Burton & Cyb by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
(story) and José OrtizJosé Ortiz (comics)José Ortiz Moya is a Spanish comics artist, best known for several collaborations with Antonio Segura, such as the series Hombre.-Biography:...
(artist) - El Capitán TruenoCapitán TruenoEl Capitán Trueno was the hero of a series of Spanish comic books, created in 1956 by the writer Víctor Mora and illustrated mainly by Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza . The comics were published continuously between 1956 and 1968, eventually becoming the most popular Spanish hero comic of all times: at...
by Víctor MoraVíctor MoraVictor Mora is a Spanish writer of comic books.Born in Barcelona, he created and wrote the series Capitán Trueno, El Jabato, Dani Futuro, El Cosaco Verde, and El Corsario de Hierro. -Sources:...
(author) and AmbrósAmbrósMiguel Ambrosio Zaragoza , better known as Ambrós, was a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno .-Career:...
(artist) - CarpantaCarpantaCarpanta is the name of a Spanish character and comic book created by José Escobar Saliente. Carpanta is perpetually hungry. Escobar created Carpanta as a symbol of the misery in postwar Spain....
by José Escobar SalienteJosé Escobar SalienteJosé Escobar Saliente was a Spanish comic book writer and artist, born in Barcelona. He signed as Escobar, and is most famous for his creation Zipi y Zape, as well as the character Carpanta... - Chicha, Tato y Clodoveo by Francisco Ibañez
- Cicca Dum-Dum by Carlos Trillo (story) and Jordi BernetJordi BernetJordi Bernet Cussó is a Spanish comics artist, best known for the gangster comics series Torpedo and Jonah Hex.-Career:He was born in Barcelona, the son of a Spanish comic book artist, Miguel Bernet....
(artist) - Clara de noche by Carlos Trillo & Eduardo Maicas (story) and Jordi BernetJordi BernetJordi Bernet Cussó is a Spanish comics artist, best known for the gangster comics series Torpedo and Jonah Hex.-Career:He was born in Barcelona, the son of a Spanish comic book artist, Miguel Bernet....
(artist) - El Corsario de Hierro by Victor Mora and Ambrós
- Curro Córner by Ozelui
- Deliranta Rococó by Martz Schmidt
- El doctor Cataplasma by Martz Schmidt
- Doña Urraca by Jorge, later: Jordi Bernet, Martz Schmidt
- Eva Medusa by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
(story) and Ana MirallesAna MirallesAna Miralles is a Spanish comic books artist, known particularly for her treatment of erotic subjects....
(artist) - La familia Cebolleta by Manuel Vázquez
- La familia Trapisonda by Francisco IbañezFrancisco IbáñezFrancisco Ibañez may refer to:*Francisco Ibáñez de Peralta , Spanish Royal Governor of Chile*Francisco Ibáñez Talavera , Spanish comic book artist and writer*Francisco Ibáñez Campos , Chilean footballer...
- FanhunterFanhunterFanhunter is a bizarre "universe" created by the Spanish comic author Cels Piñol. The Fanhunter universe combines subcultural elements from comics, sci-fi, role playing games, action films.....
by Cels Piñol - Frank Cappa by Manfred SommerManfred SommerManfred Sommer was a Spanish comics artist, best known for the reporter comics series Frank Cappa.-Career:Sommer was born at San Sebastián....
- Goomer by Ricardo Martinez (story) and Nacho Moreno (artist)
- El Guerrero del Antifaz by Manuel Gago García
- Las hermanas Gilda by Manuel Vázquez (creator) and others
- HombreHombre (comics)Hombre is a Spanish comics series written by Antonio Segura and drawn by José Ortiz, first published in 1981 in the magazine Cimoc.-Publication history:...
by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
(story) and José OrtizJosé Ortiz (comics)José Ortiz Moya is a Spanish comics artist, best known for several collaborations with Antonio Segura, such as the series Hombre.-Biography:...
(artist) - Iberia Inc. by Rafael MarínRafael MarinRafael Marín Trechera is a Spanish novelist, translator, comic book writer and co-plotter.He is best known in the United States for his work with artist Carlos Pacheco on the Fantastic Four Vol.3 title in 2000 and 2001, and The Inhumans with José Ladronn and Jorge Lucas...
and Carlos PachecoCarlos PachecoCarlos Pacheco is a Spanish comic book artist and penciller. Pacheco was born in San Roque, Cádiz. He is best known in the United States for his work on titles such as Avengers Forever, X-Men and Green Lantern...
(writers) and Rafa Fronteriz and Jesús Yugo (artists). - El JabatoEl JabatoEl Jabato is the hero of a series of Spanish comic books, created in 1958 by the writer Víctor Mora and illustrated mainly by Francisco Darnís...
by Víctor Mora (author) and Francisco Darnís (artist) - Juan el Largo by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
(story) and José OrtizJosé Ortiz (comics)José Ortiz Moya is a Spanish comics artist, best known for several collaborations with Antonio Segura, such as the series Hombre.-Biography:...
(artist) - KrakenKraken (comics)Kraken is a Spanish comics series, written by Antonio Segura and drawn by Jordi Bernet, first published in the magazine Metropol in 1983...
by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
(story) and Jordi BernetJordi BernetJordi Bernet Cussó is a Spanish comics artist, best known for the gangster comics series Torpedo and Jonah Hex.-Career:He was born in Barcelona, the son of a Spanish comic book artist, Miguel Bernet....
(artist) - Mirlowe y Violeta by Raf
- Morgan by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
(story) and José OrtizJosé Ortiz (comics)José Ortiz Moya is a Spanish comics artist, best known for several collaborations with Antonio Segura, such as the series Hombre.-Biography:...
(artist) - Mortadelo y FilemónMortadelo y FilemónMort & Phil is one of the most popular Spanish comics series, published in more than a dozen countries. It appeared for the first time in 1958 in the children's comic-book Pulgarcito drawn by Francisco Ibáñez...
by Francisco IbañezFrancisco IbáñezFrancisco Ibañez may refer to:*Francisco Ibáñez de Peralta , Spanish Royal Governor of Chile*Francisco Ibáñez Talavera , Spanish comic book artist and writer*Francisco Ibáñez Campos , Chilean footballer... - OrkaOrka (comics)Orka is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner #23 and was created by writer Roy Thomas and Marie Severin.-Publication history:...
by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
(story) and Luis BermejoLuis BermejoLuis Bermejo , is a Spanish illustrator and comics artist known for his work published in Spain, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States...
(artist) - ParacuellosParacuellosParacuellos is a municipality in Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 136....
by Carlos GiménezCarlos GimenezCarlos Eduardo Giménez Colmenares is a Venezuelan politician and was the governor of Yaracuy from 2004 to 2008. He was impeached in June 2008 by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, and replaced by Álex Sánchez.-Biography:... - La Parejita by Manel Fontdevila
- Pepe Gotera y Otilio by Francisco Ibañez
- Petra, criada para todo by José Escobar Saliente
- El profesor Tragacanto y su clase que es de espanto by Martz Schmidt
- PulgarcitoPulgarcitoPulgarcito was a weekly illustrated magazine of Spain that was published by Editorial Bruguera from June 1921 to 1986....
by Jan - El repórter Tribulete by Guillermo Cifré
- Rigoberto Picaporte, solterón de mucho porte by Roberto Segura
- Rompetechos by Francisco Ibañez
- SarvanSarvanSarvan is a Spanish comics series featuring an eponymous character, written by Antonio Segura and drawn by Jordi Bernet. The series was launched in the comics magazine Cimoc in 1983, had a relatively short serial run before the artist and writer moved on to their next collaboration,...
by Antonio SeguraAntonio SeguraAntonio Segura is a Spanish comics writer.-Biography:Antonio Segura's earliest work appeared in the early 80s after meeting the experienced artists José Ortiz, Luis Bermejo and Leopold Sanchez who were looking for an inexperienced scriptwriter, untainted by the industry...
and Jordi BernetJordi BernetJordi Bernet Cussó is a Spanish comics artist, best known for the gangster comics series Torpedo and Jonah Hex.-Career:He was born in Barcelona, the son of a Spanish comic book artist, Miguel Bernet.... - Seguridasosiá by Maikel
- Sir Tim O'Theo by Raf
- SuperlópezSuperlópezSuperlópez is a Spanish comic book character created by Jan. Created in 1973, Superlópez is a parody of Superman. Born Jo-Con-Él on the planet Chitón much like Superman's home planet of Krypton, he leaves his planet when he enters a spaceship and presses a button, an accident that sends...
by JanJan (comics)Jan is the pseudonym of Juan López Fernández , Spanish comic book writer and artist, most famous for his creation Superlópez.-Biography:He was born in the town of Toral de los Vados, in the province of León... - Tete Cohete by Francisco Ibáñez
- TorpedoTorpedo (comics)Torpedo, or Torpedo 1936, is a Spanish comics series written by Enrique Sánchez Abulí and drawn by Jordi Bernet, which depicts the adventures of the antagonistic character Luca Torelli, a heartless hitman, and his sidekick Rascal, in context of the violent organized crime culture of New York during...
by Enrique Sánchez AbulíEnrique Sánchez AbulíEnrique Sánchez Abulí is a Spanish comics author, well known for his participation in the Spanish comics industry. His most famous work is the darkly comical gangster comics saga Torpedo in collaboration with Jordi Bernet....
(author) and Jordi BernetJordi BernetJordi Bernet Cussó is a Spanish comics artist, best known for the gangster comics series Torpedo and Jonah Hex.-Career:He was born in Barcelona, the son of a Spanish comic book artist, Miguel Bernet....
(artist) - Zipi y ZapeZipi y ZapeZipi y Zape are the names of two iconic Spanish comic book characters created by José Escobar Saliente in 1947, and of their eponymous strip. With Mortadelo y Filemón, they are the most popular and most translated Spanish comic books...
by José Escobar Saliente
Sweden (tecknade serier)
- Arne AnkaArne AnkaArne Anka is a Swedish comic strip drawn by Charlie Christensen under the pseudonym Alexander Barks from 1983 to 1995. The title character closely resembles Donald Duck...
by Charlie Christensen - BamseBamseBamse – Världens starkaste björn is a Swedish cartoon created by Rune Andréasson. The highly popular children's cartoon first emerged as a series of television short films as well as a weekly half page Sunday strip in 1966, before being published periodically in its own comic magazine since...
by Rune AndréassonRune AndréassonRune Herbert Emanuel Andréasson was a Swedish comic creator.Andréasson has created children's comics since 1944, mainly for the Swedish market, but his works have been published in several European nations... - Örn Blammo by Johan WanlooJohan WanlooJohan Wanloo is a comic book creator known for his many comic strips published in newspapers, tabloids, and magazines including the Swedish version of MAD Magazine...
- Felix by Jan LööfJan LööfJan Lööf is a Swedish illustrator, author, comic creator, and jazz musician.Lööf studied at the Stockholm Art Academy in the early 1960s. In 1967, he started his most famous comic strip Felix, which soon gained popularity into many parts of the world...
- Ratte by Magnus Knutsson and Ulf Jansson
- RockyRocky (comic strip)Rocky is a Swedish autobiographical comic strip created by Martin Kellerman, focusing on an anthropomorphic dog, Rocky, and his friends in their everyday life in Stockholm.-Overview:...
by Martin KellermanMartin KellermanMartin Kellerman is a Swedish cartoonist, known for the comic strip Rocky.-Biography:Kellerman was influenced by American and Swedish underground cartoonists such as Peter Bagge, Max Andersson, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Joe Matt and Mats Jonsson. Kellerman states that his work resembles "a... - Ensamma mammanEnsamma mammanEnsamma mamman is a Swedish comic strip created by Cecilia Torudd. Ensamma mamman first made a brief appearance in Dagens Nyheter in 1985. It was well received by the readers and returned in 1987 as a fixed feature. Torudd continued drawing it until 1991, when it was syndicated by Bull, and it has...
by Cecilia ToruddCecilia ToruddCecilia Torudd is a Swedish cartoonist. She is the daughter of Albert Levan, studied Art Education at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, and is the author of Ensamma mamman. She is also known for her long standing contributions to Kamratposten.-References:... - Socker-Conny by Joakim PirinenJoakim PirinenJoakim Pirinen is a Swedish illustrator, author, and comic creator. One of the most acclaimed artists to make his debut during the 1980s wave of "artistic" and "adult" comics in Sweden, Pirinen was, and still is, a regular contributor to the Swedish alternative comics magazine Galago.Pirinen's...
Other children's anthology comics
- BusterBuster (comic)Buster was a long-running British comic which carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, although the former increasingly replaced the latter...
- Cor!!Cor!!Cor!!, a British comic book Was launched in June 1970 by IPC , their sixth new comic in just over a year. Cor!! was edited by Bob Paynter....
- The Eagle
- LionLion (comic)Lion was a weekly comic published by Fleetway from 23 February 1952 to 18 May 1974. It lasted for 1,156 issues.-Publishing history:...
- Scream!Scream!Scream! was a British weekly comic anthology with a horror theme, running from March 24, 1984 until 30 June 1984, published by IPC Magazines....
- TigerTiger (comic)Tiger was a British comic magazine published from 1954 to 1985. The comic was launched under the editorship of Derek Birnage on 11 September 1954, under the name Tiger – The Sport and Adventure Picture Story Weekly, and featured predominantly sporting strips...
- ValiantValiant (comic)Valiant was the title of a British boys adventure comics anthology which ran from 1962 to 1976. It was published by IPC Magazines and was one of their major adventure titles throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.-Publication history:...
- Victor
- Whizzer and ChipsWhizzer and ChipsWhizzer and Chips was a British comic magazine that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic Buster. As with most comics of the time, Whizzer and Chips was dated one week ahead....
Other
- 2000 AD2000 AD (comic)2000 AD is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic. As a comics anthology it serialises a number of separate stories each issue and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary which was sold...
- The Adventures of Luther ArkwrightThe Adventures of Luther ArkwrightThe Adventures of Luther Arkwright was a limited series comic book written and drawn by Bryan Talbot.-Publishing history:Luther Arkwright made his first appearance in the mid 1970s in "The Papist Affair", a short strip for Brainstorm Comix where Arkwright teamed up with a group of cigar-chewing...
and The Tale of One Bad RatThe Tale of One Bad RatThe Tale of One Bad Rat is a 4-issue comic book limited series by Bryan Talbot. It was first published by Dark Horse Comics in 1994 and later brought out in a collected edition.The story is about a victim of child abuse...
by Bryan TalbotBryan TalbotBryan Talbot is a British comic book artist and writer, born in Wigan, Lancashire, in 1952. He is best known as the creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and its sequel Heart of Empire.-Career:... - From HellFrom HellFrom Hell is a comic book series by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell, originally published from 1991 to 1996, speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. The title is taken from the first words of the "From Hell" letter, which some authorities believe was an authentic...
by Alan MooreAlan MooreAlan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
(author) and Eddie CampbellEddie CampbellEddie Campbell is a Scottish comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Australia. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell , Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus , a wry adventure...
(artist) - Night Warrior
- Marshal Law by Pat MillsPat MillsPat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since....
and Kevin O'NeillKevin O'Neill (comics)Kevin O'Neill is an English comic book illustrator best known as the co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law , and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen .-Early career:... - Trigan EmpireTrigan EmpireThe Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, later called simply The Trigan Empire was a science fiction comic series written mainly by Mike Butterworth and most notably drawn by Don Lawrence...
by Don LawrenceDon LawrenceDonald Southam Lawrence was a British comic book artist and author.Lawrence is best known for his comic strips The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire in the British weeklies Ranger and Look and Learn and the Storm series, first published in the Dutch weekly Eppo... - V for VendettaV for VendettaV for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s to about the 1990s. A mysterious masked revolutionary who calls himself "V" works to destroy the totalitarian government,...
by Alan MooreAlan MooreAlan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
(author) and David Lloyd (artist) - Viz comic
- Warrior
- Amazatron
United States
Abstract Studio- Strangers In ParadiseStrangers in ParadiseStrangers in Paradise is a long-running, mostly self-published black-and-white comic book, written and drawn by Terry Moore. The series has reached its planned conclusion, finishing off in 2007 with issue #90 of volume 3....
by Terry MooreTerry 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:...
AC Comics
AC Comics
AC Comics is a comic book publishing company started by Bill Black.AC Comics specializes in reprints of Golden Age comics from now-defunct companies whose properties lapsed into public domain and were not reprinted elsewhere...
Agon Printing Production
- Muckle by Nate Speed.
- Nate Speed by Nate Speed.
- Ostrich, Hippo & Jesus on Grass by Ryan Wells.
- The Little Wolf and the Bad Little Girl by Nate Speed.
Antarctic Press
Antarctic Press
Antarctic Press is a San Antonio-based comic book publishing company which publishes "American Manga" style comic books.Founded by Ben Dunn in 1984, Antarctic Press has produced over 850 titles with a total circulation of over 5 million...
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...
Ape Entertainment
- Pocket God (comics)Pocket God (comics)Pocket God is a series of digital and paperback comic books–strips, published by Ape Entertainment, published and marketed by iVerse Media, released for iOS devices, and available as a print in retailers, via contest, on August 3, 2010. The comic is currently written by Jason M. Burns and drawn by...
by Allan DyeBolt CreativeBolt Creative is a developer and publisher of video games based in San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2001 by Dave Castelnuovo as an Adobe Flash development studio...
and Dave CastelnuovoBolt CreativeBolt Creative is a developer and publisher of video games based in San Francisco, United States. It was founded in 2001 by Dave Castelnuovo as an Adobe Flash development studio...
Basement Comics
Basement Comics
Basement Comics is an independent comic book publisher owned by Budd Root. Basement Comics is best known for publishing the popular good-girl title Cavewoman A division of Amryl Entertainment, Basement Comics is based in Mount Airy, North Carolina, and was founded in 1993.In addition to Root,...
Carpet Bomb Comics
- The Associate (comic) by Jason Danzeisen and Michael Nelsen
- Capetown Chronicles by Erik Hendrix and Roger Wilbanks
- The Citizens by Erik Hendrix, Michael Nelsen, and Ibrahim Mustafa
- Doc Immortalis by Michael Nelsen and Jason Danzeisen
- The Evil Tree by Erik Hendrix and Denman Rooke
- Faction (comic) by Erik Hendrix, Arnie Gordon, Jon Bolerjack, Michael Nelsen, and Giuseppe Pica
- Hulk Vs. Bizarro by Michael Nelsen and Jason Danzeisen
- The Insomniac: Justice Never Sleeps by Erik Hendrix and Sachin Nagar
- Skip Tracers by Jason Danzeisen and Michael Nelsen
- Unbeatables by Erik Hendrix and Michael Nelsen
- Unfiltered (comic) by Erik Hendrix and Jason Baroody
- Vent (comic) by Michael Nelsen
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...
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...
Dark Horse
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
Devil's Due
Dumbbell Press
Max Rep in the Age of Astrotitans
EC Comics
Eclipse Comics
Eclipse Comics
Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel intended for the newly created comic book specialty store market...
Evil Twin Comics
Evil Twin Comics
Evil Twin Comics is a small comic book publisher in Brooklyn. The company was founded in late 2004 when comic book creators Ryan Dunlavey and Fred Van Lente received a grant from the Xeric Foundation to publish the comic book series Action Philosophers...
- Action PhilosophersAction PhilosophersAction Philosophers! is a comic book series by artist Ryan Dunlavey and writer Fred Van Lente, which was awarded a Xeric Grant in late 2004, leading to Action Philosophers! # 1's publication in April 2005....
Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics Books is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, magazines, graphic novels, and the adult-oriented Eros Comix imprint...
- Acme Novelty LibraryAcme Novelty LibraryAcme Novelty Library is a comic book series created by Chicago cartoonist Chris Ware. Its first issue appeared in 1993. Published from 1994 by Fantagraphics Books and later self-published, it is considered a significant work in alternative comics, selling over 20,000 copies per issue.-Format, style...
by Chris WareChris WareFranklin 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... - EightballEightball (comic book)Eightball is an alternative comic book series written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. The first issue was published by Fantagraphics Books in 1989, soon after the end of Clowes's previous comic series, Lloyd Llewellyn...
by Daniel ClowesDaniel ClowesDaniel Gillespie Clowes is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books.... - Frank by Jim WoodringJim WoodringJim 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....
- HateHate (comic)Hate is a semi-autobiographical comic book by writer-artist Peter Bagge. First published by Fantagraphics in 1990 it ran for 30 issues, and was one of the best-selling alternative comics of the 1990s, at its height selling 30,000 copies an issue...
by Peter BaggePeter BaggePeter 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... - Love and RocketsLove 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...
by Jaime HernandezJaime HernandezJaime Hernandez is the co-creator of the black & white independent comic book Love and Rockets .-Early life:...
and Gilbert HernandezGilbert HernandezGilberto 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... - Naughty BitsNaughty BitsNaughty 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...
by Roberta GregoryRoberta GregoryRoberta 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... - Palestine by Joe SaccoJoe SaccoJoe Sacco is a Maltese-American comics artist and journalist. He achieved international fame through the 1996 American Book Award-winning Palestine, and his graphic novel on the Bosnian War, Safe Area Goražde.- Biography :...
First Comics
First Comics
First Comics was an American comic-book publisher that was active from 1983–1991, known for titles like American Flagg!, Grimjack, Nexus, Badger, Dreadstar, and Jon Sable...
Gilberton Publications
- Classics IllustratedClassics IllustratedClassics Illustrated is a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. Following the series' demise, various companies...
Harris Comics
Harvey Comics
Harvey Comics
Harvey Comics was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers Robert B...
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...
Image Comics
Image Comics
Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...
Java Monkey Productions
- DoomSqueaks
Jester Press
- NightNightNight or nighttime is the period of time when the sun is below the horizon. This occurs after dusk. The opposite of night is day...
Manuscript Press
Manuscript Press
Manuscript Press is a small press publisher started by Rick Norwood in 1976 and currently located in Mountain Home, Tennessee. It specializes in previously unpublished novels by science fiction authors such as Hal Clement and R. A. Lafferty and also in reprints of comic strips such as Prince...
- Comics RevueComics RevueComics Revue is a bi-monthly small press comic book published by Manuscript Press and edited by Rick Norwood. Don Markstein edited the publication from 1984 to 1987 and 1992 to 1996....
- Modesty Blaise QuarterlyModesty Blaise QuarterlyModesty Blaise Quarterly was a small press magazine sized comic book published by Manuscript Press which reprinted Modesty Blaise comic strip stories by Peter O'Donnell illustrated by the artists Jim Holdaway , Enrique Badia Romero , John M. Burns , Patrick Wright , Neville Colvin . It ran 25...
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...
New England Comics
New England Comics
New England Comics is a comic book retail chain and publisher headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA. They are known for publishing The Tick comic books. They have locations in Quincy, Allston, Brookline, Brockton, Cambridge, Malden, New Bedford and Norwood....
- The TickThe TickThe Tick is a fictional character created by cartoonist Ben Edlund in 1986 as a newsletter mascot for the New England Comics chain of Boston area comic stores. He is an absurdist spoof of comic book superheroes. After its creation, the character spun off into an independent comic book series in...
- Paul the Samurai
- Man-Eating Cow
- Chainsaw VigilanteChainsaw VigilanteThe Chainsaw Vigilante is a fictional character and foe of Ben Edlund's The Tick. He first appeared in The Tick #9.-Publication history:...
Oni Press
Oni Press
Oni Press is an American independent comic book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1997 by Bob Schreck and Joe Nozemack with the goal of publishing the kinds of comics and graphic novels they themselves would want to read...
Pacific Comics
Pacific Comics
Pacific Comics was an independent comic book publisher that flourished from 1981-1984. It was also a chain of comics shops and a distributor. It began out of a San Diego, California, comic book shop owned by brothers Bill and Steve Schanes...
Renegade Comics
Ms. Tree
Ms. Tree was the best-known comic book creation of author Max Allan Collins prior to his graphic novel, Road to Perdition. Terry Beatty was the series' artist.-Character Biography and Synopsis:...
normalman
Normalman
normalman is a limited series of American comic books created by Jim Valentino. It began in November 1983 as a four-page story in Cerebus #56 and #57 before being launched as a full-color 12-issue series which was published by Aardvark-Vanaheim before moving to Renegade Press. There was also a...
by Jim Valentino
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...
Open Season
Open Season (comic)
Open Season is a comic book series created by cartoonist Jim Bricker. Six issues were published by Renegade Press and one issue by Strawberry Jam Comics from 1986 to 1989....
by Jim Bricker Wordsmith
WordSmith
WordSmith Tools is a collection of corpus linguistics tools for looking for patterns in a language. The software was devised by Mike Scott at the University of Liverpool and for versions 1 to 4 was sold by Oxford University Press...
Shanda Fantasy Arts
Albedo Anthropomorphics
Albedo Anthropomorphics, or Albedo for short, was a furry comic book anthology series which was credited with starting the furry comic book subgenre that featured sophisticated stories with funny animals primarily intended for an adult audience...
by Steve Gallacci Shanda The Panda by Mike Curtis
Mike Curtis (writer)
Mike Curtis is an American writer who scripts the Dick Tracy comic strip with Joe Staton as artist. He has been working professionally in comic books as a writer since the mid-1980s...
Slave Labor Comics
Slave Labor Graphics
Slave Labor Graphics is an independent American comic book publisher, well-known for publishing darkly humorous, offbeat comics.-Company history:...
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is the first comic book by Jhonen Vasquez. A black comedy and comedy horror, the series tells the story of a fictional serial killer named Johnny C. as he explores the psychological and possibly supernatural forces which compel him to commit a string of murders...
by Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen Vasquez , also known as Chancre Scolex or simply Mr. Scolex, is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and music video director...
Milk & Cheese
Milk & Cheese
Fun with Milk & Cheese is a comic book by Evan Dorkin and was published by Slave Labor Graphics. It follows the adventures of an anthropomorphic, misanthropic carton of milk and a wedge of cheese...
by Evan Dorkin
Evan Dorkin
Evan Dorkin is an American comics artist and writer. His best known works are the comic books Milk and Cheese and Dork...
Top Cow Productions
Top Cow Productions
Top Cow Productions is an American comics publisher, a partner studio of Image Comics founded by Marc Silvestri in 1992.-History:...
Valiant Comics
Valiant Comics
Valiant Comics is a comic book imprint published by various publishers since its inception with Voyager Communications, Inc. in 1989, later Acclaim Comics, Inc. Its assets were purchased from the bankruptcy of the Acclaim Entertaintment by Valiant Entertainment, Inc. in 2007.-Voyager...
Armorines
Armorines is a superhero comic book from Valiant Comics about armored marines who, in the name of freedom, do the United States government's dirty work...
Bloodshot
Bloodshot (comics)
Bloodshot is the title character of the American comic book series published by Valiant Comics.-Publication history:Bloodshot was launched in the mid 1990s on the back of a wave of popularity for the Valiant Universe. Bloodshot became an immediate hit with readers, as the first issue has sold...
Eternal Warrior
Eternal Warrior
Gilad Anni-Padda aka the Eternal Warrior is the title character of a 50-issue comic book series by Valiant Comics that ran from 1992 to 1996. Eternal Warrior was relaunched with the other Valiant characters under the banner of Acclaim Comics in 1996 . Valiant Entertainment, Inc...
H.A.R.D. Corps
H.A.R.D. Corps
H.A.R.D. Corps was a Valiant Comics title which ran from 1992 - 1996. The acronym stands for Harbinger Active Resistance Division. The title's focus was a corporate strike team dealing with Toyo Harada, a character from the Harbinger title, and his goal of controlling all Harbingers...
Harbinger
Harbinger (comics)
Harbinger was a comic book series published by Valiant Comics about a group of teenage super-powered outcasts known as Harbingers. Harbinger initially featured writing and art by Jim Shooter and David Lapham...
Magnus Robot Fighter Ninjak
Ninjak
Ninjak is a fictional comic book character that originally appeared in eponymous books by Valiant Comics, and later by Acclaim Comics. Co-created by writer Mark Moretti and artist Joe Quesada, the character first appeared in Bloodshot #6 as Colin King and quickly gained his own series...
Psi Lords
Psi Lords
The PSI-Lords are a fictional team of superbeings from the Valiant Comics universe. The characters first appearing in Rai and the Future Force #21 after a cameo in Magnus #36 and was featured in a short-lived, eponymous series of ten issues between 1994 and 1995...
Quantum and Woody
Quantum and Woody
Quantum and Woody are the title characters of the award-winning popular comic book series published by Valiant Comics. To date Quantum and Woody has sold almost one million comic books in a variety of languages. Among the most critically acclaimed comedies in comics, Quantum and Woody is written by...
Rai
Rai (comics)
Rai is a fictional superhero that appeared in books published by Valiant Comics. Rai was the first original hero created by Valiant and had its beginning as a flipbook back-up feature in Magnus Robot Fighter issues #5-8. The popularity of the flipbook back-up story later led to an ongoing series...
Second Life of Dr. Mirage
Second Life of Dr. Mirage
The Second Life of Dr. Mirage is an American comic book series featuring the eponymous main character, co-created by writer/artist Bob Layton, illustrated by Bernard Chang, and published by Valiant Comics. More than 2 million Second Life of Dr. Mirage comics have been sold since its debut in 1993....
Shadowman
Shadowman (comics)
Shadowman is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by Valiant Comics. The character debuted in Shadowman #1 , and was created by writers Jim Shooter and Steve Englehart, artist David Lapham and inker Bob Layton...
Solar Man of the Atom
Solar (comics)
Solar is an American fictional comic book character. Originally known as Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom, he first appeared in a comic book published by Gold Key Comics in the 1960s. He has since appeared in other incarnations in books published by Valiant Comics in the 1990s, and Dark Horse Comics...
Turok Dinosaur Hunter
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...
Unity
Unity (Comics)
Unity is a company-wide crossover story published by Valiant Comics in the summer of 1992.-Overview:The Unity story comprises eighteen issues and nine comic book series, published by Valiant during August and September 1992. It tells of Erica Pierce, the Mothergod, trying to rewrite reality and...
X-O Manowar
X-O Manowar
X-O Manowar is a fictional superhero co-created by writer and former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, artist Bob Layton, and Jon Hartz. Current Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officier Joe Quesada was a key creator in the origin of X-O Manowar as seen in X-O Manowar #0...
Vertigo
Wildstorm
Wildstorm
WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, published American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
Others
Airboy
Airboy is a fictional aviator hero of an American comic book series initially published by Hillman Periodicals during the World War II-era time period fans and historians call the Golden Age of comic books. He was created by writers Charles Biro and Dick Wood and artist Al Camy.-Golden Age:Airboy...
by Charles Biro
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...
Akiko
Akiko
Akiko is an American comic book series written and drawn by Mark Crilley and published by Sirius Entertainment. The comics have spawned a series of children's novels from Random House....
by Mark Crilley
Mark Crilley
Mark Crilley is an American comic book creator and children's book author/illustrator. He is the creator of Miki Falls, Akiko, and Brody's Ghost. He is also noted for his instructional videos for drawing in the manga-style.-Akiko:...
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...
by Harvey Pekar
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...
Apathy Kat by Harold Buchholz Astro City
Astro City
Kurt Busiek's Astro City is a comic book series centered on a fictional American city of that name. Written by Kurt Busiek, the series is co-created and illustrated by Brent Anderson with character designs and painted covers by Alex Ross...
by Kurt Busiek
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:...
Beyond the Veil by Rick Law
Rick Law
Rick Law is an American entertainment illustrator and producer. His clients have included Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures and MTV, among others....
Big Bang Comics
Big Bang Comics
Big Bang Comics first appeared in 1994, with five issue mini-series , published by Caliber Comics. Their second series was published by Image Comics. Currently their titles are self-published.-Publication history:...
by Gary Carlson
Gary Carlson
Gary Carlson is an American comic book writer, editor and publisher.-Biography:Gary self-published and created the black and white superhero anthology Megaton back in the early '80s, which introduced many new comic book talents including artists Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld and Angel Medina as well...
& Chris Ecker Bone by Jeff Smith
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...
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....
by Tommy Yune
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...
Cherry Poptart by Larry Welz
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...
Comics Revue
Comics Revue
Comics Revue is a bi-monthly small press comic book published by Manuscript Press and edited by Rick Norwood. Don Markstein edited the publication from 1984 to 1987 and 1992 to 1996....
edited by Rick Norwood
Rick Norwood
Rick Norwood is an American publisher, mathematician, comics historian and short story author.Born in Franklin, Louisiana, Norwood attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was one of four writer-editors of the early underground comic God Comics, along with Bill Osten, Durk...
The Crow
The Crow
The Crow is a comic book series created by James O'Barr. The series was originally written by O'Barr as a means of dealing with the death of his girlfriend at the hands of a drunk driver. It was later published by Caliber Comics in 1989, becoming an underground success, and later adapted into a...
by James O'Barr
James O'Barr
James O'Barr is an American graphic artist, best known as the creator of the comic book series The Crow.-Personal life:O'Barr, an orphan, was raised in the foster care system...
Curbside by Robert Kirby
Robert Kirby (comics artist)
Robert Kirby is the creator of the syndicated comic Curbside.Curbside is the story of two young men, Drew, an aspiring writer, and Nathan, an aspiring musician, who meet and eventually form a tumultuous relationship...
Devil Water by Steven Barr A Distant Soil
A Distant Soil
A Distant Soil is a science fiction/fantasy comic book series written and illustrated by Colleen Doran, and is the work for which she is best known....
by Colleen Doran
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...
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...
by Wendy and Richard Pini
Wendy and Richard Pini
Wendy Pini née Fletcher, and Richard Pini are the husband-and-wife team responsible for creating the well-known Elfquest series of comics, graphic novels and prose works...
(moved to 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...
in 2003) Finder by Carla Speed McNeil
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:...
Funnyman
Funnyman (comics)
Funnyman is a fictional comic book character whose adventures were published in 1948 by Magazine Enterprises.-Publication history:After leaving DC Comics and suing that company in a dispute over the rights to Superman, the character's co-creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, rejoined their former...
by Jerry Siegel
Jerry Siegel
Jerome "Jerry" Siegel , who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S...
and Joe Shuster
Joe Shuster
Joseph "Joe" Shuster was a Canadian-born American comic book artist. He was best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, first published in Action Comics #1...
(Magazine Enterprises
Magazine Enterprises
Magazine Enterprises was an American comic book company lasting from 1943 to 1958, which published primarily Western, humor, crime, adventure, and children's comics, with virtually no superheroes...
1948) Girl Genius
Girl Genius
Girl Genius is an ongoing comic book series turned webcomic, written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio and published by their company, Studio Foglio LLC under the imprint Airship Entertainment...
by Phil Foglio
Phil Foglio
Philip "Phil" Foglio is an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy work.-Early life and career:...
Fred Perry
Frederick John Perry was a championship-winning English tennis and table tennis player who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships between 1934 and 1936 and was World No. 1 four years in a row...
Hepcats
Hepcats was a comic book self-published in the 1990s by artist Martin Wagner. It dealt with the lives of four college students, rendered as anthropomorphic animals , and was inspired by Wagner's own college experiences....
by Martin Wagner
Mac Hall
Mac Hall is a webcomic which was created through a bet between the creator Ian McConville and a friend who claimed he "couldn't make a comic like Penny Arcade". After the fifteenth comic, McConville was joined by Matt Boyd who began to write the comic.Mac Hall follows the exploits of a group of...
by Matthew Boyd
Matthew Boyd
Matthew Boyd is an Australian rules football player who has come through the Western Bulldogs' rookie list, debuting in 2003. Prior to that he had played for Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup and Frankston in the VFL...
Megatokyo
is an English-language webcomic created by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston, debuting on August 14, 2000, and then written and illustrated solely by Gallagher since July 17, 2002. Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga. Megatokyo is freely available on...
by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston
David Lee Ingersoll
David Lee Ingersoll is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Seattle, United States. Born in Anchorage, Alaska soon after the 1964 earthquake, he spent most of his childhood and young adult years in northern California, specifically the then small town of Sebastopol...
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...
by Reed Waller
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:...
and Kate Worley
Kate Worley
Kate Worley was an American comic book writer best known for her work on Omaha the Cat Dancer. She was a writer and performer for the science fiction comedy radio program Shockwave Radio Theater.-Early life and career:...
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 :...
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....
by Gary Shipman
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...
and Rhoda Shipman
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...
Poison Elves
Poison Elves is a black-and-white comic book by the late artist/writer Drew Hayes, concerning the life and times of an elf named Lusiphur. Hayes originally self-published the series during the early 90's under his company Mulehide Graphics under the title of I, Lusiphur for the first seven issues...
by Drew Hayes
Drew Hayes
Drew Hayes was a writer and graphic artist who is best known as the creator of the long-running independent comic book series Poison Elves ....
Sam & Max
Sam & Max is a media franchise focusing on the fictional characters of Sam and Max, the Freelance Police. The characters, who occupy a universe that parodies American popular culture, were created by Steve Purcell in his youth, and later debuted in a 1987 comic book series...
by Steve Purcell
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...
Starchild (comics)
Starchild was a densely illustrated fantasy comic book self-published in the 1990s by James A. Owen. There were 24 issues total, and the series has been collected in a boxed set of reprints titled The Essential Starchild from Owen's Coppervale Press....
by James A. Owen
James A. Owen
James A. Owen is an American comic book creator, publisher and writer. He is best known for his creator-owned comic book series Starchild and as the author of The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica novel series, that began with Here, There Be Dragons in 2006.-Life and career:Owen...
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...
by (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...
and 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:...
)
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,...
XXXenophile
XXXenophile is an American comic book series, published by Palliard Press and later Studio Foglio. It is an anthology of short, whimsical, erotic fantasy and science fiction stories, written and penciled by Phil Foglio. Each story is inked by a different artist.XXXenophile was originally...
by Phil Foglio
Phil Foglio
Philip "Phil" Foglio is an American cartoonist and comic book artist best known for his humorous science fiction and fantasy work.-Early life and career:...
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...
by Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium...
See also List of furry comics
External links
- The Big Comic Book DataBase an online searchable database of comic book and creator information.