Comic Book Colorist

Glynis Wein (née Glynis Oliver) is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. She has been recognized for her work in the industry with a Shazam Award for Best Colorist in 1973. For several years, she was married to Len Wein.

Val Mayerik (born March 29 1950) is an American comic-book and commercial artist, best known as co-creator of Marvel Comics' satiric character Howard the Duck. Val Mayerik was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He majored in art and philosophy at Youngstown State University, which he attended from 1968 to 1972. In spring of his graduating year, he met and began working as an assistant to Ohio-based comic-book artist Dan Adkins, alongside fellow assistant P. Craig Russell. Through Adkins, who was...

Mark Chiarello is a painter, art director and editor in the comics business. As a painter, he has worked on such projects as the Batman story Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop (which earned him the 1993 National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Comic Book.) and Clive Barker's Hellraiser. He was also the first colorist on Mike Mignola's creator owned comic book, Hellboy (on Seed of Destruction). As an editor for DC Comics, he created the critically acclaimed Batman: Black & White mini...

Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff (born April 14, 1920, New York City, New York) is an American comic book artist best known for co-creating such DC Comics characters as Hawkgirl and Poison Ivy, and as one of Bob Kane's primary "ghost artists" (uncredited collaborators) on the superhero Batman. He is not to be confused with fellow Golden Age comics professional Sheldon Mayer. Born in Manhattan but mostly raised in The Bronx, Sheldon Moldoff has two brothers, Sonny and Stan Moldoff. He sold his first...

Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10, 1914 - July 30, 1992) was a Canadian-born comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, first published in Action Comics #1 (March 1938). Joseph Shuster was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Jew immigrants. His father Julius, an immigrant from Rotterdam, South Holland, the Netherlands, and his mother Ida, who had come from Kiev in Ukraine, were barely able to make ends meet. As a youngster, Shuster...

Glen Orbik is an American illustrator known for his fully painted paperback and comic covers, often executed in a noir style. He studied art at the California Art Institute then located in Encino, later Calabasas, California and currently located in Westlake Village. He studied under the school's founder, retired movie and advertisement illustrator Fred Fixler. He eventually took over the classes when Fixler retired from teaching and still currently teaches figure drawing after returning from...

Gregory Wright is an American comic book editor, writer and colorist known for his work on such Marvel Comics characters as Spider-Man, the Defenders, the Fantastic Four, Deathlok, and Silver Sable, and such DC Comics characters as Superman and Batman

Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an American comic book painter, illustrator and plotter, acclaimed for the photorealism of his work. Ross is known for his love of the vintage looks of classic characters and the more mythic elements of the superhero. From the late 1990s, Ross has done much work for the industry’s two largest and most historically important publishing houses, Marvel and DC Comics, but Ross is also the co-creator of Astro City, an original series that...

John Cassaday (born 1971) is an American comic book artist and writer. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas and currently lives in New York City. His style is cinematic, highly detailed and uses relatively realistically-proportioned human characters. As an illustrator, Cassaday is self-taught; however, he studied filmmaking before leaving Texas to pursue his career in comics. His influences include NC Wyeth, classic pulp magazine-culture iconography, and popular music. Cassaday bears a physical...

Adi Granov is a Bosnian-born comic book artist and conceptual designer. He was named in August 2004 as one of Marvel Comics' "Young Guns", a group of artists who have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller", according to Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada. He recently teamed with comic book writer Warren Ellis for the post-Avengers Disassembled relaunch of Iron Man. He also helped design the Iron Man suit for Jon Favreau's 2008 Iron Man film. Granov has also contributed to Devil...