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Glynis Wein   Topic   Mind Out of Time!
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.
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Dave McCaig   Topic The New Avengers #32 The Trust
Dave McCaig is a comic book artist and colorist born in Canada. He also works in the animation industry. Comics he has worked on include Adam Strange, X-Men, Star Wars, Superman: Birthright, The Matrix Comics, Nextwave, and New Avengers Animation projects have included key color design on the first three seasons of The Batman (2004) animated series at WB, and various duties on the fourth (rendered in CGI) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film. He also runs a forum for comic book colorists and...
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Val Mayerik   Topic   Void Indigo
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...
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Adrienne Roy   Topic   A Death in the Family, Part One
Adrienne Roy (born 1953) a color artist who worked in the comics industry, mostly for DC Comics. She was largely responsible for color on the Batman line- (Batman and Detective Comics) throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. She was also responsible for the coloring on many other titles during that time period: The New Teen Titans, Warlord, Weird War and Madame Xanadu. However, she is predominantly known for her work on the Batman books: Detective, Shadow of the Bat, Gotham Nights, Batman, and...
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Mark Chiarello   Topic Detective Comics #779  
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...
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Michel Gagné   Topic   Spore, Part 4
Michel Gagné (b. 1965, Roberval, Quebec) is a Canadian cartoonist. Gagné studied Classical Animation at Sheridan College and worked for Don Bluth Studios for six years, working on such films as An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-A-Doodle, and A Troll in Central Park. While at Bluth's company, Gagné worked on his own short film, Prelude to Eden, which was nominated for an Annie Award in 1996. After leaving Bluth, Gagné moved around and eventually settled at...
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Jason Wright   Comic Book Colorist   Dead Reckoning, Part 3  
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Steve Oliff   Topic   A Midsummer Night's Dream
Steve Oliff is a comic book artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry since 1978. Steve Oliff was born on February 20, 1954. He is well-known as a comics colorist, having colored (among other projects) Bill Sienkiewicz's first Moon Knight story in the Hulk Magazine. From there he went on to color hundreds of titles in a variety of coloring formats. His company, Olyoptics, was one of the first to use computers to do color separation. Although other companies at the time were...
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Robbie Busch   Comic Book Colorist   Calliope  
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Bob Kane Topic Batman #1  
Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn, October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American comic book artist and writer credited as the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman. A high school friend of fellow cartoonist and future The Spirit creator Will Eisner, Robert Kahn graduated from De Witt Clinton High School and legally changed his name to Bob Kane at age 18. Kane studied art at Cooper Union, before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in 1934." He entered the comics field...
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Sheldon Moldoff All-American Comics #16 (July 1940), cover art by Moldoff Topic   The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be
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...
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Mike Mignola Mike Mignola, 2006 Topic Batman #427  
Mike Mignola (born September 16, 1960) is an American comic book artist and writer, famous for his horror comic, "Hellboy". He has also worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On Head. Mignola was born in Berkeley, California. He began his career in 1980 by illustrating spots in the Comic Reader. His first published piece was in the Comic Reader #183, a spot illustration of Red Sonja (pg. 9). His first...
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Joe Shuster Action Comics #1 (June 1938), the debut of Superman. Cover art by Joe Shuster Topic Action Comics #1  
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...
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Damion Scott Cover to Solo #10 (2006). Art by Damion Scott Topic    
Damion Scott (born December 28, 1976 in Jamaica and raised in Brooklyn, New York ) is an American comic book artist and writer. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan. Scott is a graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. His drawing style is influenced by the graffiti art and the Hip hop culture. Scott has worked on several DC Comics, including Batman, Robin, and Batgirl. Scott has also worked on Spider-Man, for Marvel Comics. Most recently, he was the featured artist in...
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Glen Orbik Cover to Stephen King's The Colorado Kid, illustrated by Glen Orbik Topic Batman #568  
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...
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Noelle Giddings   Topic   Fruit of the Earth, Part Two
Noelle C. Giddings is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. She served as Color Editor and colorist for the comic company Milestone Media from 1992 through 1995. She went on to work as a colorist for DC Comics.
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Gregory Wright   Topic   Mark of Cain, Part Two
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
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Jerry Bingham   Person Detective Comics #580    
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Tom Taggart   Topic Batman #477    
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Lynn Varley   Topic   Ronin
Lynn Varley is a colorist, formerly married to comic book writer/artist Frank Miller, whom she divorced in 2005. She provided the coloring for Miller's Ronin (1984), an experimental 6 issue series from DC Comics that proved that comics in unusual formats could be commercially successful, and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986), a four issue mini-series that went on to become a commercial and critical success. Subsequently, Varley colored other Miller books including Batman: The Dark Knight...
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Dave Hunt   Person   The Punisher Strikes Twice  
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Morry Hollowell   Topic Civil War #7 Civil War, Part One of Seven  
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Alex Ross Alex Ross Topic Project Superpowers #2  
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...
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Val Staples   Person   Brit : Old Soldier  
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John Cassaday Cover art from Absolute Planetary Topic    
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...
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Laura Martin Sensational Spiderman #23 featuring Colors by Laura Martin. Cover art by Angel Medina Topic   Astonishing X-Men : V3 Torn
Laura DePuy Martin is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. She has been recognized for her work with the Comics Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist Award in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Martin also won the 2000 and 2002 Eisner Award for Best Colorist. She married Randy Martin in 2001.Her published work to date includes various series: Planetary, Astonishing X-Men, JLA, Ruse, Serenity: Those Left Behind and Universe X, among others. She has also worked on original graphic...
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Adi Granov Comic book artist Adi Granov Topic   Iron Man : Extremis
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...
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Justin Ponsor   Topic   Young Avengers : Sidekicks
Justin Ponsor is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry.
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