Comic Book Creator

Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Hergé" is the French pronunciation of "R.G.", his initials reversed. His best-known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin,...

Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg, August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men,...

Neil Richard Gaiman (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novel, comic, and film. His notable works include The Sandman comic series, Stardust and American Gods. He lives near Minneapolis,...

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created...

Steve Ditko (born 2 November 1927) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. He was inducted into the comics industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990. Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the...

Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his...

Dr. William Moulton Marston (May 9, 1893 – May 2, 1947) was an American psychologist, feminist theorist, inventor, and comic book author who created the character Wonder Woman. Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne, (who lived with the couple...

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,...

William "Bill" Finger (February 8, 1914–January 18, 1974) was an American comic strip and comic book writer best known as the uncredited co-creator, with Bob Kane, of the DC Comics character Batman, as well as the co-architect of the series' development. In later years...

Neal Adams (born June 6, 1941, Governors Island, Manhattan, New York City) is an American comic book and commercial artist best known for his highly naturalistic style of illustration and helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics...

David Victor Sim (born May 17, 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the 6,000 page graphic novel Cerebus the Aardvark. Dave Sim was born in Hamilton and moved to Kitchener, Ontario with his family when he...

Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium. McCloud was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He created the light-hearted science fiction/superhero comic book series Zot! in...

Jerome "Jerry" Siegel (October 17, 1914 – January 28, 1996), who also used pseudonyms including Joe Carter, Jerry Ess, and Herbert S. Fine, was the co-creator of Superman (along with Joe Shuster), the first of the great comic book superhero and one of the most...

Len Wein (born June 12, 1948) is an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men. He was born in New York City, New York. Wein's first...

Sam Kieth (born January 11, 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and film director, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl. Keith first came to prominence in 1983 as the inker of Matt Wagner's Mage, his brushwork adding fluidity and texture...

Mortimer Weisinger (April 25, 1915 - May 7, 1978) was an American magazine and comic book editor best known for editing DC Comics' Superman during the mid-1950s to 1960s, in the Silver Age of comic books. He also co-created such features as Aquaman, Green Arrow, and...

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...

Gerard F. "Gerry" Conway (September 10, 1952 - ) is an American writer of comic books and television shows. He is best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics vigilante The Punisher (with artist Ross Andru) and scripting the death of the character Gwen Stacy during his...

Warren Ellis (born February 16, 1968) is a British author of comic, novel, and television, well known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and his writing, which covers extropian and transhumanist themes (most notably nanotechnology, cryonics,...

John Broome, (1913 - 1999) who was frequently credited as John Osgood and Edgar Ray Meritt, was an American writer-contributor to DC Comics. Broome began his career as a writer of a dozen published science-fiction stories. Believing that he was not a first-rate science...

Rob Liefeld, (born October 3 1967) is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher. A prominent artist in the 1990s, he has since become a controversial figure in the medium. In the early 1990s, self-taught artist Liefeld became prominent due to his work...

Ben Edlund (b. 1968) is a comic book artist and writer and television screenwriter. While in high school, he created his signature character, The Tick. He was offered to create a comic book series based on the character by New England Comics, when the publisher needed...

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...

Dennis O'Neil, often credited as Denny O'Neil, is a comic book writer and editor, principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and Group Editor for the Batman family of books until his retirement. Dennis O'Neil was born into a Catholic...

Mark Millar (born December 24, 1969) is an award-winning Scottish comic book writer born in Coatbridge. Now a resident of Glasgow, Scotland, he has been this decade's highest selling British creator working in America. His most known works include The Authority,...

Eli Katz (born April 6, 1926, Riga, Latvia; died January 31, 2000, Florida, United States), who worked under the name Gil Kane and in a few instances Scott Edwards, was a comic book artist whose career spanned the 1940s to 1990s and every major comics company and...

Tony Harris (born 1969) is an American comic book artist. He is most famous for Starman, winner of the 1997 Eisner for best serialized story, Iron Man, and currently Ex Machina, winner of the 2005 Eisner for best new series. His art studio, Jolly Roger Studio, is based...

John Romita, Sr. (better known as simply John Romita) (born January 24, 1930) is an Italian-American comic-book artist best known for his work on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002. Romita is the father of...

Larry D. Lieber (born October 26, 1931, New York City, New York) is an American comic book artist and writer, and the younger brother of Marvel Comics' writer/editor/publisher Stan Lee. Lieber is best known for scripting the first appearance of the Marvel characters...

David Mazzucchelli (born 1960) is an American comic book artist and illustrator. His early work was in superhero comics for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, although he later embarked on a series of acclaimed alternative comics projects. Mazzucchelli received his BFA...