Comic Book Inker

Terry Austin is an American comic book artist, working primarily as an inker. Austin got his start as an assistant to Dick Giordano, before coming to prominence inking Marshall Rogers' pencils on a celebrated run of Batman stories for DC Comics in the mid-1970s (collaborating with writer Steve Englehart). Austin then moved to Marvel Comics, where he and penciller John Byrne became the new art team on Uncanny X-Men in 1977. With writer Chris Claremont, they produced a series of stories -...

Steve Lieber (born May 19, 1967) is a comic-book illustrator. His best known work includes runs on Detective Comics and Hawkman, the graphic novel ''Whiteout'' and its Eisner Award-winning sequel, Whiteout: Melt. He is also the co-author (with Nat Gertler) of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Graphic Novel. Lieber is married to the novelist Sara Ryan. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives in Portland, Oregon, where he is a member of Periscope Studio. Lieber is a 1990...

Leinil Francis Yu (born July 1977) is a Filipino comic book artist, who began working for the American market through Wildstorm Productions. Yu was first recognized after winning the Wizard's Drawing Board Contest, his first published work. He was first hired by Whilce Portacio to do some work for Wildstorm, but that work fell through. Portacio then passed on samples of Yu's work to Marvel Comics, who subsequently hired him to work on Wolverine. After his run on the Wolverine series, he...

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...

Tim Sale (b. 1956) is an American Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb. Tim Sale was born on May 1 1956 in Ithaca, New York, but spent most of his early life in Seattle, Washington. (He moved there with his family at age six.) He attended the University of Washington for two years before moving to New York to attend the School of Visual Arts as well as the comics workshop run by artist John Buscema. Before he graduated from...

Malcolm Jones III (1970–1996) was an American comic book artist best known as an inker on The Sandman, where he added his illustrative line and textures to the work of penciller such as Mike Dringenberg, Kelley Jones, and Colleen Doran. He was also known for inking Denys Cowan's pencils on The Question. He took his own life in 1996.

Dick Giordano (born Richard Joseph Giordano on July 20, 1932) is an American comic book artist and editor best known for introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superhero, and serving as editor of then industry-leader DC Comics. Dick Giordano was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York. He made a mark in the comic-book industry at Charlton Comics as editor in the mid-1960s, overseeing the revamping of its few existing superheroes and having his artists and writers create new...

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...

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...

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...

Boleslav (William) Felix Robert Sienkiewicz (IPA: ; born May 3, 1958, Blakely, Pennsylvania, United States), usually referred to as Bill Sienkiewicz, is a visual art best known for his comic book, primarily Marvel Comics' Elektra: Assassin. Sienkiewicz often utilizes oil painting, collage, mimeograph and other forms generally uncommon in comic books. He holds the Polish noble class surname of Nobel Prize- Polish novelist, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Bill Sienkiewicz moved with his family from Blakely...