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| John Byrne |
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Topic | Mind Out of Time! |
John Lindley Byrne (born July 6 1950) is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic book. Since the mid-1970s Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero. His best-known work has been on Marvel Comics’ X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He is sometimes considered a controversial figure due to opinions he has expressed...
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| Jack Kirby |
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Topic | Journey into Mystery #125 | X-Men |
Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg, August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer and editor.
Widely recognized as one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in comics, Kirby was the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of the medium. His most common nickname is "The King," and Kirby was inducted...
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| Person | Journey into Mystery #83 | The Queen Commands | |||
| Film actor | The Immortals! | ||||
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| Frank Miller |
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Topic | 300 |
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 generation.
Setting out to become an artist, he eventually received his first published work in The Twilight Zone for Gold Key Comics in 1978. This was followed by various pencilling work for anthology titles from DC Comics and...
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| Person | Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again | ||||
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| Steve Lieber | Topic | Flytrap: Episode One | Juggling Act |
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...
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| Ron Chan | Comic Book Penciler | Flytrap: Episode Two | Deep, Too | ||
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| Stephane Roux | Comic Book Penciler | Birds of Prey #108 | Birds of Prey : Blood and Circuits | ||
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| Leinil Francis Yu |
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Topic | The Trust |
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...
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| Person | The New Avengers #27 : Revolution | ||||
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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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| Brian Bolland |
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Topic | Batman: The Killing Joke |
Brian Bolland (b. 1951) is a British comics artist, famous for his detailed linework and eye-catching compositions. He is particularly known as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comic 2000 AD, and as one of the foremost cover artists for the "big two" comic publishing houses, Marvel and DC Comics.
Brian Bolland was born on March 26 1951 in Lincolnshire, and began drawing comics at the age of ten. As a child, his main inspirations were titles by Dell Comics and DC.
While...
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| Tim Sale |
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Topic | Detective Comics #779 |
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...
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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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| Tommy Castillo | Comic Book Penciler | Dead Reckoning, Part 3 | |||
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| Charles Vess |
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Topic | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Charles Vess (b. 1951) is an American fantasy artist and comic-book illustrator who has specialized in the illustration of myths and fairy tales. His illustrations are strongly influenced by the work of artists and illustrators such as Arthur Rackham and Alphonse Mucha. Vess has won several awards for his illustrations.
Charles Vess was born on June 10 1951 in Lynchburg, Virginia and began drawing comic art as a child. He graduated with a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1974. His...
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| Person | The Sandman: Dream Country | ||||
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| Kelly Jones | Comic Book Penciler | Calliope | |||
| Person | A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Topic | The Sandman: Dream Country | ||||
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| Colleen Doran |
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Topic | Façade |
Colleen Doran (born July 24, 1968) is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for her fantasy series A Distant Soil.
Doran broke into the comic book industry when still a teenager, in the 1980s. A Distant Soil was originally published by Wendy and Richard Pini's WaRP Graphics, publishers of Elfquest, but Doran subsequently left the company due to an acrimonious dispute with Richard Pini, whom she alleged was attempting to claim copyright on her work. The WaRP version of the story...
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| Person | The Sandman: Dream Country | ||||
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| Dave McKean |
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Topic | Calliope |
David Tench McKean (born 29 December 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician.
His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art and sculpture.
After a trip to New York in 1986 during which he failed to find work as a comics artist, McKean met writer Neil Gaiman and the pair collaborated on a short graphic novel of disturbing childhood memories, Violent Cases,...
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| Person | A Dream of a Thousand Cats | ||||
| Film director | A Midsummer Night's Dream | ||||
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| Damion Scott |
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Topic | Mark of Cain, Part One |
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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| Person | Mark of Cain, Part Two | ||||
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| Bob Brown | Topic | Into the Den of the Death-Dealers |
Bob Brown (died 1977) was an American comic book artist with an extensive career from the early 1940s through the 1970s. With writers Edmond Hamilton and Gardner Fox, Brown created the DC Comics hero Space Ranger, drawing the character's complete run from his deubt in the try-out comic Showcase #15 (Aug 1958) through ''Mystery in Space #103 (July 1965).
Brown's work appeared in DC's Action Comics, The Brave and the Bold, Challengers of the Unknown, Detective Comics, Doom Patrol, House of...
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| Bob Kane |
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Topic | Batman #1 | The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom |
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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| Person | The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be | ||||
| Film writer | The Joker | ||||
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| Jim Aparo |
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Topic | A Death in the Family, Part One |
James N. "Jim" Aparo (1932 - July 19, 2005) was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960's and 1970's work on various DC Comics includingBatman, Aquaman and The Spectre (during a short run in Adventure Comics). Aparo's style was primarily in the tradition of his influential contemporary Neal Adams, striving for realistic renditions of his subject rather than caricature or exaggeration. Aparo's muscular figures tended to be leaner than those drawn by most of his peers. He paid...
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| Person | A Death in the Family, Part Two | ||||
| Deceased Person | A Death in the Family, Part Three | ||||
| Fictional Character Creator | A Death in the Family, Part Four | ||||
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| Mike Mignola |
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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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| Person | Batman #426 | ||||
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| Joe Shuster |
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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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| Glen Orbik |
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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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| Dan Jurgens |
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Topic | Fruit of the Earth, Part Two | ||
