Comic Book Colorist

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Justin Ponsor is an artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry.

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.

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...

Liam Roger Sharp (born May 2, 1968) is a British comic book artist, writer, publisher, and some-time rock frontman. He lives in Derby, East Midlands) with his wife Christina, and three children, Matylda, Lorcan and Jeff. Sharp made his debut in the 1980s for the...

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

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 hired by Whilce Portacio to do some work for Wildstorm. That work fell through, but Portacio passed on samples of...

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...

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....

Val Mayerik (b. 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 on March 29 1950 in Youngstown, Ohio. He majored in art and philosophy at Youngstown State...

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...