Comic Book Penciler

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Gerhard is the professional name of a Canadian artist known for the elaborately detailed background illustrations in the comics series Cerebus the Aardvark. He does not reveal his full name. He was born on April 14, 1959, and started his association with Dave Sim's...

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...

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...

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...

Dan Jurgens (born June 27, 1959) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for creating the superhero Booster Gold, and for his lengthy runs on the Superman titles Adventures of Superman and Superman (vol. 2), particularly during The Death of...

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...

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...

James N. "Jim" Aparo (1932 - July 19, 2005) was an American comic book artist best known for his work on various Batman stories for DC Comics. Aparo's style was primarily in the tradition of his influential contemporary Neal Adams, striving for realistic renditions of...

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...

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 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...

James Jean (born 1979) is a Taiwan-American award winning artist and illustrator living in Los Angeles. He was born in Taiwan but and was raised in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey.He was educated at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Upon graduating in...

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,...

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...

Don Heck (January 2, 1929 – February 23, 1995) was an American comic book artist best known for co-creating the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, and for his long run penciling the Marvel superhero-team series The Avengers during the 1960s Silver Age of comic books. ...

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...

Jim Baikie is a British comics artist, who best known for his work with Alan Moore on Skizz. Baikie began his career illustrating Valentine for Fleetway. Over the next twenty years, he built a solid reputation working for TV comics such as Look-in, including...

Michael Anthony "Tony" Moore (born 1978) is an American comic book artist, whose work consists mainly of genre pieces, most notably in horror and science fiction, with titles such as The Walking Dead, Fear Agent and The Exterminators. Moore was born in Lexington, KY,...

Campbell ("Cam") Kennedy is a Scottish comics artist. He is best known for his work on 2000 AD, especially the flagship titles Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper. Following work in commercial art in his hometown of Glasgow, Kennedy went freelance and worked as an...

Ross Andru (June 15, 1927 - November 9, 1993) was an American comic book artist and editor. He is best known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man and Wonder Woman and for co-creating the Metal Men (with writer Robert Kanigher in Showcase # 37 in 1962) and the...

Steven "Steve" McNiven is a Canadian comic book artist. He first came into prominence after he took over as a penciller of CrossGen's Meridian title following the departure of Josh Middleton. Later, he gained more fame working for Marvel Comics as the penciller of...

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...

Cliff Rathburn is an American comic book artist. He pencils, inks, colors and grey scales. His work includes: