1. Joe Simon (1913)

Comic Creator

Golden Age of Comic Books legend and co-creator of Captain America with another legend, Jack Kirby. He also handled Sandman, the Newsboy Legion, the Boy Commandos, and Manhunter during the...

2. Hugo Pratt (1927)

Comic Creator

Eisner Award-winning comic book author who wrote about Corto Maltese. He won the Best Foreign Comic Book Award at the Angouleme Festival for his work Indian Summer.

3. George Pérez (1954)

Comic Creator

Famous comic book writer and illustrator who was best known for his innovative work on "The Avengers," "The New Teen Titans," "Crisis on Infinite Earths," and "Wonder Woman." He also...

4. Milo Manara (1945)

Comic Creator

Italian watercolor artist and cartoonist who is known for his sensual portraits of women as well as his modeling based drawings. He shares his elaborate portraits and alternative modeling style...

5. Rob Liefeld (1967)

Comic Creator

Comic book artist and writer most widely known for his work on Marvel's The New Mutants and later X-Force. Then, in 1992, he would found Image Comics which would become...

6. Kazu Kibuishi (1978)

Comic Creator

Known for his original comic anthology collection called Flight, which was published in eight volumes between 2004 and 2011. He also created the webcomic Copper, which until 2009, was published...

7. Mike Mignola (1960)

Comic Creator

Comic book artist and animator who worked on the Dark Horse Comics series Hellboy, among other projects. His work was incredibly popular among his fellow artists, including Alan Moore who felt that...

8. Gilbert Hernandez (1957)

Comic Creator

Comic book artist best known for his series "Love and Rockets." He was named among Time magazine's Top 100 Next Wave Storytellers in 2009.

9. Peter Laird (1954)

Comic Creator

Most famous as the co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books, this cartoonist and author also published a comic book called Stupid Heroes and co-wrote a graphic novel...

10. Frederik Peeters (1974)

Comic Creator

édérik Peeters is a contemporary Swiss graphic novelist. He received his bachelor of arts degree in visual communication from the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués in Geneva in 1995. Peeters currently...

11. Jim Mahfood (1975)

Comic Creator

Jim Mahfood a. k. a.

12. Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (1944)

Comic Creator

Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira more famous under his pen name Léo is a Brazilian comics creator.

13. R. M. Guéra (1959)

Comic Creator

Rajko Milošević a. k. a. Gera and R. M. Guéra is a Serbian comic book author and illustrator. He lives in Barcelona Spain since 1991. He debuted in the Yugoslav...

14. Mike Saenz (1959)

Comic Creator

Mike Saenz is a comic book artist and software designer. He is the creator of Shatter as well as an early adult video game MacPlaymate. As the founder and CEO...

15. P. Craig Russell (1951)

Comic Creator

Philip Craig Russell also known as P. Craig Russell is an American comic book writer artist and illustrator. His work has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards. Russell was the...

16. Erik Larsen (1962)

Comic Creator

Erik J. Larsen is an American comic book writer artist and publisher. He is known for his work on Savage Dragon as one of the founders of Image Comics and...

17. Jim Valentino (1952)

Comic Creator

Jim Valentino is an American writer penciler editor and publisher of comic books.

18. Mark Schultz (comics) (1955)

Comic Creator

Mark Schultz is an American writer and illustrator of books and comics. His most widely-recognized work is his self-created and owned comic book series Xenozoic Tales about a post-apocalyptic world...

19. Paul Grist (1960)

Comic Creator

Paul Grist is a British comic book creator noted for his hard-boiled police series Kane and his unorthodox superhero series Jack Staff.

20. John Porcellino (1968)

Comic Creator

John Porcellino is a popular creator of minicomics. Porcellino's self-published photocopied mostly autobiographical series King-Cat Comics is among the best-known and longest-running minicomics produced today begun when Porcellino was a...

21. David Nessle (1960)

Comic Creator

David Nessle is a Swedish comic creator known for his semi-philosophical comics such as Döden Steker En Flamingo as well as adolescent humor funnies like John Holmes & Sherlock Watson....

22. Jeff Smith (cartoonist) (1960)

Comic Creator

Jeff Smith is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the self-published comic book series Bone. His most recent series RASL focused on an art thief who hops...

23. Mort Todd (1961)

Comic Creator

Mort Todd is an American who has spent his career in comics animation and entertainment notably as the editor-in-chief of Cracked magazine and later Marvel Music. He is the owner...

24. Glenn Hauman (1969)

Comic Creator

Glenn Hauman is an American editor publisher writer of novels and short stories book illustrator and comic book colorist. He has worked in a variety of roles in print and...

25. Emmanuel Larcenet (1969)

Comic Creator

Emmanuel Larcenet known as Manu Larcenet is a French comics writer and artist. He worked with Fluide Glacial magazine from 1995 to 2006 and with Spirou magazine from 1997 to...

26. David Petersen (comics) (1977)

Comic Creator

David E. Petersen is an American comic book creator best known for the series Mouse Guard.

27. Tim Fish (1970)

Comic Creator

Tim Fish is a comic book author and artist. Fish was born in 1970 and attended the University of New Hampshire where he had a twice-weekly comic strip running in...

28. Coco Moodysson (1970)

Comic Creator

Coco Moodysson is a Swedish comic creator who makes so-called alternative often autobiographical comics. She made her album debut in 2002 with Coco Platina Titan Total and has been regularly...

29. Michael Buonauro (1979)

Comic Creator

Michael A. Buonauro born in Fort Lauderdale Florida was an American webcomic artist and author. His best known work was Marvelous Bob a web-published story based on the conventions of...

30. John K. Snyder III (1961)

Comic Creator

John K. Snyder III is a writer and illustrator of comic books and graphic novels. His work has been published in the pages of the underground press by independent comic...

31. Mark Smylie (1967)

Comic Creator

Mark Smylie is a comics creator writer and illustrator. He is best known for his Artesia epic fantasy comic series. Born in Florida in 1967 he studied political science philosophy...

32. Evan Dorkin (1965)

Comic Creator

Evan Dorkin is an American comics artist and writer. His best known works are the comic books Milk and Cheese and Dork. His comics often poke fun at fandom even...