Mark Bagley
Mark Bagley (born August 7, 1957) is an American comic book artist for Marvel Comics. He has worked on titles such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Thunderbolts, New Warriors, and Ultimate Spider-Man. Bagley is collaborating with Bendis on the latter's second story arc of "Mighty Avengers". This may be his last work for Marvel as it has been reported recently that he had signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics and will start his first work for the company in 2008. Bendis recently stated that Bagley has already finished his Mighty Avengers arc, and the pair are currently working on an Ultimate Spider-Man project together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bagley
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis (born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics; for over seven years, Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic sales chart.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Michael_Bendis
Simone Bianchi
Simone Bianchi (born July 10, 1971 in Lucca) is an Italian comic book illustrator, painter, graphic designer and art instructor, known to Italian audiences for his work in comics, CD covers, music videos, TV commercials and role-playing games, and to American comic book readers for his work on Detective Comics, Green Lantern and Wolverine. Bianchi’s style is distinguished by his use of ink wash, or watercolor halftones, in rendering his work, a non-traditional technique by American standards.
Tom Brevoort
Tom Brevoort is an American comic book editor. Since the 1980s, he has worked for Marvel Comics. Brevoort started as an intern and worked his way up to an assistant editor and later an editor in his own right. As of 2007, he holds the title of Executive Editor with Marvel and is responsible for multiple series including New Avengers, Civil War, and Fantastic Four.
http://www.marvel.com/blogs/Tom%20Brevoort/entry/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brevoort
Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central, Sleeper, Uncanny X-Men and X-Men: Deadly Genesis, and The Authority, and for helping to revive the crime comics genre. As of 2007, he lives in Seattle, Washington.
http://www.edbrubaker.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Brubaker
Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek (born September 16, 1960) is a comic book writer. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in various towns in the Boston area, including Lexington, where he befriended another future comic book writer, Scott McCloud.
Kurt has worked on a number of different titles in his career, starting in 1982 with a Green Lantern #162 backup story. These include Arrowsmith, The Avengers, Icon, Iron Man, The Liberty Project, Ninjak, The Power Company, Red Tornado, Shockrockets, Superman: Secret Identity, Thunderbolts, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, JLA, and (perhaps most notably) the Marvels mini-series followed by Homage Comics Kurt Busiek's Astro City. As a fan, he created the theory that Jean Grey had never died and became the Phoenix (comics), which was later integrated into the comics.
In 1997, Busiek began a celebrated stint as writer of Avengers alongside artist George Perez. Perez departed from the series in 2000, but Busiek continued as writer for two more years, collaborating with artists Alan Davis, Kieron Dwyer and others. Busiek's tenure culminated with the Kang Dynasty storyline. In 2003, Busiek re-teamed with Perez to create the JLA/Avengers limited series.
In 2003, Kurt began a new Conan series for Dark Horse Comics but has since moved on. In December 2005 Busiek signed a two-year exclusive contract with DC Comics. During DC's Infinite Crisis event, Kurt teamed with Geoff Johns on a One Year Later 8-part story arc (called Up, Up and Away) that encompassed both Superman titles. As well, he began writing the DC title Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis and wrote from issues 40-49. Kurt is currently the writer of Superman.
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Howard Chaykin
Howard Victor Chaykin (born 1950 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American comic book writer and artist famous for his innovative storytelling and sometimes controversial material. Chaykin's main influences are the mid-20th century book illustrators Robert Fawcett, Al Parker, and others, along with a love for jazz which is often reflected in his work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Chaykin
Frank Cho
Frank Cho, born Duk Hyun Cho, is an American comic strip and comic book creator, writer and illustrator, best known for his series Liberty Meadows. He is the current artist on Marvel Comics' flagship Mighty Avengers with writer Brian Bendis, though he leaves the book with issue #6. He's also plotter and cover artist of Dynamite Entertainment's Jungle Girl.
http://www.libertymeadows.com/
http://www.apesandbabes.com/
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Matt Fraction
Matt Fraction (born Matthew Fritchman on December 1, 1975, Chicago Heights, IL) is an American comic book writer, and co-founder of Artbomb and Savant. He wrote two columns for Comic Book Resources: Poplife and The Basement Tapes, the latter with Joe Casey. He currently writes The Order, Punisher War Journal, and co-writes Iron Fist for Marvel Comics. He also writes Casanova for Image.
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Geoff Johns
Geoff Johns (born 25 January 1973 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American comic book writer, best known for his work for DC Comics. In 2000, he succeeded James Robinson as David S. Goyer's co-writer on the title JSA. Also that year, Johns became the regular writer on the ongoing series The Flash. In 2003, he re-launched the DC comics title Teen Titans. Johns was responsible for the return of Hal Jordan in 2005 as the writer of the Green Lantern: Rebirth mini-series and subsequent Green Lantern ongoing title. Johns was also the writer of the DC Comics crossover event Infinite Crisis beginning in 2005, a sequel to 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths. Following that comic book event, Johns was one of four writers - along with Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, and Greg Rucka - behind the landmark 2006-2007 weekly comic title 52. In 2006, Johns reunited with Richard Donner on the Superman title Action Comics, with Donner co-plotting the series with his former assistant. In August 2007 Johns and cowriter Jeff Katz re-launced the new Booster Gold series.
http://www.geoffjohns.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Johns
Jim Lee
Jim Lee (born August 11, 1964) is a Korean-American comic book artist, creator and publisher. After graduating from Princeton, he decided to attempt illustrating comic books, and met with success. Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the late 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.
He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990.
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Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1922) is an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former Chairman of Marvel Comics.
With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
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Dwayne McDuffie
Dwayne McDuffie is a comic book and animation writer, and a creator of the Emmy Award winning show Static Shock. He has worked for many comic book companies, including Marvel Comics, Milestone Media, DC Comics, Harvey Comics, and Archie Comics.
http://www.dwaynemcduffie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_McDuffie
Mark Millar
Mark Millar (born December 24, 1969) is a Scottish comic book writer born in Coatbridge. A resident of Glasgow, Scotland, his most known works include The Authority, Ultimate X-Men, Wanted, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, The Ultimates, and Civil War. It has been recently announced that Millar will reteam up Bryan Hitch for an upcoming run on Marvel's premiere Fantastic Four franchise.
http://www.millarworld.tv/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Millar
Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary – authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair, New Wave science fiction writers like Michael Moorcock and horror writers like Clive Barker – to the cinematic – filmmakers like Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
Michael Oeming
Michael Avon Oeming (Pronounced O-Ming) is a Jewish American comic book artist and writer well known for his stark, cartoony art style which is used for telling sophisticated and mature subject matter. He was born in Bordentown, New Jersey, United States. He is a well known fan of ancient mythology, having written or drawn several projects centering on the Norse gods, as well as others. He frequently collaborates with long-time friend Bryan Glass, and with Brian Michael Bendis. He is part of the M.O.B. crew of comicbook creator-friends (which stands for Mack-Oeming-Bendis).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Avon_Oeming
Joe Quesada
Joseph "Joe" Quesada (born December 1, 1962), colloquially known as Joe Q, is an American comic book editor, writer and artist. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. His first widely distributed works were for Valiant Comics where he penciled and plotted Ninjak, X-O Manowar and others. His art was heavily influenced by Japanese manga, evidenced by large, watery eyes, long, flowing hair, and unnatural body proportions. Several of his page compositions reflect the art nouveau style of Alphonse Mucha. Later, he formed his own publishing company, Event Comics, and created Ash, a firefighter with superpowers.
In 1998, Event Comics was contracted to do several books for Marvel Comics, dubbed Marvel Knights. As editor of Marvel Knights, Quesada encouraged experimentation and used his contacts in the indie comics world to bring in new creators such as David W. Mack, Mike Oeming, Brian Michael Bendis, Garth Ennis, and Steve Dillon. Quesada also illustrated a well-received Daredevil story written by cult film director Kevin Smith. Joe Quesada became editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics in 2000. He also sits on the executive board of comic book charity A Commitment to Our Roots.
http://www.joequesada.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Quesada
Gail Simone
Gail Simone is an American writer of comic books. Best known for penning DC's Birds of Prey, she is the writer of Welcome to Tranquility and All-New Atom and recently became the first female ongoing writer for Wonder Woman. Simone is also the writer of DC's 2005 Villains United limited series (part of the lead-in to Infinite Crisis), and its spin-off, the limited series Secret Six. Other work by Simone includes a run on the Superman title Action Comics, a brief stint on The Legion, and a Rose and Thorn limited series at DC Comics. For Oni Press, Simone wrote Killer Princesses with co-creator and artist Lea Hernandez, Gus Beezer specials for Marvel Comics, and a recently-announced revival of Gen¹³ for Wildstorm. Simone has gained a reputation for being a gifted comedy-action writer, especially showcased in her mainstream work on Deadpool and Birds of Prey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Simone
Dan Slott
Dan Slott is an American comic book writer best known for Avengers: The Initiative and She-Hulk. He will become one of the four writers of Amazing Spider-Man in January 2008. He is renowned for injecting humor into typically serious superhero books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Slott
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Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan (born 1976, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer best known for the series Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, and Pride of Baghdad. He is also a current writer on the hit tv show Lost.
http://www.bkv.tv/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_K._Vaughan
