Comics Artists A

Nick Abadzis
Link: www.nickabadzis.com
A wonderfully talented cartoonist and writer and publisher who I used to work with, and for, at Marvel UK. So, no bias there, then.

Abel
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/abel
Abel's work has appeared in national UK daily papers as well as magazines including Private Eye.

La Perdida (Pantheon Books) by Jessica Abel is, according to Abel, "the story of Carla, an American estranged from her Mexican father, who heads to Mexico City to 'find herself.' "Her intense desire to make a connection with Mexico and her unwillingness to see the impact of her own history on her understanding combine to turn an innocent journey down a dark path." • Buy it from Amazon.co.uk

Jessica Abel
Official: www.jessicaabel.com
Jessica Abel is a cartoonist and writer whose work includes comics journalism, La Perdida, a graphic novel published by Pantheon and Artbabe, the self-published and Fantagraphics series. Born and raised in Chicagoland, she moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2000, after a two-year pit stop in Mexico City. In her “free” time, she says she likes to build things, garden, and cook, and hopes that doesn’t make her sound like "the biggest dork ever".

Neal Adams
Official: www.nealadams.com
Graphics-intensive home to the legendary artist who re-invented Batman in the 1960s and who now owns and runs the comics, cartoons, animation and adverstising company Continuity Studios. Aside from a ton of visuals, news, a store and a history of his career, Adams is on a quest for scans of his old work.

Scott Adams
Link: www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert
Creator of the brilliant office and IT-inspired humour strip Dilbert

Charles Adlard
Link: www.charlieadlard.com
British comic book artist and penciller, whose credits include The Walking Dead at Image and White Death with Robbie Morrison and 2000AD series including Judge Dredd, Savage and Armitage; but his credits also include Warheads for Marvel UK, The X-Files, Astronauts in Trouble and many other fine works.
Charlie is also artist of Le Soufflé du Wendigo for French Soliel.

Gerry Alanguilan
Blog: gerry.alanguilan.com
Comics Musuem: www.komikero.com
This site hosts the Philippine Comics Art Museum as well as his restoration of his father-in-law Rudy Florese’s Oras Mo Na! strip, which deals with a vigilante who fights child sexual abuse committed by foreigners.

Gerry is artist and writer of the excellent Elmer (set on an alternate Earth where chickens have suddenly acquired the intelligence and consciousness of humans) as well as mainstream work on titles such as Wildstorm's Silent Dragon, Superman: Birthright or the 2001 Fantastic Four annual. He is also a formidable blogger, writing a very passionate blog which whilst dealing with many topics has a particular reverance for the history of Filipino comics artists and the art that came before him.

Enrique Alcatena
Official site: alcatena.redsectorart.com
Enrique (Quique) Alcatena's fascination with comics started in his childhood, and has never flagged. He taught himself drawing, though he has never failed to pay his dues to the artists who have remained his main influences and mentors to this day: Carmine Infantino, Gil Kane, Jack Kirby, Lucho Olivera and Barry Windsor-Smith, among many others.
His credits include Starblazer for DC Thomson, although today he is better known for his work with long-time partner Eduardo Mazzitelli or superhero work for US publishers DC Comics and Marvel.
Despite his superhero work he prefers fantasy, bringing a love of myth and legend to his work. Most of his fantasy work has been published in Europe or South America, sometimes scripted by himself, or by Ricardo Barreiro, Michael Chinn or Robin Wood.

Bill Alger
Link: www.billalger.com
Cartoonist whose work includes Scooby Doo and contributions to the "Big Book of..." series. He also works on a fascinating blog dedicated to the cartoonist Al Wiseman, who anonymously 'ghosted' the US Dennis the Menace comic book in the 1950s: www.alwiseman.com. This guy was one of those inventive genius' who really put a huge amount of detail in each frame, reminding me in a way of the editorial cartoon work of the UK's Giles (remember some of the background stuff he did when at his best for the Daily Express?). Alger has grabbed some of Wiseman's work and reveals just how much work went into some of his panels -- magazines with comic strips drawn in miniscule detail for example.

Jason Shawn Alexander
Link: www.studiosection8.com
Artist whose moody but effective work has been published by Dark Horse, DC Comics and many others. Some adult imagery on site.

Doug Allen
Link: www.dougallencomics.com
Best known for the comic strip "Steven" which has been running in alternative weeklies since the 1970s Doug's also drawn countless cartoons and illustrations for numerous magazines including the New Yorker. His site is a wonderful Flash-based collection of his work, including animation (you have to see the talking cactus movie!). Includes samples of his "fake marine art" and other art for sale.

Mike Allred
Link: www.aaapop.com
Allred sprang to fame for his work on Madman, being developed for a live action film with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. His work includes Shade the Chaniging Man, The Atomics and X-Force.

Steven Appleby
Link: www.stevenappleby.com

The kind of bonkers web site you'd expect from this cartoonist, who regularly appears in the Guardian etc.

Rick Altergott
Link: www.rickaltergott.com
Creator of Doofus, but who also does colour and black and white illustration

Chris Altham
Link: www.altham.com
Chris has produced cartoons on health and safety, environment, business, sport, leisure, health and loads more since 1988.

Eduardo Alupente
Official: www.elconclave.tripod.com
Eduardo has been working as a professional inker for the last eight years, working for Marvel, DC, Acclaim, Disney, Warner Bros. and many European companies.

Yoshitaka Amano
Link: www.amanosworld.com
New York-based Japanese artist, whose work inclucdes the awarding-winning Sandman: The Dream Hunters and the The Tale of Genji, published in English by Dark Horse. He also has a Japanese language site with some stunning art at: www.so-net.ne.jp/amano

Bill Amend
Link: www.foxtrot.com
Bill says he first started drawing cartoons for fun when he was about nine years old. "I liked to draw frogs and dinosaurs, which may partly explain why I have an iguana in my strip." His best-known work, the FoxTrot strip began running in newspapers 10 April, 1988. His web site includes some useful tips for aspiring cartoonists on the FAQ page.

Mark Anderson
Official: www.andertoons.com
Cartoonist whose work has appeared in, among others, Reader's Digest, Wall Street Journal, Forbes and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist.

Max Andersson
Link: www.maxandersson.com
Swedish comics artist whose English titles include Death and Candy, and also a film maker

Graham Annable
Link: www.grickle.com
Alternative Comics have been publishing Annable's Grickle bookssince 2001: he's also collaborated on and edited the Hickee humour anthology comics.

Ant
Link: www.atomweb.net/ant.html
Ant been living and working in Barcelona as a professional caricaturist and cartoonist for eight years. Clients include Punch and numerous Spanish national newspapers.

Rachele Aragano
Official: rachelearagno.splinder.com

Rachele Aragno is an Italian professional penciler/ inker who has frequented "Scuola Internazionale di Comics" in Rome. Her work is stunning - beautiful pencils and design. Check it out on her site

Howard John Arey
Official :www.hi-horse.com
For years, Arey has divided his free time between creating big, majestic oil paintings and tatty little comic strips; at present, the comic strips are ascendant. He is one of the founding members of Hi-Horse Publishing, and his work has also been published in Shout magazine and Radical Society. He spends many of his waking hours working in an office, where he does the thing with computers while nursing fantasies of omnipotence and revenge. Arey hails from Jersey City and currently lives in Manhattan with his girlfriend, Mira.

Argent
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/argent
Argent's work has appeared in the popular national publications and local newspapers, in-house publications and special one-off commissions.

Stuart Arrowsmith
Link: www.sarrowsmith.co.uk
Stuart is a full-time Designer and Illustrator, producing work ranging from panel cartoons to natural history pieces for commercial use.

Andrice Arp
Official: www.hi-horse.com
Arp makes comics, paintings and illustrations in San Francisco. She is one of the founders of the Hi-Horse empire. Her work appears in several anthologies, including Studygroup12, Typewriter, Legal Action Comics Vol.II, Scheherazade and Orchid 2. One day she hopes to have time to clean her house.

Martin Asbury
Official: www.martinasbury.com
Brilliant artist whose work includes Garth and storyboards on countless films, including James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies

Michael J Austin
Official: www.jonathancooper.co.uk
Jonathan Cooper's Park Walk Gallery, Chelsea
Now a renowned painter, Devon-based Mick Austin – a former member of Spandau Ballet before they made it big -- will be remembered for his unique styling on several strips for Doctor Who Monthly, bringing believable life to the Martian meanies, the Ice Warriors, and his Judge Dredd work for 2000AD. But it was a as a cover artist for Marvel UK’s US reprints that first set him on the road to becoming a professional artist in 1981.

Vicente Aviles
Official: www.elprofe.com
Creator of El Profe, which has run in Spanish for 12 years in the El Nuevo Dia newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The comic strip is about a scientist (El Profe), who is always trying to make the perfect invention or discovery, but doesn't always (well... never!) suceeds. An English language version is being published for mobile download on ROK Comics.

Alfonso Mejia Azpiri
• Lambiek.net bio: www.lambiek.net/azpiri_a.htm
• Azpiri Gallery site: http://membres.lycos.fr/therion9/comics/azpiri.htm
• The Alfonso Azpiri Gallery Collection: see theEuropean Artists Gallery
Link: http://users.pandora.be/marcbazooka/euro_artists.htm
Comics artists and illustrators site faturing artists including Alfonso Azpiri, Chris Achilleos and many others

Something of a master of erotic comics art, Spanish artist Azpiri also created the martial arts character "Chang" who Lambiek.net reveals, appeared in several French magazines, as well as titles such as 'Alpha Cosmos', 'Cephyd' and 'Monster'.

Sean Azzopardi
Web Link: phatcatz.org.uk
Publisher of Phatcomics including Ed, Twelve Hour Shift, Grey Sky


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