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Comic art for the major US companies such as Marvel or DC is drawn on special art board that includes 'blue line' indicators so the artists draw to the correct size proprotional to the final US comic book art size. Artists contracted to the companies are provided with this board, although I am not sure if this is still supplied gratis, as it was in Paul Neary's day as Editorial Director at Marvel UK, or if they have to pay for it.

Page measurements apparently vary slightly from company to company, so using ordinary Bristol board and a ruler may be a better option for the aspiring artist than seeking down this specialised board.

2000AD is now published pro to US comic book size.

BlueLine
There is a type of Bristol board called BlueLine which features these the official comic page measurments printed on it. It's solicited through Previews and, therefore, most comic shops should be able to order it. Some artists don't like it.

Bristol Board
• Most art supply shops in Belfast sell Bristol board in A3 20 sheet blocks.

Art Supplies

Great Art Supplies
Gerstaecker UK Limited / Great Art, Normandy House, 1 Nether Street, Alton, Hampshire GU34 1EA
Telephone Order line 0845 601 5772 (Local call rate)
Described as Europe's largest and brightest catalogue for art materials, this company says "Whatever your angle - whether you're an art student, leisure painter, art teacher or professional artist - we're sure that you'll find that we are full of all the supplies you need." They publish a variety of catalogues for each country -- one artist I know orders material from their French rather than UK edition.


London Graphics Company
16-18 Shelton Street, Covent Garden London WC2H 9JL
Tel: 020 7759 4500 Fax: 020 7759 4585
London Graphic Centre was established in 1973 as a specialist graphic materials supplier to the London Design and Advertising market.


Dip Pens

Hans Presto
This Swedish (with English translation) site apparently stocks and sells just about every dip pen ever made. It also has sections on Lettering, Comics and Handwriting. (thanks to artist Kev Hopgood for this one)

NEW BRITISH COMICS COLLECTIONS AVAIALBLE NOW...

This is the first Dan Dare collection I've edited for Titan Books, comprising work by Frank Hampson, Frank Bellamy and Don Harley.

Superb World War 1 strip first published in Battle and another collection edited by me for Titan

Comics Artists C

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Anthony Cacioppo
Official: www.comicartistsdirect.com/cacioppo.html

Anthony is an inker who, through his Kaso comics line, inked The Indestructible Man, created The Risen and the Dead and tackled an espionage thriller with Matt Burton - Agent Zero.

Ruben Caldwell
Official: www.bestfriendsproductions.com/rubeninfo.htm

Co-creator of Heroes in Birmingham


Steve Callaghan
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/callaghan
Steve Callaghan has been producing cartoons to an extremely high standard for over 30 years.

Pedro Camargo
Official: www.pedrozilla.com
LiveJournal: siliconneedle.livejournal.com
DeviantArt: mezzoforte.deviantart.com

ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/siliconneedle
After graduating from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a cartooning degree, Pedro was invited to join web comix collective ACT-I-VATE, despite the lack of any published works or awards... so what you see there - Glam and Space Sucks -- is pretty much all you'll be able to find of my work. He says he also fights dinosaurs and wizards on a daily basis...

The Fate of the ArtistFrom HellEddie Campbell
Official: eddiecampbell.blogspot.com


Eddie Campbell, whose recent titles include The Fate of The Artist, is best known for his collaboration with Alan Moore on the epic graphic novel, From Hell. He's also known for creating the irreverent and wine-soaked series Bacchus, which revives the Greek gods in a sprawling, unpredictable, and enormously entertaining thousand-page epic; and the award-winning autobiographical series Alec, which has earned him the reputation as one of the great raconteurs in the medium of comics. His other collaborations include The Birth Caul and Snakes & Ladders (also with Alan Moore), two moving and personal poems adapted into the comics form. Married and a father of three, Eddie writes and draws from his home in a quiet suburb of Queensland, Australia.

Neil Cameron
Official: www.neillcameron.com
Blog: www.neillcameron.blogspot.com
Creator of the British indie mag, Dumbass Comics and fab action artist whose work include Mobot High for The DFC. Well worth seeking out his work wherever you can find it, in my opinion.

Greg Capullo
Official: www.thecreech.com
Greg Capullo is a highly sought after creator, writer & artist. His work can be seen in comics (Spawn, The Creech), TV (Spawn), film (Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys), Music (Crystal Method CD Jacket), video games (Soul Calibur II), toys, and more. Currently illustrating Spawn covers, designing new McFarlane toys, and developing media projects including movies, books, & more.

Mike Cavallaro
Official: www.mikecavallaro.com
Deep Six Studio: deepsixbklyn.com/
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/mike_cavallaro
MySpace: www.myspace.com/66kmph

Brooklyn by way of New Jersey. Mike studied at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon Art, and then worked in comics and animation at DC Comics, Valiant Comics, Milestone, Image, BOOM! Studios, MTV Animation, Cartoon Network and others.
He's currently working on various projects, including a graphic novel entitled Foiled with author Jane Yolen for First Second Books.

Illustration by Paul Cemmick - Sample to viewPaul Cemmick
Official: www.paulcemmick.com
Weird how you find some links. Someone showed me some hilarious satire strips from an old magazine -- Little Lucy in Fantasyland (adults only!) -- and nestling in the corner of one of the pages was Paul's signature. His site is packed with examples of illustration and comic strip he's done down the years, including book covers for Tom Holt's books, EastEnders strip, SFX magazine, 2Dtv, The Sunday Times and much, much more. Gorgeous work.

Martin Cendreda
Official: www.zurikrobot.com

Martin was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He has a girlfriend and two cats. He also enjoys pizza.

CartoonFace.com
Link: www.cartoonface.com

Mad and sometiems tasteless cartoons and strip from Marty Montez.

Kody Chamberlain's "Punks"Kody Chamerblain
Official: www.KodyChamberlain.com

Kody Chamberlain is an American comic creator best known for his work on 30 Days of Nights: Bloodsucker Tales for IDW Publishing, Tag for BOOM! Studios, and more recently, Punks: The Comic.
Chamberlain is also a writer and creator whose projects include
The Foundation which which was preemptively optioned by Paramount Pictures for film development.

Juan Chavarriga
Web Link: chimpira.deviantart.com

Andrew Chiu
Official: www.andrewchiu.co.uk

Andrew's drawn for 2000AD and did a brilliant strip for me called Dan Barton, which ran in Eagle Flies Again. Genius.

Terry Christien's Cartoonology
Official: www.cartoonology.com

Cartoon experience that performs well for business and communications.

Christina Z
Official: www.ChristinaZ.com

Writer and designer. Writer of Witchblade, CreeD, and Tigra

Peter Clark (Peet)
Official: Go

Creatof BB & Klutz

Kevin Colden
Official: www.kevincolden.com
MySpace:www.myspace.com/kmcart
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/kevincolden

Kevin Colden is the Xeric-winning author of Fishtown, to be released in book form from IDW Publishing in late 2008. He is a founding member of The Chemistry Set webcomics collective. His work has appeared on DC Comics’ ZudaComics.com and is also on display in the permanent collection at MoCCA.
He lives in New York City with his wife (cartoonist Miss Lasko-Gross) where he works in comics, music, film and video.

Deadlock by Simon ColebySimon Coleby
Official: www.simoncoleby.co.uk

Okay -- bias admission: I worked with Simon, who's currently working on 2000AD, on Warheads and Death's Head at Marvel UK. I think he's a fab artist, always professional and has a dark edge to his work that is really unique. Highly recommended!

Dave Cockrum
Official: www.davecockrum.net

Official site for the former Legion and X-Men artist and creator of Nightcrawler, Storm, and other characters.

Giles Coin
Official: www.theartofcomics.com/coin/gc1.htm

Gilles Coin is a young French artist of amazing artistic talent, who seems to excel when doing the female form.

Clive Collins
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/clivecollins

Professional cartoonist / illustrator with years of experience, can and will draw to order - caricatures, strips, editorial, adult or juvenile material.

Mike Collins © Mike Collins!Mike Collins
Official: www.freakhousegraphics.co.uk

As writer and artist in British and American comic books for more than 15 years, Mike's worked on many key characters, including 2000AD's Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper, plus many DC Comics characters including Batman. He also drew The Grand Tour, a strip I wrote for CJL Publishing, an Italian Publisher.
As of November 2005 he was the regular strip artist for Doctor Who Magazine. You can read an interview about his work on that on the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4135196.stm and view some of his artwork here

Linda Combi
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/lindacombi

Linda produces quirky cartoons and caricatures on Cricket, Animals, Horoscopes, and the more absurd aspects of 21st Century life.

Craig Conlan
Official: www.craigconlan.com

Craig Conlan supplies illustration, cartoons, character designs and comic strips to a wide variety of clients

Steve Conley
Link: www.steveconley.com

Creator of astoundingspacethrills, Steve is no slouch when it comes to other creative skills, such as stunning web design -- but one the best part of his site is surely his tribute to Comic Ads of Yesteryear. Sea Monkeys live on!
Check out Socks and Barney, his political satire

Comical Capers
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/comicalcapers

Maxine Sylvester is the founder of Comical Capers and the creator of Bin Lids strip cartoon. She likes to use her knowledge of foreign cultures by incorporating them in to her artwork. Strips such as the ‘Expat Files’ and ‘Hank ‘n’ Marvin’ were influenced by her overseas experiences in Russia and her employment onboard US Cruise liners.

Nikki Cook
Official: www.nikkicook.com

Nikki Cook lives in New York. She has very little free time and spends it recklessly on comic books and finding brightly colored bits of plastic.

Russ Cook
Link: www.cartoonists.co.uk/rustycooker

Russ Cook is a cartoonist living and working in Oxford where he runs his own small graphics business 'Rusty Cooker Graphics' (His business also covers illustrations and signwork as well as cartoons and caricature work that leans towards a more illustrative feel.

John CooperJohn Cooper
Official: Hijacked!
• If you want to contact John, drop me an e-mail I will forward

Perhaps best known as the artist on Johnny Red for Battle Picture Weekly, John Cooper is regarded by some as the British "Gil Kane". John continues to draw three frame strips to ilustrate news stories for ITN News - usually for Channel Four - to this day and is a highly accomplished landscape painter. Read More...

Paul Cowan
Official: www.totallytoons.co.uk

Paul is a comic book artist and writer, with a little portrait and cartoon work on the side. Some of his work is for sale.

Molly Crabapple
Official: www.mollycrabapple.com
Also: www.drsketchy.com

Professional draw-er with entrepreneurial tendencies and a big yap. Likes caffeine, money, audacious plans, DIY Imperialism, people who study Arabic.

Thrud the BarbarianCarl Critchlow
Official: www.carlcritchlow.com
Thrud the Barbarian Official Site: www.thrudthebarbarian

The creator of Thrud the Barbarian (and if you don't know who he is, you're obviously a wee stripling of a human), Carl's credits include Batman, Mean Machine, Flash and BattleTech.

Carlos Cruz
Carlos Cruz, who now lives in Malaga, went from working in a flour factory in Buenos Aires to become a comics artist in the 1950s. He has many credits for a wide range of British publishers including strips for Fleetway -- appearing Buster (Mighty McGinty, Crabbe's Crusaders and others), Tiger (Battling Boffins), Smash! (The Pillater Peril), Eagle (Blood Fang, Dan Dare), Champion (When the Sky turned Green) and Melanie (Pauline) -- while still drawing the strip Juanjo for the Spanish market.
His credits for DC Thomson include Warlord (Sniper, Union Jack Jackson) and various strips for Spike.
He is still working, mainly on Sweden's Phantom comic.
Read an interview with Carlos Cruz (in Spanish)

Kevin Crossley sample artKevin Crossley
Link: www.kevcrossley.com

Strip amd concept Kevin's credits include Event Horizon and the Kiss comic launched in 2007.

Jonathan Cusick
Link: www.jonathancusick.com

Since graduating in 1999 Jonathan has illustrated many magazines including the New Statesman, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Independent on Sunday, Punch, The Express Saturday, Men’s Health,and the Radio Times.

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