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Paul Rainey
Official: www.pbrainey.com
Blog: pbrainey.blogspot.com

Cartoonist, illustrator and Panic Coordinator to Breakfast TV since 1992, Paul Rainey is the creator of the highly-acclaimed series There's No Time Like the Present and the diary-comic-strip-in-list-form Book of Lists.

Ted Rall
Official: www.tedrall.com
US political cartoonist whose work has was dropped by the New York Times in early 2004 because they say don't think it's funny enough. Ted Rall claims the NY Times has caved in to right wing complaints about his work which have deluged the NY Times web site. You can read more about the whole sorry state of affairs and get an insight into just how intolerant of freedom of speech right wing America is on his site.

Todd Ramsell
Link: www.polypop.com/comix/ramsell
A cartoonist in Dallas, Texas who run the comix site www.polypop.com. Offbeat stuff -- check out 'Robots hate Ninjas' and 'Ninjas Love Robots'. Great strips, and there's plenty more where those came from.

Alex Raymond
2 October 1909 – 6 September 1956

• LambiekNet Direct Link: Alex Raymond
• International Museum of Cartoon Art: Alex Raymond
Includes images and biography.

Alexander Gillespie Raymond was an American comic strip artist, best known for creating the comic Flash Gordon in 1934. The serial hit the silver screen three years later with Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers as the leading players.

Other strips he drew include Secret Agent X-9, Rip Kirby (for which he received a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1949), Jungle Jim, Tim Tyler's Luck, and Tillie the Toiler.

He was killed in a car accident in Westport, Connecticut while driving with fellow cartoonist Stan Drake.

James Reddington
Official: reddjam.com
This site features galleries, and galleries, and galleries by American artist James Reddington.

Graeme Neil Reid
Official: www.gnreid.co.uk
Illustrator and comics artist. Check out his great Doctor Who illustrations -- very moody!
A collection of his strips, One Last Time, costs £2.50 each in the UK. If you want to order a copy directly from Graeme it costs an extra £1 for postage and packaging.Cheques made payable to Graeme Neil Reid and sent to One Last Time, 60 Scotland Drive, Dunfermline, Fife KY12 7TN.

Jesse Reklaw
Official: www.slowwave.com
Jesse Reklaw draws Slow Wave, a comic strip based on people's real dreams. The strip appears in 13 newsweeklies around the United States and also at slowwave.com. The first book collection, Dreamtoons, was published by Shambhala in 2000.

Gordon Rennie
Fan: http://www.cybeh.net/cybergoth/tuws/
Artist on 2000AD's Glimmer Rats.

Chris Reynolds
Official: www.metropoppyfield.com
Chris Reynolds has been drawing comic books for over 20 years, winning high praise for artwork and stories. Chris' first graphic novel, Mauretania was published by Penguin in 1990, and Chris' work was reviewed at length during 2005 in the Comics Journal.

Rodrigo D. Ricci
Official: www.ligeia-the-vampire.com
Ligeia on ROK Comics: www.rokcomics.com/ligeia.php
Ligeia on Clickwheel: www.clickwheel.net/features/265
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/rdricci

Rodrigo is the creator of the popular Ligeia the Vampire stories, which he has published on ROK Comics, Comicspace, Clickwheel and elsewhere to high acclaim. Ligeia was one of a handful of strips selected for ROK Comics iphone App on its launch.
A graphic designer and comics artist who lives and works in Italy, he has drawn covers for the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia and also for Mondo Ignoto’s Horror and Forbidden archaeology magazines owned by Dario Argento.
He has also drawn a strip for the Italian comic El Italiano (The Italian) based on the horror film Curriculum by Patricio Valladares,which was published by Nicola Pesce Editore publishing house.

John Ridgway
Official: None

Commando and Doctor Who artist John Ridgway does not have an official web site. I am happy to forward professional enquiries to him direct.

John's credits include Commando (click here for a list of credits on Vic Whittle's brilliant Commando site), Doctor Who Magazine, Warrior and 2000AD.
Some of his Doctor Who Magazine work was reprinted several times, including in the Doctor Who Voyager graphic novel, one of Marvel UK's best Doctor Who strips ever, in a foreign editions and even in six mini-comics given way free in multipacks of Golden Wonder crisps in the mid-1980s.
John was the first artist to draw Judge Dredd in full colour in the weekly 2000AD. "Twister" is a homage to The Wizard of Oz complete with Dredd opening the door of a B&W room into a world of colour.
He also worked on Warrior, Dez Skinn's monthly anthology from the 1980s which spawned Marvelman/Miracleman and V For Vendetta. The Shroud in Issue 13 is a particularly memorable story. Copies of Warrior are still available from www.qualitycommunications.co.uk/warrior

Robin Riggs
Official: Go
Inking work includes Spider-Man and X-Men; he spent a couple of years working on the Incredible Hulk and also works for DC Comics.

Joey Robinson
Official: www.joeyrobinson.com
Joey Robinson is a cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer. His work has appeared in comics and role-playing games since 1997. He says he spends most of his time doing advertising design, drawing original art for ebay auctions, assorted comic assignments, working with his creator owned project, Temple with his partner, Duane Schilz and occasionally seeing his wife and kids.

Marshall Rogers
22 January 1950 - 25 March 2007
• Marshall Rogers Fan Site
Link: mrogers21.tripod.com
• Wikipedia Entry
• Artwork for Sale

A personal favourite of mine, Marshall Rogers was a comic book artist who worked for Marvel and DC Comics since the 1970's. He's surely one of several key illustrators of the Batman character. In addition, he also illustrated one of the first graphic novels, Detectives Inc.

An architect by training, his work was characterised by the depiction of characters with relatively human proportions rather than exaggerated musculature, and by detailed rendering of buildings and structures.

Enrique Romero
Official: Go (Site in Spanish and English versions)
Artist on Modesty Blaise and Axa. "Apart from Modesty and Axa, in 1959 I carried out a series for Fleetway titled "World". I Also worked for DC Thomson on "the Fabulous Four.
My favourite characters have always been Modesty and Axa".
"At the moment I carry out illustrations in black and white or in colour, on diverse topics and characters that I have drawn in my long professional career."
Romero's site includes his own personal reflections on his work on strips such as Axa and Modesty Blaise.
• Read this article on his work on Modesty Blaise and Axa: Go (Part of the Art of Drawing Women site)

Scott Rosema
Official: http://www.comicartistsdirect.com/rosema.html
Scott's work includes "August" for Arrow Comics and "Space Ghost" for Archie Comics. He has worked on the X-Men for Marvel and DC's Batman for Golden Books. Scott's paintings appear in Dragon magazine.

Duncan Rouleau
Official: www.manofaction.tv/rouleau/index.html
Credits include Machina Rex, Wolverine, X-Factor, Alpha Flight and many others.

Mike Roy
Official: www.comicartistsdirect.com/roy.html
Mike Roy assisted Bill Everett, creator of the original Golden Age Submariner. He worked with Lloyd Jacquet of "Famous Funnies." He produced a Mike Hammer comic book with Mickey Spillane. He developed a Buster Crabbe comic strip with Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman. He did Honeymooners comics and a Nero Wolfe comic strip. Mike was right in the middle of the development of today's comic book industry.

John Royle
Official: www.johnroyleart.com
I worked with John while at Marvel UK and it's great to see he's still producing simply stunning comic art for Panini. His web site not only includes comics samples, but some simply stunning illustration work. Well worth visiting.

P. Craig Russell and Maurice Vellekoop
Fan Site: frpeneaud.free.fr
A list of the artists' work from the editor of the Gay Comics List.

Paul Ryan
Official: Go
Includes art gallery, news about the artist, perhaps best known for his X-Men work but this does him a disservice -- he's also worked on The Phantom, for Wildstorm and much more. Nicely organaised site. Ryan accepts commission work and his rates are listed on the site.

Steve Rude
Official: Go
Artist on the SF anti-hero Nexus, written by Mike Baron, Rude's work also includes Superman, the Hulk, X-Men and many other stunning stories.

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