Niklas Asker (born 1979) [1] is a Swedish [2] comic book artist, [3] best known for his debut graphic novel Second Thoughts [4] [5]
Eddie Campbell is a British comics artist and cartoonist who now lives in Chicago. Probably best known as the illustrator and publisher of From Hell, Campbell is also the creator of the semi-autobiographical Alec stories collected in Alec: The Years Have Pants, and Bacchus, a wry adventure series about the few Greek gods who have survived to the present day.
Transformers is a Japanese–American media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. It follows the battles of sentient, living autonomous robots, often the Autobots and the Decepticons, who can transform into other forms, such as vehicles and animals. The franchise encompasses toys, animation, comic books, video games and films.
Alex Robinson is an American comic book writer and artist.
Top Shelf Productions is an American publishing company founded in 1997, originally owned and operated by Chris Staros and Brett Warnock and a small staff. Now an imprint of IDW Publishing, Top Shelf is based in Marietta, Georgia.
Cyber Force is a comic book series created by writer and artist Marc Silvestri in 1992 through his publishing studio, Top Cow Productions, and published by Image Comics.
Renée French is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children's book author, and exhibiting artist.
Jeffrey Brown is a cartoonist born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Nathan Lee Powell is an American graphic novelist and musician. His 2008 graphic novel Swallow Me Whole won an Ignatz Award and Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel. He illustrated the March trilogy, an autobiographical series written by U.S. Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, which received the 2016 National Book Award, making Powell the first cartoonist to receive the award.
Patrick Lee is a Canadian comic book artist, publisher, former President, and co-founder of the now defunct Dreamwave Productions.
Chris Staros is the publisher of the graphic novel publishing company Top Shelf Productions. He is also the author of Yearbook Stories, 1976–1978, published by Top Shelf.
Peter Ledger was an Australian cartoonist, comic book artist, commercial airbrush artist, and illustrator.
Bighead is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Jeffrey Brown and published by Top Shelf Productions. The title character is a superhero named Khari whose main power seems to be that he has a giant head. Unlike many of Brown's other graphic novels, Bighead is not an autobiographical work, but rather a parody of classic superhero stories. Bighead fights villains like Heartbroke, who built a doomsday machine after a bad breakup so that he could make the entire world as miserable as he was.
Nat Gertler is an American writer known for his comic books and his books about comics, including four on Charles Schulz's Peanuts. Gertler is the publisher of About Comics, and founded an annual cartoonists' challenge, 24 Hour Comics Day. He has been nominated for two Eisner Awards. Gertler made a guest appearance on the comic review show Atop The Fourth Wall as himself.
Matt Kindt is an American comic book writer, artist and graphic designer, known for his work on the books Dept. H, Mind MGMT, Justice League of America, Spider-Man, Ninjak, and Rai. He has been nominated for several Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards.
Troy Little is a Canadian cartoonist working in comic books and animation. He is known for Chiaroscuro, a graphic novel whose first volume was developed between 2000 and 2005 under his Meanwhile, Studios imprint. After winning two grants and being praised by Dave Sim, Chiaroscuro vol. 1 was released in 2007 by IDW Publishing.
Jack's Luck Runs Out is a full-color one-shot comic book created by Jason Little. The book features playing cards as characters, where the title character is a jack. In March 1998, Little received a grant to help publish the book from the Xeric Foundation. The book was published by Top Shelf Productions.
SuperFuckers is an American adult animated comic book series created by James Kochalka and published by Top Shelf Productions between 2005 and 2007. The series revolves around a collection of crude and rude superheroes who never actually do any superhero work. A collection was published on May 18, 2010, including four issues along with a new Jack Krak one-shot. The first issue is numbered #271 An animated web series based on the comic, produced for Frederator Studios' Cartoon Hangover channel on YouTube, was streamed between November 30, 2012 and May 4, 2013.
Strong Female Protagonist is a superhero webcomic written by Brennan Lee Mulligan and drawn by Molly Ostertag, published online since 2012. It has been on hiatus since 2018.
Creative Impulse Entertainment is a transmedia production company founded by Jan Lucanus in 2003. With the company mantra "Intrigue, Entertain, Inspire Social Change", CIE bills itself as a home for artists that create content across multiple forms of media. CIE's production portfolio encompasses comic books, film, video, animation, music, and games, with subsidiaries dedicated to each craft.
Niklas Åkerblad, also known by his pseudonym El Huervo, is a Swedish artist and musician, widely known for his oil paintings, watercolor paintings, and video game art. His portraits are known to be bold and vivid in nature. Åkerblad's wide body of work gained significant attention following the success of the video game Hotline Miami, for which he created the cover art, along with its successor Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. Åkerblad was also the sole artist for other video games, including Kometen, and Else Heart.Break . Akerblad is also widely known for regularly creating the cover art for Bandcamp Weekly, the official podcast of Bandcamp.