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 A Bulgarian artist whose work has often been criticized for its stiffness due to its reliance on photo reference and photo manipulation.
However, he is clearly improving all the time.
His latest work - especially Daredevil #71, where he adopted a sketchier style - is simply beautiful, and while his action scenes still seem a bit static and
distant, his compositions, his storytelling and his ability to evoke different moods more than make up for his weaknesses.
He's drawn the comics Popbot, Lore and Automatic Kafka. They all feature beautiful, scratchy art, although I would advise against actually trying to read them.
They're artsy and surreal in a very boring way.
) A comics storytelling pioneer who, in the 1950s, fought to change comics from being talky picture-books for kids to visual storytelling for adults. For years, he tried to convince different publishers to let him illustrate a longer story that was primarily told in pictures. As this would have meant fewer stories per comic book, the publishers and editors never once allowed him to draw a comic his way, and thoroughly disillusioned, he gave up on comics in 1964 and started painting instead. So why is he famous? Well, in 1955, he was given a six-page script called Master Race, and he begged for the chance to expand it to twelve pages. He was allowed eight, and within those limitations, he created a piece of visual storytelling that would stand unmatched for 30 years.
In 2002 and 2004, two huge books about his life and works were published.
I'm not sure I want to read them. I get depressed by thinking of all the wasted potential.
The creator of Calvin and Hobbes, and one of the very best cartoonists. Come to think of it, just like Krigstein, he spent a lot of time fighting
for more drawing space, even though in a less serious genre. Apparently, there is a general need for more space in the world.
Dave draws grotesque and erotic images with great technical skill. He is perhaps most known for his comic book Weasel.
Most people know him from his digital collages and his collaborations with Neil Gaiman. I prefer his ink drawings, like in his 500-page graphic
novel Cages.
David Mack has drawn various comic books, most notably Kabuki, which he also writes. His comic art combines scribbles and paintings in an imaginative way,
although he often seems more interested in painting pretty girls than telling a coherent story.
David Mazzucchelli penciled some of my all-time favorite comics: Daredevil: Born Again, as well as Batman: Year One; both written by Frank Miller. Born Again, with its many parallel storylines, makes better use of the comic medium than
any other comic I've seen. Yes, including Watchmen.
Derek Kirk Kim's latest comics show him to be a perfectionist who could become the next Moebius. I'm curious to see what he'll do in the future.
Frank Miller is most famous for writing and drawing The Dark Knight Returns. He did a lot of neat things with visual storytelling in the eighties.
Mostly known for his advertising illustration in the early 1900's, Franklin Booth created ethereal illustrations with a strong sense for composition.
 Jack Kirby was the superhero creator. Between the 40's and the 70's, Jack Kirby created or helped design many classic superheroes, including Spider-Man, the Hulk, Captain America and the Fantastic Four. He also helped start up whole new genres, like romance comics.
His dynamic style, cinematic techniques and exaggerated sense of action rewrote the rules for comic book art, and
influenced a myriad of comic book artists.
In the 90's, Jae Lee was one of many awful Image Comics-style artist. After starting to rely more on photo reference, his art improved and he
now draws beautiful dark and moody comics, like a wrinklier version of Timothy Bradstreet's art.
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Writer and artist of Locas. An expert storyteller who uses a very economical style, condensing a long story into its essential parts.
Primarily known for Tank Girl and Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlett is an excellent cartoonist.
Easily Sweden's most accomplished and versatile comic artist, famous for Socker-Conny, although I wish that he'd draw more comics with actual plots and less artsy-fartsy stuff with puns.
Jon J Muth creates beautiful, moody pictures using both ink and watercolor.
John Burns is an English comic strip artist who worked on Modesty Blaise, Jane, Seekers and The fists of Danny Pyke.
John Romita Jr has drawn a lot of Marvel Comics superheroes in a style that more resembles Jack Kirby's than his dad's (who was the second Spider-Man artist). JR Jr's recent
art lacks detail, and often has questionable anatomy, but makes up for it with dynamism, strong compositions, and a great sense of depth. It would be interesting
to see him do the layouts for a comic drawn by a more realistic artist.
John Paul Leon is an underrated artist who draws dark, realistic comics with few details but with a strong sense of anatomy and human movement, much like a darker version
of Mazzucchelli.
Swedish author and illustrator.
I love some of Lovisa Burfitt's scratchy ink & watercolor illustrations.
I really like Max Andersson's early comic book art.
Mike Mignola writes the gothic action comic Hellboy. It's worth buying for the art, which is full of shadows and good composition.
Jean "Moebius" Giraud created a small revolution with his surreal ligne claire style comics in Metal Hurlant in the 70's.
Two artists who were obviously influenced by him are Milo Manara and Timothy Green II.
Swedish children's book illustrator (though he's also drawn an occasional comic page), most famous for the Pettson och Findus series of books.
Using heavy photo reference, Tim draws moody comic book covers, movie posters and role playing game illustrations.
Finnish author and illustrator. Wrote and drew the Moomin books, but also illustrated other children's books.
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