Pencillers

Adam KubertMajor

Comic Artist, Penciller

Adam Kubert draws with thick, expressive line weight and a real feel for impact. His Wolverine and Hulk pages are bruising, and he has moved between Marvel and DC's biggest books for thirty years.

Andy KubertMajor

Comic Artist, Letterer, Penciller

Andy Kubert stages superhero stories like film, with wide establishing shots, clean sightlines and a steady build to the hit. He drew X-Men through the nineties, then Wolverine: Origin, Marvel 1602, Batman and Son and Flashpoint.

Next: L.A. Comic Con, Oct 30 to Nov 1, 2026

Arthur AdamsLegend

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Adams packs more detail into a panel than seems reasonable, every scale and rivet accounted for, with a monster-movie enthusiasm running underneath. Longshot and his X-Men work made him a favourite, and his covers are recognisable across a room.

Bryan HitchMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Hitch draws superheroes at movie scale, with wide panels, real architecture and crowds that feel populated. The Authority and The Ultimates made widescreen a working term among comics artists.

Darick RobertsonMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Robertson draws cities that feel filthy and lived-in, and faces that look like people you would actually meet. Transmetropolitan and The Boys both depend on that grounding to make their satire land.

David FinchMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Finch renders in dense hatching and deep shadow, giving his heroes bulk and menace. He drew New Avengers and Moon Knight at Marvel before moving to DC for Batman: The Dark Knight and Wonder Woman.

Frank MillerLegend

Comic Artist, Penciller, Writer

Miller writes and draws in hard shadow and clipped rhythm. His Daredevil brought crime-fiction structure into superhero comics, The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One recast Batman for a generation, and Sin City stripped the whole approach down to black-and-white noir.

Frank QuitelyMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Quitely draws people who look like they have weight and skin, slightly soft, slightly awkward and entirely alive. All-Star Superman and WE3 are masterclasses in panel design, and his character acting is as subtle as anything in the medium.

Gary FrankMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Frank's characters act with their faces, small shifts of expression that carry a scene on their own. It grounds even the largest stories, from Superman: Secret Origin and Batman: Earth One to Doomsday Clock.

Greg CapulloMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Capullo builds bodies like a sculptor and faces that carry real dread. A long run on Spawn led into his Batman work with Scott Snyder, from Court of Owls through Dark Nights: Metal, which set how Gotham looked for a decade.

Humberto RamosMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Ramos stretches anatomy the way animation does: long limbs, enormous expressions, motion pushed past what a body could actually do. It suits Spider-Man exactly, which is where he has spent much of the last two decades.

Ivan ReisMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Reis draws classical, clean-lined heroes and handles enormous casts without losing anyone in the crowd. Green Lantern, Blackest Night and Aquaman are where DC has leaned on him hardest.

Jason FabokEstablished

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Fabok works in polished, high-detail realism suited to DC's largest moments. The Darkseid War and Batman: Three Jokers are built on that weight and finish.

Jim LeeLegend

Comic Artist, Penciller, Publisher

Few artists have shaped what a superhero looks like on the page as directly as Jim Lee. His early-nineties X-Men work, all dense crosshatching and coiled anatomy, became a house style that later artists still work against. He left to co-found Image Comics and WildStorm, then became one of DC's defining figures on Batman: Hush and Justice League.

John Romita JrLegend

Artist, Comic Artist, Penciller

Romita builds figures from blocky, weighted shapes that land with real force. Across four decades he has drawn most of the Marvel line, from Amazing Spider-Man and Daredevil to Thor and Uncanny X-Men, plus Kick-Ass with Mark Millar and a run on Superman.

Next: Super Jersey Comic Expo, Aug 29, 2026

Jorge JimenezMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Jimenez brings bright, elastic energy to Gotham, with expressive faces, sharp costume design and fights that genuinely move. His Batman is among the most distinctive DC has published in recent years.

Marc SilvestriLegend

Comic Artist, Inker, Penciller

Silvestri draws in sharp angles, whipping hair and tense wiry anatomy, a look that defined a stretch of Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine. He co-founded Image Comics and built Top Cow, home to Witchblade, Cyberforce and The Darkness.

Next: L.A. Comic Con, Oct 30 to Nov 1, 2026

Marco ChecchettoMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Checchetto builds real, lived-in environments and stages action inside them like a director. His Daredevil work has turned Hell's Kitchen into a specific place rather than a backdrop.

Mark BagleyMajor

Comic Artist, Penciller

Bagley is one of the most dependable storytellers in the business: clean staging, legible action, month after month without slipping. He drew Amazing Spider-Man for years, then more than a hundred issues of Ultimate Spider-Man.

Olivier CoipelMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Coipel gets an enormous amount out of faces and posture, then opens up for spectacle when a story needs it. House of M, Thor and Siege all lean on that mix of close acting and large-scale action.

Pepe LarrazMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Larraz combines polished figure work with action choreography that stays readable no matter how many characters are on the page. House of X made him one of Marvel's go-to artists for line-wide events.

Rob LiefeldLegend

Comic Artist, Penciller, Writer

Liefeld's work is pure kinetic energy: extreme poses, heavy shoulders, everything at maximum. He drew New Mutants and launched X-Force at the peak of the nineties boom, co-created Deadpool and Cable, and co-founded Image Comics.

Ryan OttleyMajor

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Penciller

Ottley draws fights that hurt, with bodies breaking and expressions holding nothing back. He drew most of Invincible's run before moving to Amazing Spider-Man and Hulk.

Next: L.A. Comic Con, Oct 30 to Nov 1, 2026

Sara PichelliMajor

Character Designer, Comic Artist, Penciller

Pichelli draws young characters with unusual naturalism: real body language, real clothes, real awkwardness. She co-designed Miles Morales and shaped how Spider-Man looks in his second life.