Comic Artists and Where to Meet Them

Erik Larsen

Cartoonist, Comic Artist, Writer

Larsen draws with a cartoonist's looseness and a superfan's affection for old Marvel. He followed McFarlane onto Amazing Spider-Man, then co-founded Image and has written and drawn Savage Dragon almost single-handedly ever since.

Jim Lee

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 Jr

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.

Marc Silvestri

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

Rob Liefeld

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.

Todd McFarlane

Comic Artist, Publisher, Writer

McFarlane drew Spider-Man with impossible contortions, spaghetti webbing and a restless line that kept every page in motion. He walked away at the height of that success to co-found Image Comics, where Spawn became one of the best-selling creator-owned books ever published.

Daniel Warren Johnson

Cartoonist, Comic Artist, Writer

Johnson draws as though the page itself is under stress, with hand-lettered sound effects, torn panel borders and bodies thrown around at real cost. Murder Falcon and Do a Powerbomb! turn that energy into something surprisingly moving.

Darick Robertson

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.

Eduardo Risso

Comic Artist, Cover Artist

Risso works in extreme light and shadow, cutting figures down to silhouette and letting black carry the story. 100 Bullets is a long clinic in noir page construction.

Fabio Moon

Cartoonist, Comic Artist, Graphic Novelist

Moon's drawing is loose and emotionally direct, built for stories about ordinary life. Daytripper and Two Brothers, both made with his twin brother Gabriel Ba, are his best-known work.

Fiona Staples

Character Designer, Comic Artist, Cover Artist

Staples designs strange creatures and tender human moments with equal ease, working digitally in soft colour and confident shape. Saga's entire visual world is hers, and it became one of the defining creator-owned books of its era.

Gabriel Ba

Cartoonist, Comic Artist, Cover Artist

Ba draws in bold graphic shapes with a strong sense of design, moving easily from The Umbrella Academy's oddness to the quiet of Daytripper.

Gary Frank

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 Capullo

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 Ramos

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.

J. Scott Campbell

Character Designer, Comic Artist, Cover Artist

Campbell draws with an animator's sense of pose and expression, all clean curves and confident line. Gen 13 and Danger Girl made his name in the nineties, and his variant covers have since become some of the most collected on the stands.

Olivier Coipel

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.

Ryan Ottley

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

Sean Gordon Murphy

Comic Artist, Cover Artist, Writer

Murphy's line is fast and angular, and he loves drawing machinery: bikes, rigs, wreckage. Batman: White Knight let him write as well as draw, rebuilding Gotham on his own terms.

Next: C2E2, Apr 29 to May 2, 2027

Whilce Portacio

Comic Artist, Inker, Penciller

Portacio's figures are heavily rendered and physically imposing, built with an inker's attention to weight. He drew Uncanny X-Men and X-Factor through their biggest years before co-founding Image Comics and creating Wetworks.

Heather Antos

Editor

Heather Antos is an editor. Their credits include work with Marvel Comics, Image Comics, IDW Publishing. They are scheduled to appear at Super Jersey Comic Expo in Hillsborough, New Jersey in August 2026.

Mark Morales

Inker

Mark Morales is an inker. Their credits include work with Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics. They are scheduled to appear at Super Jersey Comic Expo in Hillsborough, New Jersey in August 2026.