Walter Simonson (Comic Book Legend)

comic book writer and artist, best known for a run on Marvel Comics' Thor from 1983 to 1987, during which he created the character Beta Ray Bill. He is also known for the creator-owned work Star Slammers, which he inaugurated in 1972 as a Rhode Island School of Design thesis. He has also worked on other Marvel titles such as X-Factor and Fantastic Four, on DC Comics books including Detective Comics, Manhunter, Metal Men and Orion, and on licensed properties such as Star Wars, Alien, Battlestar Galactica and Robocop vs. Terminator. Simonson has won numerous awards for his work and has influenced artists such as Arthur Adams and Todd McFarlane. He is married to comics writer Louise Simonson, with whom he collaborated as penciller on X-Factor from 1986 to 1989.

Al Milgrom (Comic Book Legend)

Allen L. Milgrom[1] (born March 6, 1950)[2] is an American comic book writer, penciller, inker and editor, primarily for Marvel Comics. He is known for his 10-year run as editor of Marvel Fanfare; his long involvement as writer, penciler, and inker on Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man; his four-year tenure as West Coast Avengers penciller; and his long stint as the inker of X-Factor. He often inks Jim Starlin's work. Milgrom is the co-creator of DC superhero Firestorm. Early life Al Milgrom grew up in Detroit, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972.[3] Career West Coast Avengers #1 (Oct. 1985). Cover art by penciler Milgrom and inker Joe Sinnott. Milgrom started his comics career in 1972 as an assistant for inker Murphy Anderson. During that period, Milgrom contributed to Charlton Comics' Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves, Star*Reach, and comics published by Warren Publishing and Atlas/Seaboard, before joining with Marvel. Milgrom also worked as a "Crusty Bunker" for Neal Adams' Continuity Associates in 1977.[4] At one point Milgrom lived in the same Queens apartment building as artists Walter Simonson, Howard Chaykin, and Bernie Wrightson. Simonson recalls, "We'd get together at 3 a.m. They'd come up and we'd have popcorn and sit around and talk about whatever a 26, 27 and 20-year-old guys talk about. Our art, TV, you name it. I pretty much knew at the time, 'These are the good ole days.'"[5] Milgrom came to prominence as a penciller on Captain Marvel from 1975 to 1977. He penciled the Guardians of the Galaxy feature in Marvel Presents, which was written by Steve Gerber[6] and Roger Stern.[7] Milgrom worked as editor at DC Comics from 1977 to 1978.[8] While at DC, he co-created Ronnie Raymond, the original Firestorm, with writer Gerry Conway.[9] Milgrom was an editor for Marvel Comics beginning in 1979,[8] and editing Marvel Fanfare for its full ten-year run (#1–60, March 1982–January 1992).[10] As editor of The Incredible Hulk, he designed the costumes of the U-Foes.[11] He drew The Avengers (1983–85), The West Coast Avengers (1985–88), Kitty Pryde and Wolverine (1984–85), Secret Wars II (1985–86) and wrote the Mephisto limited series (1987). Milgrom wrote and drew The Spectacular Spider-Man #90–100 (1984–85),[12] and The Incredible Hulk (1986–87). In 1991, he wrote a story arc for The Amazing Spider-Man[13] and collaborated with Danny Fingeroth on The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man limited series.[14] Milgrom has been a prolific inker, working on most of Marvel's line. He served an eight-year stint as the inker of X-Factor in 1989–1997. He inked Ron Frenz on Thor in 1991–1993 and Thunderstrike from 1994 to 1995. Other series he has worked on include Captain America, Generation X, The Micronauts, and the Uncanny X-Men. Milgrom inked the limited series A-Next, J2, Marvel: The Lost Generation, and Thanos. Beginning in 1996, Milgrom completed his artistic journey on The Spectacular Spider-Man by inking the title until its cancellation in 1998. In 2001 Milgrom was fired from his Marvel staff job when it was discovered he had added hidden slanderous comments against then Editor-in-Chief Bob Harras in the background of a page in the comic book Universe X Special: Spidey. Milgrom went on to freelance for Marvel, mostly inking Jim Starlin's work. He also started to work for Archie Comics on a regular basis, inking a variety of titles.[15] Beginning in the early 2000s, Al Milgrom freelanced for DC again, providing inks for titles like Mystery in Space (vol. 2), Ambush Bug: Year None and Strange Adventures (vol. 3).

Kyle Baker

Kyle John Baker (Comic Book Legend) 1965 (age 58–59) Queens, New York, U.S. Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Inker, Publisher, Letterer, Colourist Notable works Why I Hate Saturn Plastic Man Nat Turner Awards Eisner Awards (eight) Harvey Awards (five) Glyph Comics Awards (five) Inkpot Award[1] In a 40 year career, Kyle Baker has drawn and written comics and animation for Marvel, DC, Nickelodeon, Disney and many others. His work includes DEADPOOL, BLACK PANTHER, RUGRATS, LOONEY TUNES, PLASTIC MAN, JLA, SPIDER-MAN and AVENGERS. His most recent books are TARDIGRADE and the DEATHCATHLON series.

Rodney Ramos

Rodney Ramos has been a professional penciler and inker in the comics industry for over 25 years . Starting his career at Marvel Comics as a Romita Raider for Art directorJohn Romita . He has worked at many companies over the years including Marvel, Marvel Comics U.K. , DC Comics , Valiant , Disney , Acclaim Comics , Malibu, Continuity Comics and Legendary Pictures Comics . His inks have graced over 7000 pages of comic books over the years such as Spider-Man , X-men , Iron-man , Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-man , Batman , Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, 52, Countdown, Doctor Who and the critically acclaimed Transmetropolitan with Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. Recently he has inked for Titan comics , Lion Forge and John Carpenter’s Storm King comics graphic Novel NightTerrors Graveyard Moon

Peter “Peat” Vazquez

Peter "Peat" Vazquez is a Long Island born freelance, Commission Artist with roots in comic books and fine art. You have seen his work in the pages of RMD Comics, Kaiju Mania and campaigns such as Nyobi Birthright His work is also in the pages of Penguina and Tomorrow Girl by Antarctic Press. You can also find him at cons such as NYCC, AnimeNYC, the Indie ArtShow, the Pancakes and Booze ArtShow, LI Tropic Con and tons of local shows Peat is available for freelance work including , commissions, paintings, covers, pinups, pencils sinks and colors.

Frank Destafano

Kenneth Landgraf

Ken Landgraf is a true cult icon in the world of comics. He studied with legends like Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman and worked as an assistant to Gil Kane and Rick Buckler. In the ’70s and ’80s, he went on to work on some of DC Comics, from titles like Weird War Tales to Superman Family and World’s Finest. His most infamous work might just be New York City Outlaws with Bob Huszar, perhaps the first true ‘outlaw’ comic. Huzar and Lamdgraf most recently collaborated on Apocalypse 5000, from Floating World Comics. Currently, Landgraf is at the tail end of an already funded Kickstarter campaign for a new project, Ink Zeitgeist, described as “a black and white outlaw genre pastiche comic (bikers, horror, cult cinema, superhero, punk, sci-fi, rockabilly, etc.) that takes place in Ink Town, a low-class but captivating destination of flea markets, arcades, trailer camps, diners and sideshow carnivals.” Mr. Landgraf took some time to rattle out his top five writers and inkers in the world of comics, along with some cool details. Check it out below, in his own words, along with some preview images from Ink Zeitgeist. Then make sure you head over to the Kickstarter page and push Ink Zeitgeist to the extreme!

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Mark Mazz

Mark Mazz is an American comic book art director, editor and comic book writer. Mark has been part of the industry working as an Art Director for Marvel, the Design Services Manager for DC, the Creative Director for Harris Comics, and is now President & CCO of his own start-up business Atlas Unleashed

Carl Paolino

Carl Paolino is a veteran of the entertainment industry. As a producer, director, screenwriter, and production designer, his credits include feature films, television series, music videos, Broadway shows, and hundreds of television commercials. His animated productions include; MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch (having created over 400 puppets for the series), MTV’s Cartoon Sushi, and Celebrity Face-Off (another stop-motion animated TV series, having created over 600 puppets for the series). He wrote and directed the animation for The Halloween Pranksta short film with co-producer Mark Hamill, of Star Wars fame, and directed Mark during the voiceover recordings. His other credits include Disney’s Hercules on Ice, Victoria’s Secret, Goosebumps the Musical, MTV’s 2000 Music Video Awards (a specialty costume for Jimmy Fallon), Saturday Night Live, Coca Cola’s and the NFL’s Monster of the Gridiron, and the MTV Music Award Winning video, Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down, for Fall Out Boy. He is the author of the pulp horror novel trilogy Virgin Falls. Spontania is his first graphic novel series published by his own company, Comic Book Kid Publishing. You can find him at: ComicBookKidPub.com He has a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts and is an adjunct professor in the Fine Arts Department.

Kyle Horne

Kyle Horne is a freelance artist based on Long Island. He illustrated children's book series like Amazing Annabelle and graphic novels beyond condition. Art has always been a big part of his life, ever since he was young

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