When we started, we decided to provide content for our audience 6 days a week. 6 DAYS A WEEK!? Yes, we were mad. 3 blog posts and 3 comics ever week. We quickly learned how difficult a 6 day schedule could be, since we both have jobs outside the website. Yet, we still believe providing [...]
#9 Masashi Kishimoto Kishimoto is author/artist of the globally popular ninja comic, Naruto. Though lacking a wide breadth of work, Kishimoto makes up for it by going the distance. Naruto has been published weekley in Japan for the better part of a decade. His dedication and drive show up in every weekly installment of the [...]
#8 Jeff Smith The best thing Jeff Smith did was collect Bone into a one-volume brick edition. Now, this is just personal opinion. There are no numbers to PROVE this. However, if Bone hadn’t been released in the brick format, I would have never picked it up. Had I never picked it up, I would [...]
#7 Osamu Tezuka Between Apollo’s Song, Buddha, and Dororo, Osamu Tezuka has an incredible library of work. However, if you take away those three stories, he still has thousands of pages drawn for numerous other stories as well. Astroboy, for example, though geared towards a younger audience, holds up as well today as it did [...]
#6 Bryan Lee O’Malley Look around you. In any single direction, you can find fodder for a great horror film, dramatic comedy, video game, or biography. In fact, the same applies to most every day in anybody’s life. Yet, the majority of comics literature only focuses a light on the genre of super-heroics. Even if [...]
#5 Scott McCloud The world is a small place. Patterns pop up everywhere, and as such, people debate whether it is coincidence or predestination. Everyone has their own opinion regarding fate, luck, destiny, and chance. In my eyes, it is a combination of the two. If that didn’t make sense, let me try to clarify. [...]
#4 Grant Morrison (Note: This is the first comic creator on this list that is solely a writer. Any of the artwork associated with his stories was drawn by a separate entity.) As mentioned in the previous post, theoretical physics are an interest of mine. Yet, they have no place in comics, right? The first [...]
#3 Mike Mignola I don’t remember when it was exactly. I just remember sitting in bed, reading Wizard, seeing the cool guy with the trench coat and goggles. Yes, I thought they were goggles. Many people did. Regardless, it would have been years ago. In those days, the only access to comics I had was [...]
#2 Jack Kirby I wish I could say that Kirby was an influence of mine from early on. Unfortunately, when I was a kid, I thought of him as an old, lower tier artist. It wasn’t until college, when I started reading more about the creation and origin of comics that Kirby’s glamor started to [...]
#1 Neil Gaiman Close your eyes and let your mind fall back into a pleasant slumber. Do you see the dark robed man standing ahead of you? He goes by many names: King Morpheus, Dream, the Sandman. Yet he has only one creator. Neil Gaiman. I end this list of creators with a man who [...]