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Will Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American comic writer, artist, and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an instructional medium; for his leading role in establishing the graphic novelas a form of literature with his book A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories.

Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé, was aBelgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death.

Gilbert Hernandez is best known for his Heartbreak Soup stories inLove and Rockets, an alternative comic book he shared with his brothers Jaime and Mario.

Ben Katchor (born 1951) is an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. He has contributed comics and drawings to The New Yorker, Metropolis magazine and weekly newspapers in the U.S. In Michael Chabon's collected essays, Maps and Legends, (McSweeney's, 2008), Chabon describes Katchor as "the creator of the last great American comic strip."

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Milton Caniff

was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips during the 1930s and on until his death in 1988.

Daniel Clowes

born in 1961 and is a screenwriter, author, and cartoonist of alternative comic books.  He has written two movies based on his comic work: Ghost World and Art School Confidential.

Robert Crumb

Born 1943, and is an American artist, illustration and musician.  Contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comics movement in the 1960s.

Julie Doucet

is a Canadian former underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as "Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary."  Her work is centered around sex, violence, and womens' topics.

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James Gurney

I used to have the book Dinotopia, in fact, I'm sure I still have it somewhere.  I hadn't seen his work in a long time but I do admire his use of fantasy imagery with such beautiful landscapes.

Dean Cornwell

Ah!  Look at the girls!  My favorite subject matter!  Well sort of.  I guess I enjoy drawing naked girls as much as I do naked guys.... but all of these have their clothes on!  Anyway, I love how the woman is always in such a sexist post or dressed to where she shows off her essentials.  My feminist side wants to fight out against this, but my other side goes "OHH!! So pretty!"

J. Fredrick Smith

A bit more realist in application and technique for my taste, but it's still a beautiful use of the composition and color.  I think his light source is what keeps me coming back.

Coby Whitmore

More women!  And there's a naked one in this bunch, okay, sort of naked.  Naked but yet we can't see her.  Whatever, she's naked.  I love his illustrative feel, but then the fact that he can come back and have such a painterly hand is amazing!