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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