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David Gaddis
Official: www.davidgaddis.com
Pictured: A panel from
Piercing by David Gaddis. © David Gaddis
Internet Magazine said
of this guy: "If David Cronenberg illustrated comics, Piercing would
be the result..."
Howard
Gardner
Official: www.hgillustration.co.uk
Pictured: A panel from The
Magic Tears © Howard Gardner
A surrealist cartoonist I came across whose
strip work is a sheer delight -- and funny too, always a bonus!
Ricardo Garijo
Link: www.garijo.com.ar
Commando artist has worked in graphic media since 1980, drawing
for DC Thomson since 1982, drawing thousands of pages of war cartoons and
illustrations.
In the 1990's he began creating comics for other European periodicals, published
in Spain, France and Italy, and now publishes his own magazine, Gurbos in
Extinction which was conceived as a tribute to the old Argentinean comic
creators, some of the best in the world. His last published work from Gurbos,
The Diary of Moreno Square, is a fantasy story about his own home town.
Ian
Gibson
Official: www.igibson.demon.co.uk
Pictured: One of Ian's all-time favourite strips, Genghis Grimtoad, written
by Alan Grant and John Wagner. Genghis Grimtoad, which first appeared
in Marvel UK's Strip! title, is © its respective creators.
Gibson's numerous credits include titles such as Action!, Valiant and 200AD and
characters that include The
Ballad of Halo Jones, Judge Anderson, Robohunter and Judge Dredd for
2000AD, Genghis Grimtoad which first appeared in Marvel UK's Strip comic
and more. The site includes plenty of iamges of past work and some intriguing
sneak previews of upcoming projects.
A fantastic CD of Ian's original art -- over 1000 original pages of
art in the 2000AD artist's
collection, (both for sale and his private collection) has been produced
for potential buyers. The CD also features examples of some of the private
commissions Ian has produced for fans, plus limited edition prints that
are for sale (A3 size)
If any fans of Ian's would like a CD sent free of charge to your home
for viewing, e-mail jane AT ian-gibson.com
Recommended Books
• The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones
by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson
Alan Moore and Ian Gibson ’s epic story of a girl in the wrong place
at the wrong time. Halo Jones wasn’t anyone special. She wasn’t
brave, or clever, or strong. She was just somebody who had to get out. Escaping
the Hoop, Manhattan Island’s land of mindless leisure, is just the
first step in a cosmic adventure that takes Halo to the far ends of the galaxy,
through war and peace, trial, despair and triumph. But as she said: "Anybody
could have done it."
• Buy
it from Amazon.com • Buy
it from Amazon.co.uk
Robo-Hunter: Play It Again, Sam
By John Wagner, et al
Sam Slade is the 22nd century's greatest robo-hunter - if your droid has
disappeared or there's a cyborg on the loose, he's the man to call. Now,
he's been employed by the British Government, and he's facing musical lunacy
on every side during National Song Week...
• Buy
it from Amazon.com • Buy
it from Amazon.co.uk
• Read an interview with Ian Gibson: homepage.eircom.net/~twoms/halo1.htm
Stuart Giddings
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/gidz/
After a break of about 10 years Stuart came back to drawing comic strips
in 2008, working with creators like Dave Hailwood on new material.
Giles
Tribute Page: giles.clickhere2.net
Cartoonist for the Daily Express,
his visual commentary on British life certainly delighted my Dad and thousands
of others for over 50 years.
Stan
Goldberg
Official: www.stangoldberg.com
Pictured: The cover
of Archie #506 by Stan Goldberg. © Archie
Comics
US. Official site of the longtime Archie
Comics artist. Features biography, allery, and more.
Stan Goldberg has been a comic book artist for over 50 years, having started his career (at age 16) in 1949 as a staff colourist for Timely (now known as Marvel) Comics.
Dan Goldman
Official: http://dangoldman.net
Dan Goldman is a New York-based writer, artist and designer. His critically-acclaimed
graphic novel Shooting
War was listed among
2007's top graphic novels in the Village Voice and Publisher's
Weekly. He
is also a founding member of online comics anthology ACT-I-VATE, where he
serializes the psychedelic psychodrama "Kelly".
Dan is currently working with The New Republic's
Michael Crowley on 08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign
Trail, a nonfiction
comics memoir of the presidential primaries to be published by Crown Books
in autumn 2008.
Dave Goodman
Official: www.bahala-na.co.uk
UK. Cartoons and other oddities! Specialises in anthropomorc animals.
Adi Granov
Official: www.adigranov.net
Adi Granov was announced as one of Marvel Comics’ Young
Guns in 2004. In the proceeding years he has worked as a comic book artist
for that company, including not only a relaunch for the Iron Man comic but
being involved in the visual design of the suit armour for the
2008 Iron Man film.
Jamie Grant
Official: www.hopestreetstudios.com/jamie_grant.html
Colourist and co-conspirator with writer Alan Grant on Wasted ("the
cutting-edge comic for Today's Youth Gone Wild!", published by Bad
Press), Northern
Lightz and more. His
credits include titles such as All Star Superman, Testament and
more.
Peter Gray
Official: www.pgcartoons.co.uk
Draws cartoons for greeting cars, comics and more.
Robin
Grenville
Official: www.grenville-evans.co.uk
Pictured: A panel from a strip entitled "Smart Mobility" © Robin
Grenville
UK Artist and illustrator, including comic strips and special commissions.
Adam Grose
Official: www.clownpress.com
ComicSpace: www.comicspace.com/adamgrose
MySpace: www.myspace.com/adamrgrose
Clown Press publisher Adam says he has been an artist for pretty much all his life. "I started drawing from the age of 6 months, when my mum, who used to draw lots of charcoal drawings, placed a crayon in my hand and watched me create, since then I have not stopped, drawing everyday."
Paul
Gulacy
Official: www.gulacy.com
Pictured: The cover
of the Master of Kung Fu #2. © Marvel Comics
Matthieu Bortolin's excellent site devoted to the work of the artist including gallery, interviews and more.
Paul Gulacy's distinctive art was something I loved as a kid, reading the original Master of Kung Fu from Marvel.
Books to Buy
• Spies, Vixens and Masters of Kung Fu: The Art of Paul Gulacy
By J. David Spurlock, Michael Kronenberg
Vanguard Productions
• Buy
it from Amazon.com • Buy
it from Amazon.co.uk
Simon Gurr
Official: www.simongurr.com
Simon Gurr draws and writes comics and creates all sorts of things for web and print: some of his web games live on the award-winning ARKive site and he's illustrated several books for Oxford University Press, including Arnold Bennett’s The Card and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
His comics work includes strips for 2000AD; The Enhancer, co-written with Peter Gurr; St. Vincent’s Rock, written by Eugene Byrne; The Day of The Triffids, serialised for newspaper by the artist; and Isambard Kingdom Brunel: A Graphic History, written by Eugene Byrne
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