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Doug Marlette
Official: www.dougmarlette.com
Doug Marlette's editorial cartoons and his
comic strip, Kudzu,
are syndicated in hundreds of newspapers worldwide. He has
won every major award for editorial cartooning including the 1988
Pulitzer Prize.
Esteban Maroto
• Xotica:
The Art of Esetban Maroto
Artist for Warren Comics, who also drew for
the British girls comic Romeo.
Paul Maybury
Official: www.deliciousbrains.com/blog
LiveJournal: paulmay.livejournal.com
DevaintArt: paulfresh.deviantart.com
Paul Maybury is an Award winning artist living in Austin Texas. His work can be seen in various top selling Image anthologies, and he is the co creator and artist of Aqua
Leung.
John Maybury
• John
Maybury's ROK Page
• The Space
Babe web site (warning: adult themes)
John Maybury, editor of the Comic Creators Guild
annuals, is one of a small number of comics artist utilising ROK Comics
for its 'mature readers' strand, reformatting his cult indie character
Space Babe for mobile. John describes The
Erotic Adventures of Space Babe 113 as "a naughty SF comedy".
Scott McCloud
Official: www.scottmccloud.com
Besides his unique cartoon work, Scott's
the author of the thought-provoking tomes Understanding
Comics -- A 215-page comic book about comics that explains the
inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual
communication along the way -- and Reinventing
Comics. This controversial 242-page follow-up
to Understanding Comics advocates
12 different revolutions in the way comics are created, distributed
and perceived with special emphasis on the potential of Online Comics. "Reinventing
Comics is the only book I've ever written
that's been actually described as 'dangerous'", says the author. Scott
is also writer of the excellent Making
Comics, and also offers
a handy visual guide offering tips and tricks to creating web comics
at: www.scottmccloud.com
Steve McGarry
Official: www.stevemcgarry.com
A winning pastiche of the legendary Lone Ranger,
Steve McGarry's Badlands was was first published in Britain's The Post before
transferring to the UK's most popular daily The Sun,
where it ran for thirteen successful years, from 1989 to 2002. The strip may
be no more now, but McGarry himself is still going strong. He operates out
of California, and as his handsome web site reveals, he has spread his talents
right across the cartoon spectrum, with the likes of Pop Culture,
Kid City and Mullets and
much more besides.
In
2002 McGarry was voted Newspaper Illustrator of the Year by the National
Cartoonists Society.
John McCrea
Official: johnmccrea.com
John McCrea was the artist who pencilled
Hitman, and did so again in 2007 for a
special featuring the JLA. From his early days on the ground Troubled
Souls within Crisis to
his present tour of duty drawing The 99 for
Saudi Arabia’s
Teshkeel, he has never shirked from portraying black humour and grim
action.
Dave McKean
Fan: www.mckean-art.co.uk
Illustrator McKean's comics work includes
the highly acclaimed Violent Cases, Arkham
Asylum and Black
Orchid. he also designs CD sleeves and other
artwork for a huge number of companies.
Rod McKie
Offficial (Blog): rodmckie.blogspot.com
At the far too young age of 21 or so, Rod McKie was a cartoonist for Punch
and was drawing and writing comic pages for IPC Magazines. These days he works
for publications all over the world, including Playboy, The Harvard Business
Review, Readers Digest and The Wall Street Journal.
Dennis McLoughlin
Fan: Go
Great site about this UK artist who contributed
to many, many titles. Includes an extensive checklist of his work who
sadly died in April 2002.
Denis McLoughlin was a noted comic-strip artist and illustrator, and
creator of some of the very best cover art of the "hard-boiled" school.
He never retired and was working right up until his sudden death, on
his latest action strip for D.C. Thomson's Commando, a series of monthly
comic books to which he had been regularly contributing for 20 years.
Mick McMahon
Official: mickmcmahon.onlinefolio.biz
Comics artist D'Israeli says of Mick: "For those of you
too young to remember the early 80's, Mike McMahon (as he was then) was
the defining stylist for 2000AD in general and Judge Dredd in particular,
taking Carlos Ezquerra's original lithe, skull-helmetted character and
transforming him into the wok-helmetted, big-chinned, big-booted galoot
we all know and love today...
Unlike most artists, who figure our a way of doing things early on and then
refine that for the rest of their careers, Mick McMahon has constantly striven
to do something new; in that way he's similar another great favourite of mine,
Alberto Breccia. Both their work is constantly fresh and exciting." (Read
his full comments on his blog)
Tara McPherson
Link: www.taramcpherson.com
Tara McPherson is a painter, poster artist and freelance illustrator based
out of New York City. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters
seem to exude an idealised innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in
their eyes. Recalling many issues from childhood and good old life experience,
she creates images that are thought provoking and seductive. People and their
relationships are a central theme throughout her work.
Her
array of art includes
painted comics and covers for Vertigo DC, advertising and editorial illustrations
for companies such as Fanta and Spin Magazine, and
numerous gig posters for rock bands such as Green Day, Modest Mouse and Death
Cab For Cutie. She also has exhibited her paintings and prints in fine art
galleries all over the world.
Dark Horse have published a collection of her art Lonely
Heart: The Art of Tara McPherson.
• Buy Lonely
Heart: The Art of Tara McPherson from Amazon.com
• Buy Lonely
Heart: The Art of Tara McPherson from Amazon.co.uk
Lorna Miller
Official: Go
Lorna Miller has been producing illustrations
and writing and drawing her own comic stories since she graduated from
Glasgow School of Art in 1994. Her 80 page comic book Witch is
sold worldwide.
Nick Miller
Official: www.teamsputnik.co.uk
Co-creator of The
Really Heavy Greatcoat, Nick Miller is a cartoonist living
and working in Lancaster, England. He has many years' experience,
with work appearing regularly in many publications, especially comics
and periodicals for both children and adults, and in advertising. Nick
is a regular contributor to Graphic Classics in the US.
In
his spare time he designs chindogu (deliberately
useless inventions).
Frank Miller
• Fan Site: hem.passagen.se/fm4
Excellent site devoted to the work
of Frank Miller. Well laid out and with sensible navigation.
• Frank Miller Library: fmi.gojensen.no
Hou Soon Ming
Official: www.its-ming.com
Strip artists, character designer,
3d modeller. As of 1/12/03, experienced cartoon
illustrator Hou
Soon Ming is looking for a good comic
writer to colloborate with projects. The
work is currently unpaid though that may
change: the writer that he's looking for
will be keen to write something akin to the
style of Disney's cartoons, Snoopy, Garfield
or Calvin & Hobbes...etc.
He plans to sell the comics to syndicates as well as
publish online.
Barrie Mitchell
If you have a work-related enquiry, contact
me. Barrie is now selling (as of 26
May 2003) his Roy of the Rovers art. He
does not have any original Look-In art.
Barrie's first
strip was a three-page costume drama for
D.C. Thomson's Bunty title. Before then,
he had completed a four -year apprenticeship
with Link Studios. 
Although
he became freelance in 1961, he stayed with
Link until 1975.
His early works were for girls comics
such as Bunty, Mandy, and Diana.
He also did annuals of the Bonanza
television series for Purnell, strips in
Pow, Wham and Sparky,
plus "Brian's Brain" in Smash.
In 1967 he rendered three motor-racing
strips in Lion -- "Tales From the Tracks", "Lightning
Storm" and "Drive For Your Life".
His first football strip was "Paxton's Powerhouse" for
IPC's Scorcher
and he moved on to Score with "Jack & Jimmy".
He later returned to Scorcher with
the second strip, until it finished
in 1974.
After that, Barrie began to specialise
in soccer/football strips with "Skipper Willie" and "Cast
Iron Bull" in
D.C. Thomson's Wizard title, "Twisty" for
Bullet and "Play
Till You Drop' for Action.
Later strips went on to include "Kid
Cox" in Bullet, "Guts To Be A Goalie", "Pickford", "Starf,'and "Superstar" in
Scoop for Thomsons and "Marks Brothers" in
Roy of the Rovers for IPC Magazines.
His other strips include six weeks
of "Day Of The Eagle" for Battle, "Harlem
Heroes", "Judge Dredd", "Lawless Touch",
and "Flash Jordan" for
IPC Magazines, "Fireball'' and "Speed
Kings" for
Thomsons.
In addition to football strips Barrie
also drew several strips for the Junior
TV Times title Look-In, including "Knight
Rider", "Worzel Gummidge", "The A-Team" and "Streethawk".
Barrie claims that working with John Burns
at the Link Studios influenced the early
part of his career. He also admired Frank
Bellamy and Jim Holdaway. He is currently
impressed by the work of Richard Corben and
Paul Gillon.
Kirk Mints
Official: Go
A friend of Paul
Gulacy's with over 20 years experience
in cartooning and illustration.
Moebius:
Official: www.moebius1.com
Dean Moore
Official: www.deanmoore.com
Australian cartoonist
Dean Moore started out with work for the
magazine
Eureka
Street, but has since had work published
in a number of other places, including
the UK weekly, The Spectator. He's currently
a regular contributor to The Perth Weekly.
Dean Motter
Official:
http://home.earthlink.net/~dean.motter
Motter, whose comics credits include Mister
X and
The Prisoner, has worked as art director, designer,
illustrator and writer in the entertainment and publishing industries for over
twenty years.
In the 1990s he was Creative
Services Art Director's post at Time Warner/DC Comics, where he oversaw the
corporate and licensing designs of comic book characters such as Superman,
Batman and Wonder Woman. In his off-hours he went on to create and design the
highly acclaimed, retro-futuristic comic book series, Terminal
City --
and its sequels, Aerial Graffiti and
Electropolis.
Currently Dean makes his home in
Georgia where, under the Futura Novelty Co. banner, he continues to create
graphic works in the entertainment, book publishing and comic book industries.
• Buy Mr
X: Volume 1 from
Amazon.co.uk
• Buy Mr
X: Volume 1 from Amazon.com
• Buy The Prisoner: Shattered Visage from
Amazon.co.uk
• Buy The Prisoner: Shattered Visage from
Amazon.com
Ray Mullikin
Official: www.raytoons.cjb.net
Cartooonist and illustrator whose strips include "Pig men of the press" and "Spaced Flight" as
well as many one panel cartoons.
Jim Murray
Official: www.caned99.freeserve.co.uk
Jason's web page is included on a site shared with Jason Brashill and Steve Sampson
Sean Gordon Murphy
Official: www.seangordonmurphy.com
Artist whose initial credits include Star
Wars Tales and Noble
Causes,
his career started gaining more steam when DC Comics offered him titles like
Batman/Scarecrow: Year One and
Teen Titans. In 2005 he published his first original graphic novel, Off
Road, which went on to win an American
Library Association award for young adults. His other work includes Star
Trek: Alien Spotlight - Borg, the graphic novel Outer
Orbit (co-created and drawn with long time
friend Zach Howard), working with Vertigo Comics on a project with Neil Young,
freelancing with concept art for various Hollywood studios, doing covers
for Marvel Comics and the graphic novel Punk
Rock Jesus.
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