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Ted Rall
Official: www.tedrall.com
US political cartoonist whose work has was dropped by the New York Times in early 2004
because they say don't think it's funny enough. Ted Rall claims the NY Times
has caved in to right wing complaints about his work which have deluged
the NY Times web site. You can read more about the whole sorry state of
affairs and get an insight into just how intolerant of freedom of
speech right wing America is on his site.
Todd Ramsell
Link: www.polypop.com/comix/ramsell
A
cartoonist in Dallas, Texas who run the comix site www.polypop.com.
Offbeat stuff -- check out 'Robots hate Ninjas' and 'Ninjas Love Robots'.
Great strips, and there's plenty more where those came from.
Alex Raymond
LambiekNet Direct Link: Alex
Raymond
International Museum of Cartoon Art: Alex
Raymond
Includes images and biography.
James Reddington
Official: reddjam.com
This site features galleries, and galleries, and galleries by American
artist James Reddington.
Graeme Neil Reid
Official: www.gnreid.co.uk
Illustrator and comics artist. Check out his great Doctor Who illustrations -- very moody!
A collection of his strips, One Last Time, costs £2.50
each in the UK. If you want to order a copy directly from Graeme it costs
an extra £1
for postage and packaging. Cheques made payable to Graeme Neil
Reid and sent to One Last Time, 60 Scotland Drive, Dunfermline,
Fife KY12 7TN.
Jesse Reklaw
Official: www.slowwave.com
Jesse Reklaw draws Slow Wave,
a comic strip based on people's real dreams. The strip appears
in 13
newsweeklies around the United States
and also at slowwave.com.
The first book collection, Dreamtoons,
was published by Shambhala
in 2000.
Gordon Rennie
Fan: http://www.cybeh.net/cybergoth/tuws/
Artist on 2000AD's Glimmer Rats.
Chris Reynolds
Official:
www.metropoppyfield.com
Chris Reynolds has been drawing comic books for over 20 years, winning
high praise for artwork and stories. Chris' first graphic novel, Mauretania was
published by Penguin in 1990, and Chris' work was reviewed at length
during 2005 in the Comics Journal.
John Ridgway
Official: None
Commando and Doctor Who artist John Ridgway does not have an official
web site. I am happy to forward professional enquiries to him direct.
John's credits include Commando (click
here for a list of credits on Vic Whittle's brilliant Commando site),
Doctor Who Magazine, Warrior and 2000AD.
Some of his Doctor Who Magazine work was
reprinted several times, including in the Doctor
Who Voyager graphic
novel, one of Marvel UK's best Doctor Who strips
ever, in a foreign editions and even in six mini-comics given way free
in multipacks of Golden Wonder crisps in the mid-1980s.
John was the first artist to draw Judge Dredd in full colour in the
weekly 2000AD. "Twister" is a homage to The
Wizard of Oz complete
with Dredd opening the door of a B&W room into a world of colour.
He also worked on Warrior, Dez Skinn's monthly
anthology from the 1980s which spawned Marvelman/Miracleman and V
For Vendetta. The
Shroud in Issue 13 is a particularly memorable story. Copies of
Warrior are still available from www.qualitycommunications.co.uk/warrior
Robin Riggs
Official: Go
Inking work includes Spider-Man and X-Men;
he spent a couple of years working on the Incredible Hulk and also works
for DC Comics.
Joey Robinson
Official: www.joeyrobinson.com
Joey Robinson is a cartoonist,
illustrator, and graphic designer. His work has appeared
in comics and role-playing games since 1997. He says he spends
most of his time doing advertising design, drawing original
art for ebay auctions, assorted comic assignments, working
with his creator owned project, Temple with his partner,
Duane Schilz and occasionally seeing his wife and kids.
Marshall Rogers
22 January 1950 - 25 March 2007
• Marshall Rogers Fan Site
Link: mrogers21.tripod.com
• Wikipedia Entry
• Artwork for Sale
A personal favourite of mine, Marshall Rogers was a comic book artist who worked for Marvel and DC Comics since the 1970's. He's surely one of several key illustrators of the Batman character. In addition, he also illustrated one of the first graphic novels, Detectives Inc.
An architect by training, his work was characterised by the
depiction of characters with relatively human proportions rather than exaggerated
musculature, and by detailed rendering of buildings and structures.
Enrique
Romero
Official: Go (Site
in Spanish and English versions)
Artist on Modesty Blaise and Axa. "Apart from Modesty and Axa, in 1959 I
carried out a series for Fleetway titled "World". I Also worked
for DC Thomson on "the Fabulous Four.
My
favourite characters have always been Modesty and Axa".
"At the moment I
carry out illustrations in black and white
or in colour, on diverse topics and characters that
I have drawn in my long professional career."
Romero's site includes his own personal reflections on
his work on strips such as Axa and Modesty Blaise.
• Read
this article on his work on Modesty Blaise and Axa: Go
(Part of the Art
of Drawing Women site)
Scott Rosema
Official: http://www.comicartistsdirect.com/rosema.html
Scott's
work
includes "August" for Arrow Comics and "Space Ghost" for
Archie
Comics.
He
has
worked
on
the
X-Men
for
Marvel
and
DC's
Batman
for
Golden
Books.
Scott's
paintings
appear
in
Dragon
magazine.
Duncan Rouleau
Official: www.manofaction.tv/rouleau/index.html
Credits include Machina Rex, Wolverine, X-Factor,
Alpha Flight and many others.
Mike Roy
Official: www.comicartistsdirect.com/roy.html
Mike Roy assisted Bill Everett, creator of the original Golden Age Submariner. He worked with Lloyd Jacquet of "Famous Funnies." He produced a Mike Hammer comic book with Mickey Spillane. He developed a Buster Crabbe comic strip with Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman. He did Honeymooners comics and a Nero Wolfe comic strip. Mike was right in the middle of the development of today's comic book industry.
John Royle
Official: www.johnroyleart.com
I worked with John while at Marvel UK and it's great to see he's still
producing simply stunning comic art for Panini. His web site not only
includes comics samples, but some simply stunning illustration work.
Well worth visiting.
P. Craig Russell and Maurice Vellekoop
Fan Site: frpeneaud.free.fr
A list of the artists' work from the editor
of the Gay Comics
List.
Paul Ryan
Official: Go
Includes art gallery, news about the artist,
perhaps best known for his X-Men work but this does him a disservice --
he's also worked on The Phantom, for Wildstorm and much more. Nicely organaised
site. Ryan accepts commission work and his rates are listed on the site.
Steve Rude
Official: Go
Artist on the SF anti-hero Nexus, written
by Mike Baron, Rude's work also includes Superman, the Hulk, X-Men and
many other stunning stories.
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