Bob Bolling
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Bob Fujitani
Robert Fujitani (October 15, 1921 – September 6, 2020) was an American comic book artist.
Biography
Fujitani was born in 1921 to an Irish-Japanese family. After studying art in New York City, he drew comics for several small publishers within t ...
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Dexter Taylor
2006
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Peter S. Beagle (Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction and Fantasy)
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Art Clokey
Arthur "Art" Clokey (born Arthur Charles Farrington; October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop-motion clay animation, best known as the creator of the character Gumby and the original voice o ...
(animator)
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Luis Dominguez
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Basil Gogos
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Early life
Basil G ...
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Everett Raymond Kinstler
Everett Raymond Kinstler (August 5, 1926 – May 26, 2019) was an American artist, whose official portraits include Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.[Kazuo Koike
was a prolific Japanese manga writer ( gensakusha), novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his violent, artful ''seinen'' manga, notably ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' (with Goseki Kojima, 1970–6), '' Lady Snowblood'' ...]
* Bill Pittman, Comic-Con VP Operations
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Yoshihiro Tatsumi
was a Japanese manga artist whose work was first published in his teens, and continued through the rest of his life. He is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative manga in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957. H ...
2007
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Allen Bellman
Allen Bellman (June 5, 1924 – March 9, 2020) was an American comic book artist whose career began in the Golden Age of Comic Books.
Career
As a child in New York City, Bellman became enchanted by comics when he saw a copy of ''Action Comics' ...
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Renée French
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Her work is characterized by her "obsessive-looking and highly unsettling visual sty ...
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Gary Friedrich
Gary Friedrich (; August 21, 1943 – August 29, 2018) was an American comic book writer best known for his Silver Age stories for Marvel Comics' '' Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos'', and, in the following era, for the series '' The Monster o ...
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Adam Hughes
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Miriam Katin
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Mel Keefer
Melvyn Keefer (July 2, 1926 – February 11, 2022) was an American comics artist and illustrator. Best known for the comic strip '' Mac Divot'', he was a lifetime Inkpot Award inductee.
Life and career
Born in Los Angeles, California, Keefer t ...
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Joseph Michael Linsner
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David Morrell
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(prose writer)
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Lily Renée
Lily Renée Phillips ('' née'' Willheim; May 12, 1921 – August 24, 2022), often credited as L. Renée, Lily Renée, or Reney, was an Austrian-born American artist best known as one of the earliest women in the comic-book industry, beginning i ...
Phillips
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Mike Ploog
Michael G. Ploog (; born July 13, 1940 or 1942) is an American storyboard and comic book artist, and a visual designer for films.
In comics, Ploog is best known for his work on Marvel Comics' 1970s ''Man-Thing'' and '' The Monster of Frankenst ...
* Mary Sturhann, Comic-Con Secretary
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Dan Vado
Dan Vado (born September 9, 1959) Miller, John Jackson"Comics Industry Birthdays" , ''Comics Buyer's Guide'', June 10, 2005. Accessed February 1, 2011. is an American comic book publisher and writer, and a fixture of the independent comics communit ...
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Mark Verheiden
Mark Verheiden (born March 26, 1956) is an American television, movie, and comic-book writer. He was a co-executive producer for the television series '' Falling Skies'' for DreamWorks Television and the TNT network.
Career
Comics and comic-r ...
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F. Paul Wilson
Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17, 1946, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American medical doctor and author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and other genres of literary fiction. His books include the Repairman Jack n ...
(prose writer)
2008
Official list*
Kyle Baker
Kyle John Baker (born 1965) is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series ''Plastic Man''.
Baker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his wor ...
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Ralph Bakshi
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Mike W. Barr
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Ed Brubaker
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Kim Deitch
Kim Deitch (born May 21, 1944 in Los Angeles, California)Donahue, Don and Susan Goodrick, editors. Deitch bio, ''The Apex Treasuet of Underground Comics'' (Apex Novelties, 1974), p. 127. is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in th ...
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Victor Gorelick
Victor Gorelick (April 5, 1941 – February 8, 2020) was an American comic book editor and executive. Working in a variety of roles for Archie Comics for over 60 years, he rose to the position of editor-in-chief.
Career
After studying at the Sch ...
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Al Jaffee
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Todd Klein
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Biography
Early career
Todd Klein broke into comics in the summer of 1977, hired by DC Comics as a staff prod ...
(letterer)
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Tite Kubo
, known professionally as , is a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He is best known for his manga series '' Bleach'' (2001–2016), which had over 130 million copies in circulation as of 2022.
Biography
Kubo was born on June 26, 197 ...
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Noel Neill
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(actress)
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Floyd Norman
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Al Plastino
*Jeff Watts
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Bill Willingham
William Willingham (born 1956) is an American writer and artist of comics, known for his work on the series ''Elementals (Comico Comics), Elementals'' and ''Fables (comics), Fables''.
Career
William Willingham was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. ...
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Connie Willis
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Jim Woodring
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2009
Official list*
Mike Allred
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LaFrance Bragg
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Nick Cuti
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Dwayne McDuffie
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Stan Freberg
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Terry Gilliam
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Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including '' Time Bandits'' (1981), '' ...
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John Kricfalusi
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John Lasseter
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Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widel ...
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Patrick Oliphant
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Chris Oliveros
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Seth
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Barry Short
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Mike Towry
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Ramón Valdiosera
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Bob Wayne
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Phil Yeh
2010s
2010
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Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge (pronounced , as in ''bag''; born December 11, 1957) is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics ''Hate'' and '' Neat Stuff''. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduce ...
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Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis (; born August 18, 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist. He has won five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books.Bendis, Brian Michael and Oeming, Michael Avon, ' ...
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Berkeley Breathed
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (; born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author, director, and screenwriter, known for his comic strips ''Bloom County'', '' Outland'', and '' Opus''. ''Bloom County'' earned Breathed the Pu ...
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Kurt Busiek
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Dave Dorman
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Early life
Dorman's parents are Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jack N. Dorman and Phyllis Dorman. Both parents ar ...
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Moto Hagio
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Charlaine Harris
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Stuart Immonen
Stuart Immonen () is a Canadians, Canadian comics artist. He is best known for his work on ''Nextwave'', ''Ultimate X-Men'', ''The New Avengers (comics), The New Avengers'', ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', and ''Ultimate Spider-Man''. Penciler, His pe ...
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Phil Jimenez
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Jenette Kahn
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Keith Knight
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Milo Manara
Maurilio Manara (; born 12 September 1945), known professionally as Milo Manara, is an Italian comic book writer and artist.
Career
After architecture and painting studies, he made his comics debut in 1969 drawing for ''Genius'', a Fumetti neri ...
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Andy Manzi
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Larry Marder
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Tom Palmer
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Drew Struzan
Drew Struzan (; born March 18, 1947) is an American artist, illustrator and cover designer. He is known for his more than 150 movie posters, which include ''The Shawshank Redemption'', ''Blade Runner'', ''Mallrats'', as well as films in the ''In ...
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James Sturm
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Carol Tyler
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Anna-Marie Villegas
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Al Wiesner
2011
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Anina Bennett
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Jordi Bernet
Jordi Bernet Cussó (born 14 June 1944) is a Spanish comics artist, best known for the gangster comics series ''Torpedo'' and for American weird western comic book ''Jonah Hex''.
Career
He was born in Barcelona, the son of a Spanish comic book a ...
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Joyce Brabner
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Biography
Br ...
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Chester Brown
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Brown has gone through several stylistic and thematic periods. He gained notice in alternative comics circles in the 1980s for the surreal, scatological '' Ed the Happy Cl ...
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Seymour Chwast
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Biography
Chwast was born in the Bronx, New York City and in 1949 graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn where he was int ...
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Alan Davis
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Dick DeBartolo
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Dawn Devine
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Tony DeZuniga
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Eric Drooker
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Joyce Farmer
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*Tsuneo Gōda
*Paul Guinan
*John Higgins (comics), John Higgins
*Jamal Igle
*Peter Kuper
*Richard A. Lupoff
*Pat Lupoff
*Steve Sansweet
*Bill Schelly
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Steven Spielberg
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(filmmaker)
*Frank Stack
*Jeff Walker ("genre consultant")
2012
*Charlie Adlard
*Bill Amend
*Alison Bechdel
*Tim Bradstreet
*Mike Carey (writer), Mike Carey (writer)
*Peter Coogan
*Geof Darrow
*Randy Duncan of Comics Arts Conference
*Ben Edlund
*Gary Gianni
*Larry Hama
*Peter F. Hamilton (prose writer)
*Mario Hernandez (comics), Mario Hernandez
*Klaus Janson
*Joe Jusko
*Robert Kirkman
*Erik Larsen
*Rob Liefeld
*Andy Mangels
*Rudy Nebres
*Whilce Portacio
*James Robinson (comics), James Robinson
*Lou Scheimer
*Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor)
*Jim Silke
*Marc Silvestri
*Michael E. Uslan
*Trevor Von Eeden
*Mark Waid
*Thomas Yeates
2013
* Jon Bogdanove
* Alan Campbell (writer), Alan Campbell
* Gerry Conway
* Denys Cowan
* Michael Davis (comics creator), Michael Davis
* Gene Deitch
* José Delbo
* Derek T. Dingle
* Paul Dini
* Ellen Forney
* Gary Frank (comics), Gary Frank
* Tony Isabella
* Dan Jurgens
* Sam Kieth
* Jack Larson
* Elliot S. Maggin
* Leonard Maltin (film critic)
* Jeff Mariotte
* Val Mayerik
* Dean Mullaney
* Martin Pasko
* Fred Perry (comics), Fred Perry
* Ruth Sanderson
* Romeo Tanghal
* Bruce Timm
2014
* Ray Billingsley
* June Brigman
* Mark Brooks (comics), Mark Brooks
* Amanda Conner
* Brian Crane
* Chuck Dixon
* Jane Espenson
* Bill Finger
* Drew Friedman (cartoonist), Drew Friedman
* Michael T. Gilbert
* Brian Haberlin
* Willie Ito
* Kelley Jones
* Katherine Morrison
* Julie Newmar (actress)
* Graham Nolan
* Michelle Nolan
* Jimmy Palmiotti
* Benoît Peeters
* John Picacio
* Mimi Pond
* Joe Quesada
* Sam Raimi (film director)
* Don Rosa
* Brian Stelfreeze
* Burt Ward (actor)
2015
* Jerry Beck
* Greg Capullo
* Mike Catron
* Carlos Ezquerra
* Andrew Farago
* Dave Garcia
* Tom Grummett
* Jackson Guice
* Chip Kidd
* Steve Lieber
* Laura Martin
* Dave McCaig
* Bill Mumy (actor)
* Kevin Nowlan
* Joe Phillips
* Hilary B. Price
* Humberto Ramos
* Jimmie Robinson
* Luis Royo
* Jen Sorensen
* Richard Starkings
* Kazuki Takahashi (manga artist), Kazuki Takahashi
* Jill Thompson
* Jhonen Vasquez
* Craig Yoe
2016
* Jason Aaron
* Derf Backderf
* Michael Barrier (animation historian)
* Luc Besson (film director)
* Peggy Burns
* Peter David
* Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis
* Tom Devlin
* Ben Dunn
* Matt Fraction
* William Gibson (novelist)
* Kieron Gillen
* Mike Judge (animator)
* Hidenori Kusaka
* Ed McGuinness
* Jamie McKelvie
* Tsutomu Nihei
* Christopher Priest (comics), Christopher Priest
* Phil Roman (animator)
* Alex Sinclair
* John Trimble
* Satoshi Yamamoto
2017
* Andrew Aydin
* Alan Burnett
* Joyce Chin
* Kevin Feige
* Robin Hobb
* John Lewis
* Jeph Loeb
* Jonathan Maberry
* Glenn McCoy
* Keith Pollard
* Nate Powell
* Brian Selznick
* R. Sikoryak
* Alex Simmons
* Gail Simone
* R. L. Stine
* Ron Wilson (comics), Ron Wilson
2018
* Yoshitaka Amano
* Marc Bernardin
* Cory Doctorow
* Brian Fies
* Richard Friend
* Alex Grecian
* Deborah Harkness
* Elizabeth Hand
* Larry Houston
* David W. Mack
* Nichelle Nichols
* Liniers (cartoonist), Liniers
* Brian Pulido
* Randy Reynaldo
* Eric Reynolds (comics), Eric Reynolds
* Kevin Smith
* Peter Tomasi
* Shannon Wheeler
* Rafael Albuquerque (artist), Rafael Albuquerque
2019
* Craig Fellows (Vice President Operations, Board Member, Artist)
* Wendy All
* Leigh Bardugo
* Jon B. Cooke
* Mary Fleener
* Gene Ha
* Jonathan Hickman
* Arvell Jones
* Charlie Kochman
* Craig Miller (writer), Craig Miller
* Paco Roca
* Scott Snyder
* Billy Tucci
* Chris Ware
* Maryelizabeth Yturralde
2020s
2022
* Barbara Kesel
* Bill Morrison (comics), Bill Morrison
* Cecil Castellucci
* Danny Fingeroth
* Dan Slott
* Hidetaka Tenjin
* Jock (cartoonist), Jock
* John J. Murakami
* Lilah Sturges
* Marie Javins
* Miriam Libicki
* Phil LaMarr
* Ruth Clampett
* Shaenon K. Garrity
* Steve Niles
* Trino Monero
* Steve Saffel
See also
*Alley Award
*Bill Finger Award
*Eagle Award (comics), Eagle Award
*Eisner Award
*Harvey Award
*Kirby Award
*National Comics Award
*Russ Manning Award
*Shazam Award
*Winsor McCay Award
Notes
References
{{American Comic Book Industry Awards
Comics awards
Awards established in 1974