This is a list of Australian comics creators. Although comics have different formats, this list covers creators of editorial cartoons, comic books, graphic novels, and

comic strips A comic strip is a Comics, sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often Serial (literature), serialized, with text in Speech balloon, balloons and Glossary of comics ter ...

, along with early innovators. The list presents authors with Australia as their country of origin, although they may have published or now be resident in other countries. For other countries, see List of comic creators.

Editorial cartoonists

Australian professional cartoonists work for commercially published newspapers and journals, as well as in Australian comics, children's illustration, and animation. Many of these artists have their work collected and published as books. *

Dean Alston Dean John Douglas Alston (born 1950) is an Australian cartoonist who became the editorial cartoonist of ''The West Australian'' newspaper in 1986. Biography Dean Alston was born in South Perth, Western Australia. He grew up in Mount Pleasant ...

Michael Atchison Michael Plant Atchison (4 August 1933 – 16 February 2009) was an Australian cartoonist who worked for the South Australian ''Advertiser'' for over 40 years. He was born in Sandringham, Victoria and moved to South Australia with his family ...

* David Blumenstein *

Jason Chatfield Jason Chatfield (born 1984) is an Australian cartoonist and stand-up comedian, based in New York City. At 23 he became Australia's most widely syndicated cartoonist, appearing daily in over 120 newspapers in 34 countries. His art spans the disc ...

* Patrick Cook *

Stan Cross Stanley George Cross (3 December 1888 – 16 June 1977) was born in the United States but was known as an Australian strip and political cartoonist who drew for ''Smith's Weekly'' and the ''Herald & Weekly Times''. Cross is famous for his iconi ...

* John Ditchburn * William Ellis Green *

Robert Hannaford Robert Lyall "Alfie" Hannaford , (born 9 November 1944) is an Australian realist artist notable for his drawings, paintings, portraits and sculptures. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford. Family Hannaford was born a ...

* Geoff "Jeff" Hook *

Judy Horacek Judy Horacek (born 12 November 1961) is an Australian cartoonist, artist, writer and children's book creator. She is best known for her award winning children's picture book ''Where is the Green Sheep?'' with Mem Fox, and her weekly cartoons ...

* Arthur Horner *

Mark Knight Mark Knight (born 1962) is an Australian cartoonist. He is currently the editorial cartoonist for the '' Herald Sun'', a daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne. Knight was also the last editorial cartoonist for one of the ''Herald Suns joint p ...

Sean Leahy Sean Leahy (born 1958) is an Australian cartoonist working for the '' Courier Mail'' in Brisbane, Australia. He draws political cartoons for the paper, and also his own comic strip, ''Beyond the Black Stump'', which is distributed in Australia. ...

* Bill Leak *

Mary Leunig Mary Leunig (born 1950) is an Australian visual artist who has had work featured in such publications as ''The Age'', ''Meanjin'', ''Nation Review'', ''HEAT (magazine), Heat Magazine'', ''AWU Magazine'', ''Time (magazine), Time'', ''Penthouse (m ...

Michael Leunig Michael Leunig (born 2 June 1945), typically referred to as Leunig (his signature on his cartoons), is an Australian cartoonist. His works include ''The Curly Pyjama Letters'', cartoon books ''The Essential Leunig'', ''The Wayward Leunig'', ' ...

* Andrew Marlton * Neil Matterson * Stewart McCrae *

George Molnar George Molnar ( hu, Molnár György) (25 April 1910, Nagyvárad – 16 November 1998, Sydney) was born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary and came to Australia in 1939, where he practiced as a cartoonist and architecture lecturer.Alan Moir Alan Moir (born 1947) is an Australian caricaturist and cartoonist who was born in New Zealand. He has been the Editorial Cartoonist for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' since 1984, and previously ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin' ...

* Dillon Naylor * Peter Nicholson *

Pat Oliphant Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant (born 24 July 1935) is an Australian-born American artist whose career spanned more than sixty years. His body of work as a whole focuses mostly on American and global politics, culture, and corruption; he is particu ...

Ward O'Neill Ward O’Neill (born 1951) is an Australian illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist, who has contributed to a variety of newspapers, including ''The London Daily Mail'', ''The Australian'', '' Sydney Morning Herald'', '' National Times'', the '' ...

Bruce Petty Bruce Leslie Petty, born 23 November 1929 at Doncaster, Victoria, Doncaster, a suburb of Melbourne, is one of Australia's best known political satire, political satirists and cartoonists.

* Geoff Pryor *

Paul Rigby Paul Crispin Rigby AM (25 October 1924 – 15 November 2006) was an Australian cartoonist who worked for newspapers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. He usually worked under the name Rigby. Early life Rigby was born in S ...

* Victoria Roberts * D.H. Souter *

John Spooner John Spooner B.Juris, LLB ( Monash) (born 1946) is an Australian journalist and illustrator who regularly contributed to ''The Age'' newspaper. John Spooner was born in Melbourne in 1946. He practised as a lawyer for three years before he com ...

* Ron Tandberg * Andrew Weldon * Cathy Wilcox

Comic book and comic strip creators

Australian comic book and strip artists and writers:

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Hart Amos Hart Amos (2 December 1916 – 8 June 2000), was an Australian comic strip writer and artist. Biography Hartley Vincent Amos was born in Lindfield, New South Wales on 2 December 1916, the eldest son of an insurance company manager. Amos at ...

– (''The Lost Patrol'', ''Devil Doone'', ''Kidnap Cavern'', ''Hurricane Hardy'', ''

Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors ''Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors'' was an Australian comic strip created by John Dixon. The strip began publication on 30 May 1959, premiering in the Saturday issue of Perth's '' Weekend Mail''. It was subsequently published by other Australian ...

'') * Patrick Alexander – (''Pink Chickens'', ''Raymondo Person'', ''The Wraith'').

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* Marcelo Baez – (''Diabla'') *

Jimmy Bancks James Charles Bancks (10 May 1889 – 1 July 1952) was an Australian cartoonist best known for his comic strip ''Ginger Meggs''. Biography James Charles Bancks was born in Enmore, New South Wales, Australia on 10 May 1889, the son of an Irish ...

– (''

Ginger Meggs ''Ginger Meggs'', Australia's most popular and longest-running comic strip, was created in the early 1920s by Jimmy Bancks. The strip follows the escapades of a red-haired prepubescent mischief-maker who lives in an inner suburban working-class ...

'') *

Fil Barlow Fil Barlow (born 8 April 1963) is an Australian artist, cartoonist, writer, production designer currently based in Los Angeles. Barlow is the creator of the ''Zooniverse'' comic book published in 1986-87. Biography Barlow was born on 8 April ...

– (''Inkspots, Zooniverse'') * Scott Beattie – (''The Seven Swords'') * Paul Bedford – (''The LisT'') *

Phil Belbin ''Phil Belbin'' (1925–1993) was an Australian artist, illustrator, cartoonist and amateur cinematographer. He is probably best known for creating what soon became known as the "Candy" multi-colour livery for the State Rail Authority in the 198 ...

– (''Peril on Venus, Climax Comics, The Raven, The Early Birds'') * Andrez Bergen – (''Tales to Admonish, Magpie, Bullet Gal, Trista & Holt, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat'') *

Moira Bertram Moira Bertram (1929 – ?), was an Australian comic book artist and illustrator. Biography Moira Bertram was born in Sydney in 1929, the daughter of a Sydney wool shipper. She studied portrait painting under the noted Australian painter Antoni ...

– (''Jo, Flameman'') * David Blumenstein – (''Nakedfella Comics, Herman, The Legal Labrador, #takedown'') *

Paul Bradford Paul Bradford (born 1 December 1963) is a former Irish politician who served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 1987 to 1989 and 2002 to 2016. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork East constituency from 1989 to 2002. Early ...

– (''Astral Crusaders, Witch Hunters, Undercurrent, Silent but Deadly'') *

Maurice Bramley Maurice Bramley (11 September 1898 – 15 June 1975), was a New Zealand born Australian cartoonist and commercial artist. Biography Maurice William Bramley was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 11 September 1898, the eldest son of William ...

– (''The Phantom Commando, The Fast Gun'')

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* Bernard Caleo – (''Tango'', ''The False Impressionists'') * Eddie Campbell – (''

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'', '' From Hell'') * Gerald Carr – (''Vampire!, Vixen, The Dirty Digger'') *

Gary Chaloner Gary Chaloner (born 30 March 1963, in Sydney) is an Australian comic book artist, writer and publisher. He is known for his creations ''The Jackaroo'', ''Flash Damingo'', ''Red Kelso'' and ''The Undertaker Morton Stone'', as well as his work on ...

– (''Jackaroo, Red Kelso'',

Will Eisner William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series ''The Spirit'' (1940–1952) was no ...

's ''John Law'') *

W. Chew 'Chewie' Chan W. Chew "Chewie" Chan is a professional storyboard and comic book artist known for his contributions to various projects, including Iron Man, Buckaroo Banzai ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'', often shortened to ''B ...

– (''Iron Man, Buckaroo Banzai'' and ''Cthulhu Tales'') *

Queenie Chan Queenie Chan is a Chinese-Australian Original English-Language comic artist who co-wrote and illustrated the graphic novel '' In Odd We Trust'', a prequel to Dean Koontz's '' Odd Thomas'', and published by Del Rey. She illustrated the sequel, ...

– (''The Dreaming'') * Peter Chapman – (''The Phantom Ranger'', ''Sir Falcon'', ''The Shadow'') *

– (continued ''

'' since 2007) * Keith Chatto – (''Destiny Scott, The Lone Wolf,

, The Phantom'') *

Con Chrisoulis Con Chrisoulis is a Greek multidisciplinary artist and academic, most famous for his graphic novels, '' Tales of The Smiths'', ''Dryland'', ''Giant-Size Fascists'', and ''Rebel Rebel''. Career Chrisoulis was born in Victoria, Australia, to Gree ...

– (''Clans'', ''Rebel Rebel: The Graphic Biography of David Bowie'', '' Tales of The Smiths'') *R.B. Clark – (''Boofhead'') *

Darren Close Darren Close is an Australian comics creator. He has primarily self-published comics about his character Killeroo for the last 20 years, most recently the GANGWARS anthology He also founded the OzComics website, which later became a weekly drawin ...

– ('' Killeroo'') * Noel Cook – (''Kokey Koala'') *

Trudy Cooper ''Platinum Grit'' is an Australian self-published comic book/online comic. The series is noted for sexual drawings of girls, surreal offbeat humor and tightly written scripts. The series was created by writer/illustrator Trudy Cooper and co- ...

– (''Oglaf'', artist, co-creator and co-writer of ''

Platinum Grit ''Platinum Grit'' is an Australian self-published comic book/online comic. The series is noted for sexual drawings of girls, surreal offbeat humor and tightly written scripts. The series was created by writer/illustrator Trudy Cooper and co- ...

'') *

– (''

The Potts ''The Potts'' was an Australian comic strip. The strip was created in August 1920 by Stan Cross under the name ''You & Me''. In 1939, it was taken over by Jim Russell (cartoonist), Jim Russell, who changed it to its current title. The strip w ...

'' & '' Wally and the Major'')

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* Wynne W. Davies – (''Percy the Pommy'') * David de Vries – ('' Cyclone!, Dark Horse Down Under, The Phantom'') * John Dixon – (''The Crimson Comet,

, Captain Strato'') * Les Dixon – (''Bluey and Curley, Phill Dill'') * Michal Dutkiewicz – (''Batman Forever, Lost in Space'') *

Will Dyson William Henry Dyson (3 September 1880 – 21 January 1938) was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist. In 1931 he was regarded as "one of the world's foremost black and white artists", and in 1980, "Australia's greatest cartoonist" ...

– (early political cartoonist)

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Tony Edwards Tony Edwards is an Australian comic book artist and illustrator, best known for his creation, ''Captain Goodvibes''. Biography Tony Edwards was born in Strathfield in 1944 and originally trained as an architect. Edwards' best known creation '' ...

– (''

Captain Goodvibes Captain Goodvibes, a.k.a. the Pig of Steel, is the creation of Australian cartoonist Tony Edwards and an icon of Australian surfing culture from the 1970s. In 1992 Captain Goodvibes was named by ''Australia's Surfing Life'' magazine as one of "Aust ...

'') *

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– ('' Inverloch'') * Anton Emdin – (''Cruel World'') *

Ken Emerson Kenneth Albert Emerson (9 July 1927 – 12 February 2010) was an Australian cartoonist and comic strip creator. He is best known for writing the comic strips ''The Warrumbunglers'The Warrumbunglers'' title is sometimes written with a hyphen ( ...

– (''Bush Folks, The Warrumbunglers'') * Hal English – (''Red Steele, Cobra Woman'')

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Jules Faber Jules Faber is a cartoonist, caricature artist, illustrator and finished artist located in Coffs Harbour. In 2009, he became President of the Australian Cartoonists' Association and was again elected to the position in November 2012. Life Fab ...

– (''Sporadic, Golgotha'') *

George Finey George Edmond Finey (16 March 1895 – 8 June 1987) was an Australian black-and-white artist, noted for his unconventional appearance and left-wing politics. He was born in Parnell, New Zealand. While working as an apprentice lithographer at the ...

– (early cartoonist) * Roger Fletcher – (''Torkan'') * Adam Ford – (''Jutchy ya ya, Man bites Dog, The Book of Job, The Amazing Atavistic Adventures of the Fish, Neuronn: the Creature from a Human Brain'') *Hayden Fryer – (''Cobber, Darkest Night, Nothing Serious, Full Moon, Billy: Demon Slayer'')

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* May Gibbs – (''Bib and Bub'') * Nicki Greenberg – (''The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation, Tango'') *

Alex Gurney Alexander Gurney (born September 4, 1974) is an American racing driver who competes in the Rolex Sports Car Series for GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing. He won the 2007 and 2009 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype drivers' championshi ...

– (''Stiffy and Mo,

Bluey and Curley ''Bluey and Curley'' is an Australian newspaper comic strip written by the Australian artist, caricaturist, and cartoonist Alex Gurney. Few original ''Bluey and Curley'' strips are held in public collections, because Gurney often gave the origina ...

'')

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George Hall George Hall may refer to: People The arts * George Hall (actor) (1916–2002), Canadian-American actor * George Hall (musician) (c. 1893 – c. 1989), American bandleader * George Hall (cartoonist) (born 1960), Australian comic book writer and ...

– (''Reverie'') *Peta Hewitt – ('' Terinu'') *

Yaroslav Horak Yaroslav Horak (12 June 1927 – 24 November 2020) was an Australian illustrator and comics artist, of ethnic Czech-Russian origin, best known for his work on the newspaper comic strip ''James Bond (comic strip), James Bond''. Biography Horak ...

– (''Chandor, Brenda Starr, James Bond, The Mask, Jet Fury'') * Marie "Mollie" Horseman – (''Pam'') * Sarah Howell – (''Squishface Studio'') *

Simon Hanselmann Simon Hanselmann is an Australian-born cartoonist best known for his ''Megg, Mogg, and Owl'' series. Hanselmann has been nominated four times for an Ignatz Award, four times for an Eisner Award, once for the Harvey Award and won Best Series at ...

(aka Simon James) – (''Shucka shucka, Girl mountain, Horse Mania / Poofter Basher (split cassingle), Megg and Mogg'')

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* Scott Johnson – (''Hip Pocket'') *

Eric Jolliffe Eric Ernest Jolliffe (31 January 190716 November 2001)Tony Stephens, "A talent drawn from the bush", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 27 November 2001, p. 44. was an Australian cartoonist and illustrator. Early life Born in Portsmouth, England, ...

– (''Andy, Saltbush Bill, Witchetty's Tribe'') * Garth Jones – (''Killeroo: Road Rage'') *Phil Judd – (''Pet Therapy'')

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James Kemsley James Lawrence Kemsley OAM (15 November 1948 – 3 December 2007) was an Australian cartoonist who was notable for producing the comic strip ''Ginger Meggs'' (originally created by Jimmy Bancks) between 1984 and 2007. Early life James Kemsl ...

– (writer/artist of ''

'', 1948–2007)

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* Daniel Lawson – (''Azerath, Contractually Obligated, Killeroo:Scars, Colt'') *

Len Lawson Leonard Keith Lawson (1927 – 29 November 2003), was a bestselling Australian comic book creator, successful commercial artist and photographer. However, he was also a notorious criminal who was sentenced to life imprisonment for rape and murde ...

– (''The Lone Avenger'') *

Percy Leason Percy Alexander Leason (23 February 1889 – 11 September 1959) was an Australian political cartoonist and artist who was a major figure in the Australian tonalist movement. As a painter and commercial artist his works span two continents. Ea ...

- (political cartoonist) * Peter Ledger – (''Carlos McLlyr, Sisterhood of Steel'') * Glenn Lumsden – ('' Cyclone!, The Phantom'') *Carl Lyon - (''Black McDermitt'', ''Wally and the Major'')

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*Paul Mason – ('' The Phantom'', ''Kid Phantom (

Frew Publications Frew Publications is an Australian comic book publisher, known for its long-running reprint series of Lee Falk's ''The Phantom''. Frew formerly published other comics, including Falk's earlier creation ''Mandrake the Magician''. History Frew Publ ...

)'', ''The Eldritch Kid: Bone War (

Gestalt Comics Gestalt Publishing is an Australian independent graphic novel publishing house. They primarily publish Australian graphic novelists, and have an ethos of supporting and developing emerging talent. History The company was officially founded ...

)'', ''The Soldier Legacy (

Black House Comics Black House Comics was an Australian independent comic book and graphic novel publisher. Publisher Baden Kirgan started the company in 2008 when he decided to create an "Australia Vertigo" comics arm within his commercially successful printing c ...

)'') *

Arthur Mather Arthur Richard Mather (22 November 1925 – 4 June 2017) was an Australian cartoonist, illustrator, and novelist. He was the creating artist (and later also the writer) of one of Australia's most successful comics series, ''Captain Atom''. From ...

– ('' Captain Atom'', ''Sergeant Pat'', ''Secret Agent X9'', ''Flynn of the FBI'') *

Shane McCarthy Shane McCarthy (born 24 July 1975) is an Australian writer best known for his comic book work. Career A comic book fan from an early age, McCarthy's first widely published work was the three-part Batman backup story ''Low'' for DC Comics in ...

– (''Detective Comics'', ''Transformers'') *

Stewart McKenny Stewart McKenny is an Australian comic book artist, who has been described as "one of Australia's most prolifically published comic book artists". Career McKenny has worked on ''Star Wars'' comics, including '' Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures ...

– (''The Watch'') * Emile Mercier – (''Supa Dupa Man, Wocko the Beaut, Doc McSwiggle, Search for the Gnu-Gnah'') * Syd Miller – (''

Chesty Bond Chesty Bond is a fictional cartoon character and trademark for the Australian clothing company Bonds. The character was created in 1940, a co-creation of the advertising account manager Ted Moloney and artist Syd Miller. Chesty Bond was con ...

, Aminalaughs, Us Girls, Rod Craig'') *Joan Morrison - (''Morrison Girls'')

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* Dillon Naylor – (''Da 'n Dill, Batrisha, A Brush With Darkness'') *Tony Newton – (''Foolproof Comics'') * Wayne Nichols – (''The X-Files, Orphan Black, Incredible Hulk: Giant-Size, Exiles, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.'') *

Syd Nicholls Sydney 'Syd' Wentworth Nicholls (20 December 18963 June 1977) was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist, best known for the long-running comic strip ''Fatty Finn''. Biography Syd Nicholls was born in Frederick Henry Bay, Tasmania on 2 ...

– (''

Fatty Finn ''Fatty Finn'' was a popular long-run Australian comic strip series, created in 1923 by Syd Nicholls. It ran in syndication until the creator's death in 1977. History In 1923 Syd Nicholls, a senior artist at Sydney's ''Evening News'', was aske ...

, Middy Malone'')

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* Kathleen O'Brien – (''Wanda (Wanda the War Girl)'') * Gavin L. O'Keefe – (''Phantastique, Jonny Flathead'') *

– (political cartoonist) * Mandy Ord – (''Brick Dog, Sensitive Creatures, Dirty Little Creep, Ordinary Eyeball'')

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* Jason Paulos - (''Hairbutt the Hippo'', ''Eeek!'') * Maria Pena – (''Fox Comics, Passionate Nomads'') *

Craig Phillips Craig Phillips (born 16 October 1971) is an English television personality and builder. He is known for winning the first series of '' Big Brother'' in 2000. He is trained as a bricklayer, and has appeared in numerous television series related ...

– (''Finch!'') * Tad Pietrzykowski - ( Cyclone!, ''Dark Nebula'', Golden Age ''Southern Cross'') * Lloyd Piper – (''Wolf,

'') *Reginald Pitt - (''Silver Starr'', ''Yarmak - The Jungle King'') *

Stanley Pitt Stanley John Joseph Pitt (2 March 1925 – 2 April 2002) was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist. Pitt was the first Australian comic artist to have original work published by a major American comic book company. He often collaborat ...

– (''Anthony Fury'', ''Silver Starr'', ''Captain Power'', ''Yarmak - Jungle King'')

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Dean Rankine Dean Rankine is an Australian comics artist, writer and illustrator. Rankine's work has appeared in many comics, books and magazines. Career His early comics appeared in many children's magazines - Mania, Explore, Krash, KidZone and Challenge. ...

– (''Holy Cow! Christian Comics, Grossgirl and Boogerboy'') *

Virgil Reilly Virgil Reilly (29 November 1892 – 23 January 1974), was an Australian cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator. In a long and varied career, he was one of Australia's most famous newspaper and magazine artists and a prolific comic-book il ...

– (''Silver Flash, Invisible Avenger'') *

Norm Rice Norman Blann Rice (born May 4, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 49th mayor of Seattle, Washington, serving two terms from 1990 to 1997. Rice was Seattle's first elected African-American mayor. Early life Rice graduated from th ...

– (''Powerman, Steele Carewe, Rice and Shine,

'') *

Madeleine Rosca Madeleine Rosca (born Madeleine Bensley; 1977) is an Australian artist and author. She also writes Rise from Ashes, a supernatural webcomic series. Biography She grew up in country Victoria and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from M ...

– (''

Hollow Fields ''Hollow Fields'' is a steampunk-themed original English-language manga written and illustrated by Madeleine Rosca. Volume 1 was released by Seven Seas Entertainment in June 2007, with a second volume released on May 29, 2008, and a third release ...

'' manga) * Dan Russell – (''Darky, the Kid from the Snowy River'') * Jim Russell – (''

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* Allan Salisbury - ('' Snake Tales'') * Nicola Scott – ('' Birds of Prey (

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), Halloween Man'') *

Christopher Sequeira Christopher Sequeira (also published as Chris G.C. Sequeira, Christopher G.C. Sequeira, C.G.C. Sequeira) is a Sydney-based Australian editor, writer and artist who works predominantly in the speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, science fiction, ...

– (''Iron Man (in Marvel Comics' 'Astonishing Tales'), Justice League Adventures (DC Comics), 9/11: Artists Respond Vol. II (DC Comics), Cthulhu Tales (Boom! Studios), Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes (Black House Comics), Pulse of Darkness, Rattlebone: The Pulp-Faced Detective, Mister Blood, Deadlock & Doc Morton, Bold Action, The Borderlander, Jonny Flathead: Agent of MONSTA. Editor ''Tides of Hope'' (Supernova Pop Culture Expo, 2011)''- * Mark Sexton – (''Bug & Stump'') * Lee Sheppard – (''Cactus Island'') *

Lee Slattery Lee Andrew Slattery (born 3 August 1978) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He has won twice on the tour, the 2011 Bankia Madrid Masters and the 2015 M2M Russian Open. Professional career Slattery turned profess ...

– (''

, Dee Vee, Everybody Loves The Lizardman'') *

Jozef Szekeres Jozef Szekeres (born 4 July 1970) is an Australian artist, animator, writer, toy designer, sculptor, creative director and arts lecturer, and a director of the Black Mermaid Productions creative team based in Australia. He is best known for his ...

– (''Elfquest WaveDancers (original series), Safety-Belt Man, Dart, Dawn, Oblagon, Underwater Love.'')

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Shaun Tan Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...

– (''The Lost Thing, The Arrival'') *

Tom Taylor Tom Taylor (19 October 1817 – 12 July 1880) was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of ''Punch'' magazine. Taylor had a brief academic career, holding the professorship of English literature and language a ...

– ('' Injustice: Gods Among Us (

), The Deep: Here Be Dragons (

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), Star Wars: Invasion (

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Ben Templesmith Ben Templesmith (born 7 March 1984) is an Australian comic book artist best known for his work in the American comic book industry, most notably the Image Comics series ''Fell (comics), Fell'', with writer Warren Ellis, and IDW Publishing, IDW's ...

– (''30 Days of Night, Star Wars Comics'') * Ian C. Thomas – (''Moth & Tanuki'' (in ''

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'' and ''Mania''), ''Ratty Things'' (''Mania''), ''The Ink'', ''Xuan Xuan'', ''Maelstrom'' (also in ''Reverie''), ''Busker Jim'' (''City Extra'')) *

Andie Tong Andie Tong is a comic book artist, known for his work on books such as ''Green Lantern: Legacy'', ''Legend of Shang-Chi'', ''Tron: Betrayal'', ''Spectacular Spider-Man UK'', ''The Batman Strikes!'' and ''Tangent Comics#Earth-9, Tangent: Superman' ...

– (''Spectacular Spider-Man UK, The Batman Strikes! and Tangent: Superman's Reign, Tron: Betrayal.'')

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Monty Wedd Montague Thomas Archibald Wedd (1921–2012) was an Australian comic artist, animator and author. Biography Wedd was born in Glebe, New South Wales on 5 January 1921. As a school boy he was instructed in art by Oswald Brock. He left high scho ...

– (''Foreign Legion, Bert and Ned, Captain Justice, The Scorpion, Kent Blake and King Comet, Space Rangers'') *

Paul Wheelahan Paul Wheelahan was an Australian comic book writer, artist and illustrator, best known for his creations, ''The Panther'' and ''The Raven''. Biography Paul Wheelahan was born in Bombala, New South Wales in 1930, the son of a mounted policeman. ...

– (''The Raven, The Panther'') * Cecil 'Unk' White – (''The Adventures of Blue Hardy, Freckles'') * Colin Wilson – (''Strips, '' 2000AD'', La Jeunesse de Blueberry, Dans L'Ombre du Soleil, Point Blank'') * Ashley Wood – ('' Cyclone Comics Quarterly'', Dark Horse Down Under, Popbot) * Paul Woods - (''Insert Brain Here'')

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