Week 6: Will Eisner

Well, here's mister big, influential Will Eisner. He made works like The Spirit and A Contract with God, and allegedly his work established the graphic novel as a form of literature.


OK, even at this size, I'll grant you that looks pretty cool.

Week 6: Julie Doucet

Julie Doucet is a Canadian cartoonist and is known for My New York Diary and Dirty Plotte. According to Wikipedia, her work focuses on "sex, violence, menstruation and male/female issues." Charming!





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Again, that was quite unpleasant.

Week 6: Robert Crumb

Robert Crumb came up with Fritz the Cat and Zap Comix, and apparently also has works that critisize and satirize American maistream.









Man, this guy's stuf is unpleasant to look at. Satire or not, that's just not a point in his favor.

Week 6: Daniel Clowes

Daniel Clowes is a writr and cartoonist of "alternative comic books," most notably Eightball and Ghost World.









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Week 6: Milton Caniff

Milton Caniff is a cartoonist known for Steve Canyon and Terry and the Pirates.

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Week 6: David B.

David Beauchard is a French cartoonist and one of the founders of the comic publishing company L'Association, most noted for the graphic novel series l'Ascension du Haut Mal.
This guy seems to be a big an of large ammounts of black.



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Week 5: Lyonel Feininger

Feininger was a cartoonist, charicaturist, and expressionist. Joy.
His comic work is apparently not worth talking about, for how much more often his other artwork seems to show up.

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And now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be unconsious for the next sixteen hours.

Week Five: Jaime Hernandez

Brother of Gilbert Hernandez and another co-publisher of Love and Rockerts. His primary contribution is the ongoing story Locas. Like his older brother, Jaime also seems to like drawing curvy women, but his style isn't quite as hideous.









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Gilbert Hernandez

Cartoonist best known for his Palomar/Heartbreak Soup stories, which were published in the alternative comic book Love and Rockets. Jaime Hernandez is his brother. It would seem he really loved to draw super-curvey women with less-than-attractive faces. He must be a lonely guy.







Really, really, really lonely

Week 5: Herge

Herge is known for two things: having a real name that just about nobody bothers to remember and creating The Adventures of Tintin.









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Week 4: Jack "The King" Kirby

One of the comic book legends, I'd guess. I certainly hear his name often enough. Just looking down the list of characters he created and co-crated, he made... holy cow that's a lot... Captain America, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Thor, Nick Fury, X-Men, The Avengers, Iron Man, Black Panther,Machine Man, The Eternals, Devil Dinosaur, Silver Surfer, Challengers Of The Unknown, New Gods (including Darkseid), Etrigan the Demon, Kamandi The Last Boy On Earth, OMAC The One Man Army Corps, and Kobra. And probably other stuff, too.

I wanna try making a Kirby krackle effect now.

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Week 4: Walt Kelly

Hillariously enough, Walt Kelly started out working for Walt Disney--but he didn't stay long, it seems. After resigning, he switched to comic strips and came up with Pogo.



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Week 4: Ben Katchor

Ben Katchor is a cartoonist that, among other things, is responsible for creating Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.

Can't say I care uch for his art. In fact, I think I like it less the more I look at it.






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Week 4: George Herriman

George Herriman was a cartoonist that had been working professionally since age 17. He seems to have made all sorts of different comics, but his most famous work is Krazy Kat. Skimming through Google Image Search reveals two interesting features of Herriman's work: an atmospheric use of black and adventurousness with panel layouts.

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Week 3: Gary Panter

Panter is a post-underground cartoonist and on top of comics and illustrations also did painting and design. Apparently, he designed the sets of Pee Wee's Playhouse...which explains a lot, regarding the images below.