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Daniel Clowes

Daniel Gillespie Clowes is an Academy Award-nominated American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books. Most of Clowes' work appears first in his anthology Eightball (1989-2004), a collection of self-contained narratives and serialized graphic novels. Several of these narratives have been collected published separately as graphic novels, most notably Ghost World. With filmmaker Terry Zwigoff, Clowes adapted Ghost World into the 2000 film of the same name, and also adapted another Eightball story into the 2006 film Art School Confidential. Before Eightball, Clowes worked on comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn, which in the later issues stronger foreshadowed some of the social criticism of his work with Eightball.

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Charles Burns

Charles Burns is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His comic book work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly magazine 'RAW' in the mid-1980s. Nowadays, Burns is best known for the horror/coming of age graphic novel Black Hole, originally serialised in twelve issues between 1995 and 2004. The story was eventually collected in one volume by Pantheon Books and received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards in 2005. His following works X'ed Out (2010), The Hive (2012), Sugar Skull (2014), Last Look (2016) and Last Cut (2024) have also been published by Pantheon Books, although the latter was first released in France as a series of three French comic albums.
As an illustrator, Charles Bur

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Johnny Ryan

John F. Ryan IV (born November 30, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American comics creator, writer, and animator. In a throwback to the days of underground comix, Ryan's oeuvre is generally an attempt to be as shocking and politically incorrect as possible.
Ryan started his career self-publishing Angry Youth Comix, a series of eleven mini-comic issues from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, he began showing his work to Peter Bagge, creator of Hate comics, who introduced the material to Eric Reynolds of Fantagraphics. In 2001, Fantagraphics began publishing volume 2 of the series.
Among Ryan's creations there are the comic strip Blecky Yuckerella and the comic book series Prison Pit.
In animation, Ryan has worked as story editor for the Looney Tuness

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Dash Shaw

Dash Shaw is an American cartoonist and animator, currently living in Richmond, Virginia.
Shaw studied Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He has been publishing short comics and illustrations in a number of anthologies, magazines and zines since his college years. In 2008 Fantagraphics Books published Shaw's first long format graphic novel, the family comedy-drama Bottomless Belly Button. Among his other notable works: BodyWorld (2010, Pantheon Books), New Jobs (2013, Uncivilized Books), New School (2013, Fantagraphics), Blurry (2024, New York Review Comics).
Shaw's animated works include the Sigur Ros video and Sundance selection 'Seraph', the series 'The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD' and the movies My Entire Hi

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Pierre La Police

Pierre La Police is a Paris-based cartoonist and visual artist, who works in comics, animation and video installations.
La Police originated in the underground arts scene and began publishing his work in the 1990s. He is most famous in France for the comic Les Praticiens de l’Infernal, which ran in the magazine 'Les Inrockuptibles' from 1994 to 1996.

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Olivier Schrauwen

Olivier Schrauwen is a Belgian cartoonist and musician, currently based in Berlin.
Schrauwen was born in 1977 in Bruges, a city in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. He studied animation at the Academy of Art in Gent, then obtained a master degree in comics at the 'École superieure des Art Saint-Luc' in Brussels.
His works include the surreal Arsène Schrauwen (2014), the six sci-fi stories collected in Parallel Lives (2018), the pirate story Portrait of a Drunk (2019) in collaboration with French cartoonists Ruppert and Mulot, and his slice-of-life magnum opus Sunday (2024).

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E.M. Carroll

E.M. Carroll was born in June 1983 in London, Ontario. They started making comics in 2010 and their horror comic "His Face All Red" went viral at Hallowe'en 2010.

Since then, E.M. has published several books, created comics for anthologies, and provided illustrations for other works. E.M. has won several awards, including an Ignatz and two Eisners. They are married to fellow Canadian artist, Kate Craig.

Emily's work now uses the initials E.M. Carroll. Visit their growing exhibits at EMCarroll.com.

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Chris Cilla

Chris C. Cilla is a cartoonist and screenprinter. His full length book The Heavy Hand was published by Sparkplug Comic Books in 2010. His work has been featured in anthologies such as Kramers Ergot, Barf Water, and Bog Witch. He has been publishing minicomics since 1987, notable titles include The Diplomat, Dripp, Hot Dog Holiday, Putz Rush, and Stun Nuts. Born in Tucson, Arizona, he has since lived in Portland, Oregon and Gwangju, South Korea. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Helsinki, Lucern, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Detroit. He was a member of Portland's Pony Club gallery and played bass guitar for The Pork Torta.

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Michael DeForge

Michael DeForge lives in Toronto, Ontario. His comics and illustrations have been featured in Jacobin, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Believer, The Walrus and Maisonneuve Magazine. He worked as a designer on Adventure Time for six seasons. His published books include Very Casual, A Body Beneath, Ant Colony, First Year Healthy, Dressing, Big Kids, Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero and A Western World.

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Patrick Kyle

Patrick Kyle is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, Canada.

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Antoine Cossé

Antoine Cossé is a French illustrator and cartoonist. Cossé was born in Paris in 1981. He studied Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in London, where he still lives.
His comics have been published by Breakdown Press, Retrofit comics, Fantagraphics Books, most notably Mutiny Bay (2014), Showtime (2017) and Metax (2022).
His illustration works have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wetransfer, The Guardian, Les Inrockuptibles, Libération, Le Monde Diplomatique and others.

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Nick Drnaso

Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut graphic novel Beverly received the LA Times Book prize for Best Graphic Novel. He has contributed to several comics anthologies, self-published a handful of comics, been nominated for three Ignatz Awards, and co-edited the second and third issue of Linework, Columbia College's annual comic anthology. Drnaso lives in Chicago, where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator.

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Liam Cobb

Liam Cobb is a British freelance illustrator and comic artist based in Reykjavik, Iceland and London, UK.

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Kayla E.

Kayla E. is an American cartoonist.
She was born and grew up in Texas and earned a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University, where she served as the Art Director for the Harvard Lampoon.
Kayla E. currently lives in North Carolina and works as creative director at Fantagraphics Books. Her graphic novel debut is Precious Rubbish (2025), a work of trauma recollection told in the style of post-war children’s comics.

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Bim Eriksson

Brim Eriksson is a Swedish cartoonist and visual artist.
Born in 1991, Eriksson first major work was the graphic novel I felt nothing when my feelings died (2016). Her international breakthrough came with Baby Blue (2021), a dystopian thriller about a society that polices emotions, published in eight languages.
Her other short comics have appeared in anthologies and magazines, including Swedish illustration magazine 'Galago', Italian magazine 'Internazionale', French newspaper 'Le Monde diplomatique'.

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Benji Nate

Caroline “Benji” Sweater, also known as Benji Nate, is an American cartoonist and illustrator living in the Ozarks mountains. She is best known for the comics Catboy (2017), Hell Phone (2022) and Girl Juice (2023).

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Linnea Sterte

Linnea Sterte is a Swedish illustrator and comic book author. She gained international notoriety with her graphic novels Stages of Rot (2017) and A Frog in the Fall (2022). The latter book won the 'Prix Révélation' at the Angoulême Festival in 2023.

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Moa Romanova

Moa Romanova is a painter and cartoonist. She lives in Stockholm.

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Josh Pettinger

Josh Pettinger is a Philadelphia-based English cartoonist, mostly known for his comic book series Goiter (Fantagraphics).

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Pierre La Police

Pierre La Police is a Paris-based cartoonist and visual artist, who works in comics, animation and video installations.
La Police originated in the underground arts scene and began publishing his work in the 1990s. He is most famous in France for the comic Les Praticiens de l’Infernal, which ran in the magazine 'Les Inrockuptibles' from 1994 to 1996.

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Thomas Ott

"Thomas Ott was born in Zürich in 1966. He received training as a graphic artist at the School of Design in Zürich and has been a free-lance comics artist and illustrator since 1987. From 1998-2001 Ott attended film studies at the University of Art and Design (HGK), Zürich. He currently lives and works in Zürich and Paris. Ott is also the lead singer of The Playboys." -Fantagraphics Books

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Liam Cobb

Liam Cobb is a British freelance illustrator and comic artist based in Reykjavik, Iceland and London, UK.

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Chris Cilla

Chris C. Cilla is a cartoonist and screenprinter. His full length book The Heavy Hand was published by Sparkplug Comic Books in 2010. His work has been featured in anthologies such as Kramers Ergot, Barf Water, and Bog Witch. He has been publishing minicomics since 1987, notable titles include The Diplomat, Dripp, Hot Dog Holiday, Putz Rush, and Stun Nuts. Born in Tucson, Arizona, he has since lived in Portland, Oregon and Gwangju, South Korea. His work has been exhibited in galleries in Helsinki, Lucern, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Detroit. He was a member of Portland's Pony Club gallery and played bass guitar for The Pork Torta.

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Patrick Kyle

Patrick Kyle is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, Canada.

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Antoine Cossé

Antoine Cossé is a French illustrator and cartoonist. Cossé was born in Paris in 1981. He studied Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts in London, where he still lives.
His comics have been published by Breakdown Press, Retrofit comics, Fantagraphics Books, most notably Mutiny Bay (2014), Showtime (2017) and Metax (2022).
His illustration works have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wetransfer, The Guardian, Les Inrockuptibles, Libération, Le Monde Diplomatique and others.

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Gébé

Georges Blondeaux, dit Gébé, est un dessinateur français, né le 9 juillet 1929 à Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, mort le 5 avril 2004 (à 74 ans) à Melun (Seine-et-Marne).

Entamant sa carrière comme dessinateur industriel à la SNCF en 1947, il publie ses premiers dessins humoristiques dans La Vie du Rail magazine. C'est dans les années 1960 qu'il se fait connaître dans d'importants magazines comme Paris Match ou Le Journal du dimanche. En 1969, il devient rédacteur en chef de Hara-Kiri (magazine fondé par François Cavanna et Georges Bernier alias Le professeur Choron) puis Charlie Hebdo jusqu'en 1985. On lui doit les romans-photos photographiés par Chenz. En 1986, il devient rédacteur en chef de Zéro. De 1992 à la fin de sa vie, il collabore active

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Kim Deitch

Kim Deitch has a reserved place at the first table of underground cartoonists. The son of UPA and Terrytoons animator Gene Deitch, Kim was born in 1944 and grew up around the animation business. He began doing comic strips for the East Village Other in 1967, introducing two of his more famous characters, Waldo the Cat and Uncle Ed, the India Rubber Man. In 1969 he succeeded Vaughn Bodé as editor of Gothic Blimp Works, the Other’s underground comics tabloid. During this period he married fellow cartoonist Trina Robbins and had a daughter, Casey. “The Mishkin Saga” was named one of the Top 30 best English-language comics of the 20th Century by The Comics Journal, and the first issue of The Stuff of Dreams received the Eisner Award for Best Si

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Nicole Claveloux

Nicole Claveloux is a French painter, illustrator and comic book artist.
She was born in 1940 in Saint-Étienne, where she also studied fine arts. She moved to Paris in 1966, to work as an illustrator and comics artist. Her work appeared on a number of magazines, including 'Planète', 'Okapi', 'Marie Claire', 'Charlie Mensuel', as well as the alternative comics magazines 'Métal Hurlant' and 'Ah! Nana'.

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