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Sergio Toppi

Sergio Toppi was an Italian illustrator and comics author from Milan.
Toppi's art style is known for its sophisticated compositions and an unmatched ability with hatching.
Young Toppi left his medical studies in the early 50's to pursue a career in illustration, which lasted until his death at age eighty. His illustrations were featured in many Italian newspapers, magazines and books.
Toppi also developed a comics career since the middle of the 60's. His body of work in comics is mostly composed of short stories on a wide range of subject matters, often in a historical or fantasy setting. Toppi's stories appeared in a number of Italian comics magazines, from the ones devoted to kids such as Il Corriere dei Piccoli and Il Giornalino, to those

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Also credited as Alexandro Jodorowsky

Better known for his surreal films El Topo and The Holy Mountain filmed in the early 1970s, Alejandro Jodorowsky is also an accomplished writer of graphic novels and a psychotherapist. He developed Psychomagic, a combination of psychotherapy and shamanic magic. His fans have included John Lennon and Marilyn Manson.

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Bex Glendining

Bex Glendining (she/they) is a biracial queer, UK based illustrator, comic artist and colourist. Their debut graphic novel ‘On Starlit Shores’ is scheduled for a 2025 release with Abrams Books.

When not working they can usually be found spending time at the beach or fussing Cookie, their very spoilt tortoise shell cat.

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Junji Ito

Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her

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Hideshi Hino

Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 Hino Hideshi, born April 19, 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics include Hell Baby, Hino Horrors, and Panorama of Hell. He also wrote and directed two of the Guinea Pig horror movies which were based on his manga: Flower of Flesh and Blood, which he also starred in, and Mermaid in a Manhole.

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Kanako Inuki

犬木加奈子

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Masasumi Kakizaki

Kakizaki, Masasumi 柿崎正澄 is a Japanese mangaka.

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Suehiro Maruo

Suehiro Maruo ( 丸尾末広) is a Japanese manga author and illustrator.
Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15 he moved to Tokyo and began working for a bookbinder. At 17, he made his first manga submission to Weekly Shōnen Jump, but it was considered by the editors to be too graphic for the magazine's format and was subsequently rejected. Maruo temporarily removed himself from manga until November 1980 when he made his official debut as a manga artist in Ribon no Kishi (リボンの騎士) at the age of 24. It was at this stage that the young artist was finally able to pursue his artistic vision without such stringent restrictions over the visual content of his work. Two years later, hi

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Kazuo Umezz

See Kazuo Umezu (楳図かずお).

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Hirokatsu Kihara

See 木原浩勝
Family name: 木原
Given name: 浩勝

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Masaaki Nakayama

Masaaki Nakayama (中山昌亮) is a horror manga artist, and author of the series Fuan no Tane (Seeds of Anxiety).

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Ryo Hanada

Also known as Ryou Hanada and Ryoh Hanada.

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Moa Romanova

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

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Chūya Nakahara

Chūya Nakahara (1907 - 1937) was a Japanese poet active during the early Showa era.

His name is written in Japanese as 中原中也 (Nakahara Chūya).

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Julia Gfrörer

Julia Gfrörer is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist, illustrator, and author. Her work is often transgressive, invoking occult themes within an ambience of subtly observed historicist concerns.

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Brian Freschi

Brian Freschi, classe 1993, scrive racconti per la rivista online “L’Inquieto” prima di diplomarsi in sceneggiatura presso l’Accademia Internazionale di Comics a Firenze. Dal 2015 collabora con il collettivo Manticora Autoproduzioni (Der Krampus, Le Piccole Morti, Maison LàLà, Nessuno ci farà entrare) e con diverse realtà del fumetto italiano. Gli anni che restano (BAO Publishing) è il suo primo graphic novel.

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Meredith McClaren

Meredith McClaren is an illustrator and cartoonist who has no business doing either.

She sometimes entertains the idea of drawing the fourth book in Jen Van Meter’s Hopeless Savages series. And her journal comic Scraps indulges her closeted narcissism.

Supposedly she has a postal code in Arizona, but really, she could be anywhere.

Oh.
And don’t touch her stuff.
Seriously.

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Hirokatsu Kihara

See 木原浩勝
Family name: 木原
Given name: 浩勝

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Marc Torices

Marc Torices is a Spanish cartoonist, illustrator and animator.
Torices studied illustration at the Llotja-Avinyó school in his home city of Barcelona, Spain. His early comic works appeared in a number of fanzines, many published under the small imprinting Zángano Comix, which he co-founded. A recurring character in Torices strips, Cornelius the dog eventually became the protagonist of his graphic novel Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog (2023). Among his other books, the comic biography Cortázar (2017), written by Jesús Marchamalo.
Torices has also worked in animation, most notably directing the award-winning shorts Knockstrike, co-directed with Pau Anglada y Genís Rigol and Naive Mischief in Oak Paso.

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Ai Okaue

• Birthday: January 25
japanese name: 丘上あい

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Hideshi Hino

Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 Hino Hideshi, born April 19, 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics include Hell Baby, Hino Horrors, and Panorama of Hell. He also wrote and directed two of the Guinea Pig horror movies which were based on his manga: Flower of Flesh and Blood, which he also starred in, and Mermaid in a Manhole.

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Renren Galeno

Ren2x Galeno is a comic author and illustrator from Davao City, Philippines.

She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a degree in Fine Arts and currently works in comics and illustration.

She illustrated the 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Searching for Maura for the Washington Post. Her first book, Sa Wala, was published in 2023 and won the 42nd National Book Awards Best Graphic Novel and Comics in English in 2024.

Ren2x likes animal-shaped ceramics and looking for fat frogs.

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Laird Koenig

Laird Koenig (born 24 September 1927 in Seattle, Washington) is an American author. His best-known work is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, a novel published in 1974. The novel was adapted into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He also wrote a play based on the novel.

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Kyung-ran Jo

Jo Kyung Ran (this is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean writer.

Jo’s work is famous for taking trivial, mundane, and everyday occurrences and delicately describing them in subtle emotional tones.

Her work has won the Munhakdongne New Writer Award, the Today’s Young Artist Award, The Contemporary Literature Award (for the 2003 novella A Narrow Gate), and the Dong-in Literary Award(2008).[12] Her work has been translated into French, German, Hebrew and English.

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Al Columbia

At the age of 19, he was hired by Bill Sienkiewicz to be his assistant on Alan Moore’s, Big Numbers.

Since then you may have seen some of his numerous other works such as Pim & Francie, Doghead, and The Biologic Show.

He is also a musician and artist.

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Atsushi Kaneko

Atsushi Kaneko (カネコアツシ, Kaneko Atsushi) es un mangaka japonés nacido en Sakata, prefectura de Yamagata.

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Ryo Hanada

Also known as Ryou Hanada and Ryoh Hanada.

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Howard Cruse

Howard Cruse was an American alternative cartoonist known for the exploration of gay themes in his comics.

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Gou Tanabe

Gou Tanabe is a Japanese creator of Manga.

Also known as 田辺剛.

(Some prefer the spelling Gō Tanabe, but Gou Tanabe is used on his published books so far.)

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Rachel Ang

Rachel Ang is an artist and writer working on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne, Australia). Their work has been published by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and kuš! Rachel’s first book Swimsuit was published by Glom Press in 2018, and they were a contributor to the Eisner Award winning anthology Drawing Power: women’s stories of sexual violence, harassment, and survival in 2019.

Rachel still lives in their hometown, where they draw comics and work in Architecture.

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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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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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Suehiro Maruo

Suehiro Maruo ( 丸尾末広) is a Japanese manga author and illustrator.
Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15 he moved to Tokyo and began working for a bookbinder. At 17, he made his first manga submission to Weekly Shōnen Jump, but it was considered by the editors to be too graphic for the magazine's format and was subsequently rejected. Maruo temporarily removed himself from manga until November 1980 when he made his official debut as a manga artist in Ribon no Kishi (リボンの騎士) at the age of 24. It was at this stage that the young artist was finally able to pursue his artistic vision without such stringent restrictions over the visual content of his work. Two years later, hi

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David Dabel

David Dabel's journey is a testament to the power of imagination, resilience, and cultural heritage. Born in the vibrant city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, David's early years were steeped in the rich tapestry of his Haitian roots. Immigrating to the United States at a young age, David brought with him a deep appreciation for his heritage and a bilingual fluency in French Creole and English.
From an early age, David found himself drawn to the spine-tingling tales of the horror genre, with R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series serving as a gateway to his fascination. However, it was the timeless classic The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas that truly captured David's heart. Little did he know at the time that this beloved story would become a gu

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Masaaki Nakayama

Masaaki Nakayama (中山昌亮) is a horror manga artist, and author of the series Fuan no Tane (Seeds of Anxiety).

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Alex Graham

Alex Graham is a painter and cartoonist from Denver, Colorado, currently residing in Seattle.

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Craig Hurd-McKenney

Craig Hurd-McKenney lives in Seattle, Washington with his husbro and dogs.

He doesn't like heights, mean people or defeatists. He does like dogs, laughing, and TWIN PEAKS.

Upcoming Work:
STATION GRAND (Oni Press)
CURSE OF DARK SHADOWS (Hermes Press)
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Previous Work:
BORIS KARLOFF'S GOLD KEY MYSTERIES #1 (Gold Key Comics)

Some Strange Disturbances 1-3 (Headless Shakespeare Press)

The Brontes: Infernal Angria (Headless Shakespeare Press)

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Stephanie M. Wytovich

Stephanie M. Wytovich is an American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her work has been featured in magazines and anthologies, such as Weird Tales, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2, and The Best Horror of the Year: Volumes 8 & 15.

Wytovich is the Poetry Editor for Raw Dog Screaming Press and an adjunct at Western Connecticut State University, Southern New Hampshire University, and Point Park University. She has received the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award, the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant, and the Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for nonfiction writing.

Wytovich is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, an active member of the Horror Writers Association, a

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Guillem March

Seudónimo del historietista español Guillermo March.

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Matias Ylikangas

Matias Ylikangas is a Finnish author with a focus on speculative fiction. In addition to writing, he works as a graphic designer and holds a Master’s degree in Arts. He also releases music under a solo project, Madu.

Born and raised in Finland, he writes in English, bringing a distinctive and unconventional voice to his storytelling. Hell Pulp is his debut novel.

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Theo Prasidis

Theo Prasidis is a Greek writer and graphic novelist, published by Image Comics, TKO Studios, Scout Comics, and Dead Sky Publishing. He writes quixotic fantasies about hidden folklore, bizarre rituals and wistful dreams.

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Adam Szym

Adam Szym is a cartoonist living in Brooklyn, New York. His graphic novel A Cordial Invitation was nominated for the 2021 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic and longlisted for the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel.

A Cordial Invitation is included as one of three graphic novellas in his collection Little Visitor & Other Abductions, releasing on September 23rd, 2025 from Oni Press.

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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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Nokuto Koike

Please also see Japanese language profile: 小池ノクト.

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Yamatogawa

Yamatogawa is one of the most prolific adult manga-kas (Japanese Comic Artist) that specializes in art and storytelling. He is best known for his best-selling hit, Power Play! His first work was published in Japan in March 2006 making him a relatively new artist in the adult comic market. His stories contain humor, comedy, relationship building, and most of all...vanilla stories.

His drawing is detailed and consistent, his characters lovely and, of course, it is easy to turn oneself one with his works.

YAMATOGAWA on mangaupdates

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Tarō Bonten

Associated Names:
ISHII Kiyomi
凡天太郎.

Bonten Tarō was born as Ishii Kiyomi in Tokyo in 1928.
He was also a tattooist and enka ballad singer.
Wrote gekiga 'Half-breed Rika' in Shukan Myojo, which later into movie by Tōei Studios.

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Asao Takamori

Asao Takamori (高森朝雄, Takamori Asao) is another pen name of the Japanese mangaka Asaki Takamori (高森朝樹, Takamori Asaki) or Ikki Kajiwara (梶原一騎, Kajiwara Ikki).

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Erik Kriek

Erik Kriek is an award-winning illustrator, designer and comic artist from Amsterdam. He is best known for his Gutsman comics, for which he won the Dutch award Stripschaprijis in 2008. In 2012 he published From Beyond and Other Tales, his collection of graphic reworkings of short stories by H.P.Lovecraft. Among his influences are US artists Daniel Clowes, Will Eisner, Charles Burns and Chris Ware, as well as the classic 1940s horror comics of E.C. Comics by such artists as Wallace Wood. He has also expressed admiration for Dutch artists including Peter Pontiac, Typex and Peter van Dongen. He lives in the Netherlands with his girlfriend and son.

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Yoshitoshi Abe

A famous cover and character designer. Got a bearded dragon as a pet.

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Katsuhisa Minami

Associated Names:
* Katsuhisa Minami (Engish)
* 南勝久 (Japanese)
* คัทสึฮิสะ มินามิ (Thai)

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Robert Steven Goldstein

Robert Steven Goldstein learned to read when he was three years old, and began writing stories almost immediately thereafter. At the age of seven he had a poem published in his elementary school newspaper. When he was a senior in high school he took first prize in Scholastic’s national short story contest. And in college Robert Steven Goldstein majored in English Literature and Creative Writing, and had a couple of articles published in trade journals.

His writing career was off to a terrific young start. Sadly, that is precisely where it languished for the next thirty-five years.

Because writing was not a reliable way to make a living, Mr. Goldstein made the decision to become a healthcare information executive instead. But he had a plan: li

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