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Antonio Cossu (born 28 February 1952, Italy) is a comics creator who began his career in the late 1970s. He published the series ‘Alceister Crowley’ in “Spirou” from 1980.

Among other work in the 1980s, he drew several dark stories written by Michel Jamsin (collected as “Hi…

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Jeff Smith (born 27 February 1960, USA) is a comics creator who was first published in his university’s student newspaper.

He began his best-known work, “Bone”, in 1991. Published by his own Cartoon Books (except two years at Image), the comic series ran through 2004.

“Bon…

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Arnold Roth (born 25 February 1929, USA) is an illustrator, an album cover artist, a magazine cover artist, and a cartoonist since 1950.

He has done covers for “The New Yorker” and illustrations there, in “TV Guide”, and in “Esquire”. His album covers i… https://t.co/CA4BkOZaFE

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R.I.P. George Olshevsky
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Bryan Talbot (born 24 February 1952, UK) is a comic book artist and writer whose career began in the 1970s in British underground comix.

He is particularly known for his creations “The Adventures of Luther Arkwright” (Valkyrie Press, 1978–1989; Dark Horse, 1990) and its seq…

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Tom Peyer (born 23 February 1954, USA) is a comic book creator and editor. He is probably best known for his 1999 revision of Golden Age super-hero ‘Hourman’ and his work on “Legion of Super-Heroes” in the 1990s.

He edited at the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1987 to 19…

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Doug Moench (born 23 February 1948, USA) is a writer with a large body of work in comics. From 1970, he has written for Warren, Marvel, DC Comics, Eclipse Comics, and other publishers.

He appeared in every issue of the “Planet of the Apes” (1974–1977), “Doc Savage” (1975–19…

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Alec Stevens (born 22 February 1965, Brazil; USA) is a professional author, illustrator and musician.

His comics work includes literary adaptations (Wilde, Lovecraft, Dinesen, Dostoevsky, Reymont, and Jan Neruda) for Fantagraphics Books, Heavy Metal Magazine, and Kitchen Si…

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Michel Pirus (born 21 February 1962, France) began contributing comics stories to “Métal Hurlant” in the 1980s.

His first album, with writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet, was “Rose Profond” (Albin Michel, 1989). He created the popular feature ‘Plip’ about a cubic planet.

In the ear…

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Hans van Oudenaarden (born 21 February 1959, The Netherlands) is an artist who began his career in the late 1980s in “Donald Duck & Co” and continued to publish in Disney comics until 1995.

He has drawn ‘Sjors en Sjimmie’ stories and stories for “Looney Tunes Magazine”, cre…

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Dwayne McDuffie (20 February 1962 – 21 February 2011, USA) was a comics and television writer.

He began his comics career editing at Marvel in the late 1980s. In 1988, he and Ernie Colón created ‘Damage Control’, a feature about the clean-up and renovation crew that deals w…

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Steve Oliff (born 20 February 1954, USA) is an artist who has worked primarily as a colorist in the comics industry since 1978. His earliest work was for Byron Preiss at Baronet.

In 1979, he colored the stories in “The Hulk!” #13 at Marvel, which included Bill Sienciewicz’s…

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Anthony Tollin (born 20 February 1952, USA) worked as a comic-book colorist from the mid-1970s through the 1990s.

He was a production artist for DC Comics for much of that time but also colored for Marvel, Topps, Disney, and others.

He is a noted authority on pulp magazine…

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Henry Boltinoff (19 February 1914 – 19 April 2001, USA) was a comics creator whose career began in the mid-1930s as a freelance magazine cartoonist.

By 1940, he began working at DC Comics creating very short humor strips and panels which were used to fi… https://t.co/bQqDODd13f

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Jim Lawson (born 19 February 1960, USA) is a comics writer and artist, well-known for his association with “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Mirage).

He worked on the ‘City at War’ sequence in the mid-1990s, on the 2001 incarnation of the title along with Peter Laird and Eric…

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Gerry Shamray (born 19 February 1957, USA) is an artist and illustrator. He drew many issues of “American Splendor”, the autobiographical series by fellow-Clevelander Harvey Pekar.

From 1987 to 1991, he drew Tom Batiuk’s syndicated strip ‘John Darling’.

Shamray also publis…

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William Messner-Loebs (born 19 February 1949, USA) is a comic book writer and artist from Michigan, also known as Bill Loebs and Bill Messner-Loebs.

Since the 1980s he has written substantial runs of series published by DC, Image, Comico, and other smaller comics publishers…

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Don Glut (born 19 February 1944, USA) is a writer; film director, screenwriter, and actor; amateur paleontologist; and musician.

He wrote for comics from the end of the 1960s to 1980. He wrote stories for Warren’s black-and-white magazines and for anthology comic books at A…