Comic Book Artists

by Alex Malloy, Brian Kelly

This guide provides detailed information on many of the world's best known artists - an A-Z listing of more than 150. It also includes detailed biographical information on each birthplace, education, work history, artistic influences and major achievements. A complete listing of the current values of each artists' works is also included. It looks at how one famous artist, Jack Kirby (co-creator of Captain America and designer of Spiderman's costume), became a comic book illustrator and analyses how John Byrne (X-Men, Fantastic Four, Superman), creates a typical comic book page. By the author of "Comic Values Annual 1993-1994".

Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Dean]

For it’s pre-internet day, this would have been a decent book. It came out in 1994, at a time when we didn’t quite have everything just a click away. If you wanted a quick bio of an artist, with some of his most memorable work, this was where you turned. Today, of course, you could write this by just cut and pasting from Wikipedia.

The only reason today to get this would be the decent forewords by Jack Kirby and John Byrne, and a quick potted history of the comics industry.

A good book for its day.