Numair Abbas is a Pakistani animator. He is the creator, director, producer and The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Numairical Studios and has been since the company was founded on August 2, 2010. Numair was born on May 26. He currently lives in Islamabad, Pakistan. Numair graduated from The University of California (UCLA) in [...]
The son of Abel Manta, a key painter of Portuguese Modernism, João Abel Manta is a painter and draughtsman himself. Professionally trained as an architect, and accomplished in many other creative areas such as poster design, he is mostly remembered as an outstanding and unique caricaturist and cartoonist with a very idiosyncratic style. His [...]
Marguerite Abouet is an African cartoonist born at Abidjan, Ivory Coast in 1971. At twelve years old Abouet and her brother were sent to Paris, France to study and reside with their maternal great-uncle. After ending her studies before graduation, Abouet pursued a career in writing. At present, she lives Romainville, Paris, with her spouse [...]
Albert Uderzo was born in Fismes (France) to Italian immigrant parents. In 1934 he obtained French citizenship and in 1940 he was employed by the Société Parisienne d'Édition, where he learned the fundamentals of text design and edition. After spending a period in Brittany during the war helping his father in his furniture business, [...]
Frank Bellamy (1917-1976) was a British comic book artist mostly known for his many contributions to Swift, Eagle,TV Century 21, and the Daily Mirror. Before illustrating comics, Bellamy worked for the Kettering Evening Telegraph as an illustrator. He also did some illustrations for the British army while he was enlisted in the Royal Artillery during [...]
For over six decades, the so-called “patriarch” of Spanish comics, Jesús Blasco Monterde (1919-1995), excelled because of his extraordinary combination of versatility, virtuosity, and prolificacy. Blasco created two of the most iconic characters of Spanish comics, Cuto and Anita Diminuta; and he is particularly revered by British readers as the foremost artist of The [...]
Cartoon artist Rötger Feldmann (pen name Brösel ["crumb"] , b. 1950 in Travemünde, northern Germany) is best known for his quasi-autobiographical character Werner, named after one of Feldmann's own middle names. The main themes of the Werner cartoon are his professional life as an apprentice plumber and his personal life as a biker, both [...]
Tom Browne (1870 or 1872-1910) was a comic strip artist mostly known for creating “Weary Willy and Tired Tim.” He was an early pioneer in British comics and crafted a specific style of using solid bold lines in his work. Though he died fairly young, his short career inspired many artists. Browne was born [...]
The work of Australian comics creator Bernard Caleo (1968 –) defies easy categorization. Inspired as much by his love of theatre and acting as it is by his passion for comics, Caleo’s work is best likened to theatrical performances on paper, peppered with allusions to film, classic literature, poetry and modern art. But his [...]
The 1970s are regarded as a fallow period in the history of Australian comics, which had been decimated by the advent of television broadcasting in 1956 and the readmittance of imported American comics in 1960. It was in this challenging environment that Gerald Carr (1944 –) emerged as one of the few Australian comic [...]