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The Greats:
GONE -but- DEFINITIELY NOT FORGOTTEN
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Berkeley Breathed
() | Bloom County 2015
(13-Jul-2015
to present)
| Bloom County
(8-Dec-1980
to 6-Aug-1989)
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(born
June 21, 1957) an American cartoonist, children’s book
author/illustrator, novelist, director, and screenwriter, best known
for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with
socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated
characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous
analogies.
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Jeph
Jacques
( ) |
Questionable
Content
(1-Aug-2003
to present)
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Doing a
webcomic as
my job has been the most stressful, frustrating,
terrifying, surreal, amazing, wonderful thing that has ever happened to
me. It's the hardest job I've ever had but it's also the most
rewarding. I have the nicest, most intelligent, excellent readers I
could possibly ask for. Also I get to sleep in on weekdays most of the
time. I cannot overstate how awesome that is.
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Joel Watson
( ) | HijiNKS ENSUE
(11-May-2007
to present)
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Joel Watson: Geek Cartoonist, hailing from Texas.
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Karl_Kerschl
( ) |
The Abominable
Charles Christopher
(20-Jun-2007
to present)
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Karl Kerschl is currently
working on an original graphic novel and lives in Montréal with his
girlfriend and his cat, Jacques Cousteau.
He is also the mayor of several eating establishments in Mile End.
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James Kochalka
( ) |
American Elf
(26-Oct-1998
to 31-Dec-2012)
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Kochalka created
American Elf for 14 years -- every day, from the dawn of the Web. He lives in
Burlington, Vermont with his wife Amy and their two sons, Eli and
Oliver.
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Box Brown
( ) |
bellen!
(23-May-2006
to 31-Aug-2010)
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Box Brown is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Philadelphia, PA.
He has been creating the web and print comic Bellen! since 2006. He is
currently developing the world’s largest body of comic work but still
trails Osamu Tezuka by many many hundreds of thousands of pages.
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Kaja & Phil Foglio
( ) |
Girl Genius
(4-Nov-2002
to present)
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In April 2005, the Foglios abandoned publishing periodical-style comic books and began publishing Girl Genius online as a free webcomic, updated three times a week. Foglio told an interviewer that as of November 2005, "[W]e've
quadrupled our number of readers, and tripled our sales" of traditional
comics and related merchandise
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Randall Munroe
( ) |
xkcd
(Sep-2005
to present)
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Munroe states
there
is no particular meaning to the name and it is simply a four-letter
word without a phonetic pronunciation, something he describes as "a
treasured and carefully-guarded point in the space of four-character
strings."
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Meredith
Gran
( ) |
Octopus
Pie
(14-May-2007
to present)
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from
2005: I'm
a 20-year-old
human female from New York City. I attend the School
of Visual Arts as an animation major, and enjoy drawing the same exact
picture 1000 times. I don't read superhero comics and have very little
interest in doing so.
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Chris Onstad
( ) |
Achewood
(1-Oct-2001
to present)
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I had some good roots down in putting fonts on business cards, and I
could whip up a mean HTML table with a tab index, but I wasn’t playing
hard at the front of my game. Silicon Valley gave me the pinch in ’02
and it’s been the internet version of hawking flowers in taquerias ever
since.
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Jeffrey
Rowland
( ) |
Overcompensating
(19-Sep-2004
to present)
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Wigu
Adventures
(7-Jan-2002
to present)
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When
I Grow Up
(14-Jun-1999
to 1-Jan-2002)
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Hey.
My
name is Jeffrey Rowland and I am an actual dude.
I used to live in Oklahoma but now I live in Northampton,
Massachusetts. I got problems like everybody does. I got a
few
stories to tell you.
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Scott Kurtz
( ) |
PvP
(4-May-1998
to present)
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Cartoonist,
husband, son.
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Danielle Corsetto
() |
Girls w/ Slingshots
(1-Oct-2004
to 12-Mar-2015)
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Self-employed freelance cartoonist and illustrator since
March 2005, and doesn't plan on wearing a nametag/khakis/uniform ever
again.
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Dan
Piraro
( ) |
Bizarro
(1985 to present)
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You
have to wonder what inspires a highly respected cartoonist to covertly
include images of bunny rabbits, eyeballs, fishtails, slices of pie,
firecrackers, crowns, upside-down birds, tiny spaceships and the
abbreviation K2 into nearly every cartoon he draws. Subliminal mind
control, you say? Nah, that’s an obvious explanation. Dan
Piraro does
it because he can … and because "Bizarro" fans love it!
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Andrew
Bell
( ) |
the
CREATURES in my head
(21-Jan-2002
to present)
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i was born in
england in the late 70's, i currently live and work in
Brooklyn, NYC. 'creatures' started as a daily illustration exercise
that i felt the need to undertake for reasons that are now entirely
beyond me... i don't go out much any more or see sunlight very often...
i'm so very hungry and pale. send help.
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Drew
( ) |
Toothpaste
for Dinner
(30-Jan-2002
to present)
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I can put
whatever I
want online, unedited, uncensored, et cetera.
I've published in print numerous times and it gets hacked up in
editing...I can have an e-mail fight over a line drawing with some
Journalism major for two weeks to make a hundred bucks. Or I can just
draw a rude picture and put it on a T-shirt and sell a few of them to
make the same hundred bucks.
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Sam
Brown
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Explodingdog
(10-Jan-2000
to present)
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hi my name is
sam, i
draw pictures, from your titles. send me a title, or any thing else you
want to talk to me about to:
sambrown @ explodingdog.com
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Gary Trudeau
() |
Doonesbury
(26-Oct-1970 to present)
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In
1975 GBT became the first comic strip artist to win the Pulitzer Prize
for Editorial Cartooning, leading the Editorial Cartoonists' Society to
pass a resolution condemning the Pulitzer Prize committee. Trudeau,
assured the award was irrevocable, supported the resolution. His
grandmother noted: "I'm perfectly thrilled and delighted. I've kept my
fingers crossed for fear he might end up in jail."
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Christopher
Baldwin
( ) |
Little
Dee
(7-Jun-2004
to 6-Apr-2010)
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Bruno
(1-Jan-1996
to 14-Feb-2007)
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I have no car
and
live in a crappy apartment with no receptionon my
television (just a vcr for movies). I use a 56k telephone modem to do
all my work, which I do on a outdated G3 with a Umax scanner (which is
great except that the glass is slowly getting more and more scratched
and the glass is recessed). I am as of yet unmarried. I work crappy
temp jobs to handle the bills. But I am fairly happy.
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Tatsuya Ishida
( ) | Sinfest
(17-Jan-2001
to present)
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Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
( ) | Zits
(7-Jul-1997
to present)
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Jonathan Rosenberg
() | Scenes from a Multiverse
(14-Jun-2010
to present)
| Goats
(1-Apr-1997
to 30-Apr-2010)
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Sam Logan
() | Sam and Fuzzy
(27-May-2002
to present)
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Anthony Clark
() | Nedroid
(20-Sep-2005
to present)
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Anthony
Clark goes by the pseudonym of "Nedroid." He posts humor comics at his
site, Nedroid.com, also known as "Nedroid's Picture Diary." The
breakout stars of his comics are Beartato, half-bear-half-potato, and
Reginald, an immature bird.
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Wiley Miller
() | Non Sequitur
(16-Feb-1992
to present)
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Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
( ) | Penny Arcade
(19-Nov-1998
to present)
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Hugh
MacLeod
( ) |
gapingvoid
(7-May-2004
to present)
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The old ways
are
dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out
more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than
you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and
responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the folk who play it
safe. They can't help you any more. Their stability model no longer
offers that much stability. They are extinct, they are extinction.
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Scott
Adams
( ) |
Dilbert
(16-Apr-1989
to present)
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Dance like it
hurts,
Love like you need money, Work when people are watching (The
Way of the Weasel)
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Steven Cloud
( ) |
Boy
on a Stick & Slither
(1998
to 28-Mar-2010)
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The main
characters
of Steven
Cloud's Boy on a Stick and Slither are a sort of coalition of the
limbless. Boy is either a multiple amputee or a sentient Pez dispenser,
and Slither is a snake. In a boxing match, they're on equal footing.
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