Inspiring Comic Artists You Should Follow - ArtStation Magazine (2024)

Whether you’re new to comic books or have been following them your whole life, there’s something special about comic art that pulls you in. It’s the kind of artwork you can spend hours looking at, regardless if you’re 5 or 65. The best comic artists are excellent visual storytellers and know how to keep an audience interested – even if it’s a story that has been retold a thousand times.

For Comic Art Week, here’s a list of comic art portfolios on ArtStation that will blow you away.

Kael Ngu

Kael Ngu is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in Malaysia who works both in ink and digitally. He has worked on covers for clients such as Marvel, DC, and IDW Publishing.

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Marguerite Sauvage

After graduating in Law and Information Sciences at Paris University, Marguerite Sauvage became an illustrator in 2001. She began her career first working in advertising and publishing before moving to video games, animation, and television. Since 2014, she’s been creating comic art for Marvel, DC, Vertigo, DarkHorse, Image, Dynamite and Valiant.

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Patrick Gleason

A veteran in the comic industry, Patrick Gleason has over 20 years of experience as a writer, artist, and creator. He is known for his work on Superman, Supersons, Robin Son of Batman, Amazing Spiderman, Batman and Robin, Green Lantern Corps, Aquaman, Justice League of America, and more.

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Mario Alberti

Mario Alberti is a comics author and illustrator for Bonelli in Italy, Le Humanoides Associes, Glenat, Delcourt, Soleil in France, Marvel, and DC. You may also recognize him as the first place winner in ArtStation’s ILM Art Department Challenge – The Job.

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Clayton Henry

Clayton Henry is a veteran comic book artist with over two decades of experience currently working at DC Comics. He has worked for Marvel, Valiant, and a few other small projects for other companies along the way.

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Stephen Jorge Segovia

Philippines-based artist Stephen Jorge Segovia has been in the comic book industry for over a decade. He has worked with publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dynamite, and Image Comics and is currently working on Hellions.

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Abigail Larson

Abigail Larson is a Hugo Award-winning illustrator who specializes in macabre and gothic illustration and character design. Some of her past clients include Sideshow Collectibles, SYFY, Universal, Choice of Games, Titan Comics, Image Comics, DC/Vertigo, and Pelican.

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InHyuk Lee

InHyukLee is a comic artist, character designer, and art teacher based in Seoul, South Korea.In 2012, he received a job offer from Marvel comics and has been working in the American comics industry ever since. He has worked with several other notable studios and publishers including DC, Image Comics, Boom! Studios, and CAPCOM.

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Roberto Poggi

Inker Roberto Poggi has worked on Amazing Spider-Man, Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Nova, Venom, Dr Strange, Inhumans, and Absolute Carnage vs Deadpool, Morbius.

“ArtStation is an amazing way to have an online portfolio. I needed this 8 years ago when I was showing my pages to Marvel!”

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Monika Laprus-Wierzejska

Monika Laprus-Wierzejskais a freelance comic artist and illustrator based in Warsaw, Poland. She placed 3rd in the Kitbash3D Warzone contest and has created several pages for Polish comic magazines.

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David Nakayama

David Nakayama is a Honolulu-based freelance illustrator, concept artist, and art director. He’s best known for his Marvel Comics cover art (SPIDER-MAN, X-MEN, DEADPOOL) but also freelances for Hasbro, DC, WB, Capcom, Valiant, Fantasy Flight Games, Upper Deck, Zenescope, and many others.

“So many of my best clients – huge brands that you’ve definitely heard of – have found me expressly because of my ArtStation portfolio.”

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RAID Studio

Based in Toronto, the Royal Academy of Illustration & Design headed by Ramon Perez is an award-winning creative community of artists. As a collective, RAID operates as a creative agency with a primary focus on sequential art, idea architecture, visual development, illustration, and design.

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Matt James

Born in 1978 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Matt James is a freelance digital illustrator, comic book inker, and colorist now based in Perth, Australia. He draws influence from a wide variety of artists and art forms. Some of his clients include Advent Comics, Dark Oz, Fantasy Flight Games/Marvel, and Insane Comics.

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Igor Wolski

Igor Wolski is a Polish comic artist and illustrator with over a decade of experience in the comic industry. He has also worked as an artist in mobile games, movie production, board games, and commercials.

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Fabio Ramacci

Fabio Ramacciis a comic book artist from Rome, Italy. He’s passionate about storytelling and has experience working on many different styles of comic projects. Fabio has worked with publishers Sergio Bonelli Editore, Star Comics, Midian Comics, Cairo Editore, Dynamite Entertainment, and Arcana Comics.

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Ann Maulina

Ann Maulina is a comic and game artist based in Indonesia. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication Design and is the creator of Raruurien and Varunair (webcomic).

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Piotr Kowalski

Piotr is a comic book artist who has worked on several comic books published both in the American and European comic markets. Some of his clients include Marvel, Dark Horse, Boom Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, Image Comics, American Gothic Press and Le Soleil.

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Inspiring Comic Artists You Should Follow - ArtStation Magazine (2024)

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Inspiring Comic Artists You Should Follow - ArtStation Magazine? ›

Whaam!, Drowning Girl, and Look Mickey proved to be his most influential works. His most expensive piece is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in 2017. Roy Lichtenstein attended classes at the Parsons School of Design and Art Students League before enrolling in the Fine Arts program at Ohio State in 1940.

What is Roy Lichtenstein's most famous piece? ›

Whaam!, Drowning Girl, and Look Mickey proved to be his most influential works. His most expensive piece is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in 2017. Roy Lichtenstein attended classes at the Parsons School of Design and Art Students League before enrolling in the Fine Arts program at Ohio State in 1940.

What happened to Steve Ditko? ›

Steve Ditko, who co-created iconic characters like Spider-Man and Doctor Strange alongside writer Stan Lee, died in 2018, but his heirs have been trying to get better compensation for his contributions to the superhero canon.

Which artists used comic books for his inspiration? ›

Other than Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein was the first artist to repeatedly use the comics as a source of imagery and inspiration (Alloway 13).

Why did Roy Lichtenstein use Benday dots? ›

The dots served as a visual language to convey depth, dimension, and visual interest in his paintings, evoking the stylized and vibrant nature of comic book illustrations. One of Lichtenstein's most iconic paintings utilizing Ben-Day dots is "Whaam!" (1963).

Did Roy Lichtenstein have kids? ›

In 1954, his first son, David Hoyt Lichtenstein, now a songwriter, was born. His second son, Mitchell Lichtenstein, was born in 1956. In 1957, he moved back to upstate New York and began teaching again.

What is Roy Lichtenstein most expensive painting? ›

The most expensive Lichtenstein ever may be his 1962 painting Masterpiece, which was once owned by Agnes Gund. Steven Cohen reportedly gave her $165 million for it in 2017 in a private sale; Gund then used the money to fund a new initiative focused on mass incarceration, criminal justice, and the arts.

Are Stan Lee and Steve Ditko friends? ›

The details of the rift remain uncertain, even to Lee, who confessed in 2003, "I never really knew Steve on a personal level." Ditko later claimed it was Lee who broke off contact and disputed the long-held belief that the disagreement was over the true identity of the Green Goblin: "Stan never knew what he was getting ...

Is the Marvel guy still alive? ›

Who first created Superman? ›

SUPERMAN, the popular comic book superhero, was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster in 1933 while both attended GLENVILLE High School.

Which comic book artist is considered the king? ›

Just like his nickname Jack “The King” Kirby suggests, he is the King of Comics. Kirby's comics are widely known for his incorporation of politics and real-world events, and his influence on future comic artists.

Is Roy Lichtenstein still alive? ›

Why are comics colored with dots? ›

A commercial printing technique using small dots of color, named after 19th-century illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day. Ben-Day dots were used in color comic books in the 1950s and '60s to create effects of shading and secondary colors inexpensively.

How to do Ben-Day dots? ›

In printing Ben-Day dots, four main colors are used: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. To create the appearance of more colors and shades, the colors are printed in small dots that are closer together, far apart or overlapping. For example, when cyan and yellow are overlapped, they create green.

What is the Ben-Day process in comics? ›

To apply the Ben-Day dots to comic book drawings, illustrators used transparent overlay sheets with different dot sizes and distributions. They cut the overlay material into shapes that fit the areas needing color or background and rubbed the shapes onto the drawing with a burnisher.

What is Roy Lichtenstein best known for? ›

He became famous for his bright and bold paintings of comic strip cartoons as well as his paintings of everyday objects. He was one of a group of artists making art in the 1960s who were called pop artists because they made art about 'popular' things such as TV, celebrities, fast food, pop music and cartoons.

What was Roy Lichtenstein's favorite painting? ›

His early artistic idols were Rembrandt, Daumier and Picasso, and he often said that Guernica (1937; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid), then on long-term loan to the Museum of Modern Art, was his favorite painting.

What is a famous pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein? ›

Arguably the most famous of Lichtenstein's works, Whaam! from 1963, took its inspiration from the 1962 comic All American Men of War.

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