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Tobias Schalken
2007-07-13 10:35:00
Tobias Schalke n(b. 1972, The Netherlands)Tobias Schalken and Stefan van Dinther are widely seen as two of the most talented Dutch comics artists active today. With their self-published debut 'Eiland' (1997), they instantly made their name. Where the lot of their colleagues make their debut in existing magazines like Incognito and Zone 5300, Van Dinther and Schalken - then still joined by Eric van der Heijden - chose to immediately present their very own publication. It was clear from the start that they preferred to go their own way. On the level of content, Eiland stood out in comparison to other comics. Van Dinther's poignant graphic experiments surprised and Schalken's poetic paintings impressed. With the first Eiland, expectations were raised that were more than met by the follow-up second (self-published, 1998) and third Eiland (Bries, 2000). With every new Eiland, Schalken and Van Dinther kept on growing to new heights. This is vividly illustrated by their most remarkable ...
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Kurt Schaffenberger
2007-07-13 10:26:00
Kurt Schaffenberger(Jay Kafka, Lou Wahl)(15/12/1920, Germany - 24/1/2002, USA)Kurt Schaffenberger's first job in comics came in June of 1941, when he was assigned to inking backgrounds for a 'Captain Marvel' story for Fawcett. After the war, Schaffenberger joined the studio of C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza, and his work expanded by becoming a featured artist on 'Ibis the Invincible', also by Fawcett. Schaffenberger was hired by DC Comics in 1957 to become the artist on 'Lois Lane'. From there, Schaffenberger became a regular contributor to the entire Superman comics line. He later became a frequent artist on the anthology series 'The Superman Family'. Schaffenberger also created artwork for DC's Shazam! series after C.C. Beck's departure. In 1968, Kurt Schaffenberger succeeded Jim Mooney as the artist on the 'Supergirl' feature. In addition, he worked on titles for other company's, such as ACG's 'Adventures into the Unknown', Major Magazines' Cracked and romance titl...
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Wolfgang Schäfer
2007-07-13 10:25:00
Wolfgang Schäfer(Germany)German Disney artist Wolfgang Schäfer did artwork for merchandise and promotional material from the 1950s until 1988. He also illustrated stories for the Disney Studios with scripts and ink by his wife Katja Schäfer between 1963 and 1975.
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Koos Schadée
2007-07-13 10:25:00
Koos Schadée(The Netherlands)Koos Schadée worked as a book illustrator and was the author of the newspaper strip 'Wammes, de luie Kabouter', which appeared in NRC from 18 December 1946 to 1 March 1947. A book collection was published in 1947. He subsequently drew 'De Rattenvanger van Hamelen', also for NRC, from 23 August 1947 to 22 May 1948, and then 'Yvoons Grote Reis' from 27 May 1948 to 11 August 1949.

Rico Schacherl
2007-07-13 10:24:00
Rico Schacherl(b. 1966, Austria)Rico Schacherl was born in Vienna, Austria, but his family emigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa when he was still young. Here, he met up with South African Harry Dugmore, with whom he founded Laughing Stock, a humorous magazine, which unfortunately folded. In 1992, together with American Stephen Francis, they created the popular comic strip 'Madam & Eve', about the relational dynamics between a white woman and her black help (inspired by the actual relationship between Francis' mother-in-law and her help). This comic, which appears in the South African The Weekly Mail, is written by all three men and drawn by Schacherl.
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Mari Schaal
2007-07-13 10:23:00
Mari Schaal(USA)Mari Naomi Schaal is the creator of the comic 'Estrus'. Her work first appeared in Action Girl Comics (published by Slave Labor Graphics) in 1997, and has appeared in such publications as iSpy, Stray, Storytime (Friends of Lulu), Versus, and other anthologies. Mari Schaal lives in San Francisco, California with her cat, Kitty.
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Roberto Racca
2007-07-11 15:33:00
Roberto Racca(Italy)Roberto Racca has illustrated several long stories with 'Uncle Scrooge' for the Italian Disney production during the second half of the 1990s.
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Mac Raboy
2007-07-11 15:32:00
Mac Raboy(19/4/1914 - 12/1967, USA)Emmanuel "Mac" Raboy was born in New York City. He began his art career with the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. He started out in comics in 1940, working for the Harry 'A' Chesler studio, which produced comic material on contract for other publishers. He also worked on a variety of assignments for Fawcett Publications.Raboy is best known for his efforts on 'Captain Marvel, Jr' which debuted in September, 1941. In 1944, he left Fawcett to join Spark Publications, where he drew the 'Green Lama' until 1946. In the spring of 1948, he signed on with King features to illustrate the 'Flash Gordon' Sunday page, and continued drawing the strip until his death in December, 1967.

Alvarez Rabo
2007-07-11 15:31:00
Alvarez Rabo(Alfredo Álvarez Plágaro)(b. 1960, Spain)Alvarez Rabo is the pseudonym and alter ego of Alfred Álvarez Plágaro. The artist has made much of his own biographical facts up, creating a legend with false interviews and autobiographical notes. According to Rabo, he was born in Montforte de Lemos, and raised in Bilbao. There, he studied at an Opus Dei school. During his adolescence, he spent time in jail, and upon his release, he went to work for the commercial chain El Corte Inglés.Alvarez Rabo was one of the Spanish humorists that stood out in the 1990s, for his controversial and politically incorrect work. Some groups have tried on various occasions to prevent the diffusion of his work because of its blasphemous content. Rabo began his career as an early contributor to the TMEO review.Throughout the 1990s, he published in the magazine El Víbora, and his pages have also appeared in several fanzines. His work has been collected in boo...
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Benjamin Rabier
2007-07-11 15:30:00
Benjamin Rabier(30/12/1864 - 10/10/1939, France)Benjamin Rabier is one of the masters of early French comics and an animation pioneer, best known for his animal drawings. Born in La Roche Sur Yon as the son of a carpenter, he moved to Paris with his family at age 5. Although he won the first prize in a Parissien drawing competition twice (in 1879 and 1880), he started out working as a bookkeeper. With the help of Caran d'Ache, his first drawings were published in magazines like La Chronique Amusante and Le Gil Blas Illustré. Until 1895, he earns most fame in England and the USA, where he draws for Scraps, Pictorial Comic Life and Puck magazine.He got married in 1894 and settled in the Ségur region. It was at this time that he knew his first success in France. He became a regular contributor to the newspaper Le Rire, but he had his real breakthrough as one of the initial artists of Le Pêle Mêle in September 1895. He also drew for the magazines L'Assiette a...
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Daniel Rabanal
2007-07-11 15:29:00
Daniel Rabanal(b. 1949, Argentina)Daniel Rabanal studied architecture at the National University of Buenos Aires. He has worked as a journalist and in advertising since 1968. He settled in Colombia in 1989, where he works for several publications, like Acme Comics. He is the author of 'La Aventuras de Gato', a weekly comic published in the El Espectador newspaper in Bogota.
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Pascal Rabaté
2007-07-11 15:29:00
Pascal Rabat é(b. 1961, France)Pascal Rabaté started his comics career when he was 28 years old, with the publication of 'Chrétiens Dans le Diocèse de Saint-Étienne'. Soon afterward, three of his books were released by the publisher Futuropolis: 'Exode', 'Les Amants de Lucie' and 'Vacances, Vacances'. In 1991, he created 'À Table' and 'Signé Raoul', and a year later he began the series 'Les Pieds Dedans'. At the same time, Rabaté contributed to the collection 'Patte de Mouche' with the story 'Les Cerisiers'. In 1994, he created 'Ex Voto/Monsieur Verbun', and in 1996 started 'Dans les Vignes du Seigneur', which was later renamed 'Un Ver Dans le Fruit'. In 1998, he made an adaptation of a novel by Alexis Tolstoi, 'Ibicus'.
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Michel Rabagliati
2007-07-11 15:28:00
Michel Rabagliati(b. 1961, Canada)Michel Rabagliati grew up reading European comics like 'Tintin', 'Spirou', and 'Gaston' and 'Asterix'. He copied his favorite ones: 'Gaston and Spirou' and 'Les Petits Hommes' (by Pierre Seron). When Rabagliati was fifteen, he stopped drawing comics and concentrated his creative talents in the field of graphic design. After studying typography and graphic design, Rabagliati became a graphic designer and illustrator in 1982. By 1997, he started drawing again. He published his first comic strip, 'Paul à la Campagne' ('Paul in the Country'), in 1999 with the Montreal publisher Les Éditions de la Pastèque.

John Kåre Raake
2007-07-11 15:27:00
John Kåre Raake(Norway)He created the reporter 'Sture Rask' in the satirical magazine Pyton in the 1980s. The series, an adventure comics in the French tradition, was also published in books by Semic
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Rab
2007-07-11 15:27:00
Rab(Armand Godet)(1912 - 1990, France)Armand Godet began his career making humorous drawings for some local newspapers under the pseudonyms Godé and God. After the War, he settled in Anjou, and became an artist for Le Courrier de l'Ouest under the pseudonym Rab. He created the character 'Monsieur Mouche' in 1946. This successful silent comic consists over 2500 strips until 1968, and has also been published in La Charente Libre, La Liberté de l'Est, Nord-Eclair and Le Journal d'Alger. The strip has been collected in several albums. Because of the success, Rab began his own agency, called Graphic Services. In addition, he has created such series as 'Poupou' and 'Bab et Bibo'.

Charles Raab
2007-07-11 15:26:00
Charles Raab(USA)Charles Raab took over the daily 'Adventures of Patsy' strip, when the original artist, Mel Graff, went on to do 'Secret Agent X-9' left for King Features. Raab worked on the strip between 1940 and 1943. He either left the comic to go into military duty, or to start the strip 'Foreign Correspondent'. Raab had assisted Milton Caniff on 'Terry and the Pirates' in the 1930s.
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Mobile Post
2007-07-11 00:31:00
Na jane kis kis ko kiskine kiss kiya Ak hay o jo har miss ko kiss kiya or may har kiss ko miss kiya (Blogged from my mobile on SMS)
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Mobile Post
2007-07-10 23:38:00
Jindegi ki khasiyet yea ki ruk-ti nehi Sans ruk-jati haye ... Magar jindegi ruk ti nehi (Blogged from my mobile on SMS)
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. I
2007-07-10 20:56:00
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my gra
2007-07-10 20:55:00
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, 1994
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Love to eat them mousies
2007-07-10 20:55:00
Love to eat them mousiesMousie's what I love to eat.Bite they little heads offNibble on they tiny feet.-- B. Kliban
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itsel
2007-07-10 20:55:00
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln
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Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dog
2007-07-10 20:54:00
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long
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When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Ca
2007-07-10 20:54:00
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear. -- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts
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When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet
2007-07-10 20:53:00
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago. -- John Frazee
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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the
2007-07-10 20:52:00
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans
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Mobile Post
2007-07-10 11:50:00
Jab tujko ham caha etne karib se tu dur cala geya.. Keya fayeda ab karib aake jab dur hi nehi raha.. (Blogged from my mobile on SMS)
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Mobile Post
2007-07-10 03:59:00
6 u ! u .: o w p o o 6 6 u ! l ! w S d 3 3 >l CONFUSED..? upsidedown & read. (Blogged from my mobile on SMS)
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Michalis Papastefanakis
2007-07-09 22:25:00
Michalis Papastefanakis(Greece)Michalis Papastefanakis is a comic artist from Crete, Greece. He created the popular comic 'Manousakas', a typical Cretan character from the past who is struggling to survive in today's modern world.
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Raffaele Paparella
2007-07-09 22:24:00
Raffaele Paparella(26/12/1915 - 11/11/2001, Italy)Raffaele Paparella made his debut in 1936 in Asso Sportivo and La Piccola Italiana with some sports and humorous illustrations. From 1940 he worked for Il Vittorioso, where he illustrated 'Il Terrore del Colorado', 'Il Segredo di Yuma' and some episodes of 'Marco Valli' and the series 'I Tre Gli' and 'Ted', all written by Giovanni Luigi Bonelli. In addition, he was present in Topolino with 'Cabiria', 'La Compagnia dei Sette' and 'Satana del Universo', as well as in L'Audace with 'I Conquistari dello Spazio' and 'I Crotiati'. Paparella also adapted novels by Salgari, such as 'Capitan Tempesta'.In 1949, he created 'Pecos Bill' with writer Guido Martina for Mondadori, one of Italy's most famous western series. Between 1952 and 1955, he also produced 'Kid Oklahoma'. Until 1965, he produced many comics for the Bonelli group, while also working for the British market. For Fleetway, he illustrated stories with '...
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