Today in Comics History, March 21: Happy birthday, Jeff Lemire!

Born on this day: comic book writer and artist Jeff Lemire (creator of Sweet Tooth, Trillium, The Nobody, and Essex County Trilogy, and writer on All-New Hawkeye, Extraordinary X-Men, Moon Knight, Old Man Logan, Superboy, Animal Man, Justice League Dark, Green Arrow, Black Hammer, Bloodshot Reborn and more)!


"On the Ledge" from DC/Vertigo comics cover-dated November 2009
Jeff's at the extreme right of this double-page spread of a Comic-Con without hardly nobody in the aisles? What's up with that?

from Faith (2016 series) #3 (Valiant, September 2016), script by Jody Houser, pencils and inks by Pere Pérez, colors by Andrew Dalhouse, letters by Dave Sharpe
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Happy happy birthday, Jeff!


from Teen Titans, Earth One v.1 (DC, January 2015)

Today in Comics History, August 27: Happy birthday, Richard Kadrey!

Happy birthday today to Richard Kadrey, co-creator and writer of Vertigo's Accelerate and writer of of arcs on Lucifer and Hellblazer!


"On the Ledge" from DC/Vertigo comics cover-dated August 2000

Today in Comics History, August 11: Happy birthday, Brian Azzarello!

Born on this day: comic book and movie writer Brian Azzarello: co-creator of 100 Bullets, Spaceman, Moonshine and Loveless, and writer of acclaimed stories in Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Hellblazer, Cage, Doc Savage, Jonny Double, the Joker graphic novel, The Dark Knight III , and much more!


"On the Ledge" in DC/Vertigo Comics cover-dated May 2009


"On the Ledge" in DC/Vertigo Comics cover-dated November 2011
Happy birthday, Brian!


from Heartthrobs #2 (DC/Vertigo, February 1999)

Today in Comics History, February 20: Happy birthday, Dwayne McDuffie!

Born on this day in 1962: Dwayne McDuffie, writer, producer, co-founder of Milestone Comics, co-creator of Damage Control, Static, Icon and Rocket, Hardware, and much more.



from (top) "Bullpen Bulletins" in Marvel Age #60 (Marvel, March 1988);
R: "Bullpen Bulletins" in Marvel Comics cover-dated September 1989