Curated category
DC Comics people
- Kevin SmithKevin Smith walked out of a cinema on his 21st birthday with a decision made. The film was Richard Linklater's Slacker, shot in Austin, Texas without a…
- Neil GaimanNeil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, into a family whose name had been changed from Chaiman to…
- Mark MillarMark Millar was born on the 24th of December 1969, in Coatbridge, Scotland, a working-class town near Glasgow where he would spend the first half of his life.
- Jack KirbyJack Kirby drew at least 20,318 pages of published art and another 1,385 covers across his career. In 1962 alone he published 1,158 pages.
- Steve DitkoSteve Ditko drew the first costume for Spider-Man because he worried the character's face looked too young. Covering it entirely, he reasoned, would add…
- Damon LindelofDamon Lindelof has spent his career building television that refuses to let its audience go quietly. Born on the 24th of April, 1973, in Englewood, New…
- Joe ShusterJoe Shuster was born in Toronto in 1914, too poor to afford drawing paper, so he wandered from store to store collecting whatever scraps merchants threw out.
- Cavan ScottCavan Scott was born on the 18th of April 1973, and by any measure his career defies easy categorisation. He has written for Doctor Who and Star Wars.
- Joss WhedonJoss Whedon grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in a household where Shakespeare was vacation reading and silence was a punishment for children who…
- Brian Michael BendisBrian Michael Bendis was thirteen years old when he decided he wanted to work in comics. Not read them. Make them. He was already revising his own Punisher…
- Jim ShooterJim Shooter was born on the 27th of September 1951, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up with parents Ken and Eleanor Shooter who were of Polish descent.