List of Australian comics creators

This is a list of Australian comics creators. Although comics have different formats, this list covers creators of editorial cartoons, comic books, graphic novels, and comic strips, along with early innovators. The list presents authors with Australia as their country of origin, although they may have published or now be resident in other countries. For other countries, see List of comic creators.

Editorial cartoonists

Australian professional cartoonists work for commercially published newspapers and journals, and many also work in Australian comics (also children's illustration and animation), with many of these artists having work collected as published books.

Comic book and comic strip creators

Australian comic book and strip artists and writers:

A

  • Paul Abstruse - (Penciler) Left Hand Path, Witchking, Big Burlesque Variety Show, My little pony,
  • Hart Amos – The Lost Patrol, Devil Doone, Kidnap Cavern, Hurricane Hardy, Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors
  • James Andre – Writer. Publisher of Milk Shadow Books
  • Shane Andrewartha – Time seals all tombs
  • Liz Argall - Things Without Arms and Without Legs
  • Patrick Alexander – Pink Chickens, Raymondo Person, The Wraith.
  • Gerard Ashworth - Weird Stress Kittens.

B

  • Craig Bruyn – From Above
  • Scarlette Baccini – Zombolette
  • Jason Badower – The Innocents
  • Marcelo Baez – Diabla
  • Benjamin Baker
  • Jimmy Bancks – creator of Ginger Meggs
  • Fil Barlow – Inkspots, Zooniverse
  • Matt Bayliss – Cosmic Corsairs
  • Scott Beattie – The Seven Swords
  • Paul Bedford – The LisT
  • Phil Belbin – Peril on Venus, Climax Comics, The Raven, The Early Birds
  • Philip Bentley – Fox Comics, Inkspots, Passionate Nomads, Word Balloons
  • Andrez Bergen – Tales to Admonish, Magpie, Bullet Gal, Trista & Holt, Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat
  • Avi Bernshaw – co-founder of OzTAKU
  • Moira Bertram – Jo, Flameman
  • Thomas Bonin – Dicks
  • Dan Best – The Escapist, Dee Vee
  • David Bird – Fox Comics editor, Strange Tableaux publisher
  • Neale Blanden
  • David Blumenstein – Nakedfella Comics and Herman, The Legal Labrador
  • Maarten Bouw - Hunt The Beast (writer and artist), The Wedding Planet (writer)
  • Manuel Bouw - The Wedding Planet (artist)
  • Brendan Boyd – The False Impressionists, Tango
  • Paul Bradford - Astral Crusaders, Witch Hunters, Undercurrent, Silent but Deadly
  • Maurice Bramley – 1960s comic book cover artist, writer/illustrator: The Phantom Commando, The Fast Gun
  • Jen Breach – Sawbones
  • Paul Briske - Buzz Mandible
  • Donald Brooker – Cesspool
  • Anna Brown – GForce, Northbourne and Glory Bound, 26 Lies, Nowhere Near Savannah
  • Shannon Browning – Welcome to Woodville, Robotoon, Coalition of the Willing
  • Christopher Brunton – Dee Vee
  • Nick Bugeja – Bloodsport
  • Aaron Burgess – Free Bent Party Comix, Keychain Comix, Escape, The Ink
  • Christopher Burns – Eldritch Kid, Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday
  • Susan Butcher – Pox
  • BMB (Ben Michael Byrne) – Stark Reality Sci/Fi Tales, Kranburn
  • Simon Barnard – Gaolbird: The True Story of William Swallow, Convict and Pirate

C

D

  • Daniel Davey – Everybody loves Rooflight
  • Cameron Davis - Blow The Cartridge
  • Mike Delight
  • Solomon Dent
  • Guy Dernee – Nothing Serious
  • David de Vries – Cyclone!, Dark Horse Down Under, The Phantom
  • Graeme Dickenson – Closet Tales
  • Frank Dirscherl – The Wraith
  • Julie Ditrich – ElfQuest WaveDancers (Original Series), Dart. Director of Black Mermaid Productions creative team which is Australian based. ASA (Australian Society of Authors) Comics and Graphic Novel Portfolio Holder, Founder of the Comics and Graphic Novel Portfolio for the ASA.
  • John Dixon – The Crimson Comet, Air Hawk and the Flying Doctors, Air Hawk, Captain Strato
  • Les Dixon – Bluey and Curley, Phill Dill
  • Will Donald – Fashionable Fanny, Captain Katseye, Rod the Reckless, The Black Ape, Saboteurs
  • Donovan – E for Earthman
  • Arlen Drechsler-Savage – Everybody loves Rooflight
  • Michal Dutkiewicz – Batman Forever, Lost in Space
  • Will Dyson – early political cartoonist

E

F

  • Jules Faber – Sporadic, Golgotha
  • Miles Ferguson
  • Kate Fielding – Their hooks find hold deep in our flesh (with Clint Cure, Ben Fox, Elizabeth McDowell and Mandy Ord). Serialised in Meanjin
  • George Finey – early cartoonist
  • Andy Finlayson - Phantom Jack
  • Roger Fletcher – Torkan
  • Adam Ford – Jutchy ya ya, Man bites dog, The book of Job, The amazing atavistic adventures of the fish, Neuronn: the creature from a human brain,
  • Glenn Ford - The Phantom
  • Peter Foster
  • Jason Franks – Kagemono, McBlack, The Sixsmiths, Tango, etc.
  • Scott Fraser – Doll Boy, Diggsville (Home Brew Vampire Bullets)
  • Hayden Fryer – Cobber, Darkest Night, Billy: Demon Slayer, Full Moon, FORCES, Nothing Serious, Billy VS Red
  • Andrew Fulton - Mumblier

G

  • Andrew Gallacher – Modern Gentlemen
  • Mal Gardiner - Gallipoli, the Landing
  • Greg Gates – Inkspots, Strange Worlds
  • May Gibbs – Bib and Bub
  • Simon J. Green – Modern Gentlemen
  • Nicki Greenberg - The Great Gatsby: a graphic adaptation, Tango (comics)
  • Edward J. Grug III – The Bizarre Life of Charlie Red Eye, Crushes Forever, Henry & Gil vs the Infinity Engine
  • Alex Gurney – Stiffy and Mo, Bluey and Curly

H

  • Stewart Hale – Issue One Comics-Zero Assassin, Cyber-Swine
  • George Hall – Reverie
  • Brendan Halyday – The Dirt Nap
  • Scott Hampson (aka: Agent-X) – Agent-X Comics
  • Jase Harper – Awkwood, Sporadic, Big Fun Mega Happy Pet Land (Mania magazine) Guh! books 1–4
  • Paul Harris – Fox Comics, Reverie
  • Flint Fatih Hasbudak
  • Michael Hawkins – Lymphoma, Permanent bling forever, Discreet passions
  • David Heinrich – Champions, Mad Magazine, Earth, Zero Assassin, The Phantom, Decay
  • Owen Heitmann – Basic Wage Kids
  • Peta Hewitt – Terinu
  • Paddy Hobbs - Bossman, Blood is Thicker http://www.donkeybonnet.com.au
  • Doug Holgate – Amazing Joy Buzzards, Flight, Tales from Under the Bed, Zinc Alloy (Home Brew Vampire Bullets)
  • Yaroslav Horak – Chandor, Brenda Starr, James Bond, The Mask, Jet Fury
  • Marie "Mollie" Horseman - Pam
  • Walt Howarth
  • Sarah Howell - Squishface Studio
  • Tom 'Hub' Hubble – Dr Mensana, Black Vulture, Desert-Dragon, Raybot
  • Ben Hutchings – Dragon Hurtor, Northbourne & Glory Bound, Walking to Japan, You Stink and I Don't, Lesson Master, Handball Heaven
  • Matt Huynh (a.k.a. STiKMAN) – Happy Birthday, Anyway, MA, Magpie Magpie, Chinatown, CAB, Bloom
  • Simon Hanselmann – Megg and Mogg

J

  • David Jackson – Modern Gentlemen
  • Simon James – Shucka shucka, Girl mountain, Horse Mania / Poofter Basher (split cassingle)
  • Peter Jetnikoff
  • Scott Johnson – Hip Pocket
  • Chris Johnston – Inkspots
  • Eric Jolliffe – Andy, Saltbush Bill, Witchetty's Tribe
  • Garth Jones – Killeroo: Road Rage
  • Tristan Jones – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Modern Gentlemen, Silent Hill, Ghostbusters (Home Brew Vampire Bullets)
  • Louie Joyce
  • Phil Judd – Pet Therapy comic strip -Sunday Telegraph

K

  • Troy Kealley – Something Wicked, Owen, Badlands Taxi
  • Matt Kelly – Writer/Artist of webcomic: The Matt Kelly Show
  • James Kemsley – writer/artist of Ginger Meggs, 1948–2007
  • David Kerr – Worlds Away, Days of Asha in OzTAKU
  • Giles Kilham – Phatsville
  • Stephen Kok - Tabby, Tango
  • Darren Koziol – Decay[1]

L

  • Jared Lane
  • Gary Lau – Knight-Edge
  • Daniel Lawson – Azerath
  • Len Lawson – The Lone Avenger
  • Percy Learson – early cartoonist
  • Peter Ledger – Carlos McLlyr, Sisterhood of Steel
  • David Li – Magi in OzTAKU
  • Michael Li
  • Sal Lima – Zxenith
  • Dave Lovegrove – Erik Saga (1–9), Steak & Kidney Boy
  • Cassandra Lovell – The Toxic Avenger and Other Tromatic Tales
  • C.A. Luke
  • Mark Lulham – Brandi
  • Glenn Lumsden – Cyclone!, The Phantom
  • Carl Lyon – Tootles, K-27, The Phantom Trooper, PD 4967, The Eagle, Wally and the Major, Black McDermitt

M

  • Brodie Mack – The Wild Girl of the Lost Continent, The Forbidden Kingdom, Kazanda
  • Gregory Mackay - Francis Bear, The Trials of Francis Bear
  • Jeremy MacPherson - The Phantom, Tango (comics)
  • Angelo Madrid - Tommy B Project
  • Zeldz Magnoonis – Pepe's Quest
  • Alex Major – Naomi & Poggie, Goats on Ice
  • Glenn Manders – Phatsville, Bad Teeth
  • Josè Manfredini – The Yahl (Down Under Comics (DUC))
  • Kieran Mangan - The Conspiracy of Haha
  • Katie Marx - Metcop Wonderland
  • Paul Mason – The Soldier Legacy (Black House Comics), Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes (Black House Comics), The New Adventures of the Human Fly, Tides of Hope
  • Arthur Mather – Captain Atom, Sergeant Pat, Secret Agent X9, Flynn of the FBI
  • Doug Maxted – Uncle Si, Ben Barbary Bushranger Comics, The Hard Man
  • Tim McBurnie – 7Pirates
  • David McDermott (AKA Maccad)
  • Tim McEwen – Greener Pastures, Sherlock Holmes, Happy Feet 2
  • Maggie McFee – Katie Galaxy (also runs Pulp faction )
  • Stewart McKenny – The Watch
  • Daniel McKeown - Last Sane Cow in England
  • Rachel McLachlan – PZK, Billy VS Red
  • Jessica McLeod – Activities For Rainy Days
  • Jacob McNish
  • Emile Mercier – Supa Dupa Man, Wocko the Beaut, Doc McSwiggle, Search for the Gnu-Gnah
  • Darrel Merritt – Dark Horse Down Under, Fox Comics, Passionate Nomads
  • Troy Mingramm Troy's Tales, Romanticide
  • Syd Miller – Chesty Bond, Aminalaughs, Us Girls, Rod Craig
  • Nicholas William Moll – The Masked Coyote
  • Kate Moon - Bolt, Barbariön (Home Brew Vampire Bullets)
  • Marcus Moore – Bacchus, Spirit New Adventures, Heavy Metal, Dee Vee, Life Is Cheap
  • Joan Morrison - Sybil & Sue
  • Alice Mrongovius
  • Danny Murphy – co-creator and co-writer of Platinum Grit
  • Bruce Mutard – The Bunker, Stripshow, Alice in Nomansland

N

  • Jan Napiorkowski
  • Michael Nason
  • Dillon Naylor – Da 'n Dill, Batrisha, A Brush With Darkness
  • George Needham – The Dwight Family, The Bosun and Choclit
  • Bobby Nenadovic – Withheld, No Map, But Not Lost
  • Tony Newton – The SuburbanKnights, Foolproof comics, fictionym.comics
  • Thuyen Nguyen – A Question of Promise
  • Owen Nicholls – Jaeger, Mission
  • Tanya Nicholls – Jaeger, Mission
  • Wayne Nichols - The X-Files, Orphan Black, Incredible Hulk: Giant-Size, Exiles, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
  • Syd Nicholls – Fatty Finn, Middy Malone
  • Linzee R. Nold – Fox Comics
  • Talitha Nonveiller – The Deerflame Legacy, Tale Trader

O

P

  • Paterson Brett - Ned Bunny and Ned Bunny 2.
  • Pauldo – Machineland
  • Jason Paulos – Hairbutt the Hippo, Eeek!
  • Maria Pena – Fox Comics, Passionate Nomads
  • John Petropoulos – Bug & Stump
  • Craig Phillips – Finch!
  • Luke Pickett – Allochthonous Pop
  • Tad Pietrzykowski – Dark Nebula
  • Anthony Pike – ZAAPA, Blombo Tale
  • Gerard Piper - Saltbush, Beyond the Black Stump and Trevor comic strips
  • Lloyd Piper - Wolf, Ginger Meggs
  • Reginald Pitt – Yarmak : The Jungle King
  • Stanley Pitt – Anthony Fury, Silver Starr, Captain Power, Yarmak : Jungle King
  • Henry Pop (a.k.a. HPoP) – Generation, The LisT
  • Poshua (AKA Katie Huang) – Generation manga anthology
  • Andrew M. Potts – The Burnt Psycho, Shoddy Magazine
  • Terry Powis - Spy No.13, The Terror, The Silver Bullet, Mac of the Mounties, The Ghost Plane, The Death Ray, Tigers of Tobruk, King of the Kittyhawks[2]
  • Steven Preston
  • Tom Priestley

R

  • Tony Rafty - Jimmy Rodney on Secret Service[2]
  • Pamela Ramali – Generation
  • Jason Rand
  • Dean Rankine – Holy Cow! Christian Comics, Grossgirl and Boogerboy
  • Christian Read – The Watch, Eldritch Kid, Witch King, Unmasked, Black City (Home Brew Vampire Bullets)
  • Daniel Reed – The Crumpeton Experiments
  • Virgil Reilly - Silver Flash, Invisible Avenger
  • Norm Rice – Powerman, Steele Carewe, Rice and Shine, Bluey and Curley
  • Mark Richards – Scott Willasee is the VOID!
  • Leigh Rigozzi – Flippin' Out, Tales of Hobartian Life, Vacant Lot, Zombievideo and other tales, Nature morte, The time you were in Paris, Trevally of the shadow of death
  • Madeleine Rosca — Hollow Fields manga
  • Mel Rowsell - Metcop Wonderland
  • Dan Russell – Darky, the Kid from the Snowy River
  • Jim Russell – The Potts
  • Leigh Rust – Zxenith
  • Jackie Ryan – Burger Force
  • John Ryan – Comic historian/Panelogist

S

  • Damien Shanahan – Anthology, Pizza Man
  • Dante Sapienza – Violin Girl
  • Kirrily Schell
  • Jan Scherpenhuizen The Borderlander
  • Gerard Scifo – Street Knowledge, Smooth
  • J. Marc Schmidt – Egg Story, Eating Steve
  • Nicola Scott – Birds of Prey (DC Comics), Star Wars titles (Dark Horse), Angel titles (IDW Publishing), Dead Year High (Penguin Books), Season of the Witch (Image Comics), Halloween Man
  • Mark Selan – Founder of the 24 Hours in Oz Comics Challenge/OzComics 24 Hr Challenge
  • Christopher Sequeira – Iron Man (in Marvel Comics' 'Astonishing Tales'), Justice League Adventures (DC Comics), 9/11: Artists Respond Vol. II (DC Comics), Cthulhu Tales (Boom! Studios), Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes (Black House Comics), Pulse of Darkness, Rattlebone: The Pulp-Faced Detective, Mister Blood, Deadlock & Doc Morton, Bold Action, The Borderlander, Jonny Flathead: Agent of MONSTA. Editor Tides of Hope (Supernova Pop Culture Expo, 2011).
  • Mark Sexton – Bug & Stump
  • Colin Sharpe – Xuan Xuan manga anthology
  • Glen Shearer – editor of Operation Funnybone
  • Lee Sheppard — Cactus Island political cartoon
  • Simon Sherry - Heavy Angel, Game of Kings (Home Brew Vampire Bullets)
  • Holly Shorland – Operation Funnybone
  • Komala Singh – Moshi Moshi
  • Ben Slabak – Trail, Trail: New World, Exilium
  • Lee Slattery – Bacchus, Dee Vee, Everybody Loves The Lizardman
  • Shane W Smith - The Lesser Evil (graphic novel), Peaceful Tomorrows (graphic novel), Academaesthetics
  • Nathan Soehardi – The SuburbanKnights
  • Jon Sommariva – Go Boy 7
  • Sorayan – The Yahl (Down Under Comics (DUC))
  • Ive Sorocuk
  • Madonna Spelta – OzTAKU
  • Richard Stevens – PEB Casey
  • Emma-Jean Stewart – Beginnings Anthology (editor)
  • John Stewart – Phatsville
  • Travis Stunt - writer - Undead Poet's Society
  • Jean-Luc Syndakis – Modern Gentlemen
  • Jozef Szekeres – Elfquest WaveDancers (original series), Safety-Belt Man, Dart, Dawn, Oblagon, Underwater Love. Director of Black Mermaid Productions creative team, which is Australia-based. Heavy Metal Magazine March 2009. ASA (Australian Society of Authors) Comics and Graphic Novel Portfolio Holder. Co-Founder of the Comics and Graphic Novel Portfolio for the ASA. Elf-Fin

T

V

W

  • Chris Wahl – Mad Magazine, Platinum
  • Gavin Wainwright – Whitehawk (webcomic)
  • Jo Waite – Tango, Going Down Swinging
  • Tonia Walden – prolific mini-comic creator and publisher, Eat Comics, Pirates
  • Rich Warwick
  • Grant Watson – Aggressive Retail Therapy, The Angriest Video Store Clerk in the World, Henry & Gil vs the Infinity Engine
  • L.Frank Weber – Crab Allen
  • Monty Wedd – Foreign Legion, Bert and Ned, Captain Justice, The Scorpion, Kent Blake and King Comet, Space Rangers
  • Colin Wells – Vigil
  • Frank Wessing
  • Paul Wheelahan – The Raven, The Panther[3]
  • Cecil 'Unk' White – The Adventures of Blue Hardy, Freckles
  • Daren White – Bacchus, Dee Vee, Batman: The Order of Beasts, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Batman: Going Sane, The Escapist, Eeek!, The Playwright
  • Joe Whyte
  • David G. Williams — In Flesh and Spirit
  • Bunny Wilson – The Adventures of Monty Zoomer
  • Colin Wilson – Strips, 2000AD, La Jeunesse de Blueberry, Dans L'Ombre du Soleil, Point Blank
  • Ryan Wilton – Azerath
  • Mark Withington – OzTAKU, Rocksalt
  • Gary Wong
  • Ashley Wood – Cyclone Comics Quarterly, Dark Horse Down Under, Popbot
  • Carol Wood – Pox
  • Trevor Wood – Sawbones
  • Damien Woods – Monkeyboy and His Magical Underpants (DMAG)
  • Anthony Woodward – Scrambled, 7 Pages, Lines, This town
  • Michael Wszelaki – Ultimate X, Frogman

Y

  • David Yardin – District X, Black Panther, Realm of the Claw, Storm
  • Sam Young – Issue One Comics-Zero Assassin, Cyber-Swine

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nelligan, Katelin (2 November 2010). "Salisbury man's comic no joke". Leader Messenger. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
  2. 1 2 Ryan, John Panel by Panel : an illustrated history of Australian Comics Cassell Australia 1979 ISBN 0-7269-7376-9
  3. ↑ Lambiek comic shop and studio in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (27 April 2007). "Comic creator: Paul Wheelahan". Lambiek.net. Retrieved 2010-08-24.
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