Will Eisner (1917–2005)

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1. Will Eisner

   Author of Comics & Sequential Art, 9-11: Artists Respond: Volume 1, To the Heart of the Storm

2. Alan Moore

   Author of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1, From Hell, Batman: The Killing Joke

3. Frank Miller

   Author of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City: The Hard Goodbye, Elektra: Assassin

4. Scott McCloud

   Author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form, 24 Hour Comics

5. Milton Caniff

   Author of Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1949 (Steve Canyon Series), Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon: 1948 (Steve Canyon Series), The Complete Color Terry and the Pirates: 1934-1935 (Complete Color Terry & the Pirates)

6. Chester Gould

   Author of Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Volume 1: Dailies & Sundays (1931-1933), Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Volume 2: Dailies & Sundays (1933-1935), Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Volume 3: Dailies & Sundays (1935-1936)

7. Al Capp

   Author of The best of Li'l Abner, Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 1: 1934-1935, Al Capp's Li'l Abner: The Frazetta Years, Vol. 4: 1960-1961

8. Gary Groth

   Author of MOME Summer 2005 (#1), MOME Fall 2005 (#2), The Comics Journal Library: Drawing the Line

9. Stan Lee

   Author of How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, Marvel Masterworks, Volume 001: Amazing Spider-Man Nos.1-10 & Amazing Fantasy No.15, Son of Origins of Marvel Comics

10. Dave Sim

    Author of Cerebus, Volume 1, High Society, Church & State I

11. Alex Raymond

    Author of Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Volume 1, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Volume 7, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon, Volume 5

12. Art Spiegelman

    Author of In the shadow of no towers, Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies, Jack Cole And Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits

13. Grant Morrison

    Author of Arkham Asylum, JLA, Vol. 1: New World Order, The Mystery Play

14. Rick Geary

    Author of The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Mass., 1892, Jack the Ripper, A Treasury of Victorian Murder

15. Gilbert Hernandez

    Author of Love and Rockets, Vol. 1: Music for Mechanics, Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, Blood of Palomar

16. Brian K. Vaughan

    Author of Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days, Ex Machina: Tag, Michael Chabon Presents...The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Volume 2 (Amazing Adventures of the Escapist (Graphic N

17. Warren Ellis

    Author of Planetary: All Over The World and Other Stories, Planetary: The Fourth Man, Planetary: Leaving The 20th Century

18. Eddie Campbell

    Author of Alec: How to be an Artist, Book 1 - Immortality Isn't Forever (Eddie Campbell's Bacchus), Alec: After The Snooter

19. Jack Cole

    Author of The Plastic Man Archives, Volume 1, The Plastic Man Archives, Volume 2, The Plastic Man Archives, Volume 3

20. Neil Gaiman

    Author of Signal to Noise, 9-11: The World's Finest Comic Book Writers & Artists Tell Stories to Remember