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There are pretty much no active writers whose work I will check out, just because it is them. There are a couple folks I will try anything by them though. The common theme amongst them is that they don't seem to put out many comics, so it is easy to keep up with their oeuvre:

Brian K. Vaughan - Besides Ex Machina, I have absolutely loved everything he's done.

Neil Gaiman - He doesn't really put out anything anymore, but if he did, I'd buy it.

Warren Ellis
Jason Aaron
Scott Snyder
JMS
Joshua Hale Fialkov
Craig Thompson
Peter David
Ennis
BKV
Rucka
Daniel Clowes

This writers will get an automatic buy from me

Alan Moore (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century)
Mike Mignola (Hellboy)
John Byrne (Nextmen)
Joe Hill (Locke & Key)
Rick Remender (Uncanny X-Force, Venom)
Jeff Parker (Hulk, Thunderbolts)
Jonathan Hickman (FF, S.H.E.I.L.D.)
Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Animal Man)

BadDeacon wrote: Brian K. Vaughan - Besides Ex Machina, I have absolutely loved everything he's done.

I just put all my ex machina in my 'to sell' or 'take to half price books' piles, but everything else of his i've bought i'm keeping.

Some of these are writer/artists, but this doesn't apply if they're not writing the book in question:

Joe Sacco
Adrian Tomine
Jason Lutes
Doug TenNapel
Jason Aaron
Mike Carey (except superhero stuff)
Alan Moore
Phil Hester
Guy Delisle
Gene Yang
Craig Thompson
Jason Shiga
Mike Mignola
BKV
Dave Mazzucchelli


Probably more.

There's a very large group that I'm a bit more selective about, but still always get my attention:

Rick Remender
Joshua Dysart
Chester Brown
Anders Nilsen
Greg Rucka
Brian Azzarello
Peter Milligan
Neil Gaiman
John Layman
Andy Diggle
Jamie Delano
Garth Ennis (less these days, sadly)
Ted Naifeh
Kaz Kibuishi
Eiji Otsuka
Jeff Parker
Scott Snyder
Nick Spencer
Joe Hill
Mark Waid
Palmiotti & Gray
Mike Costa
Joe Kelly

It's a little hard in the case of writer/artists to separate out their writing from drawing, but I'm pretty much at autobuy with:

Alan Moore (except the Lovecraft stuff)
Dave Sim
Matt Kindt
BKVaughan
Brubaker
Gaiman
Terry Moore
Jeff Smith
Paul Chadwick
Jason Lutes
Darwyn Cooke (altho unsure if this would extend to work he wasn't drawing)

Close to it with:

Jeff Lemire
Bendis
Kyle Baker

Will have a strong tendency to at least check out/give a chance to anything new from:

Kirkman
Aaron
Azzarello
JMS
Matt Wagner
Frank Miller (altho mostly on past work)
Fraction
Hickman
Morrison (but definitely don't like everything he does)
Whedon

I purposely excluded writer/artists from my list.

That should be a whole separate thread on favorite creators who write AND draw.

This is ESPECIALLY the case if someone is caveated as (not sure I'd get them if they were not drawing also).

BobBretall wrote:I purposely excluded writer/artists from my list.

That should be a whole separate thread on favorite creators who write AND draw.

This is ESPECIALLY the case if someone is caveated as (not sure I'd get them if they were not drawing also).

I included them because many of my favorite writers in comics ARE artists. I'm not necessarily even that big of a fan of their art (Chester Brown, Jason Shiga and Guy Delisle, for example).

Thanks to Lenny (it's Lenny, right?) for reminding me about Kindt, Smith and Chadwick, who all belong on my list as well. Joann Sfar and Richard Moore are a couple of others who just occurred to me. Cooke is close. Kyle Baker used to be there (near the top, in fact), but frankly, he hasn't done anything I've liked for a while.

J. Farrell wrote:

BobBretall wrote:I purposely excluded writer/artists from my list.

That should be a whole separate thread on favorite creators who write AND draw.

This is ESPECIALLY the case if someone is caveated as (not sure I'd get them if they were not drawing also).

I included them because many of my favorite writers in comics ARE artists. I'm not necessarily even that big of a fan of their art (Chester Brown, Jason Shiga and Guy Delisle, for example).

Thanks to Lenny (it's Lenny, right?) for reminding me about Kindt, Smith and Chadwick, who all belong on my list as well. Joann Sfar and Richard Moore are a couple of others who just occurred to me. Cooke is close. Kyle Baker used to be there (near the top, in fact), but frankly, he hasn't done anything I've liked for a while.

I tried to only include those writer/artists whose work I would buy even if a different artist were drawing. but it's difficult to know for sure, given that some of those artists NEVER write w/o drawing. But some do - ex. Jeff Lemire, Matt Wagner, Frank Miller. I enjoyed Lemire's Superboy, so that leans me towards including him on my list. OTOH, while I've loved Matt Wagner's writer/artist work, I wasn't too wild about his Zorro (it was ok - just not great), so I moved him down to "strong tendency to check out." Same thing w/Frank Miller - although I suspect w/him I'm almost at the point where his being the writer and not the artist means I would try to avoid the book (altho I kinda liked ASB&R)- and w/his art getting worse (IMHO), he's losing a draw on me altogether (ex. I didn't order his Holy Terror in HC, and am on the fence as to whether I'll order it when it's in TPB).

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