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Mort Walker

Mort a Walker was born in 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas. He published his first comic when he was 11 and sold his first cartoon at 12. By 14, he was selling gag cartoons regularly to Child Life, Inside Detective and Flying Aces magazines. At 15, he was a comic-strip artist for a daily metropolitan newspaper and at 18, he b....[more]

Elaine Scott

Michael Teitelbaum

Michael has written more than 200 children's books including middle grade novels, tie-in novelizations, and picture books based on movies, video games, and television shows such as Smallville, Avatar, Men in Black, X-Men and Spider-Man. Michael's packaging company, Town Brook Press, created and produced Spider-Man M....[more]

Joseph Campbell

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Umberto Eco

Art, Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Foreign Language Study, History, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Photography, Reference, Religion, Science, Social Science, Travel

First a semiotician at the University of Bologna, and a leading figure in contemporary Italian culture, Eco brought semiotics to fiction in his first novel, The Name of the Rose (1980). This unexpected international best-seller employs the techniques of a detective novel along with sophisticated postmodern narrative an....[more]

Jules Feiffer

Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, Fiction, History, Humor, Juvenile Fiction, Literary Criticism

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman was born in 1960 in Portchester, England. He worked as a journalist and freelance writer for a time, before deciding to try his hand at comic books. Some of his work has appeared in publications such as "Time Out," "The Sunday Times," "Punch" and "The Observer." Gaiman's first comic endeavor was the graphic....[more]

Alan Moore

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Art Spiegelman

Art, Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction

Art Spiegelman, 1948 - Cartoonist Art Spiegelman was born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden and was the son of Polish Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. He's been a cartoonist since he was a teenager. His family immigrated to the United States and Spiegelman attended Harpur College from 1965-1968. His mother commi....[more]