A comic book artist at work.

A comic book creator is any one of a number of people working to create a comic book or graphic novel. The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S. can involve a writer, a penciller, an inker, a colorist, and a letterer, typically overseen by an editor. Cartoonist with his cartoons. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Graphic novel (sometimes abbreviated GN) is a term for a kind of book, usually telling an extended story with sequential art ( comics). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... In the collaborative method of producing a comic book used to create the majority of the comics published by major US publishers, the penciller (or penciler) is the artist who interprets the story created by the writer as comics pages drawn in pencil. ... The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional comic book, or graphic novel. ... A colorist is an artist who colors comic art reading it for production as a comic book. ... In comic books, the letterer is the person who draws the letters in the word balloons, draws in sound effects and usually designs a books logo. ... Editor has four major senses: Print media There are various levels of editorial positions in publishing. ...

Depending on the type of production, the different roles can be taken on by different persons:

• In most alternative and small press comics, the same person will write and illustrate, although it is still common for a separate person to produce the color seperations, and sometimes the lettering.
• Within the major US comic book publishing companies, (for example, DC Comics and Marvel Comics), a different person is generally assigned to each task, although exceptions - particularly in writing/pencilling or pencilling/inking - do occur.
• In other cases, typically in most European comics, there are usually two or three artists involved: a writer, an artist who provides lettered artwork, and a colorist where neccesary.

Editing houses will employ letterers when translating work, and it is not uncommon for them to utilise artists to retouch artwork to make it more suitable for their domestic market. The term alternative comics is one of several labels applied to a range of comic books, graphic novels, and allied forms that have appeared since about 1980, in the wake of the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 70s. ... The current DC Comics logo, adopted in May 2005. ... Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname House of Ideas, is an American comic book company. ... A European comic is a comic or comic book made by an European author and artist. ...

See also

• List of comic creators
• Comic strip creator
• Cartoonist
• Mangaka
• Elito V. Circa

This is a list of comic creators. ... A comic strip creator at work. ... A cartoonist at work. ... Mangaka (漫画家) is the Japanese word for a comic artist/cartoonist. ... Elito amangpintor Circa - folk painter. ...

External links

• Bold Comic Studios - A site for the independant comic creator