Johanna Marcadé: http://collectomaestro.free.fr/johanna/

Christophe Lambert: http://www.lambertcomix.ch/

Sish-Tick: http://www.sish-tick.be/

Felix Diaz: http://www.felixdiaz.com/

Ruth Gwily : http://www.ruthgwily.com/

Luci Gutiérrez : http://www.holeland.com/

Pete Fowler : http://www.monsterism.net/

Pete Fowler (born 1969 in Cardiff) is a Welsh artist best known for his artwork for the Welsh band Super Furry Animals. He is a freelance illustrator and “monster creator” inspired by Japanese art, folklore, myths, psychedelia and super nature. He has also done a number of other projects in the UK and Japan, such as television advertisements (Kia Picanto), as well as having art exhibitions all over the world. Fowler works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, animation, and sculpture.

Fowler’s art is done in a postmodern cartoon style. His work revolves around a central narrative and features a recurring set of characters. The “monsters” Fowler creates all reside on “Monsterism Island.” Fowler invents extensive back-stories for his characters; each has its own specific traits and levels of “monsterism.” Fowler is most known for his designer toys of his characters, which he himself manufactures with his own company.

A CD called The Sounds of Monsterism Island was released in 2005 by Heavenly Records. According to the press release “The record is a compilation album that works as a soundtrack to the world of Monsterism…The album features psychedelic music from the ’60s through to today, much of it unearthed and put on CD for the first time.” In 2006, Fowler created a set of comics about Monsterism Island which have been featured in Vice Magazine. Fowler’s website features short Flash animations of his characters, and Fowler has stated that he is preparing a set of animated films.

The second soundtrack to Monsterism Island will be released by Lo recordings in early 2009 and features mostly new compositions by a host of contemporary musicians.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Fowler)

Tyson Smith : http://tysonsmith.com/

Sacha Eckes : http://www.sachaeckes.com/

David Huyck : http://www.bunchofmonkeys.com/

Morgan Navarro : http://plutoslo.free.fr/

Bob Vido : http://www.bobvido.com/

Peter Hoey : http://www.peterhoey.com/

Matteo Guarnaccia : http://releasethereality.com/matteo/

Travis Millard : http://www.fudgefactorycomics.com/

Sara Varon : http://www.chickenopolis.com/

Michael M. Wartella : http://www.ackxhpaez.com/

Michael M. Wartella is an American underground cartoonist. His absurdist early “art comic” Ackxhpæz (1994-1996) was well-received, and led to an expanded variety comic strip Three Hickory Nuts which was syndicated in alternative weekly newspapers nationally from 1998-2000. His sequential work has appeared in anthologies from D.C. Comics and Fantagraphics Books and in magazines including Andy Warhol’s Interview and Spin. His illustrations have appeared on the cover of Vice Magazine (his infamous and now extremely rare scratch-off cover) and regularly in Nickelodeon Magazine. His art is also seen on MTV2’s cult hit Wonder Showzen. He lives in New York City.

In 2007, Wartella’s reportorial cartoons began appearing regularly in The Village Voice.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Wartella)

HuskMitNavn : http://www.huskmitnavn.dk/

Dennis Worden : http://www.dennisworden.com

One Huge Eye : onehugeeye.com

Tara McPherson : www.taramcpherson.com

Tara McPherson (born 1976) is an Americanpainter, freelance illustrator, comic book artist and teacher in New York City. A recurring motif in her work is a stylized heart-shaped hole through a person’s chest in the place of an actual heart.

McPherson was born in San Francisco in 1976 and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in August 2001 in Illustration and a minor in Fine Art. She interned at Rough Draft Studios and did work on Matt Groening’s Futurama during college.

Her art includes covers for Vertigo comic books, advertising and editorial illustrations such as Fanta and Spin Magazine, and numerous gig posters for rock bands such as Green Day, Beck, Modest Mouse, Isis, High on Fire, and Death Cab for Cutie. McPherson teaches Illustration at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.

The first printed collection of her work is Lonely Heart: The Art of Tara McPherson, which was released in 2006 by Dark Horse Press. McPherson’s art has also been included in books such as The Art of Modern Rock, SWAG, Project Superior, The Art of Electric Frankenstein, Sci Fi Western, Panda Meat and Illustration Now!.

McPherson has been featured in several publications including Juxtapoz, Esquire, Elle, Marie Claire, Spin, Paste, Communication Arts, LA Weekly and Punk Planet. Her art has been featured in the Oscar Award winning film Juno.

McPherson recently had a story published in the original Fables graphic novel 1001 Nights of Snowfall.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_McPherson)

Peter Kuper : http://www.peterkuper.com

Peter Kuper (born September 22, 1958) is an American alternative cartoonist and illustrator known for his autobiographical, social, and political observations.

Besides his contributions to the political anthology World War 3 Illustrated, which he co-founded in 1979 with Seth Tobocman, he is currently best known for taking over Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine; it had passed through various hands after its creator Antonio Prohias retired, but Kuper’s version has appeared without interruption since 1997.

Kuper has produced numerous graphic novels which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish and Greek, including award-winning adaptations of Franz Kafka’s Give It Up! and the Metamorphosis.

Kuper’s Eye of the Beholder was the first comic strip to ever regularly appear in the New York Times. His most recent book Stop Forgetting to Remember covers the birth of his daughter, 9/11, and other vicissitudes in his life from 1995-2005.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kuper)

Renée French : http://www.reneefrench.com

Renée French (born 1963) is an American comics writer and illustrator and, under the pen name Rainy Dohaney, a children’s book author.

Her work includes The Soap Lady (inspired by the display in the Mütter Museum), The Ticking, and Micrographica. She also has a weekly strip in the New York Press. French drew Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, the mascot of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. French is married to one of Plan 9’s creators, Rob Pike. In 2006, underground cartoonist and writer Casanova Shamdil announced he is writing a book in graphic novel format about French’s life.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_French)

Max Andersson: http://www.maxandersson.com

Max Andersson is a Swedish comic artist with a strong underground reputation - thanks to his dense, junk-culture comic, ‘Pixy’. Andersson studied graphics in Stockholm between 1982 and 1984, and later cinema at the University of New York. After having worked in the animation field, he started making comics in the Swedish alternative magazine Galago in 1987. Shortly, his work also appeared in Dagens Nyheter and Aftonbladet. His first album, ‘Pixy’ was published by Tago Förlag in 1992.
The comic was also published in the USA by Fantagraphics, which makes Andersson the first modern Swedish artist to have an album published in the USA. Tago Förlag has also collected some of his short stories in ‘Vakuumneger’ in 1994. Three years later, Andersson self-published ‘Pistolen Johnny’. In 2001, ‘En Skissbok av Max Andersson’ was published by Seriefrämjandet, followed two years later by ‘Döden’, published by Galago Ordfront.
Besides his comic book ‘Pixy’ at Fantagraphics, more of Andersson’s gained attention in the USA, with his contributions to the anthology Zero Zero and the comic book ‘Death & Candy’. His dark comics are also published in most European countries.

(Source http://lambiek.net/artists/a/anderson_max.htm)

Christian ‘Kriegel’ Farner : http://www.contours-art.de

Henning Wagenbreth : http://www.wagenbreth.de

Alexandre Bonnefoy: http://www.aalex.fr.st

Bård Edlund: http://www.edlundart.com

Gary Taxali: http://www.garytaxali.com

Gary Taxali is an artist/illustrator living in Canada. Aside from his gallery shows and illustration work, Gary also devotes a portion of his time traveling through lecturing and teaching at various arts organizations and schools such as The Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto. He is a Founding Member of The Illustrators’ Partnership of America and sits on the Advisory Board of 3×3: The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration. Currently, Gary is working on his next mass production toy figure, “Oh No”, under the name of his new company, Chump Inc. as well as ‘This Is Silly”, a children’s book published by Scholastic and slated for a fall 2008 release.

Gary was born in Chandigarh, India in 1968. A year later, he and his family emigrated to Toronto. The encouragement of his parents led Gary to take art classes as a child which eventually led him to pursue an art education. In 1991, he graduated from the Ontario College of Art and immediately began working as a professional illustrator. A few years later, he began showing in various exhibitions and galleries throughout North America including the Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2005, he launched his first vinyl toy, The Toy Monkey, which includes a special edition specifically created for The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Gary was also asked by the Whitney Museum to donate a limited edition print to be given to top donors at their annual fundraising Art Party.

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Taxali)

Dave Cooper: http://www.davegraphics.com

David Charles Cooper (born 1967) is a cartoonist, commercial illustrator and a graphic designer who lives in Ottawa, Canada>. In addition to comics, Cooper has worked extensively as a designer, producer, and creator in the field of animation. Several of his designs were used on Futurama, notably various areas of the Planet Express office.

Cooper became a published cartoonist in his teens, creating sci-fi comics stories for Barry Blair’s Aircel Comics. Blair has caused controversy with some comics that have featured young boys being tortured or eroticized, and while Cooper has never said that he was molested by Blair, he told The Comics Journal that their relationship was awkward and “inappropriate” and it served as the inspiration for Cooper’s book Dan and Larry in: Don’t Do That! The book features a childlike, “duckish” creature named Dan who is mentored by a pushy, older creature named Larry, and at one point Larry holds Dan down and presses against him, saying, “THIS is how we should play sometimes.” (In the same Journal interview, Cooper took pains to point out that although some readers believe Larry is actually raping Dan, Larry’s pants are on through the whole encounter.) Despite Larry’s disturbing relationship with their son, Dan’s parents are cheerfully oblivious. The Dan and Larry graphic novel culminates in a scene wherein Larry dons a leotard that reveals his small, erect genitalia and invites Larry to “touch it if you want to.” This leads into a sexual encounter that culminates with what appears to be a cathartic expression, as Larry trips and suffers a gruesome accidental death.

After gradually giving up working for Aircel, Cooper spent a few years in a band before eventually returning to comics. In his 20s he created books such as Puke and Explode and Cynthia Petal’s Alien Sex Frenzy, lavishly illustrated stories that featured dark subject matter with incongruous “cute” touches such as letter i’s dotted with little circles. (Puke and Explode has a cameo in the 1995 film Crumb, when R. Crumb briefly examines the cover in a comics store and then rather disdainfully passes it by).

With Suckle, his graphic novel published in 1997, Cooper broke through to a new level of critical acclaim with the story of an innocent, childlike fellow, Basil, who is confronted by strange, sexualized horrors in a futuristic world. It was nominated for the Harvey Award. He followed this up with the even darker book Crumple (first serialized in the pages of Zero Zero), about a square-headed little man in a world ultimately overrun by militant feminists, and the multi-issue series Weasel, which featured the ongoing story Ripple, about a frustrated illustrator who enters an obsessive relationship with one of his models. With each book, Cooper’s work grew darker in subject matter while more accomplished visually. During this time, Cooper also contributed to Nickelodeon’s children’s magazine along with other anthologies. He also created a line of deluxe toys with the firm Critterbox Toys.

In recent years, Cooper has, to the dismay of fans of his comics, moved away from making comics, and is now focusing on fine art, often painting sexy but disturbing portraits of chubbyish women with overbites (or, as he has put it, “mostly pillowy girls”).

(Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cooper)

Jochen Gerner : http://welcome.to/jochen.gerner

John Ueland : www.uelandillustration.com

Roman klonek : http://www.klonek.de

Olaf : www.olafladousse.com

Ana Galvan : http://www.anagalvan.com