Jenette Kahn is an American comic book editor and executive. In the 1970s, she edited and founded a number of children's magazines. It started in 1970 as Kahn was one of the founding editors for Kids (Childpub Management Corporation). Later she founded the very successful Dynamite (Scholastic) in 1974. Lastly, in 1975, Kahn found Smash for Xerox Education Publications (later known as Weekly Reader Publishing).

In 1976, she joined DC as publisher and was promoted to President five years later.

In 1989, she assumed, while retaining the office of president, the title of editor-in-chief, after stepping down as publisher. In 2002, after 26 years with DC, she left the company to pursue a career as a film producer.

Additional biographical details can be found in:
the DC Profiles column in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #304 (October 1978);
The Comics Journal (Fantagraphics, 1977 series) #37 (December 1977) and #47 (July 1979);
"Wonder Woman at DC Comics: Janette Kahn, Turning Superheroes into Supersales", The New York Times by Philip S. Gutis, Sunday, January 6, 1985, page 6 F (section 3, page 6, overall page 243);
and Women and the Comics (Eclipse) 1985.

In 1964, Jackson self-published the one-shot God Nose, which is considered by some to be the first underground comic in the modern sense, discounting “Tijuana bibles”. He moved to San Francisco in 1966, where he became art director of the dance-poster division of the Family Dog psychedelic rock music-promotion collective. In 1969, he co-founded Rip Off Press, one of the first independent publishers of underground comix, with three other Texas transplants, Gilbert Shelton, Fred Todd, and Dave Moriaty. Despite this, most of his underground comics work (heavily influenced by EC Comics) was published by Last Gasp, including frequent contributions to the Last Gasp anthology Slow Death. (Jaxon left his affiliation with Last Gasp in c. 1991.)

In addition to Slow Death, Jackson contributed to a selection of other underground comix, including Barbarian Comics (California Comics) and Radical America Komiks (Radical America Magazine). In the 1980s Jaxon contributed historical comics to Fantagraphics' Graphics Story Monthly and a number of Kitchen Sink Press titles, including BLAB! and the 11-part, 126-page "Bulto… The Cosmic Slug," about a space creature's effect on the people of the ancient Southwest, which was serialized in Death Rattle. Jackson did freelance work for Marvel Comics as a colorist from 1988-1991.

Jackson was also known for his historical work, documenting the history of Native America and Texas, including the graphic novels Comanche Moon (1979), Recuerden El Alamo (1979), Los Tejanos (1982), The Secret of San Saba (1989), Lost Cause (1998), Indian Lover: Sam Houston & the Cherokees (1999), El Alamo (2002), and the written works like Los Mesteños: Spanish Ranching in Texas: 1721–1821 (1986), Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas (2005), and many others.

Alvaro Mairani trained at the l'Accademia di Bergamo and at L'Accademia dell'Arte Applicata del Castello di Milano.
He began his career shortly after World War II, working for publisher Giovanni De Leo on the periodicals Tiger and Avventure. In 1949, he started work for Universo, where he took over 'Il Principe Azzurro' and launched 'Il Cavaliere Ideale' in L'Intrepido. He has illustrated nearly all the covers for the Albi dell'Intrepido collection from issue 253 onwards.

Antonio Rubino was an illustrator, cartoonist, animation director, screenwriter, playwright, author and poet.

Rubino graduated in law, then changed focus to drawing, debuting as the illustrator of Alberto Colantuoni's book L'Albatros. After collaborating with several newspapers and magazines, in 1908 he started a collaboration as illustrator and cartoonist with the children's magazine Corriere dei Piccoli, for which he created numerous successful comic characters, notably Quadratino and Italino. In the 1920s and 1930s Rubino was also chief-editor and sometimes founder of several children's publications, such as Il Balilla, Topolino, Mondo Bambino, Mondo Fanciullo. Rubino also directed several animated films, debuting in 1942 with Paese dei Ranocchi (The Land of the Frogs) which won the best film award at the Venice Film Festival in the animation cateqory.

Eugenio Juan Zoppi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1923. By 1945, Zoppi was doing production jobs at the publishing house Columba, where met Alberto Breccia, who encouraged him to start drawing.

Zoppi's career blossomed in the 1950s, during which his work was found the most important Argentinian magazines of the time. In 1948 he published his first works, illustrating "The Treasures of the Queen of Sheba" and "Fantomas" in the newspaper La Epoca.

Beginning in the early '50s, Zoppi took over drawing the "Misterix" series, created by Alberto Ongaro and Paul Campani. In 1957 he created the character "Ray Kent."

After leaving "Misterix" in 1962, Zoppi drew "Futureman" and "Birdman." He also published humorous drawings, some of them signed as "Eugenio." In 1968 he created the character "Charlena."

In 1971 he worked as the Editorial Director of the comic book supplement Mac Perro, for Billiken magazine, and in the middle of the decade he began his collaboration with Editorial Record, creating works such as "Appointment with Destiny" and "Etienne and the Thirty Thousand."

At the beginning of the decade of the '80, he was president of the Association of Cartoonists of Argentina.

He passed away on July 28, 2003.

Hiroyuki Takei (武井宏之) is a manga artist. His most well-known work is Shaman King (シャーマンキング). Other works of his include Butsu Zone (仏ゾーン), Jumbor (ユンボル -Jumbor), Hyper Dash! Yonkuro (ハイパーダッシュ!四駆郎), Nekogahara (猫ヶ原), Shaman King the Super Star and Shaman King Flowers (シャーマンキングFlowers). He also collaborated with Stan Lee on the series Ultimo (機巧童子ULTIMO).

Creator, writer and artist of the long-running single panel cartoon about a large dog, Marmaduke.

Commercial artist, who worked as a cartoonist at the Baltimore American in the 1910s - 1920s, and then provided illustrations for various magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Family Circle. He later painted geometric abstractions.

Syndication:
Hop Harrigan [daily] (writer; pencils; ink) in 1942.
The Lone Ranger [daily and Sundays] (pencil; ink) in 1939 for King Features Syndicate.
The Sea Hound [daily] (pencil; ink) in 1944-1946 for King Features Syndicate.

Cartoonist who did comics for the Village Voice, Adweek, and National Lampoon and has also written a number of books.

Makoto Kobayashi (小林まこと) is a manga artist best known for his long-running strip about a cat, called What's Michael?. Also known for the series Heba! Hello-chan (へば!Helloちゃん / Club 9), Sanshirō of 1, 2 (1・2の三四郎), Judo Bu Monogatari (柔道部物語), Kakutou Tanteidan (格闘探偵団), Gaburin (ブリン) and Seishun Shounen Magazine 1978-1983 (青春少年マガジン1978〜1983).