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Top Cow Productions
Top Cow Productions, Inc. is a Los Angeles comic publisher founded in 1992 by Marc Silvestri, one of Image Comics' seven founders. Known for Witchblade, The Darkness, Cyberforce, and Wanted, it operates as an autonomous Image partner studio.
Toyman
Toyman (Winslow Schott) is a DC Comics supervillain and Superman enemy, a toymaker who weaponizes toys and robots; first appeared Action Comics #64 (1943), with successors Jack Nimball and Hiro Okamura.
Trevor Henderson
Trevor Henderson, born 1986, is a Toronto-based Canadian illustrator, writer, and creature concept artist, OCADU-trained, creator of viral internet horror creatures Siren Head, Cartoon Cat, and Long Horse, author of Scholastic's Scarewaves, subject of a Warner Bros. Siren Head film with Zach Cregger and Brian Duffield.
U.S. Acres
U.S. Acres (Orson's Farm outside the U.S., Orson's Place in Canada) is a Jim Davis comic strip about barnyard animals led by Orson Pig, launched March 3, 1986 in 505 newspapers and ended in 1989, later animated in Garfield and Friends.
U.S. Agent
U.S. Agent is a Marvel Comics superhero, John Walker, created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary, debuting as Super-Patriot in Captain America #323 (1986). He briefly served as Captain America before becoming U.S. Agent in Captain America #354 (1989), and appears in the MCU played by Wyatt Russell.
Ub Iwerks
Ub Iwerks (Ubbe Ert Iwwerks, 1901–1971), American animator who animated the first Mickey Mouse cartoons at 700 drawings a day, founded Iwerks Studios (Flip the Frog), and invented the multiplane camera, Xerox animation, and optical printing at Disney.
Ultimate Marvel
Ultimate Marvel is a Marvel Comics imprint reimagining Marvel heroes in a separate continuity: the original Earth-1610 line (2000-2015) launched with Ultimate Spider-Man and created Miles Morales, while the 2023 Earth-6160 line by Jonathan Hickman runs to a planned 2026 end.
Under One Person (一人之下)
Under One Person (一人之下), also known as Hitori no Shita, is a Chinese webcomic by Mi Er, serialized since 2015 and adapted into animated series.
Utagawa Toyokuni I
Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川豊国) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, best known for his kabuki actor prints and portraits of beautiful women.
Valiant Comics
Valiant Comics, also Valiant Entertainment, is an American superhero comic publisher founded in 1989 by Jim Shooter and Steven Massarsky; home of X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, and Harbinger, sold to Acclaim, relaunched 2012, now DMG-owned with Alien Books publishing.
Vertigo Comics
Vertigo Comics (DC Vertigo) is DC Comics' mature-readers imprint, founded in 1993 by Karen Berger for creator-driven titles like Sandman, Preacher, and 100 Bullets; sunset in 2019 for Black Label, revived with ten new series from February 2026.
Victor Zsasz
Victor Zsasz, also Mister Zsasz, is a DC Comics Batman villain and knife-wielding Gotham serial killer created by Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle, debuting in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1 (1992), who carves a tally mark into his skin for every victim.
Violet (Peanuts)
Violet Gray is a Peanuts comic strip character by Charles M. Schulz, debuting February 7, 1951 as the first addition to the original cast; a snobbish, ponytailed girl, best friend of Patty, first to call Charlie Brown a blockhead, last seen November 27, 1997.
Viz (comics)
Viz is a British adult comedy magazine founded in Newcastle in 1979 by Chris Donald, parodying children's comics with profane strips like the Fat Slags and Roger Mellie; it peaked at 1.2 million copies in 1991 and is now a monthly Metropolis Group title.
W. Heath Robinson
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), English illustrator and cartoonist famed for absurdly elaborate contraption drawings; his surname entered the English language by 1912 and named a Bletchley Park codebreaking machine.
Walter Crane
Walter Crane (1845-1915), English artist and "father of the illustrated children's book," creator of color toy books with printer Edmund Evans, Arts and Crafts leader, and committed socialist illustrator.
Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis (born 1968, Essex, England) is a British comics writer and novelist, creator of Transmetropolitan, The Authority, Planetary, and Red, and of Netflix's Castlevania; accused by 60+ women in 2020, he returned to Image Comics in 2026.
Webtoon
Webtoon (웹툰): a South Korean-origin digital comic format read as one full-color vertical scroll on phones, distinct from manhwa (origin) and manga (Japan); coined by Cheollian in 2000, industrialized by Naver Webtoon from 2005, now a multi-billion-dollar industry.
Whang-od
Whang-od Oggay (Maria Oggay), Butbut Kalinga mambabatok of Buscalan, Tinglayan, Kalinga; hand-tap batok tattooist born around 1917, Dangal ng Haraya 2018 and Presidential Medal of Merit 2024 recipient, known as the last but not only traditional Kalinga tattoo master.
Wilhelm Busch
Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), German humorist poet, draftsman, and painter, creator of Max und Moritz (1865) and precursor of the modern comic; also wrote Die fromme Helene and Eduards Traum.
Wilhelmina Geddes
Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955) was an Irish stained-glass artist of the Arts and Crafts movement, known for the Ottawa war memorial and Ypres Te Deum window.
Will Eisner
Will Eisner (1917–2005), American comics artist and writer, creator of The Spirit (1940) and A Contract with God (1978), pioneer of the graphic novel, co-founder of the Eisner-Iger Studio, and namesake of the Eisner Awards.
X-Force
X-Force is a Marvel Comics mutant black-ops team, dubbed the mutant CIA in its 2019 Krakoa-era volume, debuting in New Mutants #100 (1991) under Cable from Rob Liefeld's concept; its X-Men '97 version is led by Cable.
X-Men
X-Men: Marvel Comics mutant superhero team created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, relaunched in 1975, led by Professor X against Magneto; best-selling 1980s comic, civil rights allegory, Fox films, MCU reboot due 2028.
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝)
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝, born 1952, Shizuoka) is a Japanese painter and character designer: Tatsunoko anime (Gatchaman, Time Bokan), Final Fantasy logos and art since 1987, Vampire Hunter D illustrations, and international fine-art exhibitions.
Yoshitoshi Abe
Yoshitoshi Abe (安倍吉俊, b. 1971), Japanese illustrator and character designer of Serial Experiments Lain; creator of Haibane Renmei; also NieA_7, Texhnolyze, RErideD, and the stalled Despera project.
Zauriel
Zauriel, DC Comics angel superhero created by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter, first appearing in JLA #6 (1997); a former Hawkman substitute, Eagle Host guardian angel, Justice League member, and 2024 Outsiders returnee.
Zhang Leping
Zhang Leping (张乐平) was a Chinese cartoonist, born in Haiyan County, Zhejiang in 1910, who created the comic boy Sanmao, first published in 1935 and famous across 20th-century China.
Zippy the Pinhead
Zippy the Pinhead, Bill Griffith's surreal comic strip begun in Real Pulp Comics (1970), features a microcephalic muumuu-wearing protagonist; syndicated nationally by King Features since 1986 in over 200 newspapers, famous for 'Are we having fun yet?'