History SignatureStyle / ComicBooks

* WarrenEllis's comics often feature corrupt government officials, shamanism, cutting-edge technology (and humans enhanced by the same), and a protagonist who is at least two of the following: ill-tempered, British, a chain smoker, dressed mostly in white, or addicted to drugs or alcohol.

* Simon Furman, who has, '''of all the dirty jobs''', the position of writing approximately 85% or so of all ''{{Transformers}}'' comics since the mid-80s, has a number of "Furmanisms" that will inevitably crop up, hanging above the reader like '''some vast, predatory bird'''. '''You won't believe the things he can do''' with them: this constant shoehorning of odd phrases into the texts '''never ends''', so '''what chance do we have''' of avoiding them? One would think he needs a '''short, sharp lesson''' in better writing, but the fans seem to enjoy his odd quirks, and he has '''reaped the whirlwind''' of popularity he's gained. He writes virtually everything with these "Furmanisms" and more; '''can ''we'' do any less?''' ([[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Furmanism A full list]] can be found at the [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]].)

** He really enjoys [[CListFodder killing off lesser known heroes and villains]] to build up the villains of his stories as well. Taken UpToEleven in ''Comicbook/{{Starman}}'', where the Mist kills the entire roster of the new [[Comicbook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League Europe]], save for Icemaiden.

* [[MarvelComics Stan Lee]] writes ''everyone'' as a LargeHam. Although he is this way in RealLife too ([[AlterEgoActing or at least in interviews]]) [[SelfInsertFic and in his cameos]] so that makes sense.

* One of JackKirby's most distinguishing art features is the aptly-named KirbyDots. Kirby's overall artistic style is perhaps more of an ur-style, being the style of Jack Kirby, distinctly recognizable to any fan of comic book art. He ''loved'' to create characters who embodied cosmic power if not outright godhood, a trait which seems to bear some relation to equally cosmic-looking hats. As an example, one of his most well-known characters is Galactus.

* Al Hartley used StockVisualMetaphors and effects to an excess in ArchieComics, especially starstruck expressions and giant dust clouds. His characters also had a tendency to walk on air, and the title character was a frequent victim of ComedicSociopathy. Though in retrospect, Hartley is probably best remembered for [[AuthorTract his recurring attempts to incorporate evangelism into the same comics]].

* With '''James''' Robinson, it's not so '''much''' writing style as it is a tendency to [[BoldInflation emphasize words completely]] '''at''' [[BoldInflation random]] such that most of his '''characters''' must sound '''like''' the bastard child '''of''' Mr. [=DeMartino=] from ''{{Daria}}'' and [[Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate Torgo]].

* In a time where Disney's comic artists were uncredited, the quality in the stories of one CarlBarks stood out enormously from the rest of the pack, leading readers to nickname the then-anonymous author as "The Good Duck Artist".

* Any character created, or heavily influenced, by SteveDitko will be hated by the general populace. Because the masses are stupid, and the hero is morally (and, consequently, physically and mentally) superior to them. Furthermore, when he doesn't have a collaborator to hold him back, Ditko often has his characters say so in great detail.

* FrankMiller is famous for his [[PrivateEyeMonologue ''hard-boiled'' narration]], including a play-by-play on every punch and broken rib, along with the even nastier things the ''hero'' would do to the villain. And short blunt sentences. Short. Blunt. Short blunt sentences that repeat. Repeat a lot. Repeat a '''lot'''. His female characters are often strong-willed, but usually also victimized. They're often also prostitutes. As an artist, Miller is most famous for abstract figure work and scenery focusing more on expression, aesthetics and readability than anything resembling reality, done in high contrast black and white with sparing use of contour lines. Miller's black and white style is so strong that anyone in comics who uses the same high contrast approach will be inevitably compared to him.

* RobLiefeld: Hugely muscular men and impossibly thin women, usually with the most exaggerated anatomy possible. Lots of ginormous guns, shoulder pads, and pouches.

* Pat Mills has a thendency of introducing NonHumanSidekick of his main protagonist who annoys people with their CatchPhrase and then have them brutally murdered. Dictionary from ''ComicBook/RequiemChevalierVampire'' or ''ComicBook/NemesisTheWarlock'''s familiar (who don't as much says a catchphrase as makes narrator constantly remind readers he speaks gibberish) are two notable examples.

** Also featured prominently in ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', there's his tendency to have characters end dialogue snippets with mildly deprecating epithets aimed at other characters, chum. It doesn't really get distracting until you start realizing that '''every''' character does it, comrade. Even when they're two mortal enemies having a conversation before a fight, spitball.

** His characters tend to have a ridiculous amount of detailed, almost sketchy linework all over their bodies with ultra messy hair. There's even a particular hairstyle, which {{Linkara}} lovingly named "carrot top", that is in ''all'' of his works. Even if a character has an established hairstyle, it will look like an edited version of this particular style.

** Also, his major works tend to feature enlightenment through drug use - Ozymandias does it in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (he briefly mentions ingesting a ball of hashish in the desert), Eric Finch takes LSD in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' (which gives him the insight he needs to get what V is doing), and ''Comicbook/FromHell'' ends with a massive opium trip, while ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' has featured Allan's use of taduki leaves (from the original HR Haggard novels) in the bonus story of Volume 1 and Mina having an awful synthetic taduki trip/ psychic showdown with the BigBad in ''Century: 1969''.

* Pat Mills has a thendency of introducing NonHumanSidekick of his main protagonist who annoys people with their CatchPhrase and then have them brutally murdered. Dictionary from ''RequiemChevalierVampire'' or NemesisTheWarlock's familiar (who don't as much says a catchphrase as makes narrator constantly remind readers he speaks gibberish) are two notable examples.

* GarthEnnis dialogue features slang appropriate to the background of the characters using it (including profanity, especially CountryMatters), FunetikAksent[=s=], and frequent omission of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pronoun relative pronouns]].

** Duckist DonRosa. Not only is his style of drawing highly different from any other artist who draws DonaldDuck comics, his stories are littered with funny background events, in-jokes, continuity porn and are always very well researched.

* In his ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' stories, Rene Goscinny will often have people who have held a grudge, acted like [[DirtyCoward dirty cowards]], or like total jerks for the entire story [[AssPull suddenly come to their senses on the last 2-3 pages]]. EasyEvangelism is sometimes involved.

** Don Martin: Lots of {{Written Sound Effect}}s, motion lines, and extremely gangly characters with huge noses and flat, floppy feet.

* Mark Millar has powers of ten show up a lot. Someone will be ten times smarter than someone else or something will be calculated to the tenth decimal point or will be miscalculated by misplacing the decimal. He also had a tendency to use Nazis repeatedly in his works until someone called him out on it with TheUltimates. He hadn't even realized he was doing it.
** When he was writing UltimateXMen, Millar would often have his characters pointing out obvious plot holes and FridgeLogic. It's unclear if he did this as a sort of SelfDeprecation, or as a way of apologizing for his own mistakes.

** His characters tend to have a ridiculous amount of detailed, almost sketchy linework all over their bodies with ultra messy hair.

** Typical Bendis dialogue will likely include fucktons of gratuitous swearing, repetitions, repetitions, Buffyspeak up the tuchas, and repetitions.

** Bendis also does this thing where his - his characters, they'll stutter fr- from time to time when talking for a long time. Whether it's realistic enough depends upon your - your personal opinion.
** ''Also'', he has a trend of absolutely trying to ''break'' his characters, especially female ones. ''Ultimate Spider-Man'' - Mary Jane and Gwen Stacy, ''Alias'' - Jessica Jones, ''New Avengers'' - Spider-Woman, ''All-New X-Men'' - Jean Grey, ''Uncanny X-Men'' - Magik

** Repetitions.

* Al Hartley used StockVisualMetaphors and effects to an excess in ArchieComics, especially starstruck expressions and giant dust clouds. His characters also had a tendency to walk on air, and the title character was a frequent victim of ComedicSociopathy. Though in retrospect, Hartley is probably best remembered for [[AuthorTract his recurring attempts to incorporate evangelism into the same comics]].