Ground Floor ComicsThe people behind the pages
A comic’s voice comes from more than its story. It lives in the linework, the color, the way a balloon leads your eye. Meet the people making those choices, then find another book to spend time with.
40 profiles covering the credited teams in our 13 published reviews, with selected books to explore next.
40 of 40 profiles
Letterer · Writer
Aditya Bidikar is a comics letterer and writer based in Pune, India. His lettering practice combines digital production with hand-drawn elements, including sound effects and text design. His credits include These Savage Shores and Little Bird.
Artist
Andrea Sorrentino is an Italian comics artist whose collaborations with Jeff Lemire include Gideon Falls, Primordial and The Bone Orchard Mythos. His work on Gideon Falls is colored by Dave Stewart.
Letterer
AndWorld Design is a lettering and design studio whose services include comic lettering, font creation, logos and page design. Its credits include Something Is Killing the Children and The Many Deaths of Laila Starr.
Colorist
Chris O’Halloran is a comics colorist from Cork, Ireland. His work includes Ice Cream Man and Generation Gone, alongside projects for Marvel, Dynamite and Vertigo. In Ice Cream Man, his colors accompany Martín Morazzo’s linework.
Artist
Chris Shehan is a comics artist whose work includes The Autumnal, House of Slaughter and Denizen, part of Nightfall: Double Feature. On The Autumnal, he collaborates with writer Daniel Kraus, colorist Jason Wordie and letterer Jim Campbell.
Letterer
Clem Robins is a comics letterer with credits at DC and on Wytches. In the Wytches team, his lettering accompanies Scott Snyder’s script, Jock’s artwork and Matt Hollingsworth’s colors.
Writer
Cullen Bunn is a comics and prose writer whose creator-owned series include Harrow County and The Sixth Gun. He co-created Harrow County with Tyler Crook, combining a rural supernatural setting with Emmy’s coming-of-age story.
Writer
Daniel Kraus writes novels and comics, including The Autumnal with artist Chris Shehan. His prose work includes Whalefall and collaborations on The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro and The Living Dead with George A. Romero.
Colorist
Dave Stewart is a comics colorist whose work includes Hellboy, B.P.R.D., Fatale and Gideon Falls. His credits span Dark Horse, Image, DC and Marvel, with collaborations across horror, crime and superhero comics.
Writer · Artist
E. M. Carroll creates illustrated horror in print and on the web. Their books include Through the Woods, When I Arrived at the Castle and A Guest in the House. Their official website also collects webcomics, including His Face All Red.
Artist
Gabriel Rodríguez is the artist and co-creator of Locke & Key with writer Joe Hill. His work on Welcome to Lovecraft is joined by Jay Fotos’ colors and Robbie Robbins’ lettering, building the visual world of Keyhouse and the Locke family.
Letterer
Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou is a comics letterer whose credits include Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, Assorted Crisis Events, Time Before Time and Poison Ivy. His work brings dialogue, sound and reading rhythm into the finished page.
Artist · Colorist
Jacob Phillips is a comics artist and colorist. He draws Everything Dead & Dying, That Texas Blood and Newburn, and his coloring work includes Reckless and Criminal. Everything Dead & Dying pairs his drawing with Pip Martin’s colors.
Writer
James Tynion IV is a comics writer whose work includes Something Is Killing the Children, The Department of Truth and The Nice House on the Lake. He co-created Something Is Killing the Children with artist Werther Dell’Edera.
Colorist
Jason Wordie is a comics colorist credited on The Autumnal. His colors accompany Chris Shehan’s art in Daniel Kraus’s story of a mother and daughter returning to Comfort Notch, with lettering by Jim Campbell.
Colorist
Jay Fotos is the colorist of Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, working with artist Gabriel Rodríguez, writer Joe Hill and letterer Robbie Robbins. His colors help establish the atmosphere and supernatural contrasts of Keyhouse.
Colorist
Jean-François Beaulieu is a comics colorist whose credits include The Me You Love in the Dark, Middlewest and I Hate Fairyland. His collaborations with Skottie Young and Jorge Corona span fantasy and Gothic horror.
Writer · Artist
Jeff Lemire is a comics writer and artist whose books include Sweet Tooth, Essex County, Descender and Black Hammer. He writes Gideon Falls with artist Andrea Sorrentino, colorist Dave Stewart and letterer Steve Wands.
Letterer
Jim Campbell is the letterer of The Autumnal, joining writer Daniel Kraus, artist Chris Shehan and colorist Jason Wordie. His lettering carries the dialogue and verbal rhythms within the book’s mother-daughter story and folk-horror setting.
Artist
Jock is a comics artist credited on Wytches, working with writer Scott Snyder, colorist Matt Hollingsworth and letterer Clem Robins. His contribution to this volume is the linework and page composition beneath its distinctive color treatment.
Writer
Joe Hill writes novels, short stories and comics. He co-created Locke & Key with Gabriel Rodríguez; his other comics include Basketful of Heads, Plunge and Wraith. His prose includes Heart-Shaped Box and The Fireman.
Artist
Jorge Corona is a Venezuelan comics artist and the creator of Feathers. His collaborations with Skottie Young include Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark; his other work includes No. 1 With a Bullet and We Are Robin.
Writer · Artist
Junji Ito is a Japanese manga creator known for horror comics including Tomie, Uzumaki and Gyo. His published career began in 1987. His stories often turn ordinary people, places and patterns into sources of escalating dread.
Artist
Martín Morazzo is an Argentina-based comics artist whose work includes Ice Cream Man, Great Pacific, Snowfall and Art Brut. On Ice Cream Man, he collaborates with writer W. Maxwell Prince and colorist Chris O’Halloran.
Colorist
Matt Hollingsworth is a comics colorist whose work includes Wytches, Hawkeye, Preacher, Tokyo Ghost and Seven to Eternity. He has been coloring comics since 1991, collaborating with a wide range of artists and writers.
Colorist
Miquel Muerto is a comics colorist whose work includes Something Is Killing the Children, House of Slaughter and Radiant Red. On Something Is Killing the Children, his colors accompany Werther Dell’Edera’s drawing.
Letterer
Nate Piekos is a comics letterer and type designer behind Blambot, a source of comic lettering fonts and resources. His lettering credits include Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark.
Writer · Artist
Patrick Horvath writes and draws comics including Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees and Free for All. Beneath the Trees brings his painted animal characters into a small-town story of murder and competing secrets.
Colorist
Pip Martin is a comics colorist whose credits include Everything Dead & Dying and Of the Earth. On Everything Dead & Dying, Martin colors Jacob Phillips’ artwork for Tate Brombal’s story of family and loss.
Writer
Ram V writes comics that move between intimate lives and larger mythologies. His books include These Savage Shores, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr and Blue in Green, alongside work for DC and Marvel.
Letterer
Robbie Robbins is credited with the lettering of Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft. His contribution sits alongside Joe Hill’s writing, Gabriel Rodríguez’s artwork and Jay Fotos’ colors in the first volume of the series.
Writer
Scott Snyder is a comics writer whose work includes Wytches, Batman and American Vampire. Wytches pairs his family-centered horror story with Jock’s artwork, Matt Hollingsworth’s colors and Clem Robins’ lettering.
Writer · Artist
Skottie Young is a comics writer and artist. He writes The Me You Love in the Dark and Middlewest with artist Jorge Corona, and created I Hate Fairyland. His work also includes illustration for Marvel and children’s books.
Letterer
Steve Wands is a comics letterer with work at DC and on Gideon Falls. For Gideon Falls, his lettering joins Jeff Lemire’s writing, Andrea Sorrentino’s artwork and Dave Stewart’s colors.
Artist
Sumit Kumar is a Delhi-based comics artist whose work includes These Savage Shores and The Six Fingers. His collaborations pair carefully observed settings with stories that move between the everyday and the uncanny.
Writer
Tate Brombal is a comics writer whose work includes Everything Dead & Dying, Behold, Behemoth and stories in the Black Hammer and House of Slaughter worlds. His work also includes Batgirl and Green Lantern Dark for DC.
Artist · Writer · Colorist · Letterer
Tyler Crook is a comics artist and the co-creator of Harrow County with writer Cullen Bunn. His work also includes Petrograd and his own series The Lonesome Hunters. Before working in comics, he worked in video games.
Colorist · Artist
Vittorio Astone is a Rome-based artist and colorist. His credits include the artwork for Maxwell’s Demons and colors for These Savage Shores, Godfell and Canto.
Writer
W. Maxwell Prince is the writer of Ice Cream Man. His other comics include One Week in the Library, Art Brut, Haha and Swan Songs, moving between standalone stories and experiments with how a comic can be told.
Artist
Werther Dell’Edera is the artist and co-creator of Something Is Killing the Children with James Tynion IV. His other comics work includes Briggs Land and Razorblades. Miquel Muerto colors his artwork on Something Is Killing the Children.