CALIBER COMICS' Contributors  N-Z
This is not intended to be an extensive list of creator’s credits and we are primarily focusing on the credits for Caliber Comics. We’ll be glad to update any omissions, corrections, etc. This rather general list also does not include the 100's of contributors that worked on the anthology title, NEGATIVE BURN.
List A-M List N-Z Guest Artists Notable Beginnings Negative Burn

 

Rafael Nieves
Collaborated with Ken Holewczynski on Orlak for Caliber. He received a great deal of critical acclaim for his Tales of the Heart series from Slave Labor and Marvel. Rafael's current work is the adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Bells to comics.

Troy Nixey
Troy brook his creative tooth on Prey for Monster Comics and then Deadworld (volume two) for Caliber Comics. He is now currently doing most of his work for Oni Press.

Shane Oakley
One of the creators for Caliber’s Stratosfear, Shane is a diverse artist who’s unique perspective and art style has been seen in comics such as Mr. X (Vortex) and Negative Burn (Caliber).

James O’Barr
was one of the original cast of creators when Caliber launched. Best known for the Crow series. His other work for Caliber includes various shorts under the non de plume of Johnny Zero in Caliber Presents (Io, Gideon’s) , inks on one issue of Deadworld, a Crow story in Caliber Christmas, and covers for Deadworld.

Michael Avon Oeming
Having first getting attention on his run for DC's Judge Dredd series, Michael moved on to drawing the first story-arc for the Foot Soldiers mini-series and his own creator-own (with writer Bryan J. L. Glass) series from Caliber, Ship Of Fools. After it's initial run at Caliber, Ship Of Fools was shortly published by Image.

Ande Parks
One of today’s most in-demand inkers, Ande has worked for most every major comic publisher in the industry, including Image, DC and Marvel. In addition, Ande still takes the time to work on more personal creations such as his own Uncle Slam and Fire Dog from Action Planet Comics and helps out such friends as Phil Hester on various short stories in Caliber’s Negative Burn and The Wretch. Ande also has inked Maze Agency #2 for Caliber. Ande's most recent Caliber work is his Falling Man one-shot from Caliber.

Willie Peppers
Some of Willie Peppers earliest pencil work was for Southern Knights from DAK. He has also done artwork for Malibu's Protectors and Ferret, and for Caliber, he penciled # 3-6 of StormQuest.

Mike Perkins
A British artist, Mike’s past comic credits include various work for Britain’s popular 2000AD magazine. Mike first broke onto the American scene with this detailed work on Caliber’s Kilroy Is Here series (issues #4, 6-8). His other Caliber work can be found in the pages of Negative Burn (issue #24,28,31,42,49, and 50), Dominique: Family Matters, the High Caliber series where he illustrated the "Amongst the Stars" serial, Dr. Faustus, Kilroy: Daemonstorm one-shot, Saint Germaine: Restoration one-shot, Caliber Core #0. He currently lends his artistic abilities to the popular new Caliber Core imprint series, Black Mist: Blood of Kali.

Mitchell Perkins
The force behind Forest Light Productions, Mitchell has written Ko-Ko the Klown and Gulliver's Travels. Formerly, for Innovation, he was the writer of All Hallow's Eve and Phantom of the Opera. His upcoming work includes The Snow Queen, The Humpty Dumpty Chronicles, Wind and the Willows, and The Crusader.

TIM PERKINS
Tim completed the Searchers: Apostles of Mercy series.

Mike Peters
Mike had his first major work published from Image Comics with Unbound that teamed him up with writer Joe Pruett. His current work includes a Legends Of Camelot one-shot.

Stefan Petrucha
Stefan rose to "fan-favorite" status with his long run on the extremely popular X-Files comic from Topps. His other credits include Nexus, Body Parts, Squalor and the three-issue mini-series The Bandy Man ,published by Caliber.

Brandon Peterson
The creator behind Arcanum for Image has built quite a name for himself in the last couple of years. One of his earliest works (possibly his first) was pencilling a back up story called Navarro which ran in the Bounty mini-series.

Eric Powell
Eric is the illustrator, handling both interior and cover art for Caliber's Temptress saga. He is a Tennessee native and some of his other work includes Razor:Uncut from London Night Studio.

Martin Powell
Martin is the writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Scarlet In Gaslight and A Case of Blind Fear, which were reprinted in Graphic Novel format from Caliber. He also wrote Whitley Strieber’s Beyond Communion and Brian Lumley’s Necroscope series for Caliber. His other work includes a Frankenstein adaptation from Malibu and Mr. Hero from Tekno Comics.

James Pruett
James serves as the Managing Editor of Caliber Comics but is also the creator/writer of Black Mist and The Apparition for Caliber. He is currently developing a series called Strait Jacket, and is working on a Tome Press series based on the life of Alexander the Great.

Joe Pruett
Since 1992 Joe has worked with Caliber Comics in various capacities including writing (Kilroy Is Here, Untouchables) and editing (Moebius Comics, Negative Burn). He left Caliber early in 1998 to return home to Atlanta, but continues to write freelance, including the new Kilroy series for Caliber, and an upcoming Gen 13 one-shot for Image Comics. Previous other credits for Image includes Dusty Star and The Nameless. He also co-created the award-winning anthology Negative Burn, along with his brother, James Pruett, and Charles Moore and was nominated for an Eisner award for Best short story.

Gary Reed
Gary is the publisher of Caliber Comics and has written a vast number of titles for Caliber including Deadworld, The Realm, Saint Germaine, Helsing, Seeker, Magus and many of the Tome Press titles.

Wayne Reid
Wayne did quite a bit of work for Caliber and Tome including Camelot Eternal, Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft, and the painted Song of the Cid. He is currently working on the story of Genghis Khan for Tome Press with Steve Jones and contributing to The Sherlock Holmes Reader.

C.D. Regan
In addition to his work in Sinergy, Regan was also the creator of the Caliber Presents one-shot, Petite Mal.

Mark Ricketts
For Caliber Comics he has created such titles as Warpwalking, International Cowgirl Magazine, Book of Twilight and Nowheresville.

Debra Rodia
In addition to contributing to Tome Press’ Plague, Debra was also the writer of Taken Under and assisted in the series of Airwaves.

Budd Root
After self-publishing six issues of his series through his own imprint Basement Comics, Budd brought his popular Cavewoman series over to Caliber Comics in early 1996 to enthusiastic sales and acclaim.  After a successful run at Caliber with the Cavewoman: Rain mini-series, Budd returned to his self-publishing roots and continued his tales of Cavewoman with various collaborators. Budd is currently working closely with writer Ron Fortier to bring everyone’s favorite Cavewoman back to Caliber with Cavewoman: Odyssey (issue one is currently available).

Greg Ruth
Another talented newcomer to comics, Greg is the sole creative voice behind the critically-acclaimed series, Sudden Gravity. Sudden Gravity has drawn enormous and rave reviews and we’d expect Greg to be soon known as one of the top creative talents in the market. Previously, he has done work for Fantagraphics and DC Comics.

Steven Seagle
Some of Steven’s earlier published work was at Caliber (Kafka and In Thin Air). Today you can find him writing such titles as Sandman Mystery Theatre and House of Secrets at Vertigo/DC and Alpha Flight for Marvel.

Brian Sendlebach
Brian teamed up with Jeff Dickinson on the first and only issue of Iconografix’s Human Head Comics.

Mark Shainblum
Was the writer of the Northguard series for Caliber after relinquishing his role as publisher of Matrix comics.

Stan Shaw
Artist for Sunglasses after Dark for Verotik, Stan was also the artist for Caliber’s Billy Nguyen.

Gary Shipman
Gary is the creator of  Pakkin’s Land which had numerous issues published by Caliber.

Galen Showman
Galen handled the full art chores on the 192 page graphic novel Renfield. Other credits include work on Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell's One Life from Topps, Raven Chronicles #10, and most of the art chores on the graphic novel, Sinergy.

Larry Shuput
One of the most prolific inkers working with Caliber. Larry has applied his inks to many of Caliber’s titles including the popular conspiracy series, The Red Diaries, Beyond Communion, Magus, Saint Germaine, Necroscope, Raven Chronicles and host of other titles coming up.

Paul Sizer
Currently working as an instructor at Western Michigan University, Paul decided that since he didn’t have his entire free time taken up with grading papers that he would jump in head-first into a moonlighting job of comic book illustration. He first introduced his spunky character, Loo, in the pages of Caliber’s New Worlds Anthology, and then graduated into her own four issue mini-series of Little White Mouse, which has earned its degree and is now an on-going Little White Mouse series. Check out Paul's LWM page.

Gary Skehan
Gary has produced his inking work for Caliber, most notably on Magus and is scheduled to do more work for the Caliber Core titles.

Ted Slampyak
Didn’t get his start with Caliber on Jazz Age Chronicles as that was previously released from another company before Caliber picked it up. Ted got quite a bit of attention for his work on Neil Gaiman’s Mr. Hero for Teckno Comics.

Matthew Smith
Currently illustrating a story arc for Vertigos’ Sandman Mystery Theatre, Matthew has also penciled issues of Showcase and Starman for DC and Walk Through October, The Apparition and Negative Burn for Caliber Comics.

Tim Smith
Tim will be taking over the art chores on the Seeker series as it wraps up to its dramatic conclusion.

Tom Sniegoski
Tom is the writer currently handling the new King Zombie series. He is the writer mainly responsible for bringing Vampirella back to prominence, and some of his earlier Caliber work includes the Sharpei series, Temptress and Gutter Rat. Tom also wrote Dogs of War from Crusade Comics and is currently writing too many different titles to mention here.

Ray Snyder
Ray works out of Jolly Roger Studio in Georgia with his bud, Tony Harris. Ray has done work for Caliber that includes inking Level X, Raven Chronicles, Kilroy, The Apparition, and
most recently inked Koko The Clown.

Steve Stegelin
Steve is the creator of Boondoggle. His series was inspired by his award winning campus cartoon strip that was featured in both University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University's papers.

Del Stone Jr.
A prolific science-fiction/horror short story writer, Del has also been featured in numerous yearly "Best of…" anthologies. At Caliber, Del teamed with famed painter David Dorman for the one-shot special, ROADKILL. One of Del’s short stories is also in Negative Burn #49.

R.G. Taylor
Best known for his work on Wordsmith which originally came out from Renegade Press before two different reprintings for Caliber. Also for Caliber, Taylor also did many short stories for Caliber Presents, the Silencers mini-series, and a variety of pin-up books showcasing his great artistic talents. Look for Taylor to do a couple of one shot Tome Press titles including Salome and Charge of the Light Brigade.

Jill Thompson
Jill began her rise to comic stardom with her early work on DC's Wonder Woman and exploded on the scene with her long story-arc in Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman. You can find her Caliber work in The Bandy Man #1 and #3.

Paul Tobin
Was the creator and writer of the Fringe series and was the driving force behind the one hot, Attitude Lad.

José Trudel
José is just starting to work within the comic business and his first major work will be seen in the launch of the fantasy series from Caliber, Legends Of Camelot in which he does a story featuring the magical sword, Excalibur.

Shawn Van Briesen
For Gauntlet, Shawn was writer and artist of Serpent Rising and for Tome, he did the Siege of the Alamo one shot.

Susan Van Camp
Is one of fantasy’s popular artist. Having worked on some short stories for Arrow Comics, Susan was the creator of Varcel’s Vixens for Caliber in the early days.

Matt Vanderpol
Matt has produced comic strips for various Christian magazines over the past few years and has recently launched his own comic series, LifeQuest, which has garnered a cult following.

Kevin VanHook
Kevin was one of the earliest employees at Caliber. He is the creator and artist of Caliber's Lost Angel and Frost. His talents were brought to the forefront with the art of the Rocky Horror Adaptation. Since then, he was the Chief Editor at Valiant where he wrote Bloodshot and Solar. Currently he is filming a movie in Hollywood where he also provides special effects.

Wayne Vansant
An avid military historian and artist, Wayne first was noticed with his long run as artist on Marvel's The 'Nam. Since then, Wayne has limited his comic work to projects that are dear to his heart, such as his Civil War Heritage Series, Days Of Wrath mini-series from Apple Comics and his Battle Group Pieper one-shot from Caliber.

Sam Varney
Sam is another inker who has done work a variety of work for Caliber. He has inked The Underside, Tattoo, and Dominique for Caliber, in addition to inking various issues of Razor for London Night Studios as well.

Adam Walters
Adam has worked for Marvel Comics as well as other publishers in the past. His most recent work for Caliber includes the one shot Gestalt, featuring the popular character from the pages of Seeker.

Mitch Waxman
In addition to the Plasma Baby and Vengeance of the Aztecs series, Mitch collaborated on Cortez with Gary Reed and did the one shot Deadworld title, Necropolis.

Art Wetherell
The artist for Caliber/New Worlds’ The Searchers series, Art has  been getting work from various American and British publishers for the past few years. You can also find his pencils gracing Dark Horse’s Jabba the Hut mini-series. At Caliber, Art has also appeared in Negative Burn #12 and 19.

Bill Widener
Co-creator of the cult hit, Go-Man with Starlan Baxter which was one of Caliber’s earliest acclaimed hits.

Mark Winfey
Contributed to Deadworld and Mark was also the creator and illustrator of the one shot, Thrill-Kill.

MC Wyman
A popular artist at Marvel for some time, Wyman did the giant sized conclusion special to the Krey mini-series.

Philip Xavier
A native Frenchman now making his home in Georgia, Philip burst onto the Caliber scene with his stunning work in LegendLore after debuting in the anthology Negative Burn. A strange mixture of the West Coast style and European influences has helped Philip create a strikingly visual, heavily detailed art style.

Feliciano Garcia Zecchin
Feliciano is a newcomer to the American comics scene. He has been published extensively in his native Argentina and worked on the first issue of the new Kilroy series.

Bruce Zick
The animator behind Pirates of Dark Water, Bruce worked on a variety of Caliber issues such as his own creations, Saga of the Argosy and Zone Continuum.

Randy Zimmerman
For Caliber, Randy was the writer of the first series of the Realm towards the end and creator and writer of War of the Worlds and contributed to Caliber Presents.

Patrick Zircher
A familiar name for fans of Marvel and DC but not too many people realize he was at Caliber in the early 90’s doing series such as Triarch, Jason and the Argonauts for Tome Press and Seven Samurai for Gauntlet.