Mid-Missouri Comics Collective

Non-college related

• Adam McCauley – illustrator/artist
• Arthur Jones – Post-it note diaries
• Biljo White – (1929-2003) Fanzine creator
• Cat Yronwode – former Eclipse comics publisher
• Dean Mullaney – former Eclipse comics publisher
• Eric Yearwood – Muchuts
• Emily Warren – colorist/illustrator
• Harold Buchholz – Apathy Cat & Harold Buchholz Print Services
• Jamie Hibdon – Kaiju Press
• K. Major – the pocky box
• Mark Runyan – 80’s & 90’s comic artist
• Matt Verges – Planet 9
• R. Scott Quick – Camden Bottoms
• Robert Rodi – Writer for Marvel & DC comics
• Scott Ross – Young Learner’s Guide

Columbia College

• Rich Hedden – Artist for Dark Horse & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• John W. Lynch – (1945-2012) Columbia College professor and creator of comic strip Breaker Breaker.
• Kirk Chritton – Creator of Comics Career Newsletter
• Scott R. Schmidt – Pistol-Whip Press

Stephens College

• Jean Gould O’Connell – Chester Gould’s daughter/biographer

University of Missouri

Maneater newspaper creators

• Amanda Mathenia – caricature artist & illustrator
• Christian Cross – c is for…
• Dan – Bad Guy High
• Dan Long – cartoonist
• David Friesen – stick in the brain
• Dud - Dudmatic
• Jerome Stueart – Captain Bly
• Jim Gibbons – Wizard Online Editor
• John Schuler – Atomic K9
• Josh Eiserike – Anyone But Virgina (with Zac Crockett)
• Matthew Potter – Digital Chicanery
• Mac McCool - children book illustrator & graphic novels
• Michael Shaw – cartoonist for the New Yorker
• Mike Campbell » FOMA
• Neil Fitzpatrick - Neil Jam
• Patrick Rollens – Freelance journalist
• Paul Adam – Concept artist
• Paul Gude – Giraffes and Elephants are Friends
• Tim Leong – Comic Foundry magazine
• Zachary Callaway – Out in Left Field

Showme magazine creators

• Dick Noel – Hallmark artist
• John David “Flash” Fairfield – Worked at NEA and did “Show Biz” daily strip
• Glenn Clark “skip” Troelstrup – (1930-2000) created the military comic Thurlow
• Herb Green – magazine cartoonist
• Mort Walker – Beetle Baily creator

Other MU students:

• Arnold Drake – (1924-2007) co-creator of the Doom Patrol & Deadman
• Ben Samuels – Comic collector
• Caitlin Moriarity – Writer
• Carlos Ruiz – Pretentious Record Store Guy
• Christian Hill – professor/artist
• Creepy Carly – web/print cartoonist
• Jack Bender – Alley Oop artist
• Jenna Helland – Path of the Planeswalker
• Kevin McCauley – (1960-1980) Klutzo Kobold & Seivert the Barbarian
• Levi Hoffmeier – misc.
• Murray Olderman – Sports journalist, cartoonist, illustrator
• Rick Ross – Agitainment Comics, Urban Monsters
• Robert A. Shaddy – Librarian… wrote about comics in special collections
• Steve Gerber – (1947-2008) Creator of Howard the Duck
• Thomas Gerhardt - Writer
• V.T. Hamlin – (1900 – 1993) Alley Oop creator

Westminster College

• Steve Stinson – comic strips R.F.D. 2 & Hamlet

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