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Cover of Art Spiegelman's The Complete Maus (1996).

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Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

American writer and cultural critic

Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman

British writer

James Patterson

James Patterson

American author

Will Eisner

Will Eisner

American artist and author

Dav Pilkey

Dav Pilkey

American writer and illustrator

George Takei as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, wearing a gold Starfleet uniform and looking intently ahead, with a blurred red and gray background.

George Takei

American actor, writer, and activist

Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor

Nigerian American author

Alison Bechdel, 2022

Alison Bechdel

American cartoonist and graphic novelist

Author Philip Pullman smiling and wearing a black beret, glasses, and a light jacket over a white shirt.

Philip Pullman

British writer

Dan Santat

Dan Santat

American illustrator and author

Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin

Scottish author

Alan Moore

Alan Moore

British writer

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Gil Kane

American artist

Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier

American author and illustrator

Nobel prize-winning American author, Pearl S. Buck, at her home, Green Hills Farm, near Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1962. (Pearl Buck)

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