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22. John Romita, Sr. was born the son of a baker in New York City, on January 24, 1930. Before 1947 he was educated at Manhattan's School of Industrial Art. While working at Forbes Lithograph in 1949, a friend offered to pay him to be a ghost penciler for a comic he was putting together. His friend was Lester Zakarin, and the company was Timely, which would eventually become Marvel. In 1951, Romita was drafted, and he attained the rank of corporal in about 8 months. He did work for Marvel, then DC, then returned to Marvel for his most famous work on "The Amazing Spider-Man." Later he was promoted to art director of Marvel, and still does pencil spots from time to time.


21. John Romita, Jr. was born in 1956 in New York City. He aspired to be a famous comic book artist like his father, John Romita, Sr. He started out drawing sketches for reprint covers for Marvel UK, but his first published work was a six-page comic in Spider-Man Annual #4. This was his breakthrough, and it bought him a 3 1/2 year stint on "Iron Man." He also spent three years on "The Amazing Spider-Man" before getting to work on "The Uncanny X-Men." He has worked on many projects since then, including "Cable," "Punisher War Zone," "Daredevil," and "Wolverine." He received the Inkpot Award in 1994 and an Eisner Award in 2002.


20. Jimmy Palmiotti was born August 16, 1961. He went to school at the High School of Art and Design, NY. In the late 1980s, he has been co-creating popular comic lines, like "Ash" and "Painkiller Jane." He continued his career at Marvel in 1991, doing inking on "Ghost Rider," "Punisher," and "The Nam." Since then he has done many more, and he wrote and storyboarded short films for Nike's "Hooptown." He has been dating Amanda Conner, known comic book artist. He frequently works with Justin Gray, and the three co-founded Paperflims.


19. Steve Dillon was born in the city of Big Ben, London, England in 1962. His first professional comic work was done at the tender age of 16, drawing Marvel UK's Hulk Weekly. Since then he has worked on numerous titles, like "Escape from the Planet of the Apes," "Nick Fury," "Doctor Who Magazine," "Hellblazer," "Preacher," "Hitman," "Punisher," and "Wolverine." He often collaborates with gritty writer Garth Ennis. Dillon spent a few years in Ireland before returning to England and settling in the town of Luton.


18. Rowena Morrill was born 1944. She began her twenty year career in New York City, where she resided all but four years of it. Her art deals with science-fiction and fantasy subjects and has been published in several famous magazines and books, for example "Omni" and "Playboy." She put out several books of her own, such as "The Art of Rowena," "Imagination," "The Fantastic Art of Rowena," "Tomorrow and Beyond," "Infinite Worlds," and "Imagine." Currently, she lives in the countryside near upstate New York because nature gives her inspiration.